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The Deserted Child
A revealing look at Queen Victoria through her correspondence. with Wendy Hiller in 2 parts
Read more…Tiger V Dragon
Tiger V Dragon This is the Asian century. It will be increasingly dominated by two countries that share nearly half of the world's population: India and China. But the hype around the economic growth of these two Asian giants, sometimes lumped togeth
Read more…Watermark by Alana Valentine
Saturday 26 June 2010 on BBC World Service Worldplay Watermark by Alana Valentine Based on the theme of "money", broadcasters from around the world have each produced a play as part of the new series of Worldplay, which are being broadcast on BBC W
Read more…For All The Tea In China by Sarah Rose
First broadcast from 20090427 to 20090501. Read by Maureen Beattie
Episodes 01 20090427 In 1848, the East India Company engages a Scottish plant hunter to infiltrate deep into the interior of China to steal the lucrative secrets of tea. 02 200 Read more…The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to". And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles i Read more…What If ... D-Day Had Failed?
How were the huge risks involved in D-Day overcome, and if the D-Day landings had not succeeded, what kind of a Europe would have prevailed? BBC Radio 4, 1 June, 2004
Read more…Burying the Bones
Lindsay Duncan reads another excerpt from Hilary Spurling's new book: "Burying The Bones" a biography of Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck who is best remembered for her novel "The Good Earth", which is still a bestseller. from the BBC in 5 part
Read more…Plantagenet
Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, about the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty. Plantagenet01_What is A Man The first of the House of Anjou to be king of England, Henry II's long reign was finally beset by conf
Read more…Pinkerton - by Ronald Frame
Pinkerton - by Ronald Frame - BBC Radio Drama - cheops ------------------------------------------------------ In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of counterfeit dollars thr Read more…Bird of Paradise By Lee Pressman
Saturday 10 June 2006 Bird of Paradise By Lee Pressman Belle Elmore was an unsuccessful music hall artiste who would do almost anything to become famous. She succeeded magnificently - her name splashed across newspaper headlines around the world -
Read more…Colour Coded
Colour Coded P1 100609 Part 1 Descriptions of the human race based on racial characteristics go back to the late seventeenth century. In 1684, a French doctor, François Bernier, published "Nouvelle division de la terre par les différentes espèces Read more…A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Written by Jenny Uglow Read by Michael Maloney Abridged by Libby Spurrier Producer: Joanna Green A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
Read more…"NBC Fabulous 50" - 1976
In 1976 NBC Radio Network Celebrated it's first 50 Years. These are the 5 shows of the Series. This series was converted from Tape. 1-3 of 5 Read more…Anger
A BBC series of readings in which writers from a range of backgrounds shed light on an aspect of anger in a mix of fiction, memoir and thought pieces.
Read more…Tribute - Dirk Bogarde on 4
Dirk Bogarde on 4 Broadcast 25 Feb 2000, Afternoon Play: James Fox narrates a tribute to the late Sir Dirk Bogarde with repeats of two of the readings and dramas he recorded for Radio 4: `A Short Walk from Harrods' and `The Round Dozen' by Somerset Read more…Blind Man's Beauty (BBC Radio documentary)
Blind Man's Beauty (BBC Radio documentary) In 2004, Peter White, the BBC Disability Correspondent, who is blind, recorded a five part series called Blind Man's Beauty. In each of the 5 episodes, each about 14 minutes long, he talks about the beauty
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