The Virtual Revolution Twenty years on from the invention of the world wide web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Produced by the World Service in collaboration with The Open University (An audio adap
Read more…Open Book Broadcast Sun 27 Dec 2009 160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent Mariella Frostrup and her guests discuss a generally unheralded figure in the writing of a book - its editor. Mariella talks to Diana Athill, the former editor of novelist
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Kala Pani: A Forgotten History Broadcast 21 April 2010 160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent After her grandfather's death some years ago, Selma Chalabi discovered some tapes he had dictated, recording his memories of the time he spent in India a
Read more…Hackers for Hire Broadcast Thu 11 Mar 2010, BBC World Service (Assignment) (23 minutes) Russian hackers are gaining a worrying reputation as skilled proponents of cybercrime and cyberwarfare. Sarah Rainsford travels to Moscow to meet a 20 year old
Read more…Netrimony: Online dating in India First broadcast on 10 March 2010, BBC World Service In Netrimony, Rajini Vaidhyanathan travels to Mumbai to investigate the world's biggest online matchmaking industry. In just the last ten years they appear to ha
Read more…The Split Up (and the Almost Inevitable Reunion) Broadcast Sat 24 Apr 2010, Archive on 4 160/44; 65.5 MB; sound quality excellent To mark the 40th anniversary of the Beatles disbanding, the Reverend Richard Coles, whose own band The Communards spl
Read more…Case Notes Childrens' Health At School broadcast on Wed, 16 Sep 2009, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 Schools are playing an increasingly important role in the health of our children. As well as caring for pupils with serious health issues, much attention and
Read more…Things We Forgot to Remember Michael Portillo presents a series revisiting the great moments of history to discover that they often conceal other events of equal but forgotten importance. 'Peace for Our Time' Broadcast Mon 14 Dec 2009 Michael exam
Read more…In "Burying The Bones", distinguished biographer Hilary Spurling takes as her subject Pearl Buck, the highly influential American author whose astonishing life proved even more fantastic than her popular novels of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Born to Chr
Read more…Never Before in the History of Motion Pictures... Broadcast Sat 27 Mar 2010, 10:30 160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent Patrick Humphries takes an affectionate look at the little known story of movie trailers from their early beginnings as simpl
Read more…Bach Fever! Broadcast 29th December 2009 An exploration of the uses and abuses of J S Bach's music, from the jazz Bach craze of the 1960s to the electronic edifice of Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach recordings. It has provided an incredible resource
Read more…Between Ourselves broadcast on 23-03-10 @ 21:30 on BBC Radio 4 Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together two people who have had profound and similar experiences, to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term effects on
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The Secret Story Of Curry by Ruby Murray
The British are mad about curry - 'Ruby Murray' in Cockney rhyming slang. Alkarim Jivani speaks to curry lovers north and south of the border to find out how curry came to be so intimately linked with the Bri
Archive on 4 - Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire (44100/128).
Looking back on the work and genius of Delia Derbyshire, one of the founders of the BBC Radiphonic Workshop who is probably most famous for her creation of the icon
The Who - Their Generation
BBC 6 Music
Told in 4 parts
Paolo Hewitt tells the story of the band whose final gig may be this week. They are due to perform Quadrophenia at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust, but Pete Townshend's tinnitu
Performing To The Red Light Terence Curran goes behind the scenes to experience the recording process as different classical performers prepare for the studio. Among them is the pianist Kathryn Stott. There are also interviews with notable performer
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