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Cuttin' It by Charlene James: This is important educationally but very gory and grim - so be warned! Winner of 'Best Single Drama' in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016, winner of the Alfred Fagon Award for 'Best Play' and the author won the George Devine Award for 'Most Promising Playwright' in 2015.

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Cuttin' It by Charlene James: This is important educationally but very gory and grim - so be warned! Winner of 'Best Single Drama' in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016, winner of the Alfred Fagon Award for 'Best Play' and the author won the George Devine Award for 'Most Promising Playwright' in 2015.

u/whatatwit — 11 days ago

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Witness History: The Trautonium was an early electronic synthesiser that was appreciated by both Alfred Hitchcock and Joseph Goebbels! Listen here for archive recordings of musician Thomas Pappon talking to Oskar Sala who played it and developed it from 1930 and to Peter Pichler who plays it today.

u/whatatwit — 12 days ago

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The Birds by Daphne du Maurier ('52): Men who'd volunteered to fight in WWII were not guaranteed a job afterwards. They'd take anything including farm labouring and insults. In rural Cornwall Nat was one such, but his world turned upside down when flocks of birds started attacking houses and people.

u/whatatwit — 12 days ago

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Upcoming Long-Term Wolfe Road to Northbound I-280 Ramp Closure: Beginning October 2 (Link in comments)

u/whatatwit — 21 days ago

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Kate Stables learns more about her favourite spots in Winchester. As a kid she'd flown kites on St Catherine's Hill and later celebrated her wedding. She goes down to the Itchen and conservationist Rachel Remnant, then on to Cowslip Field for scything. She concludes her visit up the cathedral tower.

u/whatatwit — 23 days ago

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The Bayeux Tapestry by Morna Stuart: Remarkably, this programme was made for children and broadcast on the BBC Home Service in four tea-time episodes but today it sounds like a sophisticated Radio 3 play. The history embroidered into the Bayeux Tapestry as it was perceived in 1944.

u/whatatwit — 24 days ago

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A Bronze Age gold bracelet found in Wales by a metal detectorist in 2025 has been declared treasure. It's believed to be about 3,000 years old and is 92.8% gold, according to experts from Museum Wales. Article in comments. [976 × 549]

u/whatatwit — 28 days ago

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Amol Rajan's last Radical: Sophie Pender is trying to build an old 'boy' network for the 93% of folk who went to State Schools. Lack of contacts means the better candidates for a job and the UK usually get sidelined by the 7% of applicants who were already well-connected and went to private schools.

u/whatatwit — 29 days ago

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Thanks to the BBC Archive we can hear ship's Captain Henry Kendall, in his own voice, explain how Crippen and his accomplice were recognised at sea based on the wanted poster. At the extent of the available wireless technology Scotland Yard was telegraphed in-time to arrive in Quebec before Crippen.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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The Art of Re-mastering: Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits London's Abbey Road Studios to meet the masters of re-mastering. She asks them and others from the music industry what re-mastering actually means and discovers that re-mastering can sometimes be as much about what to leave in as what to leave out.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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Artworks, Last Frames The Story of Bill Biggart: The professional photojournalist was trying out a digital camera alongside his analog cameras when he ran towards the Twin Towers on the 11th Sept '01. His last image was digital and time-stamped 10:28:24 i.e. seconds before the 2nd tower collapsed.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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Hannah French, Radio 3's Early Music specialist, presents 'Bach to School' featuring the music of JS Bach and his life as a teacher at St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig; her favourite five Bach records in 'Record Review'; and for Proms 2026 - 'Bach’s Mass in B minor with Arcangelo.' URLs in the comment.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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The Dung Beetle Vet: If you want to hear someone who's full of joy at work, listen to Claire Whittle a farm vet who after a health crisis and relationship breakdown started a regenerative farm. She found that the worming meds she used to prescribe for sheep and cattle was killing the soil ecosystem.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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Kind Hearts and Coronets: You've probably seen and laughed with the 1949 Ealing Studios adaptation of the 1907 novel that starred Alec Guinness as each and every member of the d'Ascoyne family. In this radio adaptation from 1980 every member is played by Robert Powell. There was also a 1965 version.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: An adaptation of a bizarre but strangely topical novel satirising 1930s Soviet Russia. We meet the biblical Satan as Prof Woland and his entourage: Koroviev, a grotesquely dressed valet; Behemoth, a black cat; Azazello, a hitman; and Hella, a succubus!

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines: An adaptation by the author for BBC Schools Radio of the 1968 book that became the film, Kes in 1969.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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Sounds Natural: In 1971 Humph talked to Derek Jones about his love of birdwatching and bird identification. On tour, instead of playing golf to unwind he prefers to find the local bird watching spot. Given his hours he doesn't always fully appreciate the dawn chorus in his bird-friendly home garden.

u/whatatwit — 1 month ago

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This Cultural Life: John Wilson talks to pianist Mitsuko Uchida about her cultural influences. At 77 she still has a fast nervous system and answers most questions instantly. Her comment at the end about the way that Japanese is structured to create agreement, was especially interesting.

u/whatatwit — 2 months ago

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Archive on 4, The Age of Uncertainty: Off the back of The Ascent of Man its producer made The Age of Uncertainty on Economics presented by J.K. Galbraith but by the time it came to air Sir Keith Joseph had him in his sights as Conservatives switched to Milton Friedman, monetarism and privatisation.

u/whatatwit — 2 months ago

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A dramatisation of the battle of wills between Churchill and Reith in 1926. Fearing that a General Strike, if it was allowed to happen, would trigger a Bolshevik uprising in Britain, Churchill wanted the BBC to promote his anti-union position, but Reith was determined to preserve BBC independence.

u/whatatwit — 2 months ago