The Archive Hour: Fifty years of the English Stage Company
Radio 4 - March 25th, 2006
It is said that the story of the Royal Court Theatre is
also the history of the British comtemporary stage.
Starting with the founding of the Company in the mid
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Welcome to the Real World
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(Duration: 30 minutes)
160/44; 31 MB; sound quality excellent
Dominic Arkwright is joined by clinical psychologist Oliver James, author of The Selfish Capitalist and Britain
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Francine Stock presents a series on the influence of films on all aspects of our lives.
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160/44; 32 MB; sound quality excellent
When he was four, food writer Stefan Gates appeared on the cover of Led Zeppelin's classic album Houses of the Holy. This deeply personal programme follo
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Tue Aug 5, 2008, 8:00 PM Radio 4 FM
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The Mark Steel Lecture Stand-up comic and Independent columnist Mark Steel embarks on a series of humorous lectures covering historical figures who shaped their era. 1999.09.09 - 01 - Oliver Cromwell With Melanie Hudson and Martin Hyder. 1999.09.16
Read more…A Brief History of Infinity - BBC Radio Science Documentary -------------------------------------------------------------------- Human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. Philosophers and mathematicians h
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by Tina Pepler
Based on research with renowned horse whisperer Andrew Froggatt from the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand, this unusual and inspiring drama documentary looks at the way in which horses are being used to help change people's lives
After 40 years as arguably the most elegant ship at sea, QE2 docked at her final resting place in Dubai to be converted into a floating hotel. The story of the ship's eventful life, from construction on the Clyde in the 1960s, through refitting as
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Read more…What's in Your Head Broadcast Fri 17 Apr 2009, 11:00 Repeated Mon 21 Sep 2009, 20:00 Under pressure, when we are on our own, many of us hear the words or songs we learnt by heart as a child. This programme features people discussing how these songs
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An exploration of the dark, sinister and enchanted world of fairy tales. Michael Rosen, A.S.Byatt and Richard Mabey take us into the woods - the realm where magic lurks, stan
