The Christmas song "Baby It's Cold Outside" has become the cause of intense controversy in the US where it's been described as a "hymn to rape" .
"As the father of a teenage daughter" writes Adam Gopnik, "I will stand down to no one in the fight a
Read more…Katy Long tells the extraordinary story of what Bertolt Brecht called 'the most distinguished part of man's anatomy': the passport.
Katy shows how out of step today's modern, biometric, highly securitized and nationalized idea of a passport is wit
Read more…She invented the family sitcom, helped give advice on rationing during the war, and is still recognised as the most prolific radio writer and adaptor of all time, Mabel Constanduros the creator of the Buggins, and later the Huggets, was one of Bri
Read more…This programme examines how Britain discovered the world’s first atomic bomb only to lose it to the Americans when the US reneged on an Anglo-American agreement to share atomic research.
A dawn of two suns – the world’s first atomic bomb explosio
Read more…An American Experience account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.
Thanks to Wayne for finding this.
Ed Byrne celebrates Dave Allen, the sit-down, stand-up comedian, whose unique style entranced and entertained audiences all over the world for over thirty years.
To some, he was an alternative comedian before the phrase was even coined; never afr
Read more…Foreign Affairs - May June 2016 - Putin's Russia - AUDIO
128K - 1 rar of 350Mb
Though Russia no longer threatens the United States as the Soviet Union did during the Cold War, Moscow's increasing aggression remains perplexing to outsiders. In the Ma
Home Front is a ground-breaking new Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever at around 600 episodes - set in Britain during the Great War, playing a central role in the BBC's comprehensive World War One offering.
An enthralling fiction, set against
In early February 1922, from a small ex-army hut in a field just outside the village of Writtle near Chelmsford, a small team of pioneering wireless engineers working for the Marconi company established Britain’s first regular radio broadcasting sta
Read more…On 15 June 1920, the Marconi Company broadcast the world’s first live recital by a professional musician - the legendary Australian diva, Dame Nellie Melba. In a makeshift studio in the company’s factory at Chelmsford, using a microphone created wi
Read more…Best-selling crime author Val McDermid has long been fascinated with forensic science. Now she delves into the medical archives to discover the secrets of this incredible field.
The dead talk – to the right listener. They tell all about themselv
Read more…We've all played Rock, Paper, Scissors, and first sight it looks like a simple game of chance. But, says Jolyon Jenkins, there is far more to it than meets the eye.
In a bar in Philadelphia, hardened players meet four times a week to battle it out
Read more…Seriously... is the group name of a collection of shorter documentary features from the BBC.
It's presented twice a week and the best are then collected into a podcast and, finally, an archive.
This is the archive, supplemented by the weekly broadc
Read more…I don't usually post podcasts, but this one is different. The quality of the interviews, the excellence of the sound and the nature of the podcast in general make it well worth the download.
It's a bit over three GB in total, split into three 1GB RA
Read more…A history of the Normans written and presented by Lars Brownworth http://www.normancenturies.com/
Read more…Cross-posted from Horror
A Date with Dyall
Jonathan Rigby
2015
In this spooktacular showcase for Halloween, writer and actor Jonathan Rigby unlocks the vaults of the BBC sound archives to explore Valentine Dyall's broadcasting career. He reveals the en
Two documentaries in Tribute to Conservationist Roger Deakin who died in August 2006.
The House
5 October 2006
As a tribute to writer and conservationist Roger Deakin who died recently, The House is a unique sound portrait of life in his timber-framed h
The Ice-cream man cometh
Celebrating the history and childhood memories of the ice cream man
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Read more…Going to the flicks
Barry Norman celebrates going to the flicks/movies and how its changed over the years.
128kbps
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Read more…Do tell them pike - Arthur Lowe on the radio
128kbps
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