BBCRadio4

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Documentaries, news, comedy and drama from the BBC. Listen from anywhere in the world online or in the BBC Sounds app.

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BBCRadio4, to art

In the countdown to Christmas we're opening an advent calendar of highlights from 20 years of guest edits.

When Yoko Ono took over the show in 2006, she was asked about the US authorities seeing her and John Lennon as 'dangerous radicals'.

The Today Advent Calendar, 13 December, on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3GGh5tv

BBCRadio4, (edited ) to random

🔍 May we invite you to lose yourself in hours of highly-entertaining detective drama? Over 30 episodes of Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown and Julie Enfield Investigates (and more added weekly).

A 4 Extra collection on BBC Sounds now.

https://bbc.in/4aeO8lZ

BBCRadio4,

@snaptophobic Hi Heather, 4 Extra colleagues tell us you'll find some original adventures here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01j9gzs/episodes/player and also that nine Bert Coules episodes cannot currently be made available for rights reasons :-(

BBCRadio4, (edited ) to poetry

Benjamin Zephaniah has died, aged 65. The poet, novelist and activist had been diagnosed with a brain tumour only eight weeks ago.

Last year he shared his life story, his passion for language and his love for all people (and animals) with Ian McMillan on Radio 3's The Verb (and there's plenty of his wonderful verse too).

On BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/4abh2ne

#poetry #performance #literature #poet #obituary

BBCRadio4,

On Radio 4 last week, Benjamin Zephaniah chose poetry he loves from the many requests sent in by listeners to Poetry Please - by Shelley, Spike Milligan, Zhimo Xu, Mary Jean Chan and Joelle Taylor (and there's one of Benjamin's own, about his love of hedgehogs). He spoke with fellow poet Roger McGough.

Poetry Please, on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3sYbZG1

#poetry #performance #literature #poet #obituary

BBCRadio4, (edited )

Benjamin Zephaniah's visit to Radio 4's desert island was 25 years ago. It's a lovely programme - and his first choice of music is by his friend Sinéad O'Connor, lost to us only a few months ago herself.

It's on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3Rzc5NP

#poetry #performance #literature #poet #obituary #music #DesertIslandDiscs

BBCRadio4, to BadInternetBills

Today the UK government has signed a Hillsborough Charter, promising that no family will suffer the same injustices as those involved in the 1989 disaster.

For the 20th anniversary in 2009, Sue McGregor brought together a group of people who were there. It's a remarkable conversation.

The Reunion on BBC Sounds

https://bbc.in/41hhRGX

#Hillsborough #stadium #charter #government #legislation

BBCRadio4, to Etymology

📚 Every year the big dictionary publishers decide on the year's most important word. This year's Oxford Word of the Year is 'Rizz'.

Word of Mouth is a podcast about language and how it evolves, presented by poet and educator Michael Rosen.

There are over 250 episodes on BBC Sounds, covering every aspect of language - from chatbots to 'goblin mode' to Shakespeare to sci-fi to Yiddish to apostrophes…

https://bbc.in/4a4oTTq

#WOTY #etymology #language #English #usage #communication #dictionary

BBCRadio4,

@LonM We've been trying to drop it into conversation around the office. Not sure it's working.

BBCRadio4, (edited ) to philosophy

🎙️ The BBC Reith Lectures, named for founder of the BBC John Reith, began in 1948 with six talks by celebrated humanist philosopher Bertrand Russell. All the lectures - plus transcripts - are on BBC Sounds.

https://bbc.in/46BMwjf

BBCRadio4, (edited )

This year's BBC Radio 4 Reith lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

In his first lecture, 'The Future of Democracy', he asks whether we are in a "democratic recession", where longstanding democracies are at risk of breakdown and authoritarianism is resurgent. It's on BBC Sounds.

https://bbc.in/3Tdin6G

BBCRadio4, to music

The Pogues frontman has died, aged 65.

His biggest hit was an idiosyncratic Christmas single called Fairytale of New York, an emotional touchstone for many of us.

Soul Music on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/47YmR5m

BBCRadio4, (edited ) to random

You look over into the car next to yours. You can barely believe what you see... 😳🚗

Another truly bizarre case lands on Danny Robins' desk.

Uncanny on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3t4B1Db

miss_s_b, to random

I've had a headache all day, so I've set the lava lamp going for soothingness tonight.

  • doggo snuggles
  • lava lamp the only light
  • @BBCRadio4 flowing soothingly through the old Wharfedale Diamonds

I think I need to just embrace that I'm old. Very very old.

BBCRadio4,

@miss_s_b ❤️

BBCRadio4, to DoctorWho

Matthew Sweet tells the extraordinary story of Doctor Who's hiatus between 1989 and 2005.

Doctor Who: The Wilderness Years

https://bbc.in/3QOIRZv

#DoctorWho #TV #ScienceFiction #drama #serial

BBCRadio4,

What happened to the 108 episodes of Doctor Who that were wiped in the 1960s?

An investigation, on BBC Sounds

https://bbc.in/3sQDJvW

#DoctorWho #TV #ScienceFiction #drama #serial #archiving

BBCRadio4, (edited )

For the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who Sue McGregor brought together Carole Ann Ford (the Doctor's granddaughter Susan), Peter Purves (an early companion), Jeremy Young (caveman Kal), William Russell (another companion), Waris Hussein (the first director).

Also some Daleks. It's a lovely 45 minutes, on BBC Sounds.

https://bbc.in/3T0mbIm

#DoctorWho #TV #ScienceFiction #drama #serial #cast #anniversary #dalek

BBCRadio4,

On BBC Sounds, 12 episodes of the Tenth Doctor Adventures, with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

https://bbc.in/3MWz02D

#DoctorWho #TV #ScienceFiction #drama #serial #AudioBook

BBCRadio4, to Futurology

Before Covid-19 there was Mad Cow Disease…

The Cows are Mad: Ten things we learnt about Mad Cow Disease

https://bbc.in/47psidS

#disease #PublicHealth #brain #CJD

BBCRadio4,

A fascinating 10-part podcast about the Mad Cow Disease crisis.

Science has still failed to definitively answer two major questions about mad cow disease - where did it come from and how did humans get it?

https://bbc.in/47uDYfl

#disease #PublicHealth #brain #CJD

BBCRadio4, to random

Oh dear. Can you do better?

It's Paul Sinha's gnarly pub quiz.

https://bbc.in/3QMsHjc

#quiz #PaulSinha

BBCRadio4,

@TheVoidTLMB 👏

BBCRadio4,

@stevenf We fours need to stick together

BBCRadio4, to egypt

"Imagine sliding down that in a sack!"

Can Iszi Lawrence and Salma El-Wardany persuade Shaun Keaveny to sample the delights of the pyramids (other than sack sliding)?

Your Place or Mine | Listen on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3ui5gqK

#Egypt #travel #AncientEgypt #comedy #tourism #history #archaeology

Short studio video from the recording of BBC podcast Your Place or Mine

BBCRadio4, (edited ) to anime_titties

🌒 Got 269 minutes? A desire to lose yourself in the realm where drama and religion become one? Peristent urge to explore the opposing realms of lust and compassion?

Radio 3 would like a word.

https://bbc.in/3SGOrzX

BBCRadio4,

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a classical nut - he made a film about Jacqueline du Pré. On the Monsters of Music podcast with comedian Tom Allen he talks about Wagner's difficult legacy.

https://bbc.in/47BSUb9

#classical #music #history #opera

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