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Anita Anand and Dr Liz Bellamy - History lessons and Apples

Cerys curates your Sunday sonic and cultural adventure. She talks history with TV and radio journalist Anita Anand and all things about the great apple with Dr Liz Bellamy.

Cerys curates your Sunday sonic and cultural adventure. She talks history with TV and radio journalist Anita Anand and all things about the great apple with Dr Liz Bellamy.
Anita Anand is an award-winning radio and television journalist. She currently presents ‘Any Answers,’ PM and The Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4.
She has written 3 books to date and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of London in 2024. She presents the internationally acclaimed Empire podcast with William Dalrymple.
Dr Liz Bellamy is a writer and teaches English for the Open University. She has a book called The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century, which explores the symbolic, literary, and cultural significance of fruit across genres and historical periods.
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Music Played

  • Imarhan

    Derhan n'oulhine

    • City Slang.

  • Merlyn Driver

    Interlude (a typewriter in depression)

    • It Was Also Sometimes Daylight.
    • white.

  • Ezra Furman

    One Hand Free

    • Bella Union.

  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse

    Cinnamon Girl

    • Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Nusha Choir

    Stani Mome

    • kitka velita chestita.
    • 1506168 records.

  • Benny Goodman

    Sing Sing Sing

    • The Best Of Benny Goodman.
    • Columbia.

  • TLC

    Waterfalls

    • Crazysexycool.
    • Arista/LaFace Records.
    • 8.

  • D’Angelo

    Feel Like Makin' Love

    • Voodoo.
    • Virgin Records.
    • 10.

  • The Dubliners

    The Rocky Road to Dublin (Live)

    • The Dubliners (Bonus Track Edition).
    • Castle Communications.
    • 8.

  • Sessa

    Nome de Deus

    • Mexican Summer.

  • Lata Mangeshkar & Udit Narayan

    Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna

    • Saregama Limited.

  • Thundercat

    Them Changes

    • Brainfeeder.

  • Nirvana

    Lithium

    • Geffen.

  • D’Angelo

    Send It On

    • Voodoo.
    • Virgin Records.
    • 5.

  • Glynis Johns

    Sister Suffragette

    • Mary Poppins (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Japan Release Version).
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 2.

  • Will Stapleton

    Sophia Duleep Singh, Suffragette Princess

    • historic royal palaces - history and stories from the palaces.
    • historic royal palaces.

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Kinna Sohna (feat. Bally Sagoo)

    • Magic Touch, Vol. 12.
    • Universal Music MENA (Oriental Star Agencies).
    • 1.

  • David Bowie

    Kooks

    • EMI.

  • The Decemberists

    The Mariner's Revenge Song

    • Picaresque.
    • Kill Rock Stars.
    • 10.

  • Florence + the Machine & Jules Buckley

    Girl With One Eye (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall)

    • Symphony of Lungs - BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 9.

  • Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

    Summer Wine

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • Christy Moore

    Songs of Wandering Aengus

    • Ride On.
    • Rhino.
    • 4.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Superstition

    • Motown.

  • Cephas Azariah & Elle Limebear

    searching

    • Anjunachill.

  • Cormac Begley

    Polka John & Camino Polka (Polkas)

    • Cormac Begley 1.

  • Mongo Santamaría

    Watermelon Man

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Marvin Gaye

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

    • Tamla Motown.

  • Billy Buckingham

    The Waysailing Bowl

    • Voice of the People 16: You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers.
    • Topic.
    • 21.

  • Andreas Vollenweider

    The Yorkshire Wassail

    • Content Records.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Christine

    • Polydor.

  • Lando Manning

    Rose Hip November

    • Ostara Recordings.

  • Grace Bowers and the Hodge Podge

    Tell Me Why U Do That

    • Tell Me Why U Do That (Single Edit).
    • Grace Bowers Music.
    • 1.

  • Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe

    Ringing Ocean

    • The Last To Know / Ringing Ocean.
    • Verve.
    • 2.

  • Muddy Waters Blues Band & Big Mama Thornton

    Guide Me Home

    • Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band 1966.
    • Arhoolie Records.
    • 10.

  • Merlyn Driver

    Cururu

    • It Was Also Sometimes Daylight.
    • white.

  • Midlake

    The Calling

    • A Bridge To Far.
    • Bella Union.

  • Wyldest

    Wax Museum

    • The Universe Is Loading.
    • Hand In Hive.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Oct 202510:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music