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A Century in a Click: 100 Years of the Photobooth: Oral historian and BAFTA lifetime achievement award winner Alan Dein presents the story in sound of the photobooth from its invention by an immigrant from Siberia to the current day.
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A Century in a Click: 100 Years of the Photobooth: Oral historian and BAFTA lifetime achievement award winner Alan Dein presents the story in sound of the photobooth from its invention by an immigrant from Siberia to the current day.

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u/whatatwit — 12 hours ago
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It's hard for displaced youngsters or those in refugee camps to get training or get into University or careers, when they can't prove themselves by passing exams. Some in a Lebanese refugee camp decided to address this with G12++ and recently it got official recognition at the Education World Forum.

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u/whatatwit — 17 hours ago
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Hoax!: A quiz from Ian Messiter presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor in which expert story tellers relate convincing tales – one of which is fake. In this episode from Dec 1991 Denis Norden, Victor Spinetti, Richard Stilgoe and Tim have to determine, in each round, which one of the guests is telling fibs.

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u/whatatwit — 1 day ago
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Following their brave work to Catch a Scorpion which eventuated an arrest, Sue Mitchel and her trusty minder, Rob Lawrie, an ex-soldier, pursue the next level in the people smuggling business as they set out to Catch a King.

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u/whatatwit — 3 days ago
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The East Light: Listen to the natural sounds of Northern Ireland's Rathlin Island and its East Lighthouse recorded when Margot McCuaig visited. She tells us that generations of her family come from Rathlin and her parents are buried there. Also hear how the lighthouse had to be wound-up regularly!

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u/whatatwit — 3 days ago
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Desert Island Discs, Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO: He talks to Lauren Laverne about being Norway's Labour FM and PM and the far-right extremist gun attack on Utøya. His book choice was a statistics textbook saying that he was into Maths as a kid and always wanted to be a statistician.

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u/whatatwit — 5 days ago
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Gardeners' Question Time, Serge Hill Project: This is a special edition for any GQT regulars. Matt Biggs announces in his own words that a cancer he thought they'd put into remission is back and has metastasised to his liver and into his brain and he's been told it is now end-stage cancer.

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u/whatatwit — 6 days ago
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Rinsed: Kate Lamble goes into detail on what went wrong with the water industry. In e4 she talks about the sweetener of billions of debt forgiveness given by the public to the private buyers and the loopholes left in privatisations that let banks take controlling interests in the privatised assets.

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u/whatatwit — 7 days ago
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The Eden Project: Kirsty Wark talks to Catherine Cutler who created its ecosystem for exotic species, Dave Meneer who managed local affairs, McAlpine's senior civil engineer Keith Pizzey, its cofounder Tim Smit, money-man Gay Coley, CEO Andy Jasper and to Jo Elworthy who managed visitor engagement.

u/whatatwit — 8 days ago
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Last Chance to See ('89). Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams are looking for endangered species in remote locations and raising public awareness before it's too late. Like The Hitchhiker's Guide it was a radio series before it was a book. In e1 they're in New Zealand's fiords looking for a Kākāpō.

u/whatatwit — 9 days ago
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Dad's Army, The Day the Balloon Went Up: The Verger gets into trouble with a stray barrage ballon, but the Home Guard eventually rescues him, but then Captain Mainwaring and Corporal Jones get into difficulties and an RAF plane has to be scrambled! Audio based on the TV series with original actors.

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u/whatatwit — 10 days ago
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The last dance floor in Chernobyl: The earth moved for Iryna and Serhiy the night before their wedding and a rumble from the direction of the power plant. There was no official announcement, but when he went out for the best man in the morning the groom saw soldiers in gas masks washing the streets.

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u/DreamingofBouncer — 11 days ago
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Planet Bach: Clemency Burton-Hill takes us around the world to find people who still, as she once could, play Bach every day. Cellist Pablo Casals once wrote, "For the past 80 years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life."

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u/whatatwit — 12 days ago
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Key Changes: 1000 years of classical music history in key stages. In e1 it's 1026 and Guido d'Arezzo declares his work on the stave and the idea of do-re-mi-fa-soh-la. Music can now be shared with someone who wasn't there! Thanks to him we can listen to Hildegard von Bingen. Who knows what we lost?

u/whatatwit — 13 days ago
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The Dark Frontier by Jeffrey Marlow. He's a marine microbiologist who studies the ingenuity of the extremophiles in sediments on the seafloor. Those who live very slowly may allow surface life to reboot if it's destroyed. In e1 he dives in the Caribbean to show how carbon gets stored in the deep.

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u/whatatwit — 14 days ago
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Blue Veils and Golden Sands by Martyn Wade: Delia Derbyshire started life as an upper-working-class girl who was good at Maths. She got into Cambridge on the strength of her Maths but after a year switched to Music. Delia is most famous for turning Ron Grainer's score into a radiophonic masterpiece.

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u/whatatwit — 15 days ago
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Half the original Paul Temple episodes weren't archived so BBC Radio used the old scripts from Francis Durbridge to make copies with vintage microphones, sound effects, music and voice-alike actors with clipped RP. In this episode they are very worried about an unprecedented epidemic of drug-taking.

u/whatatwit — 16 days ago