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• Desert island discs: every guest listed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  What have we learnt from 70 years of Desert Island Discs? See whos been in and what they chose • Get the data As Radio 4s Desert Island Discs enters its 70th year, our Scraperwiki spreadsheet reveals a number of themes running through castaways choices over the past seven decades. With the entire Desert ...
  6 days ago

• Desert Island Discs celebrates 70 years of books, music and bizarre luxuries

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Sir David Attenborough marks anniversary with fourth appearance on radio show, which has seen requests for a blow-up doll and suicide pills When radio presenter Roy Plomley came up with the idea for Radio 4s Desert Island Discs on a cold November night in 1941, on his way to bed and already in his pyjamas, he ...
  6 days ago

• Whats So Funny?

  
  Podcast Reviews Blog — Authority: 107
  Whats So Funny? is a weekly half hour review and discussion of all things comedy with host comedian Ed Byrne and guests. Broadcast on digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra and also available on the BBC iPlayer and as a podcast, the magazine style show features Ed and guests discussing the previous weeks comedy ...
  6 days ago

• Radio drama and the process of commisssioning

  
  FictionBitch — Authority: 97
  My latest post on The View From Here concerns the issue of commissioning, in particular radio drama commissioning. At the same time a Guardian piece by David Edgar considers the current state of radio drama and also touches on the effects of the current commissioning system.
  1 week ago

• Showstopper! comes to Dulwich

  
  Dulwich OnView — Authority: 108
  Ruth Bratt and Adam Meggido in Showstopper! © Geraint Lewis Showstopper! The Improvised Musical comes to the Michael Croft Theatre for one night on 30 January.  Showstopper co-founder Adam Meggido tells Dulwich OnView about making their BBC Radio 4 series , the ingredients for successful improvisation and ...
  1 week ago

• R & B on the River Thames

  
  Caught by the River — Authority: 462
  Rivers & Boats & Rhythm & Blues: on BBC Radio 4 this evening, the first in a series of 15 minute radio documentaries going out under the banner, Kenneth Cranham On The Water . The subject this week is Eel Pie Island, 1964. Home then to the young faces of the burgeoning British R & B scene, and ...
  1 week ago

• The Boosh Tale of Hitcher – and other juicy danglings

  
  Random Musings in Cyberspace — Authority: 97
  Come with me now on a journey through time and space to the world of The Mighty Boosh… Noel Fielding is to be appearing on ITV’s The Jonathan Ross Show Saturday January 21st. They will no doubt be chatting about his new comedy show starting on E4 Thursday January 26 Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy which … ...
  2 weeks ago

• Radio Series About The Royal Collection Poses U.S. Question

  
  Real Clear Arts — Authority: 407
  Its been a pleasure to be working at home a couple of recent days during the one oclock hour, because thats when WNYC is rebroadcasting The BBC/British Museums " A History of the World in 100 Objects ." I was surprised to be as interested as I actually was in the importance of the handaxe, and then the Clovis spear ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jack Straw: Charles Clarke was wrong to shut down Stephen Lawrence group

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Jack Straw says Charles Clarke made an error in shutting down group overseeing response to Macpherson report Jack Straw wrote earlier this month that establishing the Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence was the "single most important" decision he made as home secretary. In its first ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rewind radio: Dying Inside; But They Are Only Russians; London Soundscape – review

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Rewind radio: Dying Inside; But They Are Only Russians; London Soundscape – review Radio 4′s documentary about Britain’s ageing prison population made for sobering listeningDying Inside (R4) | iPlayerBut They Are Only Russians (R4) | iPlayerLondon Soundscape (R2) | ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rewind radio: Dying Inside; But They Are Only Russians; London Soundscape – review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Radio 4s documentary about Britains ageing prison population made for sobering listening Dying Inside (R4) | iPlayer But They Are Only Russians (R4) | iPlayer London Soundscape (R2) | iPlayer New Year, new you! How depressing. So lets sod the yoga and stretch the carb-slugged brain instead. Give it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Farewell Great Britain? How the ‘Union’ flag may look if Scotland goes it alone

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 149
  Mr Gove says Scotland must think if it wants the pound, the NHS, same welfare benefits and to separate the British ArmyUrges Scottish government to accept a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ question for the ballotAlex Salmond offers to host talks with David Cameron on a referendum It is recognised the world over as a symbol of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stop What You’re Doing and Read This!

  
  Katyboo1's Weblog — Authority: 117
  I was listening to Radio 4 in the car on the way home from taking the children to school. This was after a slight detour to the local Co-op, who, my mum informed me (by the power of giving me a tin), were reducing all their tins of Illy coffee to £3.49 each.  Illy is my favourite brand, and it is bloody expensive. ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Arlott - Crickets Radical Voice

  
  adambowie.com — Authority: 103
  You have just under two days to listen to the most recent Archive Hour on Radio 4 dealing with John Arlotts political nature. As well as being famous for having one of those wonderful Test Match Special voices that Id listen to when I was growing up, he was also a regular on programmes like Any Answers which this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Erykah Badu Hosts BBC Radio Series On Black Power Movement

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 706
  Erykah Badu is hosting a two-part series about the Black Power and Black Arts movement of the late ’60s and ’70s on BBC Radio 4 called “Black Is A Country.” SEE ALSO: TV’s Worst New Show The first segment, which aired last week, touches on the political climate of the era while exploring some of ...
  3 weeks ago

• OMD | Professor Brian Cox selects Messages as a Desert Island Disc

  
  NerveJam.Com - Electronic Music — Authority: 104
  Professor Brian Cox selected Messages as one of his Desert Island Discs when he appeared on the programme on BBC Radio 4 in December. You can listen back to the show here if you missed it at the time.
  3 weeks ago

• Radio review: A Month in Ambridge

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  The Grundys have turned saintly. Thanks heavens for the orrible orrobins A while back I was visiting a friend in darkest Somerset when Frankie Howerd turned up. (Hed ring and say: "Are you doing anything tomorrow?" Youd say: "No" and hed say: "Right! Ill come to lunch.") The village affected not to notice this ...
  3 weeks ago

• A thought for Today: where are all the women on Radio 4s flagship show?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Every morning the radio programme that famously sets the days agenda is dominated by men. BBC producers say they are trying to do something about it but so far with little success. Can you help us keep the pressure on? Today is the perfect day, and topic, for a New Year resolution. Let me explain, especially as Im ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why does Ed Miliband speak like he does? | Polly Curtis

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  He may be the Labour party leader, but in his words Ed Miliband can still sound like a spad Ed Milibands interview on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning drew comment for his reticence to name the cuts Labour would make, John Humphryss cringeworthy remarks about his looks and a bizarre comparison to Jedward ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wholl play Dave in the film of his life?

  
  News Politics — Authority: 129
  David Cameron got asked on Radio 4s Today programme this morning who would play him in a film of his life, in response to The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. Obviously he demurred ("Itll never be made") rather than leap up and shout "THE YOUNG MARLON BRANDO" or something equally intemperate, but ...
  3 weeks ago

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