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Tuesday 30 July 2013, 16:03
Whose voice does Stephen Hawking speak with? How did comedian Mel Smith almost have the entire Edinburgh festival shut down? And how could Churchill be compared to a child?
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Wednesday 25 May 2011, 17:52
Editor's note: A new comedy for Radio 4, Dave against the Machine starts this Thursday night at 11.00pm written by and starring Dave Lamb. We asked Dave where the idea for Dave against the Machine came from. This is what he sent us. I am best known as 'that sarcastic bloke who takes the mick...
Monday 12 December 2011, 15:00
Ed's note: You can hear Kirsty Lang's interview with Meryl Streep on Front Row tonight, Monday 12 December at 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4. It'll also be available as part of the Front Row podcast. Details at the end of the post - PM. Meryl Streep's foot and hand prints at Grauman's Chinese Thea...
Friday 08 February 2013, 17:10
A disability does not define who you are - Donna Lavin discusses the new series of The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles.
Broadcaster
Friday 11 October 2013, 15:27
Sue Lawley chair of The Reith Lectures, 2013, shares her impression of Grayson Perry.
Monday 22 October 2012, 12:02
The launch of a long-gestated series always brings a combination of exhilaration and apprehension. And in the case of Foreign Bodies (Radio 4, weekdays, 1.45pm, until November 2nd) - the 15-part series investigating famous European fictional detectives, on which producer Robyn Read and I have be...
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Wednesday 09 June 2010, 18:05
Following our initial meeting on Monday, writer Gurpreet Bhatti delivered a first draft this morning. It's amazing what the From Fact to Fiction writers do in the time we give them. Gurpreet's already found her characters and the shape of the play. She's stayed with her original choice of news ...
Tuesday 08 November 2011, 16:50
The Poppy Factory, Wednesday 9 November at 11am, tells the story behind the red commemorative poppies and the ex-service men and women who make them. It's also a Radio Times choice of the day - PM. Cutting out petals at the Poppy Factory in 1935 With the death of the last First World...
American novelist
Monday 20 January 2014, 15:23
American novelist Jonathan Lethem discusses 4 songs which have inspired his past books, and one which forecasts the next. His latest novel Dissident Gardens features on Radio 4's Book At Bedtime from 20 January at 22.45pm
edits BBC Radio current affairs programmes, including Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent
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Monday 28 May 2012, 15:27
Clive James - presenter of A Point of View As an editor, there are some experiences that are less than happy. Like the moment when one of the BBC's in-house lawyer frowns and says that your rock-solid investigative story won't withstand assault under the libel laws. Or when you have a crac...
Poet, Author, Writer
Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:01
Gwyneth Lewis was the first Poet Laureate of Wales. She wrote her original poem A Hospital Odyssey drawing on very personal experience after her husband was diagnosed with cancer. For the Radio 4 Blog she writes about those experiences that inspired the work.
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Monday 24 May 2010, 17:24
Radio 4 sent me to New York to find out The Truth About Goldman Sachs. And I can exclusively reveal the shock answer: it is beige. The New York-based investment bank (more on what that means later) has moved into a brand new Global Headquarters right by the square where the twin towers once sto...
Writer and Editor
Friday 11 October 2013, 09:04
Blog by Sophie Lewis about her personal experience of art and protest in Brazil, June 2013. Brazil, literature, Brazilian literature, writing, Litro, Paloma Vidal, Sophie Lewis
Wednesday 04 July 2012, 15:38
Editor's note: Marina Lewycka's book Various Pets Alive and Dead featured in Radio 4 Extra's Book at Beachtime from 2 July on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Here she writes about her novel. You can also replay the live chat from 4 July when Marina answered questions about her writing. PMcD. Q & A with Ma...
Wednesday 21 August 2013, 15:20
Seaside entertainer Tony Lidington takes a trip to Brighton for Radio 4 Extra and reflects how this city has inspired a wealth of seaside memories captured in the BBC Sound Archive.
Senior Studio Manager
Thursday 21 March 2013, 16:09
Martha Littlehailes, Senior Studio Manager in the London Radio Drama team, explains how her team created the sound world of 1880s Arizona mining country for the production of Elmore Leonard’s Hombre.
Presenter
Monday 04 November 2013, 15:44
Relentlessly cheeful and impossible to dislike: John Lloyd re his good friend David Frost, ahead of this week's episode of The Museum of Curiosity which was Frost's last ever broadcast.
Comedian
Tuesday 08 April 2014, 11:13
Josie Long has created a comic to accompany this week's Short Cuts, on the subject of Tres.
Friday 31 August 2012, 08:03
Play clips from the evening, and scroll down to replay the live chat from the concert. Listen to Part 1 of the concert (expires on Monday 10 September) Listen to Part 2 of the concert (expires on Monday 10 September) Desert Island Discs 70th Anniversary Prom To...
Producer and Director
Monday 16 December 2013, 12:26
Anders Lundorph, Producer and Director of Radio 4's Borgen: Outside the Castle, reveals the story behind how one of Denmark's most popular TV exports has made it to radio.
