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Hi guys, this isn't really going to be liveblogging, as such, but it will be an almost-liveblogging experience, insofar as I will sometimes write in this entry while I am working and listening to my favorite BBC program, Words and Music . One of my favorite things is when you love something, some tiny part of the world, and you don't know why but you know immediately that you love it. Those things are special, and so basic in their importance. I came to love Words and Music in a serendipitous way: I had just moved into this house up north, with its darkness and silent nights, and I was having to sleep in a strange house alone. I am not very fond of just talk-talk-talking on Radio 4, so I turned the dial, and happened upon a whispering female voice reciting T.S. Eliot with tinkling music in the background, as if from another universe, where they loved Prufrock as well. (Right now, Ewan MacColl is singing about his father, "My Old Man": "My old man wasn't really old, it was just that I was young" and "He felt he'd given all he could give, so he did what thousands others did, abandoned hope and the will to live, they killed him, my old man.") After T.S. Eliot, the show lapsed into random classical music, with bits of words strung together, and I swear I have never heard anything so magical or perfect for a Sunday night. I began hearing it more often, and once it occurred to me to check online for what this enchanting show was--finding ou ...

Source: www.bbc.co.uk --- 8 days ago
In the USA, Alan Little reflects on how the current financial turmoil is affecting the people of Memphis. David Edmonds visits a prison in Ethiopia, which has been called "Africa's Guantanamo". Wyre Davies reflects on Israel's use of a non-lethal, smelly weapon called "skunk". In the Canary Islands, Richard Black goes on the trail of the beaked whale and Stephen Evans looks at how New Zealand's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol is raising a stink among some of its farmers. Presented by Kate Adie. ...

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Presented by Kate Adie. In Paris, Emma Jane Kirby looks at how the thrifty French appear to be weathering the credit crunch better than others. Mark Doyle gets a brief glimpse of what life is like in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Will Ross tells why there is little appetite to celebrate 50 years of independence in Guinea. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes discovers the difficulty of travelling with a television crew as he tries to enter South Ossetia and in Ethiopia, Elizabeth Blunt looks at how life is ordered by the monthly and yearly cycle of festivals and celebrations. ...

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Presented by Kate Adie. In Pristina, Mike Sanders observes how Kosovo has been moving closer to the European Union since declaring independence from Serbia. Mark Mardell looks at the controversy surrounding Declan Ganley, the businessman behind Ireland's "No" campaign against the Lisbon Treaty. In the cloud forests of Costa Rica, Rebecca Morelle goes in search of a tiny frog thought to be long extinct. Andrew Whitehead discovers how Detroit, famous for its car industry, is facing difficult times and James Luckhurst visits a city in southern Finland, where residents are hoping for a heavy snowfall this winter. ...

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Presented by Kate Adie. In Baghdad, Hugh Sykes finds violence continues to cast a shadow over every day life. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes examines the new fault lines between Europe and Russia and warns against antagonising a grumpy bear. With less than a month to go until the US election, Justin Webb wonders why the Democrats are not playing the "pain card". Daniel Schweimler reflects on the chronic shortage of loose change in Buenos Aires and David Willis in Los Angeles finds that a dog can be a great help when trying to play the dating game. ...

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Afternoon Play: Elephant and Castle 23-09-2008 Robin Baker's romantic comedy charts the relationship between insecure, self-destructive Ian and enigmatic aspiring novelist Kat. The story begins at the end of their relationship and goes back to its origins and Kat's arrival into the midst of Ian's premature mid-life crisis Ian ........................................... Rory Kinnear Kat ........................................ Lyndsey Marshal Jude ......................................... Olivia Colman Janet ...................................... Carolyn Pickles Other parts played by Manjeet Mann, Jill Cardo and Gunnar Cauthery. Type : mpeg 1 layer III Bitrate : 192 Mode : stereo Frequency : 48000 Hz Length : 00:43:54 Encoder : Lame 3.97 Source : Freeview http://radioarchive.cc - the Spoken-Word Radio Torrent Archive ...

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Afternoon Play: Blinded by Science 03-10-2008 Blinded by Science A scientific comedy by Paul Viragh. Professor Michael Hart is a leading figure in genetic and biological research, and in the running for a plum government job. But he has an "unethical" rival, an ailing marriage, a lack of selfesteem and an ungrammatical self-help CD. From The Radio Times Very smart: Paul Viragh's comedy puts science in the title but adds politics to the story to make the laughs arresting. Two rival scientists are competing to become the government's new adviser on genetics-the ethics minefield that divides voters and so scares politicians. Perhaps science can't resolve the issues but it should be the one asking the questions and waiting for the answers before taking decisions. Pure scientc method is what we need but it isn't going to be what we get. Not when one of the rivals is old-school and the other is very new-school. Blinded by Science is about how far this pair are willing to go to get the job: as they try to beat each other to the post, what price the real questions about embryo research? James Fleet and Stuart McQuarrie star. William Gallagher Michael..........................................James Fleet Jenny..........................................Donnla Hughes Cathy...........................................Lesley Sharp Minister.......................................Janice Acquah Chris.......................................Stuart McQuarrie G ...

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Big Bang Day - The Great Big Particle Adventure - BBC Radio Documentary Series - cheops The huge LHC accelerator at CERN is designed to ask the most fundamental questions in science - what is the stuff of the Universe, where did it come from, how does it work, and would existence be possible if it were any different? In this series, comedian and physicist Ben Miller asks the CERN scientists what they hope to find. Three episodes of approximately thirty minutes each. Episode 1: Atom The notion of atoms dates back to Greek philosophers who sought a natural mechanical explanation of the Universe, as opposed to a divine one. The existence what we call chemical atoms, the constituents of all we see around us, wasn't proved until a hundred years ago, but almost simultaneously it was realised these weren't the indivisible constituents the Greeks envisaged. Much of the story of physics since then has been the ever-deeper probing of matter until, at the end of the 20th century, a complete list of fundamental ingredients had been identified, apart from one, the much discussed Higgs particle. In this programme, Ben finds out why this last particle is so pivotal, not just to atomic theory, but to our very existence - and how hopeful the scientists are of proving its existence. Episode 2: Who Ordered That? The atoms that make up our material world are important to us, but it turns out they aren't so significant on the cosmic stage. In fact early in ...

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Two BBC Radio presenters have been suspended after using the term 'window licker' during a football phone-in show. ...

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Four programmes in BBC Radio 4's popular natural science series, The Material World, will feature the work of different scientists from The Open University. The scientists are Dr David Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Biological Science, Dr John Murray, Senior Research Fellow in Earth and Environmental Sciences (on Nov 20), John Zarnecki, Professor of Space Science (on Nov 27), and Dr Vincent Gauci, Lecturer in Earth Systems and Ecosystem Science (on Dec 4). In the first programme, Quentin Cooper joins Dr David Robinson as he hunts for speckled bush crickets at Wittenham Clumps, near Didcot in Oxfordshire. David's work is concentrating on recording the ultrasonic calls between male and female crickets and the technologies used to measure and record them. Quentin also visits the Natural History Museum to see living and dead examples of bush crickets and interviews cricket expert Judith Marshall. Each programme follows a scientist as he works on a specific project, giving the listener insights into the particulars of scientific research. As well as The Open University researchers, each programme also features work by scientists from other organisations, to show how science is a collaborative endeavour. Further information about each episode, the series and the scientific issues being discussed can be found at www.open2.net/materialworld from Thursday October 9. Editor's Notes The four programmes mentioned of the Material World are BBC and O ...

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An acoustic journey to discover the past present and future of sound. Radio 4 listeners will be exposed to sounds never heard by mankind before when they tune into The Sound of Life – a programme which takes the listener on an acoustic journey to discover the past, present and future of sound. Saved By: burnhilda | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: birds , audio , immersive , sound , sound effects , sounds ...

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Source: blogs.thestage.co.uk --- 9 days ago
As you should by now have read on The Stage ’s news pages, BBC Radio is to host a major science fiction season with programmes running across Radio 3, Radio 4 and BBC7 early in 2009. Judging by the response so far from the blogosphere , the season is one that fans of the genre are looking forward to, even if they’re not too keen on the months they’ll have to wait. Unfortunately, when Stage broadcasting correspondent Matthew Hemley spoke to drama commissioner Jeremy Howe, there just wasn’t enough space in the news story for everything he told us… ...

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Whilst the commercial Radio industry is no stranger to renaming stations, it doesn't happen too often at the BBC. But as of this week, digital service BBC 7 is known as Radio 7. ...

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FreeMediaOnline.org and Free Media Online Blog October 8, 2008, San Francisco – Unlike the Voice of America (VOA), which had eliminated Radio broadcasts to Russia shortly before the Russian invasion of Georgia, the BBC has decided to continue producing Russian-language Radio programs while also expanding its Internet and video production. FreeMediaOnline.org has obtained the details of the new British broadcasting strategy for [...] ...

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added David Smith as a presenter ...