The Timeless Magic Of Dark Shadows Is Alive And Well After The Episode Was Presented On ABC-Tv June 27,1966. This Audio Is A Special 25th Anniversary Celebration Of The Show Everyone "Ran Home From School To Watch" Me, Too!
Members Of The Original Da
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Broadcast Tue 30 Aug and 6 Sep 2011, 11:30
160/44; 64 MB total; sound quality excellent
Cat Women of the Moon was a 1950s film that followed a popular motif in science fiction; an all women society surviving without men. Charlot
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
In 1838, the Cherokee of the American southeast, one of the Five Civilized Tribes, were forced out of their farms and towns and relocated eight hundred miles to the west, in Indian Territory. A caravan of about 16,000 people set
The King Returned
Broadcast on Radio 3 Monday 24 to Friday 28 May 2010 (The Essay)
160/44; 80 MB; sound quality excellent
Jonathan Sawday paints a picture of Restoration Britain, exploring the politics, the science, the culture and the philosophy whic
Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, was known as the Black Prince. Peter and Dan Snow follow in his footsteps to trace the start of the 100 Years' War between England and France, and to find out more about this great figure in 14th century chivalry
Read more…China's Forgotten Admiral First broadcast February 5th 2010, BBC World Service Zheng He ranks among the world's greatest seafarers. Nearly a century before European explorers started out, he was commanding great fleets of huge ships The ships gro
Read more…Excerpts from Charles Darwin's diary and notes made on his five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Read by JoStone-Fewings.
Where Scotland Meets England a 2-part documentary At a time when the border where Scotland meets England has assumed keen political significance following devolution and the promised SNP referendum on full independence, Hardeep Singh Kohli journeys
Read more…Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell (2003) - BBC
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Read by Charles Murray
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Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Charles Murray marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Frank Zappa by taking a closer look at the jazz side of his work. Interviews with for
BBC Radio 4 Extra marks the 60th anniversary of The Queen’s Coronation. In the week of the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’'s coronation, Nick Baker rummages in the Radio Times to hear gems from that week, as well as
Read more…UN Radio1959
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Rock Hudson tells the story of a reformed mental health institution in Bethlehem and the work of World Health Organization.
Vincent Price and the Horror of the English Blood Beast
By Matthew Broughton.
In 1967, Vincent Price came to the UK to make the horror movie
Witchfinder General. It was the best performance of his career, and the
worst few months of his life. This play
Who Was Emily Davison?
by Rose Tremain
First broadcast 27 August 1995, BBC World Service Play of the Week
Repeated on the following dates:
Saturday 6th July 1996 (World Service)
Thursday 30th October 1997 (BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play)
Saturday 30
Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story
The late Nina Simone's daughter Simone (she adopted the single name as her stage name, her birth name is Lisa Celeste Stroud) explores the life and career of her mother - the protest singer, jazz chanteuse, blues
The Big Ditch: How the Panama Canal Changed the World
Presented by Jonny Dymond, BBC Washington DC correspondent
Producer: Dom Byrne
A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4.
First broadcast: Wednesday 24 April and 1 May 2013, 11:00
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Bitcoin
First broadcast: Thursday 25 April 2013
Duration: 28 minutes
You can use it to buy a pizza, or pay a taxi fare. Simon Cox looks at the virtual currency Bitcoin, which is exclusively online and independent of any government or company and wh
BBC World Service - Heart And Soul, Wandering Souls
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Vietnam is over-run with ghosts. To pass onto the next world, you need to die well - in old age, body unblemished, the proper rituals observed. But few of the five million people killed in t
