Still Walking - The Fats Domino Story BBC Radio 4
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Still Walking - The Fats Domino Story - e01 - 2009.02.13 [192-44-S]
19:00-19:30 Still Walking: The Fats Domino Story
Episode 1
1/3. The story of influential
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Hitsville USA - 50 Years of Heart and Soul BBC Radio 2
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Hitsville USA - 50 Years of Heart and Soul - e01 - 2009.01.05 [192-44-S]
23:30-00:00 Hitsville USA: 50 Years of Heart and Soul
Episode 1
1/6. Pete Mitchell
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Lost Fortnight
by Ray Connolly, based on a memoir by film producer John Houseman
With Peter Barkworth and David Bannerman. Produced by Martin Jenkins.
broadcast 14 March 1996 (Afternoon Play)
repeated on Radio 7, 13 March 2009
Peter Barkworth stars
Vril: Harness the Infinite Ocean of Energy (Sunday Feature)
Broadcast Sunday 4 January 2009 21:30-22:15, Radio 3
Vril was the infinitely powerful energy source of the species of superhumans who populated a pioneering science fiction novel by Victo
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Gene Krupa BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2
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Gene Krupa - e01 - 2009.01.09 [192-44-S]
19:00-19:30 Gene Krupa
Episode 1
1/4. New five-part documentary
exploring the life and career
of influential drummer
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Ursula Le Guin at 80
broadcast 17 Mar 2009, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4.
Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin.
Le Guin was a trailblazer - writing in the 1960s, her series of books about the adventures of a boy wi
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This would be classified as Historical Fiction. You have all of the ingredients that make up a particular time or event, but set in a fictional setting with caricatures of the stereotypes that make up that time or event.
The Siege Of Krishnapur
from
John Tusa presents the first of three programs chronicling the making of modern Iran. He talks to academics, statesmen and eye-witnesses, revisiting a turbulent century which began with the cultural revolution of 1906.
Clean Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing
read by Tamsin Greig.
Produced by Clive Brill
Five episodes.
First broadcast from 20080602 to 20080606 (Book of the Week).
160/44; 79 MB total; sound quality excellent
Ashenburg has work
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With God on Our Side
Sat Aug 23. 2008 (Archive Hour)
Amid the horrors of war, what makes one man turn to God and another to atheism? Former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway explores what happens to faith when one's life is on the line.
160/44;
The Torturer's Tale
Mon Oct 27, 2008, 8:00 PM, Radio 4 FM
Jolyon Jenkins speaks to former torturers from different countries about the process of crossing the line from acceptable to unacceptable behaviour, and asks how they cope with the knowledge
1968: It's Not Just about the Music
Joe Queenan looks at the 40-year history of the American rock magazine Rolling Stone. He talks to its founder, Jann Wenner, who is still very much at the helm, and to some of the writers who have contribu
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Loving The Raven
To tie in with the bicentenary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe in January 2009, five essays by five enthusiasts explore the enduring legacy and cult status of this enigmatic and controversial American writer. Across the week, a prov
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Carl Sagan: Science and the Search for God
Hayden Planetarium director Tyson, Carl Sagan's widow, and Sagan's former colleague discuss the astrobiologist's perspective on science, the spiritual experience, and the search for God.
Call Yourself A Feminist
Historian Bettany Hughes presents a series of three discussions tracing the development of feminist ideas from the 1960s onwards.
broadcast Tuesday 10 to 24 March 2009
128/44; 77 MB total; sound quality excellent
Part 1 -
BBC Radio 4 - Beware the Stare - 11-12-2003 11-30
The Cuckoos are coming! The Cuckoos are coming! Blonde haired, shiny eyed, and ready to stare mankind into oblivion. John Wyndham's Midwich Cuckoos and its 1960 film version, Village of the Damned,
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