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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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Ghost Writing by Jeremy Front

Ghost Writing by Jeremy Front Performed by David Schneider and Geoffrey Hutchings. Directed by Martha Littlehailes. The trial of alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk has begun in Munich. Jeremy Front looks at why it's still important to confront one'

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