To mark Cambridge University's 800th anniversary, David Baddiel investigates the events which led to its foundation and trace its origins to a crime committed in the 13th century.
With the help of Cambridge University archivist Dr P
The Book Of Secrets
By M G Vassanji, dramatised by Tanika Gupta.
First broadcast 20000503.
BBC Radio 4. Afternoon Play
The long-vanished world of colonial East Africa is brought to life through the discovery of an old diary. The book belonged to a
Appointment with Venus By Jerrard Tickell [1951]
adapted by Michael Bartlett
with Frederick Jaeger, Karen Archer, Michael Cochrane, David Collings and Hugh Dickson.
Directed by David Hitchinson.
4 episodes: 1992-01-08 to 1992-01-29
48kbps mono; 40
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Bad Habits
Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the bad habits and personal failings which directly or indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives.
Workaholism
Richard explores the rising problem of workaholism. He talks
Alan Garner: The Return to Brisingamen
Last broadcast on Tue, 24 Mar 2009, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4.
SynopsisJohn Waite meets Alan Garner, author of the book that helped shape Waite's own childhood, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, to discuss his life an
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The Unknown Face
broadcast Wed 8 Apr 2009, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Novelist Louise Welsh investigates the enduring fascination with the Inconnue de la Seine, a plaster death mask, reputedly that of a young woman whose body was pulled from the River S
2009-07-25
Eye to the Telescope
When KT Tunstall was a little girl, her physicist father used to take her to the St Andrews Observatory, so beginning the lifelong fascination with space travel which inspired her first album Eye To The Telescope.
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Radio 2 Comedy Greats - Benny Hill: The Untold Story
Ben Miller investigates Benny Hill: The Untold Story as we delve beyond his TV shows, to look at some of the ground-breaking and innovative comedy techniques used by the comic in his very earl
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You're Entering The Twilight Zone
Alan Dein explores the classic American television series The Twilight Zone, as well as the life and imagination of its creator, Rod Serling.
Fifty years ago, Serling ushered audiences into a new realm of light a
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Calvin and Hobbes
Broadcast Tuesday 22 September 2009, 11:30
128/44; 26 MB; sound quality excellent
Phill Jupitus celebrates Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip about the little boy and his stuffed tiger named after eminent philosphers.
Over the
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
dramatised by Pat Cumper
Directed by Pauline Harris.
Monday 6 to Friday 17 October 2008 (Women's Hour Drama)
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a touching and compelling story set in the harsh segregated world of
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Take The Night by Neil McKay
Featuring Kerry Shale as Roy Orbison
With David Schofield, Marcus D'Amico and Barbara Barnes
Producer: Andy Jordan
90 minutes
First broadcast on 12 Mar 1994, repeated 09 Mar 1996
rebroadcast on Radio 7, 4 April 2009
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50 Years of Little Richard
Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:30 PM, Radio 4
Sarfraz Manzoor interviews the influential rock and roll musician Little Richard about his life and career.
Performing since the 1950s, Little Richard has been hailed by many for the r
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A Dream of Eleanor
Friday 5 December 2008, 11.00-11.30am
Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson examines the role that Eleanor Roosevelt had in producing the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which is 60 years old this year.
Appointed to the UN G
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A City Called Glory by Neil McKay
With Lennie James as Sam Cooke and Al Matthews as the Rev Julius Cheeks.
Director: Andy Jordan
90 minutes
Inspired by events in the turbulent life of Sam Cooke, one of the most influential figures of modern soul mu
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