The Deserted Child
A revealing look at Queen Victoria through her correspondence. with Wendy Hiller in 2 parts
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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
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First broadcast from 20090427 to 20090501. Read by Maureen Beattie
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
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
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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
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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
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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 -
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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.
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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.
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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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