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  1. Ballads from the Old Bailey

    Elizabeth Burke

    If only we could hear voices from the past: the other couples whispering in our bedroom, the other children shouting up the stairs. As a radio producer I often think about what the past sounded like. That's why I was excited when I realised there is a way of hearing those voices: the records of ...

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  2. Roger Bolton on the London Season

    Steve Bowbrick

    Head of Interactive, Radio 3

    If Dr Johnson was right in saying that "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life", then a lot of listeners are pretty exhausted. The cause is the two week London Season which has just finished on Radio 4. Let me give you a flavour of the reaction of some out of London listener...

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  3. Bringing the voices of the Old Bailey to life

    Amanda Vickery

    Presenter

    The job of the historian is to make the long dead speak again - we take dusty, unpromising documents and breathe life back into the faded hand-writing. It can be a magical craft, akin to necromancy - trying to communicate with the spirits of the dead. Scribbled love letters, desperate diaries, a...

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  4. London: World City?

    Tony Travers

    Editor's note: Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics and a contributor to Radio 4's London: Another Country. Here, he responds to this morning's #GreatestCity debate with a short essay about London's status as a 'world city' - SB London can ...

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  5. The Greatest City Debate

    Steve Bowbrick

    Head of Interactive, Radio 3

    The #GreatestCity debate took place this morning at 0900 and hundreds of you ed in here on the blog, on Twitter and on Facebook. Four World Cities squared up for the big fight. Laurie Taylor chaired, four city lovers made the case for their favourites - London, Mumbai, New York and Istanbul ...

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  6. Four World Cities - which is greatest?

    Steve Bowbrick

    Head of Interactive, Radio 3

    Laurie Taylor wants to know which of these four cities is the planet's greatest: Istanbul, Mumbai, New York or London. The big debate is on Radio 4 tomorrow morning (Monday 12 July) at 0900 but we want your opinion now. Leave a comment here on the blog or tweet using the hashtag #GreatestCity, t...

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  7. Live blogging Front Row from Maida Vale

    Steve Bowbrick

    Head of Interactive, Radio 3

    1900 Studio MV5, Maida Vale. All around me is the organised chaos of the studio's 75th anniversary celebration. We're on-air in 10 minutes. Bill Paterson, soprano Jane Manning and composer Anthony Payne are in the studio already. 1910. Listen live to the programme here http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog...

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  8. Got a question for Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell?

    Steve Bowbrick

    Head of Interactive, Radio 3

    Paul Scoins, who works on You & Yours, emailed me: "I wondered if this might be worth flagging up... We've got Tessa Jowell on today to take calls on people's views on the 2012 Olympic legacy." The programme looks like this: First half: Are you still as enthusiastic about the Games as you w...

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  9. Peter White's week

    Peter White

    Chief Executive, Switchover Help Scheme

    One of my delights over the past few years has been following the so-called 'children of the Olympic bid'. If you've missed it let me fill you in. These are the youngsters who back in 2005 played a key but little known role in snatching the games for London from under the Parisian nose. Aged be...

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  10. On the fourth plinth

    Margie Tunbridge

    Editor's note. When Margie Tunbridge wrote to Radio 4 asking for a flag to unfurl on the fourth plinth we leapt at the chance. Here she writes about the experience - SB Like nearly every other Plinther I like Gormley's work (did he know he had so many fans?) - I've seen the Field for the Britis...

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