Jonathan Bate, one of the country's leading Shakespeare experts, investigates why, and how, people produce forgeries reputed to be by very famous artists in a new two-part series. Produced by Matthew Dodd
Sean Street recalls the Radio Ballads, a series which heralded a completely new form of radio feature making which began in 1958. Mixing original voices and sou
Libby Purves considers the impact of On the Beach, Stanley Kramer's groundbreaking film which 50 years ago reduced cinema-goers to tears with its bleak visi
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Reconstructing Louis By John Sessions With John Sessions, Phyllis Logan, Paul Young, Sheila Donald, Nora Elwell-Sutton, Henry Ian Cusick, James Quintal-Norris, and Michael Mackenzie. Director: Bruce Young.
First broadcast 20001111. Repeated 20020601.
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Seminal American folk singer Huddie Ledbetter (otherwise known as Lead Belly) had a major influence on popular music on both sides of the Atlantic during the 20th Century. Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Nirvana and even A
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After 64 years, the BBC has gifted Woman's Hour with a cheeky younger brother - this is a lad's mag less about leering at ladies and more concerned with how the modern man deals with relationships, life and everything in bet
Woman's Hour Drama - Mrs Tolstoy By Stephen Wakelam.
In his fifties the great writer Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual crisis and converts to Christianity. He stops sleeping with his wife. They have ten children. Taking the vows of poverty and chastity li
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Synopsis – The late John E Mack was a highly respected Professor of
Psychiatry at Harvard University and a Pulitzer Prize winner for his
work on TE Lawrence. In 1983 he founded the Center fo
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Quote: Michael Sheen grew up in the shadow of the steel and coal industries of South Wales but there was another towering figure in his youth as he started showing signs of what was to become a glitterin
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Happy Birthday Batman, was a 1999 BBC radio documentary that goes through the Dark Knight's
history since his creation by Bob Kane. If you ever secretly longed to be Batman just for one day or one hour then this Documentary is just Read more…
But Found No Keepers - The Flannan Lighthouse Mystery
On Boxing Day, 1900, The Hesperus arrives at Flannan Isle to relieve the lighthouse keepers. She sounds her steam whistle to alert the keepers
but there is no response. The telegram from the ca
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