Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2012
Posts (28)
The British Library and the Listening Project
(Editor's note: This week sees the launch of a new partnership between the BBC and the British Library. The Listening Project asks people up and down the country to share an intimate conversation with a close friend or relative. Here, British Library curator Jonathan Robinson talks about the ...
In Our Time: The Measurement of Time
Editor's note: In Thursday's programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed The Measurement of Time. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - EMcN. Hello I'm dictating this quite late at night after a heavy day in the sun in London. I have seen ...
Bookclub: The Archive
Ed's note: Radio 4's Bookclub is on at 4pm this Sunday 1st April and is repeated on Thursday 5th April at 3.30pm. You can also listen online after broadcast or download the podcast - CM Bookclub has reached something of a milestone. After this coming Sunday's programme on April 1, wi...
Feedback: Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show
Feedback's presenter Roger Bolton When I was a schoolboy I used to think that the world was divided into those who loved the Goons and those who were baffled by their alleged humour. Indeed I first began to worry about Prince Charles when I watched him go into hysterics in the presence of ...
The Listening Project: Six Degrees of Conversation
(Editor's note: Friday 30 March sees the launch of The Listening Project, an ambitious new partnership between BBC Radio 4, BBC local and national radio stations, and the British Library. We are asking people up and down the country to share an intimate conversation with a close friend or rel...
Feedback: The Budget
Feedback's presenter Roger Bolton This week on Feedback we've been looking at coverage of the Budget and, in particular, the phenomenon of so called "pre news" i.e. speculation, informed or otherwise. In the view of veteran commentators like Moneybox's Paul Lewis this year's leaks have ...
In Our Time newsletter: Moses Mendelssohn
Editor's note: In Thursday's programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed Moses Mendelssohn. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - EMcN. Hello I think that the reason I enjoyed this programme so much was that it brought into clear...
The People's Passion: Cathedrals: Who comes here? Why do they come?
Editors note: The writer Nick Warburton talks about his inspirations for The People's Passion dramas, where stories of the Passion and the present collide, in the lives of people passing through one fictional cathedral. EMcN Arundel Tomb, Chichester Cathedral When we were first ...
More Than Words Festival - Day 3
The final day of the More Than Words Festival included pirates, spheres & grumpy crabs - with many other listening experiences along the way. The Bluesette Trio perform at the More Than Words Festival A second day of workshops in took place yesterday (Sunday 18th March) in Bristol Un...
More Than Words Festival - Day 2
Poetry, comedy, music and art are celebrated during the second day of the More Than Words Festival. The Riff Raff Choir perform music at the More Than Words Festival The University of Bristol's Merchant Venturers building hosted a whole day of workshops inspired by the festival's theme o...
