Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman is a prequel to his novel Life and Fate. This production was dramatised by Mike Walker from a translation by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, it has a star-studded cast inc Kenneth Branagh and explores the approach of war through the many lives of the Shaposhnikov family.
Fully dramatised audio from the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022dp5
Also note that there are two ~2 hour omnibus editions.
Jon Holmes Says the C-Word - Episode 1, You Might Feel a Bit of a Prick
Comedian Jon Holmes decided he’d had enough of men not talking about cancer and got some of his friends who’d also had it to talk openly including Stephen Fry, Mark Steel, Richard Herring, Nick Owen and Jeremy Bowen.
Memorably Jon describes having a biopsy done on himself with a thick needle into his perineum!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020yrm
#bbc #audio #comedian #cancer #men #menshealth #health #medicine #support #survival
An Inspector Calls - JB Priestley 1945. Set in 1912. (BBC Audio)
Inspector Goole calls on the well-to-do industrialist Birling Family with news of the painful suicide of a desperate young woman. Slowly it emerges that their individual self-centred elitism played a role in her death.
The BBC may have waited to broadcast this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007jvpp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jvpp
#bbc #audio #jbpriestly #elitism #morality #industrialisation #literature #drama #play
The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman (BBC audio)
First the invention of writing revolutionised human information sharing with wide ranging impacts on society, then came printing with its critical influence, and now Noami Alderman argues, with digital communication, we are in the third such information crisis.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020xvb
#bbc #audio #radio #information #technology #it #alderman #educational #writing #printing #telecommunication
BBC educational audio
In Our Time - Bacteriophages. As viruses on bacteria there are more bacteriophages than the sum of all other organisms est. approx. 10^31 of them. They've already been used for disease surveillance, to treat patients, in the food chain and by destroying bacteria may provide an answer to the problem of multiply drug-resistant strains of bacteria.
Links:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020pf0
The Reunion - brings together people who were involved in an historic event (BBC Audio)
In 2014 the subject of The Reunion with Sue MacGregor was James Bond and featured Cubby's daughter Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael Wilson, director John Glen, Richard Kiel who played Jaws, the Bond girl Britt Ekland and Sir Roger Moore who was surprisingly funny for a man of 87.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04g6zg8
#bbc #radio #audio #bond #franchise #reunion #moore #eckland #jaws
BBC World Service - Witness History
Where people involved in famous events are interviewed before it's too late.
Tetris: In 1984, Russian engineer Alexey Pajitnov invented the popular computer game Tetris, but it wasn't until the American businessman Henk Rogers joined him that the game became an all-time favourite in video game consoles across the world. Chloe Hadjimatheou speaks to both of Alexey and Henk.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5ymb (9 minutes)
Word of Mouth (BBC audio)
English Word Order
Michael Rosen talks to linguist Dr. Laura Bailey about word order. We learn for adjectives in English it's opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose then noun. Hence; lovely, little, old, rectangular, green, French, silver, whittling knife. She says even babies get word order right and do so by their 2nd word.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00202m9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00202m9
#bbc #english #esl #wordorder #linguistics #development #radio #audio
BBC Start the Week: Left Behind but not forgotten (audio)
Tom Sutcliffe talks to German scholar-activist Joanna Kusiak author of Radically Legal who used a forgotten clause in the German constitution to take back >240,000 Berlin apartments from corporate landlords and economist Paul Collier about his own Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00201x7
#bbc #radio #audio #leftbehind #rebalance #verfassung #constitution #landlords #decentralisation #decentralization
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (8th June 1949)
This is part of a timely 12 hour special branded Orwell vs Kafka starting today with 6 one-hour readings starring Martin Freeman, Rashan Stone, Juliet Stevenson, Adjoa Andoh, Samuel West and Tom Hollander and extending over the week into next weekend.
Will be available online for 1 month.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00201vg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc-radio-4-weekend-takeover-george-orwell-and-franz-kafka
D-Day The Last Voices (BBC audio)
D-Day The Last Voices: Paddy O’Connell (Broadcasting House) whose father was there on the 6th June '44 captures recordings from some of the few remaining people who were involved in D-Day. He also includes existing historical recordings of first-hand experience from those who fought in the invasion of Normandy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zlym
#dday #wwii #normandy #witness #eyewitness #history #bbc #radio #audio
Shadow World (BBC audio)
Thief at the British Museum
Katie Razzall investigates the multi-year theft of uncatalogued treasures from the British Museum, how items were sold on the cheap on online and in physical market sites and how the narrowness of the market for some of these items led to the exposure of the crime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zlyz
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpegg27g74do
#britishmuseum #coverup #museum #thief #treasure #bbc #investigation #radio #audio
Comic Monologues by Marriott Edgar (BBC audio)
Dame Thora Hird reads two comic monologues by Scottish poet and comedian Marriott Edgar. She is accompanied by the music of Brian Fitzgerald and talks a little about her own history as a monologist as she presents 'The Lion and Albert' and 'The Return of Albert'.
Part of a series of Marriott's Monologues the remainder of which are read by others.
BBC Audio
As if they were jealous of Radio 4's Add to Playlist, Radio 3 now has Music Map which links a series of pieces to a final destination. In this case it's threaded by birdsong and the target is Vivaldi's Spring. Along the way we hear Beethoven, Bach, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, and Richard Rogers.
Music Map
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001z6y8
Add to Playlist:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00106lb
#classical #music #radio #audio #bbc #connections #education
#vivaldi #bach #beethoven #mendelssohn
BBC journalist Sue Mitchell and a former soldier and aid worker Rob Lawrie collaborate across borders in pursuit of a convicted people-smuggler and reputed kingpin, Barzan Majeed aka the Scorpion. Despite being wanted by multiple police forces it is this investigation that leads to his arrest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yb68
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pyyqep831o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g92zkd7n4o
Archive on 4, Losing My Voice (BBC audio)
British satirical impressionist Jan Ravens searches the BBC archives and talks to fellow impressionists Rory Bremner and Anthony Atamanuik about making a living from other people's voices and what happens when your source of income is no longer a prominent person. From 2019 when Theresa May resigned.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007wkl
#celebrity #politicians #pm #impression #entertainment #satire #voice #bbc #radio #audio
The Media Show, Behind the Information Iron Curtain (BBC audio)
Journalists and specialists discuss the availability of news and information around the world amidst censorship and controls on internet content and access. They also discuss circumvention of these restrictions with VPNs and TOR including mention of a BBC TOR presence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yqqg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yqqg
#internet #censorship #journalism #news #information #circumvention #vpn #tor #bbc #radio #audio
Britain at Sea (BBC Audio)
Episode 1 of 15 New Century
Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the 20th century starting at a time of staunch Navalism when the Royal Navy was well respected, projecting force around the world and protecting the country from invasion.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0457rmz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0457rmz
#royalnavy #navy #history #empire #wwi #wwii #battle #radio #audio #series
The Invention Of... China (BBC Audio)
Episode 55 in the set of series where Misha Glenny and Miles Warde visit, investigate and share the history and development of a country. This time that country is really an empire with a vast history and so they choose an arbitrary beginning. Episode 1, The First Emperor.
Start the Week, Alien Life and Gravity (BBC Audio)
Three Physicists, Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger who is searching for exoplanetary life; Prof. Claudia de Rham who is exploring gravity; and Prof. Mark Fromhold who wants to bring the Physics curriculum and teaching out of the 19th Century talk to Tom Sutcliffe of Start the Week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ypyf
#physics #gravity #alienlife #exoplanets #atmosphere #gravity #education #bbc #radio #audio