Lennon's Private Passion - Cape Wrath

Lennon's Private Passion - Cape Wrath Sun Oct 12, 2008, 2:45-3:00 PM, Radio 4 John Lennon is usually associated with either Liverpool or New York, and few know of his love for Cape Wrath, a wild and beautiful corner of the Scottish Highlands where

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Round Ireland With A Fridge

Round Ireland With A Fridge Written and read by Tony Hawks First broadcast from 19980608 to 19980612 Repeated 19990126 to 19990130 Repeated on BBC7 several times In 1997, as a result of a drunken bet, Tony Hawks hitchhiked his way around Ireland wi

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I just Could Not Resist

40 Year Anniversary of Abbey Road Album

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Stark Talk

Stark Talk Edi Stark's compelling and award-winning conversation series. 2008-10-05, BBC Radio Scotland Edi talks to Val McDermid. 128/44; 25 MB

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Performing To The Red Light

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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Radio Sales (BBC)

Radio Sales Last broadcast on Mon, 16 Mar 2009, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4. SynopsisRadio presenter Brian Hayes examines some of the best and worst of independent radio - the adverts. He looks back over the last 80 years of advertising on radio in the U

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Lost Empires by JB Priestley

Click Picture To Enlarge Historical Fiction is taking a microcosm of a certain time and creating a fictionalization of it. Lost Empires does that and more.It is 1913, just scant years away from The Great War when episode 1 of this serial begin. 1

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"Marlowe's Diaries" by Roy Kendall

Roy Kendall - Marlowe's Diaries BBC World Service: Play of the Week Broadcast: Sunday 30th May 1993 This week's play has been specially written by Roy Kendall to commemorate the life of one of England's finest poets and playwrights, Christopher

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"The Marx Brothers": 3 Different Documentaries

The Marx Brothers on Radio The Original Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel In 1932, Groucho and Chico Marx made their radio debuts in a series called Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel. The scripts, long thought lost, turned up in the late 1980s and were t

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Jazz Greats: Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman Tue 24 Mar 2009, 13:30 (Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats) Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th century. Clarinettist and bandleader Benny Goodman became known as the King of Swing. Brought up in extreme poverty in the Jewi

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Not Letting It Be

Not Letting It Be Matt Lucas presents a lively overview of pop parodies through the years. Tue 12 May 2009, 22:30, Radio 2 160/44; 65 MB; sound quality excellent When The Rutles 'documentary' All You Need Is Cash was released in 1978, it revived

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Hallelujah

Hallelujah Broadcast 7th April 2009, repeated 14th June 2009 Composer Jocelyn Pook celebrates the music and meaning of the word Hallelujah through history and creates a new composition inspired by the word. This exuberant exclamation of joy and gra

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Kitty Wilkinson

Kitty Wilkinson by David Pownall with Maureen O'Brien, John Rowe, Helena Breck and Robert Glenister Songs composed and sung by Maddy Prior (words by D.Pownall) Directed by Martin Jenkins Broadcast 30 May 1992 (Saturday Playhouse) repeated 14 June 1

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Bad Habits

Bad Habits Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the bad habits and personal failings which directly or indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives. Workaholism Richard explores the rising problem of workaholism. He talks

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"Rock's DNA - Portrait Of A Guitar Chord" Radio 3 (Between The Ears)

Rock's DNA - Portrait Of A Guitar Chord Produced by Alan Hall Broadcast November 17, 2007, Radio 3 (Between The Ears) Embedded in the riffs to Purple Haze & Foxy Lady there's a guitar chord that's saturated in the blues, that's jazz-inflected and

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The New Galileos

The New Galileos BBC Radio 4 »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» The New Galileos - e01 - James Webb Space Telescope - 2009.04.30 [192-44-S] 21:00-21:30 The New Galileos Episode 1 1/2. Andrew Luck-Baker meets the scientists behind the James Webb S

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70 Years of Cool

70 Years of Cool BBC Radio 2 »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 70 Years of Cool - e01 - 2009.05.01 [192-44-S] 19:00-19:30 70 Years of Cool Episode 1 1/3. Jamie Cullum tells the story of Blue Note Records and the rise of modern jazz. 70 Years

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Beyond The Vortex

Beyond the Vortex is a series of audio documentaries broadcast on BBC7, following the BBCR audio adventures of the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller. 1-3 of 8

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Tarantino's Jukebox

Tarantino's Jukebox 11-07-2009 - 18-07-2009 Composer and film music historian Robert Ziegler talks to American film-maker Quentin Tarantino about the music he has used to soundtrack his films. Music plays a key role in Tarantino's films, including

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White Liberation

Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory. Many who fought Nazi Germany during World War II did so to defeat the vicious racism

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