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Brandreth's Pills
Brandreth's Pills
Broadcast Saturday 26 December 2009, 10:30
160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent
Gyles Brandreth tells the story of how his ancestor made a fortune and invented modern marketing, while apparently curing all of America's ills. Thi
Voices from the Old Bailey
Pete Seeger at 90
Laurel Canyon
Laurel Canyon
Mickey Dolenz tells the story of a Los Angeles neighbourhood which became home to a diverse mix of musical stars - including himself. Laurel Canyon was just a bunch of heavily wooded, rocky outcrops - situated a few minutes from West Ho Read more…
Guglielmo MARCONI ~ BBC World Service bits and pieces.
This one is probably more the radio nerds & historians amongst you.
I recorded a fair bit of stuff (roughly speaking) between the years 1990 and 2000. Mainly crime and science fiction drama. One of my other big interests though was anything that re
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ITMA, It's That Man Again
Broadcast:
1939 - 1949 (BBC Home Service)
Episodes:
310 (12 series)
Starring:
Tommy Handley, Hugh Morton, Cecilia Eddy, Eric Egan, Sam Heppner, Lionel Gamlin, Vera Lennox, Maurice Denham, Jack Train, Dorothy Su
By Jove Carruthers!
By Jove Carruthers! Broadcast Tue 12 May 2009, 11:30 Miles Jupp goes in search of the real Carruthers, the character who inspired a thousand silly quips and cod Edwardian accents. At least seven different Carruthers crop up in Edwardian boys' tales
Read more…The Dinosaur Hunters
Story about Gideon Mantel, a self-taught naturalist who makes an exciting discovery. by Deborah Cadbury Read by Emma Fielding BBC 7
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A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto Broadcast Tue 16 Mar 2010, 11:30 With echoing dungeons, sighing ghosts, terrified virgins and a giant helmet falling from the sky, Rory McGrath guides us round first gothic castle in English fiction: Horace Wa
Read more…Mind Changers
Mind Changers
As the science of psychology developed during the 20th century, our understanding of human behaviour improved. Certain landmark experiments dramatically increased our knowledge, changing forever our perception of the human mind.
01 The Ps
The Derby Tape Club
Mon 1 Mar 2004, 20:30 The Derby Tape Club At a car boot sale near Derby, a radio producer buys a dusty hoard of audio tapes along with a heavy old tape recorder. Coaxing the machine back to life, he discovers the jettisoned archive of a group of audi
Read more…Briers on Hancock - An echo of remembered laughter
Briers on Hancock - An echo of remembered laughter
BBC Radio 4 - 1984-09-05
Born in Birmingham on May 12th, 1924, the ten years from
1952 saw TOny Hancock rise to become one of the greatest
comic talents this country has ever produced.
Richard Briers
BBC Birket
Grownup sophisticated subtle and suspenceful legal dramas based on real life cases @
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Birkett when young & when Right, Honorable & Sir
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George Orwell - Down And Out In Paris And London
George Orwell - Down & Out In Paris & London {RadioPlay} (2007) BBC Radio4
Adapted by PG Morgan
Produced by Steve Canny
Broadcast April 2007
MP3 96kbps
1Hr 54Mins
A funny and heartbreaking account of Orwell's experience living below the pov
The Life of Thomas Paine
PART 1: COMMON SENSE
Tom Paine arrives in America penniless just as the struggle for Independence is beginning. His ideas and hiswritings take him right to the heart of events and his words are read out to Washington's army.
Cast:
Jonathan Pryc
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