BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.
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The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
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Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.
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Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives
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Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore the music and the different ways of performing it, ending with a recommendation for your library
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Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.
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Norman Lebrecht interviews a major cultural figure
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Radio 3's regular jaunt into the latest, brightest and best gaming soundtracks.
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Discover the world with music. Join local experts for a sonic journey around the globe.
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In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on BBC Radio 3.
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The home of Marianna Spring's social media and disinformation investigations for BBC Radio 4, with new series 'Why Do You Hate Me? USA'
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Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen
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When sport collides with true crime.
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An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.
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Download the best satirical comedy from Radio 4, every Friday. Features The News Quiz, Catherine Bohart: TL;DR and Dead Ringers.
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An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, immerse yourself: it’s time to go slow. Listen to the sounds of birds, mountain climbing, monks chatting as you go about your day. A lo-fi celebration of pure sound.
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In this set of free downloads, BBC Radio 3 presenters introduce a key composer and work featured in BBC Prom concerts.
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The podcast for classical newbies. If you fancy giving classical music a go, start here.
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Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000. As featured in the BBC Radio 3 programme, Hear & Now.
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BBC Radio 3 Opera guides
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Key pieces of music from the Georgian period explored by Suzy Klein and Christian Curnyn. From BBC Radio 3
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews today’s composers exploring the relationship between their immediate environment and the music they write. From BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, published on Sunday mornings.
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World music from the Commonwealth countries for BBC Radio 3’s World on 3, Fridays. Musicians, sportspeople and cultural figures introduce music recorded on location.
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Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too. Music, eclectic playlists and chat, with a new guest every week.
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The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
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Discover classical music loved by celebrated guests from all walks of life. To hear the music in full go to BBC Playlister.
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The final shortlist of winning carols in the Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition. Composed by listeners, a setting of a poem by Susan Hill specially written for Radio 3
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Intelligent and challenging quiz games on BBC Radio 4. Featuring Round Britain Quiz, Counterpoint and Brain of Britain with Quizmasters including Paul Gambaccini, Kirsty Lang and Russell Davies.
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BBC Radio 3's Piano A to Z
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Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.
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Maurice Ravel revealed through guides to his work and life. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Ravel Day, 7 March 2014.
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Katie Derham explores the relationship between music and dance in a variety of genres.
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Britten 100. Highlights from Radio 3’s Britten centenary weekend in Aldeburgh with special features, interviews and on location reports recorded in Suffolk.
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Creative collaborations in new music. A series where the world’s leading composers and performers explain how they cooperate in the creation of new work.
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How do you get into the biggest classical music festival in the world? Follow composer and comedian Vikki Stone as she unbuttons the BBC Proms and asks the questions everyone else is afraid to ask.
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David Aaronovitch and a panel of experts and insiders present in-depth explainers on big issues in the news
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A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters. Authored, themed mini-series and one-off programmes offer a chance to share the musical interests of the presenters.
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Join terrestrial radio's most unproduceable presenters Elis James and John Robins for big laughs and top quality #content. Hilarious, warm and unashamedly ashamed, let their award-winning chemistry get you over the finish line of the working week. Email: elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk #elisandjohn
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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents a collection of quirky tales gathered from the corners of history by an intrepid band of time travelling correspondents, with a new theme every week.
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If time is tight, what's the one thing that you should be doing to improve your health and wellbeing? Michael Mosley reveals surprisingly simple top tips that are scientifically proven to change your life.
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Highlights of BBC Radio 3’s special programmes to mark the WW1 centenary. Classical music, art, literature, film, popular songs and cultural life inspired by the war.
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A twisted comedy treat. Jon Holmes brings you the week's biggest stories like you've never heard them before. The news remixed. Welcome to The Skewer. Headphones on. The multi-award winning, 'dizzying, dazzling, haunting and moving' satirical comedy returns to twist itself into these turbulent times. With contributions from brand new and diverse audio talent, The Skewer is the sound the abyss makes as it stares back at you through your ears. 'A kind of concept album made of music and news. T ...
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A comprehensive guide to the language of opera with contributions from singers, conductors, directors and vocal coaches. From BBC Radio 3, May 2010
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Drawing from her amazing career Dame Kiri selects her 20 favourite voices, including not only Classical but pop singers too, illustrating with music why they make her top list.
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Highlights from BBC Radio 3’s In Tune - featuring interviews with guests from the world of music and the arts. In Tune is presented by Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham.
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Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.
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Leading creative thinkers choose an artwork from the Museum of Modern Art, and talk about how it inspires or provokes, thrills or surprises them. Presented by Alastair Sooke.
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A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. Part interview show, part oral history project and part autobiography through conversation. British Podcast Award 2017 winner (bronze in Best Interview category) GBA was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, aired for 3 seasons on Resonance 104.4 FM and was featured on BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Helen and Olly's Required Listening and has been recommended by T ...
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The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical concept album. This week: The Economy in Wonderland, Choppy Days, and The Invasion of the European Commission on Human Rights. Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4Oleh BBC Radio 4
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#377 - Dropped In The Riff Tank, Two Dads (Not Gay) and Ania Magliano
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When one thinks of the great socialisers ‘John’ and ‘Robins’ are two words that don’t immediately spring to mind. But are we seeing a transformation in a week that sees John enter 1920s socialite levels of social butterflyery. From partying in Brixton and currying with top business folk, to watching Tom Rosenthal get fitted for golf clubs for four …
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4. Doxxed and Blocked: ‘We’re distressed about war in the Middle East and now trolls are after us.'
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Few topics have caused as much division online as the deepening war in the Middle East. In this episode, Marianna is in New York investigating the experiences of students targeted on social media. They have been affected by doxxing – where their personal information is shared online triggering racist and misogynistic hate – by people wanting to mak…
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Richard Wigmore selects his favourite version of Beethoven's Symphony no.4.Oleh BBC Radio 3
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Russell Davies hosts the prestigious general knowledge quiz.Oleh BBC Radio 4
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Sarah Ogilvie is a lexicographer and a proud and self-confessed word nerd: languages are her passion and are at the heart of her writing and scholarship. She worked as an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and went on to write a book about the thousands of volunteers around the world who submitted words for its first edition. She has researche…
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#376 - Skeggsy, Deggsy and £360 Cash
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Wheel the to 1:50 scale Maine Road birthday cake out, Producer Dave is turning 40! George Orwell posited that 1984 would be a year of bleak dystopian nightmares. In reality it spawned Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’, the film Ghostbusters and Stockport's finest podcast-first producer, Dave Masterman. Eat that, Orwell. So it’s time to celebrate in the only …
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Donald Macleod and Leah Broad survey the life and work of British composer Dorothy Howell This week Donald Macleod is joined by the award-winning author Leah Broad to explore the story of the British composer Dorothy Howell, who shot to fame aged 21 after the triumphant premiere of her orchestral work ‘Lamia’ at the Proms. By the mid-1920s she was …
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Kate Molleson delves into the life and music of the “Yankee Maverick”, Charles Ives. Charles Ives is considered a leading American composer of the early 20th century. Known for many musical innovations, his was a unique voice, a pioneer who combined elements of Western and American music traditions. He’s also been called a Yankee Maverick and much …
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Introducing two special Just One Thing programmes
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Sara Cox has news about an upcoming, two-part television series which is being broadcast this month in celebration of Michael Mosley’s life and legacy. The programmes will be shown at 8.30pm on BBC 1 on Monday 14 October and Monday 21 October. They will also be available on BBC iPlayer immediately after broadcast. More details about the programmes:…
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by Clara Glynn It's been a year since Kirsten and Bill opened their home to a Ukrainian family. Now relationships have become strained, can mediation help them to find agreement? Murdo ..... Liam BrennanKirsten ..... Kirsty StuartBill ..... Michael NardoneLarissa ..... Vera GraziadeiMykola ..... Dmitry Everdeen Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane As the …
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Alasdair Beckett-King, Zoe Lyons, Scott Bennett, and Cindy Yu join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news. This week on The News Quiz the panel look for the solution to world peace, check in with the Conservative final four, and tackle Everest (not literally). Written by Andy Zaltzman With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Cody Dahler, Dee Allum, and Pe…
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The inside story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page (Kim Cattrall), who joined on the Agency’s first day in 1947 and, in a 40-year career, became one of its most influential figures. Eloise takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of US foreign policy, spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as wel…
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The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album. Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. This week - Sooty and Sue Gray, and Iranian Avengers Assemble. Headphones on. Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4…
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#375 - Gravel Man, My Sex Club Year and Space Cop Heart Rates
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It's all about heights today, as despite scaling the lofty heights of the digital UK audio comedy chat rock face, Elis is still uncomfortable when confronted by a modicum of verticality. But not the case for John who is going to push his own ocular mountaineering boundaries. Elsewhere there’s dinner dates, Welsh heart rates and service stations pot…
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Katy Hamilton selects her favourite recording of Brahms' Symphony no.1 in C minor.Oleh BBC Radio 3
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Russell Davies hosts the prestigious general knowledge quiz.Oleh BBC Radio 4
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The costume designer Jenny Beavan has won three Academy Awards for three very different films: the elegant Merchant Ivory drama Room with a View; the post-apocalyptic Mad Max: Fury Road; and most recently the Disney film Cruella, for which she created a huge, vibrant parade of 1970s-inspired fashion. She’s received a further nine Oscar nominations …
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3. The Fable of the Pikesville Clip: ‘I’ve been burnt by the fire once, so I’ll think twice before posting’
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A headteacher at a school in small American suburb of Baltimore was a prominent member of the local community. But many in the neighbourhood turned on Principal Eric Eiswert, after an audio clip emerged of him appearing to make racist and antisemitic remarks. Except, what no one knew then was that another bombshell would transform what they thought…
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#374 - Dust or Leaves, A Tight Three Seconds and Humour! Humour! Humour!
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After the wave of excitement around Mr Audio’s new Welsh podcast project 'Welsh Rarebit: Grilled by Elis James', it’s time for John to enter the lucrative side-hustle podcast game. Step forward 'Trauma on The Tee with John Robins'. If deep emotional conversations and the latest bunker wedges are your thing, keep your ears peeled. But here on this p…
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"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." Charles Dickens' novel - subtitled 'For These Times' - is a vivid story for our own age - a short, sharp satire of target-driven education, business, and the denial of the imagination. Headmaster Thomas Gradgrind has developed a rigid, facts-d…
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The News Quiz: Ep4. Conference & Confidence
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Robin Morgan, Ian Smith, Alice Fraser, and Ash Sarkar join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news. This week on The News Quiz the panel plough through Keir Starmer's first Labour conference as PM, analyse the effectiveness of the UN, and celebrate the coming of Earth's new moon... All hail Moon 2! Written by Andy Zaltzman With additional material by: Jade …
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The inside story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page (Kim Cattrall), who joined on the Agency’s first day in 1947 and, in a 40-year career, became one of its most influential figures. Eloise takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of US foreign policy, spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as wel…
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The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical comedy concept album. This week - Jo-Keir: Folie à Deux, Netanyahu's Way, and Whole Lotta Rosie (Duffield). Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. Headphones on. Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4…
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#373 - Street Juice, The Cymru Cul-de-sac and 10 Sketches About Soup
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Elis and John have been on journeys this week, both metaphorically and literally. Yes we cover their travel woes as the pair journeyed back from Wales (Elis sustained by Aberystwyth goodwill, John driven by the need to forge his own path), but we also cover the spiritual journeys undertaken in the realms of teeth whitening, shoe laces, and slug jui…
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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 21: The Invisible Child
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This is the twenty-first episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading one of Tove's most famous short stories: The Invisible Child. It's a pretty bright and funny story with very dark themes. We both like it, but it doesn't quite live up to the hype, for …
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The Podgoblins Hat Bonus 7: Lou Sutcliffe
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This is the 7th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Our guest Lou has been a Moomin fan since childhood, and the character ey relate to is the Groke (iconic).This chat is lots of things, and one of the things is a couple of autistics marvelling over the Hemulen Wh…
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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 20: The Hemulen Who Loved Silence
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This is the twentieth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Is this the underrated best story in this collection? We really think it might be.What can a Hemulen tell us about work under capitalism? Will any of us ever get to be pensioned off? This is a beautiful story abo…
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Lucy Parham selects her favourite piano version of JS Bach's 6 English Suites BWV.806-811Oleh BBC Radio 3
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Russell Davies hosts the prestigious general knowledge quiz.Oleh BBC Radio 4
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Lucian Msamati has played leading roles on our most famous stages: Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus at the National Theatre, Iago in Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Estragon opposite Ben Whishaw in Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London. He started out performing – in his words – ‘for farmers sitting on beer crate…
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Simon Evans, Ian Smith, Aditi Mittal and Anushka Asthana join Andy Zaltzman to quiz the news. This week on The News Quiz the panel go through the PM's wardrobe, take a splash into the Lib Dems' conference, and take on the year's greatest mystery... where are all the butterflies? Written by Andy Zaltzman With additional material by: Cameron Loxdale,…
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#372 - My Little Lover, The ABBA Gold Approach and Cuffed by the Vice Squad
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It’s happened. Elis and John have turned into crypto bros. This is now a crypto pod. It was only a matter of time… But worry not, it’s only a fleeting transformation, and after some serious reflections the boys are back doing what they do best: discussing how to approach an all-you-can-eat buffet, wading further into the dried fruits vs sweets deba…
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
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Donald Macleod showcases the life and music of Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) arguably did more to transform opera than any composer of his generation: thinking deeply about how text and music should work together, and trying to strip away fripperies to ensure it was urgent, powerful and arresting. His radical appro…
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The inside story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page (Kim Cattrall), who joined on the Agency’s first day in 1947 and, in a 40-year career, became one of its most powerful women. Eloise takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of US foreign policy, spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as well as …
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The week’s biggest stories like you’ve never heard them before. The news remixed into a satirical concept album. This week, Labour Sausage Party and The Little Shop of Harrods. Jon Holmes presents the multi-award-winning The Skewer. Headphones on. Producer: Jon HolmesAn unusual production for BBC Radio 4…
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On the other side of the world, a bugged goalpost brings tales of the match-fixing king. Having completed his confession, Moses faces up to Troy Deeney's judgement of his incredible story. Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive. Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy DeeneyProducers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and …
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#371 - 3 Features & the Truth, Get It Done and Welsh Rarebit: Grilled by Elis James
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It’s a giddy John we encounter today, for our hero is about to embark on his yearly golfing pilgrimage to Elis’s beloved Portugal. Talk of unspeakably high win rates and historic opportunities to become “better than Man City at golf” abounds. Elsewhere, there’s a lengthy discussion about the pros and cons of skipping TV theme music, an eventful out…
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How do the Lebanon attacks alter the equation in the Middle East?
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David Aaronovitch and guests discuss the recent events in Lebanon. Israel has been widely blamed for a series of pager and walkie-talkie attacks targeting members of Hezbollah. Does this mark the invention of a new kind of warfare and what might the wider consequences be for the region? Guests: Shashank Joshi, The Economist's defence editorProfesso…
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Nigel Simeone selects his favourite version of Richard Strauss's Don Quixote.Oleh BBC Radio 3
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Russell Davies is in the question master's chair for the classic general knowledge quiz.Oleh BBC Radio 4
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Jay Rayner has his dream job: he loves writing and he loves food, and for the past 25 years he’s been the restaurant critic for the Observer. Jay is also familiar as a broadcaster, appearing as a judge on Masterchef, and hosting The Kitchen Cabinet on Radio 4. His recent book, Nights Out At Home, provides recipes to enable readers to create some of…
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2. Counting The Threats: 'I just work in IT – why am I getting threats from election deniers?'
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What are the real-world consequences of the belief that almost anything and everything can be staged or rigged – from assassination attempts to elections? In Why Do You Hate Me? USA, BBC disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring is investigating how what’s happening online can shape the 2024 presidential election. In this episod…
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1. Wild Thoughts: 'I hate Trump, she likes him – we both think he staged assassination attempts'
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Meet Camille and ‘Wild Mother’. Both women love nature, animals, and the outdoors. Both women also believe the assassination attempts on Donald Trump were staged – but have very different political views. Why do people believe the things they do? And what role do social media sites – and their algorithms – play? In this series, BBC disinformation a…
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Betto Arcos is in Madrid, Spain exploring the rich and diverse world of Flamenco.Oleh BBC Radio 3
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