1988–1990
Traveling Wilburys were a late 1980s supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. The band recorded two albums during the two years they were together.
Starting at a meal among Roy Orbison,
THE BEATLES: The Days In Their Life
A thirty-hour chronology tracing the life of four musicians who had a dramatic effect on directions taken by others. The group that inspired and redefined the boundaries of contemporary music.
Below is the press re
Read more…Patti Smith hosts four hours of music and conversation about Bob Dylan. His friends, early influences and collaborators discuss their close relationships with Dylan and the stories behind his greatest songs and other memorable moments of his career.
Chuck Berry has been called the "Father of Rock n' Roll" and with good reason. He took the blues of T-Bone Walker and B.B. King, the guitar riffs of Carl Hogan and mixed it with the fiddle and Western Swing music of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. Th
When The Beatles arrived in the United States in February of 1964, no one could have anticipated the tremendous impact the band would have on the development of American popular music and pop culture. Paul Ingles hosts The Beatles in America-1964 and
The True Story of Bonnie Parker
By Beatrice Colin
15 Minute Drama, 26 to 30 August 2013
Omnibus version, 31 August 2013, Radio 4 Extra
A new look at the story of Bonnie and Clyde that uses historical sources to illustrate how a series of often disastro
BBC Radio 2
Monday 26 August 2013
A new drama from legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. The album topped the charts on its release in 1973, and it remained in the chart
Oblique Strategies
Simon Armitage
First broadcast: Thursday 13 June 2013, 11:30
'Infinitesimal gradations', 'Repetition is a form of change', 'Bridges-build-burn' - just three of the gnomic aphorisms contained in the Oblique Strategies cards devi
Read more…Churchill's Secret Cabinet
Archive On 4: Saturday 06 July 2013
160/44; 65.6 MB; sound quality excellent
Clement Attlee once claimed that Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War through his words. But what influenced these words
Mr Punch Says That's the Way to Do It
First broadcast 5th August 2008
Repeated on Radio 7, Sunday 23 January 2011
Actor Martin Reeve takes up his swozzle and slapstick to chart the history and tenacious survival of the Punch and Judy show. He ta
BBC Radio 3 - 2013-07-26
When Tolkien Stole Wagner's Ring
Twenty Minutes - Prom interval talk
128K
Tolkien always vehemently denied any connection between his Lord of the Rings and Wagner's Ring Cycle. He once said: 'Both rings were round, and there th
Angelology
Broadcast Fri 23 Dec 2011, BBC Radio 3
A programme from Twenty Minutes
160/44; 26.1 MB; sound quality excellent
This is the time of year when we are surrounded by images of angels, many looking rather benevolent, friendly musical cre
The Gestapo Minutes
A new play by Adam Ganz
starring Ed Stoppard, Julian Rhind-Tutt and featuring Robin Lustig.
Under the Nazis, Michel Oppenheim, lawyer, patriot and porcelain
collector is made head of the jewish community in Mainz. The minutes
London's Oldest Prison: A History of Criminal Justice
Through the prism of HMP Brixton, BBC Radio 4 traces changing attitudes to crime and punishment during 19th century industrialisation, urbanisation, and national debate about how prisons should be
Who Found Machu Picchu?
Broadcast Wed 5 Oct 2011, 11:00
160/44; 31.9 MB; sound quality excellent
The story of Machu Picchu's discovery is one of myth, court cases and controversy. The popular account involves the central character, the protot
