Stevie by Hugh Whitemore

Stevie
by Hugh Whitemore
 
With Glenda Jackson [Stevie Smith], Mona Washbourne [Stevie's Aunt], Peter Egan [Freddie], and David March [The Friend].
 
The poems are read by Hugh Dickson.
 
Directed by Dickon Reed for the BBC World Service

Broadcast on Radio 4

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Walking Tall by Sanjeev Bhaskar

 

Walking Tall

 
Broadcast 8 Feb 2003 and 11 Oct 2003 on Radio 4
Rebroadcast on 10 Jan 2011, Radio 7

160/44; 32.4 MB; sound quality excellent

Sanjeev Bhaskar examines the lot of the vertically challenged.

Drawing from literature, film and science, Sanjee

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Purple Haze: The Jimi Hendrix Story

Purple Haze: The Jimi Hendrix Story
 
Two episodes. First broadcast 20020112 and 20020119, Radio 2.

20020112    Gary Moore presents the first in a two-part programme assessing the life and abiding influence of Jimi Hendrix

"I put on my Hendrix album an

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Habakkuk of Ice by Steve Walker

Steve Walker  -  Habakkuk of Ice

BBC Radio 4: The Friday Play

Broadcast: Friday 17th August 2001 @ 9:00 p.m.

In 1942 the Allies were already developing plans for the re-occupation of Europe, and Winston Churchill favoured large floating
platforms to sup

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The Power of Dawn by Emlyn Williams

The Power of Dawn
by Emlyn Williams
with Michael Redgrave.
Guitarist: Eric Hill
Produced by John Tydeman
 
First broadcast 6 September 1978
Rebroadcast on Radio 7, 22 November 2010

160/44; 50.8 MB; sound quality excellent

An old woman recalls the night whe

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Charles and Mary by Carlo Gebler

Charles and Mary
by Carlo Gebler
 
Broadcast Sun 16 Jan 2011, Drama on 3

160/44; 101.4 MB; sound quality excellent

A new play especially written for Radio 3 dramatizes the extraordinary relationship between brother and sister, Charles and Mary Lamb, the

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Adventures In Poetry: "Waltzing Matilda"

Adventures In Poetry: "Waltzing Matilda"

Waltzing Matilda Was "the alternative Australian national anthem" written as a political statement or a way of impressing a girl? Peggy Reynolds examines Banjo Paterson's lyric Waltzing Matilda, with help fro

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Krystian Bala: When Fact and Fiction Collide

Krystian Bala: When Fact and Fiction Collide Wed Aug 27, 2008, 11:00 AM, Radio 4 Crime writer Mark Billingham tells the story of how the contents of a novel led to the author's being convicted of murder. He visits the Polish city of Wroclaw to meet

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Dorothy Rowe

. A look at growing older from one of the world's great minds Dorothy Rowe. Based in the UK, she's named as one of the world's 100 living geniuses, and one of Britain's smartest brains. In this speech she takes a look at life beyond retirement and to

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The Priest, The Badger and The Little Green Men by Lionel Fanthrope

 

The Priest, The Badger and The Little Green Men by Lionel Fanthrope

Durning the late 1950's and early 60's, The Rev Lionel Fanthorpe wrote over 150 pulp fiction novels under various names for Badger Books.

His methods of writing are almost as bizarr

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Centurions

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More Than A Game

More Than A Game
Professor Anthony King tells the story of three politically-significant sporting events.
 
160/44; 48 MB total; sound quality excellent


1: The Fight

Broadcasts
Wed 6 Jan 2010, 20:45
Mon 6 Dec 2010, 15:45

Professor Anthony King reports on on

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BBC Radio Collection: The Second World War

BBC Radio Collection: The Second World War

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Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost The Truth by Wally K Daly

Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost The Truth
by Wally K Daly

Notes:
Broadcast 1996.02.19 on BBC Radio 4.
Repeated 1996.11.30 on BBC Radio 4.
Repeated on BBC 7 2005.

Wally K Daly's thought provoking drama stars Robert Glenister as the charismatic monk w

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Star Spangled Hendrix

Star Spangled Hendrix
Broadcast 24/08/2010 @ 13:30 on BBC Radio 4

When Jimi Hendrix returned to his native America as a star, the country he knew had changed. This programme, presented by Tom Robinson to tie in with the 40th anniversary of the guitari

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Lively, Greedy and Gay by Marjory Fleming

Lively, Greedy and Gay: Marjory Fleming
BBC Radio Scotland
From the History Zone 2010-12-29 (orig. airdate unknown)

Liz Lochhead celebrates the life of Scotland's youngest literary sensation, a gifted 8 year-old Victorian writer who had an eye for the b

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Afloat for Christmas

 

Afloat for Christmas
BBC Radio Scotland
1995

The luxury liner the QE2 was a popular choice for the cruising community who’d embark on the annual Christmas cruise to New York City.

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Australia All Over

Ian MacNamara's Sunday morning show Australia All Over has been an institution on Australia's ABC Local Radio Network for over two decades.  In a characteristic laconic style, "Macca" rambles through four hours of live radio every week, talking to pe

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Schrodinger's Quantum Kittens

 

Schrodinger's Quantum Kittens

broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday, 29th December 2010.

Robin Ince examines Schrödinger's Cat, the paradox at the heart of quantum physics, and discovers its influence on science and popular culture. Fifty years afte

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The Northern Irish Man in C S Lewis

 

The Northern Irish Man in C S Lewis

The much loved writer's fascinating childhood and how it inspired tales of Narnia. Brian Sibley's account stars Geoffrey Palmer.

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