BBC Radio - Non Fiction
Norman Birkett and the Case of the Coleford Poisoner (Aftern
Reader: Clare Corbett
The casebook of Norman Birkett KC (1883-1962) covers pretty much every story that entertained the readers of News of the World between the wars. Birkett was a busy man who, in those days before...
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Coming Out of the Woodwork
Reader: Mark Whitaker
It's the deepest of the classical symphony orchestra's woodwind instruments, and it's been around for over three hundred years - yet surprisingly few people know what a bassoon looks or sounds...
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Routes of English: Raj to Riches English (Series 4, Programme 2)
The English language in India. Despite being the imposed language of the imperial power, English also had the power to unite the nation. The story of the English language in India is also the...
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Blasphemy and the Governor of Punjab
Reader: Owen Bennet-Jones
On 4 January 2011, millionaire businessman and governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer was shot to death. He had been leading a campaign to amend Pakistan's blasphemy laws, after an illiterate Christian...
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The Bottom Line (Series 10, Episode 7)
Reader: Evan Davis
Episode 7, Series 1 of the programme that cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging...
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My Sporting Life: Sugar Ray Leonard
Reader: Danny Kelly
Former five weight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard joins Danny Kelly to look back on his monumental career in the game.
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Peel (Series 1, Episode 3)
Reader: Nick Robinson
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...
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The People's Songs: Telstar
Reader: Stuart Maconie
Like its subject matter, the Telstar satellites, Joe Meek's track was pioneering and otherworldly. We now take global communication and entertainment for granted, but in the early 1960s it was...
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Wainwright: The Biography
Reader: Stephen Thorne
Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three...
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Fry's English Delight: Series 1: Clichés
Reader: Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.Featuring sick parrots and the cliché crisis that affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and...
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My Sporting Life: Darren Gough
Reader: Danny Kelly
England cricketing legend Darren Gough joins Danny Kelly to discuss his career and much more...
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A History of the Brain: 'A Hole in the Head' (Episode 1)
Reader: Geoff Bunn
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series.In Episode 1,...
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Conversations with Gandhi
Reader: Mark Whitaker
For most of the time between 1906 and 1914 a young Englishwoman by the name of Millie Graham Polak, together with her husband, shared the same house in South Africa as Mahatma Gandhi and his...
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The Story of the King James Bible: The Legacy
To mark the 400th anniversary of this ‘noblest monument of English prose’, James Naughtie tells the story of how and why James I (VI of Scotland), commissioned a new translation of...
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My Sporting Life: George Graham
Reader: Danny Kelly
The former Arsenal and Spurs manager joins Danny Kelly to look back on his illustrious career as a player and manager.
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Routes of English: Cornwall (Series 3, Programme 3)
Melvyn travels west in search of the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect.
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My Sporting Life: Brian Moore
Reader: Danny Kelly
Former British Lions, England and Harlequins hooker Brian Moore looks back on his career.
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Daughters Of Britannia
Reader: Katie Hickman
In this fascinating BBC Radio series, Katie Hickman examines the lives of 'diplomatic women' through their letters and diaries. From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through...
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The People's Songs: Ghost Town
Reader: Stuart Maconie
Ghost Town was certainly one of the strangest and bleakest number one singles ever. And yet its success was no doubt due to the fact that it chimed perfectly with the times: providing a perfect...
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Routes of English: Unspeakable English (Series 2, Programme 4)
Bad language is not new. We've been swearing for centuries, and those in power have been trying to censor us for just as long.
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A Burning Issue: India
Reader: Mark Whitaker
Fires have been burning for up to ninety years under the ground in India's largest coalfield. Smoke seeps from the ground, making it the unhealthiest place in the country for up to a million...
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My Sporting Life: Sir Trevor Brooking
Reader: Danny Kelly
West Ham legend Sir Trevor Brooking talks to Danny Kelly about his life on and off the pitch.
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Fry's English Delight: The Complete Third Series
Reader: Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4.'The Trial of Qwerty' The 'Qwerty' keyboard faces charges of conspiracy...
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My Sporting Life: Martin Offiah
Reader: Danny Kelly
Former rugby league star Martin Offiah talks to Danny Kelly about the highs and lows of an extraordinary career which spanned 14 years, over 5 tries and a highly successful spell with Wigan Warriors.
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A Coat, a Hat and a Gun (BBC Radio 4: Documentary)
Reader: Full Cast
To tie-in with Radio 4's new versions of the Raymond Chandler classic thrillers aired in February 2011, Harriett Gilbert presents a reappraisal of the life and legacy of the man from Upper Norwood...
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