The Other Side Broadcast Tue 28 Apr 2009, 22:30, BBC Radio 2 (Duration: 60 minutes) 128/44; 52 MB; sound quality excellent Johnnie Walker delves into one of the biggest fears and taboos in human culture - death. With personal stories and expert an
Read more…No Escape Broadcast Mon 1 Jun 2009 - Analysis Richard Weight asks why prison policy is so difficult to unlock and whether anyone has the key. Crime is not getting any worse but the number of inmates has almost doubled in the last 20 years. What is
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Here We Come
Broadcast Saturday 19 December 2009, 10:30
John Waite tells the story of his involvement with The Monkees, the wildly successful Sixties pop group and TV stars.
160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent
In 1970, John was a 19-year-old
Read more…Ryan Versus the White Star Line
First broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster, Sunday 22nd April 2012
Courtroom drama, as Limerick farmer Thomas Ryan sues the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, better known as the White Star Line, over the death of his son
Walter Lord's account of the sinking of the Titanic is read by Martin Jarvis. The account begins 37 secondsbefore the Titanic strikes ice.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals Sat 23 May 2009, 10:30 Nick Barraclough delves into the world of backing vocalists, from the fluffy 50s to the stunning sophistication of today's jazzers, the innovations brought by The Beatles and The Beac
Read more…Yeti's Finger
Broadcast Tue 27 Dec 2011, 11:00
160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent
High up a remote Himalayan Mountain in Nepal is a Buddhist monastery. The monks say there is no doubt yeti's roam the high forest, they see and hear them and
Bomber by Len Deighton
128K
In 1995 the BBC's Radio 4 broadcast a "real time" dramatisation of Deighton's documentary novel Bomber, covering the novel's action following RAF Lancaster bomber O-Orange's take-off in 1943, life in the German town that
This is a radio series perhaps unlike anything you have listened to before! Recorded over a year, the series charts the fascinating and bizarre lives of two colonies of wood ants; one in a pine forest and the other in a deciduous woodland in Northumb
Read more…BBC R3 Documentary - 'Bram Stoker'
Broadcast in 'The Essay' Series
Produced by Connor McKay and Stephen Dowds
Broadcast April 16-20, 2012
Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1
Broadcast to commemorate the 100th anniversay of Bram Stoker's death.
Dickens Wallah - Documentary
Broadcast Sun 1 Jan 2012
Duration 15 minutes
160/44; 16.5 MB; sound quality excellent
It was when the writer Ayeesha Menon was at a large family gathering in Bangalore a number of years back, that something about her
Spooklights
Friday 25 November 2011
BBC Radio 4
128K
Folk tales are full of fleeting phenomena like will o' the wisps, faint glows that must have spooked our ancestors . But these days, it's just about impossible to escape the omnipresent illuminat
The Written World
Monday 02nd - Friday 06th January 2012 (an In Our Time Special)
Time: 09:00 to 09:30
Melvyn Bragg presents five programmes devoted to the written word, and how it has shaped our intellectual history
Part 1 - How making sig
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