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Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink 'Had he not picked up a guitar, and put on the black glasses and porkpie hats, Elvis Costello might easily have been a poet, a Charles Simic or a Paul Muldoon,' New York Times Elvis Costello, one of the greatest and most influential singer-songwriters, reads his witty, frank and very irreverent take of his 40 years at the top of the music business. Born Declan Patrick MacManus in London in 1954, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, the...
Topics: BBC Book Of The Week, Elvis Costello
Richard Cohen's book is described as "a biography of the sun" and covers various topics around both the sun's workings and its influence on humankind. An interesting piece of popular science.
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Mar 10, 2020
03/20
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Dr Thor Hanson
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Buzz [Omnibus] Read by Elliot Levey. Dr Thor Hansen on the nature and necessity of bees. Bees are like oxygen - ubiquitous, essential and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. Dr Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young. From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters, and masons, bees have long been...
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Apr 10, 2020
04/20
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Laurence Scott
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Picnic Comma Lightning An innovative examination of the nature of reality in the 21st century by award-winning author Laurence Scott - part personal memoir, part philosophical exploration. # When he was in his early 30s, Laurence Scott's parents died soon after one another, and he found his whole world altered beyond recognition. He says, "Death runs like radioactive iodine through your sense of reality, allowing this reality to be looked at in high contrast, its structures glowing. It has...
Topics: BBC R4 Book Of The Week, Stephen Mangan
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Book of the Week dumped with WikiTeam tools.
Topics: wiki, wikiteam, wikispaces, Book of the Week, bookoftheweekgms, bookoftheweekgms.wikispaces.com
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May 10, 2020
05/20
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Katherine Wilson
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Only in Naples [Omnibus] Katherine Wilson tells how she travelled to Naples in 1966, discovering love, food and family in a uniquely Neapolitan way
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Topics: BBC R4 Book Of The Week, Katherine Wilson, Memoir
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Jan 28, 2020
01/20
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Mark Forsyth
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The Horologicon Book of the Week Mark Forsyth offers hidden delights from the English language to suit all hours of the day and night. Read by Hugh Dennis
Topics: BBC R4 Book Of The Week, Mark Forsyth, Hugh Dennis, Linguistics
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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Lydia Wilson reads from the letters of Sylvia Plath.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098fwlm
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Diana Cooper - Darling Monster Duff and Diana continue travelling while hopes at home are pinned on the dawn of a new era
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ls156
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The Unwomanly Face of War An extraordinary oral history of Russian women's experiences in the Second World War.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zqxbq
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The Good Immigrant Varaidzo examines the duality of being black and also being mixed race.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z4dhw
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Between Them Renowned American author Richard Ford remembers his parents in separate poignant accounts.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pfnq8
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Between Them Renowned American author Richard Ford remembers his parents in separate poignant accounts.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pfqln
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I Am, I Am, I Am Complications during labour leave O'Farrell close to death in the operating theatre.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092qhgc
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The Return Khalid Abdalla reads from the powerful memoir by Libyan novelist Hisham Matar.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jyvzx
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Keeping On Keeping On Alan Bennett reads extracts from his recently published diaries. Today, 2009.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080j3fp
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Wounds Fergal Keane reflects on how the wounds of the past shaped the island on which he grew up.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096nbjf
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Snow From a chalet in the Haute Savoie, the author revisits childhood memories of snowy winters
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b085t3f4
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Labyrinths Emma Jung trains as an analyst and begins to find fulfilment on her own terms.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0833x3c
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Tombstone The untold story of Mao's Great Famine, during which 36 million Chinese starved to death.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nkwxf
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The Invention of Angela Carter Angela finds literary success with The Bloody Chamber, her collection of fairy tales.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07y9qkj
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Upbeat In 2008, 17-year-old pianist Zuhal Sultan decided to create an Iraqi youth orchestra.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07nrfb5
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Mad Enchantment Monet's cataracts worsen, leading to a disintegration of solid forms.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084dkqc
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How to Be Champion Sarah Millican's recipe for her favourite cake - aka a rescue plan for old, dead bananas.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098nlcf
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Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre Nicholas Hytner describes his typical day as the theatre's director.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08nkrc6
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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Lydia Wilson reads from the letters of Sylvia Plath.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098fwlm
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How to Be Champion Sarah Millican waxes lyrical about her boobs, wearing glasses and marriage a second time.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098jpmk
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Christopher Hitchens - Arguably Christopher Hitchens explores the morality of waterboarding - by being waterboarded.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015mzkt
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Mad Enchantment How did painter Claude Monet first settle in his house at Giverny?
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08492fv
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I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell's moving account of coping with her daughter's immunology disorder.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092sh31
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The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington Leonora finds a way out of the asylum - and war-torn Europe.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08sphs6
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The Reformation 500 years after the Reformation, Diarmaid MacCulloch investigates the Catholic Reformation
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Book of the Week
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087tw5k
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How to Be Champion Comedian Sarah Millican takes an impassioned stance on the subject of having children.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098j5l9
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The Secret Lives of Colour At the end of a journey around the palette we reach black, which may not even be a colour.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8ss8
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The Hungry Empire North Africa, 1941. Wartime strictures reveal the brutal reality behind feeding an empire.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0910svh
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Gainsborough Gainsborough begins to get important portrait commissions.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0901fqf
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Following Pappano Sir Antonio Pappano prepares for the Royal Opera's new production of Puccini's La Bohème.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0952stt
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Farewell to the Horse Raulff grew up in 1950s rural Germany. Local customs still recalled the era of the horse.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rq6dg
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Reality Is Not What It Seems Carlo Rovelli explores 20th-century discoveries in the fields of quantum science.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08499xq
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Shrinking Violets Could the origins of art lie in the human capacity for introversion?
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07qbcb2
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Wish Lanterns Exploring the lives of young Chinese, the 'one-child' offspring of the 1980s.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07q3cq2
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The Good Immigrant Nikesh Shukla addresses his baby daughter on the importance of language.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z3zfn
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Daemon Voices Philip Pullman remembers the impact of reading Paradise Lost aloud for the first time.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b099ydd8
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How Not to Be a Boy Robert Webb's funny and moving memoir also explores masculinity's pitfalls.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092cnpl
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How to Be Champion Comedian Sarah Millican takes an impassioned stance on the subject of having children.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098j5l9
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Sound Could a routine trip to see her audiologist change Bella's life?
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rg43m
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Love of Country The author reaches Rum and is struck by its history of rental, ownership and clearance.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0858kyt
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Another Day in the Death of America Samuel Brightmon was shot aged 18. His death was counted. It just didn't count for much.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wrr5p
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Shrinking Violets In a New York brownstone in 1965, the first skirmish in the war against shyness began.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07qbfvw
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The Reformation 500 years after the Reformation, Diarmaid MacCulloch investigates the Catholic Reformation
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Book of the Week
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087tw5k
