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In s2/e2 of "How did we get here?" we hear from Carrie Gracie ex BBC China editor and George Magnus an academic at the China Centre at Oxford. 'The View from Beijing' discusses how the western financial crisis vindicated their use of capital controls and that smart central control will make them #1.

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u/whatatwit — 2 days ago
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The Grand North Atlantic Home Video Archive: In the old days the father of author Séamas O’Reilly used to record off live radio. Later after TV and VCRs came to rural NI he wanted to make the most of them and recorded and catalogued 100s of films to keep his big and growing family entertained.

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u/whatatwit — 3 days ago
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The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit (1904): The first novel in the 'Five Children and It' trilogy read by Patricia Hodge ("She who must be obeyed" from Rumpole of the Bailey and more). In e/5 "There was a soft cracking sound; the egg burst in two and out of it came a flame-coloured bird."

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u/whatatwit — 4 days ago
▲ 7 r/BritishRadio

The Hunting of the Snark (1874–76) by Lewis Carroll, an adaptation narrated by Tony Robinson with music and songs by Katie Chatburn.

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u/whatatwit — 5 days ago
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After years of playgrounds being shut due to lack of money from Central Government many kids don't have anywhere safe to play together anymore. Many English Local Authorities are experimenting with temporary access to 100s of their locals streets for supervised play on closed roads.

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u/whatatwit — 6 days ago
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The War of the Worlds (1898) H G Wells. "Following sightings of strange explosions on the surface of Mars, Martian ships begin to arrive on Earth."A two-part dramatisation by Melissa Murray.

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u/whatatwit — 6 days ago
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Mars Season, Start-up Planet: UCL Prof and Doctor, Kevin Fong explores the feasibility of kick-starting and maintaining a colony on Mars. This is part of a BIG Mars series. The BBC has actually created a page with all the programmes including The War of the Worlds and Following the Martian Invasion.

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u/whatatwit — 7 days ago
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Proms Across the UK: Steve Reich at 90. It must've been fun to be at this performance of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. They encouraged the audience to move amongst the vocalists and the other musicians and instruments. It took place at the concert hall that's now called the Bristol Beacon.

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u/whatatwit — 8 days ago
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With all the hot dry weather in England in 2026 Poppy is keeping an eye out for signs of fire on the unusually parched heathlands of Dorset, before they become wildfires. In addition to the nice walks, participating dogs get a fetching bandana and lead courtesy of Dorset Dogs and the fire brigade.

u/whatatwit — 9 days ago
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The Major and the VW Beetle: We hear from Major Ivan Hirst who was ordered to help the German economy by taking control of the giant Wolfsburg VW site when it became part of the British occupation zone. 1st he convinced the allies of the virtues of the Beetle then fixed numerous production problems.

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u/whatatwit — 10 days ago
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Cash Cow by Alev Scott: It all started with the Alev over-producing milk and not wanting it wasted but the more she dug into it the more she realised that there is a marketplace for everything a woman's body can produce and the consumer is not always what the naive amongst us might at first imagine!

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u/whatatwit — 11 days ago
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Capital Gains by Collin Johnson: The philosophical Julius Hutch's retirement plans are messed-up by Big Finance. With luck, good karma and the connivance of a crossword-loving employee he fights back. Stars Peter Jones as Julius and the author as the newsreader.

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u/whatatwit — 12 days ago
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One of the challenges of getting vaccines to people during a pandemic is that not all health care systems can maintain the cold chain from manufacturer to person. Given a hint by Nature a firm has used a special sugar found in plants to dry meds allowing them to survive a wide range of temperatures.

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u/whatatwit — 13 days ago
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The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith an 18th C comic novel from the author of She Stoops to Conquer. A series of unfortunate events take the Rev Primrose and family from a comfortable life to one where members of the upper class look down on them. In e1 he's seen having to leave his parsonage.

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u/whatatwit — 14 days ago
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In e2 of The American Century David Dimbleby explains how after Britain was weakened by WWII Roosevelt conspired with Stalin against Churchill seeing a world with only 2 superpowers. Meanwhile one man in the US Embassy in Moscow was frantically trying to warn the US that Stalin wasn't to be trusted.

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u/whatatwit — 15 days ago
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More glow worms have been spotted after conservationists let the grass grow in a nature reserve in southern England. Numbers of these beetles had fallen probably because of climate change, street lights and loss of habitat. To attract a mate females climb tall grass and stick their bums in the air.

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u/whatatwit — 15 days ago
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When Marnie Was There by Joan G Robinson: A family drama with a kind of möbius twist that links the past and the present in ghostly fashion. An orphan girl is sent to get better with a couple in Norfolk. She feels lonely until she meets the mysterious Marnie. The novel was also animated by Ghibli.

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u/whatatwit — 16 days ago