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Short Cuts: Someone to Watch Over Me
Josie Long
Comedian
Comedian Josie Long describes a true brief encounter to introduce her series 'Short Cuts' on BBC Radio 4. 'Short Cuts' is a showcase for delightful and adventurous short documentaries.
Celebrating 'the Irish Chekhov': A Brian Friel Season
Caroline Raphael
Commissioning Editor, Radio 4 & 4 Extra
Caroline Raphael, Commissioner Editor, introduces a season of plays, talks and stories to celebrate 'the Irish Chekhov', playwright Brian Friel.
Don't Log Off: Discovering the real life dramas behind online profiles
Alan Dein
It was a simple enough brief - I was to lock myself away for one week to talk to people on the internet, to tap into this babble of voices and experiences and explore the global phenomenon of social networking. It was a venture which would eventually have me talking to a single parent snowb...
Lives in a Landscape: The Devils of Broughton podcast
Laurence Grissell
St Peter's Church in Broughton While Radio 4's documentary series Lives in a Landscape is off air, we're steadily making the archive available for download - and this week we're putting up a seasonal classic - The Devils of Broughton on the Lives in a Landscape podcast page. Alan Dein...
The Bob Graham Round: Music meets the Fells
Richard Wigley
General Manager, BBC Philharmonic
Ed's note: Richard Wigley is the general manager of the BBC Philharmonic in Salford. Like many people he likes nothing better than spending time in the Lake District. But rather than a gentle amble though the hills he prefers a gruelling run. And so he set Italian film composer Maurizio Malagnin...
The People's Post: The Penny Black
Joby Waldman
Producer
Editor's note: The People's Post: A History of the Post Office, is on at the moment on Radio 4 at 1.45pm weekdays and continues next week. You can hear the episode on the Penny Black online for the next six days and read Joby's previous post here - PM. Old Original Die (Penny Black). See m...
The People's Post: A History of the Post Office
Joby Waldman
Producer
Ed's note: The People's Post is on weekdays for the next three weeks at 1.45pm on Radio 4. You can catch up online for up to seven days after each episode is broadcast - PM About three times a year an envelope comes through my door, addressed in familiar hand-writing. It comes f...
The Last Jews of Iraq
Hannah Marshall
Hannah Marshall: "This is the picture of my grandfather and his family. It shows my grandfather, his mother and three brothers. The picture was taken in Basra in 1918. My grandfather is the boy standing at the back of the picture, with the black jacket and tie." My grandfather was an ...
Charles Dickens on the BBC
Jeremy Mortimer
Producer
Charles Dickens by Mathew Brady, US National Archives In the run-up to the bicentenary of Dickens's birth in February 2012, BBC Radio and BBC TV will be doing the master-storyteller proud, with new productions of four of the novels, and a whole host of other programming, starting with Pen...
Edward Stourton walks the WWII escape route over the Pyrenees: The Freedom Trail
Edward Stourton
"The good escaper", says the 1944 document Tips for Escapers and Evaders, "is the man who keeps himself fit, cheerful and comfortable. He is not a 'he-man' who boasts about his capacity to endure discomfort. He should be a man with sound common sense and above all a man of great determination". ...
