Blog posts by year and monthJune 2014
Posts (15)
The Shipping Forecast
Denis Nowlan, Network Manager of BBC Radio 4 talks here about the importance of The Shipping Forecast to the Radio 4 audience.
In Our Time - Hildegard of Bingen
In this week's In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discussed Hildegard of Bingen
A Hospital Odyssey
Gwyneth Lewis was the first Poet Laureate of Wales. She wrote her original poem A Hospital Odyssey drawing on very personal experience after her husband was diagnosed with cancer. For the Radio 4 Blog she writes about those experiences that inspired the work.
A History of the N-Word
Historically, the N-word – one of the most hated and hateful in the English language – has been associated with the USA. Archive Hour producer Colin Grant explores the legacy of this controversial and hateful word.
In Our Time - The Philosophy of Solitude
This week, Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.
Michael Palin to join Sir David Attenborough as BBC Radio 4's Award-Winning Tweet of the Day Travels the World
Tweet of the Day is Radio 4’s year-long celebration of the wonder and poetry of birdsong.
Feedback - A BBC funded by subscription?
Roger Bolton presents Feedback on Radio 4
Dangerous Visions - The Illustrated Man
Radio 4’s latest Dangerous Visions season returns with Iain Glen as the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection. Adapted by Brian Sibley.
