Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2012
Posts (23)
Saturday Live: Little Donkey
One of the drawbacks of Social Media is that if you don’t fix your privacy settings – what am I, nine? – people can see what you’re up to.
Saturday Review: Pushkin's Boris Godunov at the RSC and Sightseers
I’ve noticed before that the journey to Stratford is rarely the same distance coming back as it is going. It’s the productions themselves that bring about this distortion of space-time.
The Radio 4 Christmas Appeal
Some of Radio 4's best known voices will be taking shifts with the phone team at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square.
Bookclub: Sathnam Sanghera
In this month’s Bookclub we visit a Sikh family in Wolverhampton. For the author, the journey was a departure – a break with his past and his culture – and ended as a reconciliation.
In Our Time: Crystallography
And so to the highlight of the week on Tuesday night which was in a theatre above a pub in London.
Christmas Puddings for the Christmas Appeal
We are fortunate enough to have somewhere to live, which is one of the reasons why we support the St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal by making and selling Christmas puddings.
In Our Time: The Borgias
Editor's note: In Thursday's programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed The Borgias. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - AI Hello Well, I hope we didn't shock you too much. It seems from the three scholars sat around studio 50E ...
Saturday Live: Emma Kennedy and John Major's Inheritance Tracks
Editor's Note: Saturday Live is Radio 4's Saturday morning magazine show featuring extraordinary stories and remarkable people. You can listen to the show here. In this blog presenter Sian Williams gives us an insight into her week and looks ahead to the next show. - CM Sarah Lund in 'The K...
The Mysterious Case of Maria
Editor's note: The Mysterious Case of Maria is the Radio 4 Afternoon Drama on 22 November. Unusually for a radio drama, it was written by a team of young writers. Here, one of the writers, Corey Montague-Sholay, writes about what it was like to be involved. PMcD "Maria's case found m...
Time and The Count of Monte Cristo
Editor's note: The Count of Monte Cristo is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from Sunday 25th November. It has been adapted for radio by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. The following blog was written by the producers Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. - CM. The cast of The Count of Monte Cristo (Toby Jo...
