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A programme named
Alexandra Feachem
This has proved much harder then we thought and thank you all for all your comments and suggestions. In the end we had well over 50 title suggestions, from listeners, Radio 4 bloggers, colleagues, presenters and random people we've simply accosted who didn't look like they had anything better to...
Naming a new science programme
Alexandra Feachem
We've got a new programme in the works. It's an irreverent, witty, unashamedly opinionated science show with physicist and former pop sensation Brian Cox and comedian and science enthusiast Robin Ince. But what shall we call it? Less than two months until first transmission and even more alarmi...
A history of private life
Elizabeth Burke
I first met Amanda Vickery ten years ago - her book, 'The Gentleman's Daughter' had just been published, and she gave an interview to our local paper. Something about the interview made me think she would be good on the radio - her liveliness and her sense of fun came across, even in a print int...
Inside the Bermuda Triangle: the Mysteries Solved
Adam Fowler
The idea behind the series was to find primary sources and to uncover original documents which might give some clues as to why the Bermuda Triangle myth caught on in the first place, and why it has endured for so long - and of course to get a sense of whether there is any truth in it. So it took...
Twice Ken is Plenty - the lost script of Kenneth Williams
Wes Butters
It was thirty-nine pages of green paper, a carbon-copy, in amongst hundreds of scripts and notes I'd bought from a young man in Devon. In late 2005 he'd listed on eBay a framed photograph that his description claimed had once belonged to Kenneth Williams. The starting bid was 99p, there were no ...
Happy birthday MI6
Gordon Corera
Tracking down spies for a documentary poses peculiar challenges. Most are reticent to break cover and speak in public. But the occasion of the 100th anniversary of MI6 tempted a few out of their silence. Many were delighted at the chance to talk about their work even if they drew a veil over the...
What's on in Balham?
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Well, Mondays and Fridays at 2000 there's mixed Badminton with the St Margaret's Club and on Tuesday the Townswomen's Guild meets at Wiseton Hall between 1400 and 1600. Wednesdays Mums-to-be meet for Reiki at Balham Therapy Rooms (1030) and on Thursday there's drama for the over-fifties at The B...
Responding to big stories at Radio 4
Mark Damazer
We've thrown things up in the air in recent days in a bid to respond to two big stories - MPs' expenses and the disputed Iranian election. Last Thursday evening John Simpson did 'The Report' - our new Current Affairs strand. He spoke about what it was like reporting from Iran this month before ...
Americana
Matt Frei
America is so vast that almost everything you say about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true. That's how the late Irish-American novelist James T. Farrell summed up the intriguing complexity of the United States. I have found this to be a very useful quote. It cover...
