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AA: America's Gift to the World

Wednesday 01 April 2015, 14:36

AL Kennedy
Writer, performer and broadcaster

AL Kennedy's new Radio 4 documentary - AA: America's Gift to the World - tells the story of Alcoholics Anonymous and its methods, and asks whether AA is still the best 'cure' for addicts given new science and treatments.

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Boy Racers: From Karting to Formula One

Monday 30 May 2011, 12:29

Tamsin Barber

Editor's note: While Lewis Hamilton might be in the news today for the wrong reasons, Boy Racers - available to listen to on the Radio 4 website for the next seven days - follows the same arduous path to the top that Hamilton took and hears from some of the drivers looking to become the stars of...

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Radio 4 at the Sony Awards

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:36

Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi

It was the Sony Radio Academy Awards last night ("the radio industry's equivalent of the Oscars"). Here's where you can hear this year's gold winners from Radio 4 which were cunningly rescheduled into some of the station's repeat slots when the nominees were announced. The winner of the best ...

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Schedule Change: Aung San Suu Kyi

Friday 12 November 2010, 18:44

Gwyneth Williams

Aung San Suu Kyi's extraordinary life as a quiet prisoner in her own country is the subject of this Radio 4 special programme presented by Mike Wooldridge. Mike hears from her friends and colleagues who speak frankly about her experience and how she has kept her spirit alive after so many years ...

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Crossing Continents is back

Friday 27 November 2009, 13:15

Hugh Levinson
edits BBC Radio current affairs programmes, including Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent

The message on my voicemail was garbled. Not surprising perhaps, as the producer was speaking over a dodgy satellite phone connection and was not in the calmest of moods. Something about the Taleban, risky flights, the Pakistani intelligence services and an 18-hour road trip through the notoriou...

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