#StarWars #BBCRadio4 #DeadRingers #Trump #FediFC #FIFA Obi-Wan Kenobi presents Darth Vader with FIFA's Jedi Peace Prize ...
#BBCradio4
Victoria Wood on "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue" in 2013, given the words to Bob the Builder to sing to the tune of I Dreamed a Dream:
(When I was listenimg to the "Figuring It Out" strand today, I thought, "Do they not lnow that the US economy runs on slavery, exploitation, theft and fraud? And, stolen land.".)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(... and then Evan talked about himself being a boyracer on #BBCPMProgramme later on ...)
The World at One #BBCWato #BBCRadio4
Europe vs the US: How do they compare?
The World at One Highlights
President Trump has described Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people, saying it was being "destroyed" by immigration, which was “ruining" Europe's heritage.
The new US National Security Strategy says the US must “cultivate resistance” within Europe to its "current trajectory" which has set it on a path of "civilisational erasure" - a document which describes itself as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”.
The World At One's Sarah Montague and PM's Evan Davis consider "Europe versus America" - how do they compare, in income, job opportunities, life expectancy, literacy, and quality of life and happiness?
length 10 mins
(new science programme on Radio4!)
(... well, it feels renewed ...)
(still worth shouting at 👍)
Inside Science 2025-12-11 1630-1700
Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?
BBC Inside Science
400 thousand years ago our early human cousins dropped a lighter in a field in the East of England; evidence that was uncovered this week and suggests that early neanderthals might have made fire 350 thousand years earlier than we previously thought. Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes is honorary researcher at the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool and author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. She explains what this new discovery could mean for our own ancestors.
Should we genetically modify our farmed salmon to prevent it breeding with their wild relatives? Dr William Perry from Cardiff University thinks this could help the endangered wild Atlantic salmon recover it’s numbers.
And Lizzie Gibney, Senior Physics Reporter at Nature joins Tom Whipple to dig into the new science released this week.
Listened to this old episode of Nature yesterday, about alienation from the living world, particularly among the young. It was a bit heartbreaking, especially as things clearly won’t have improved in intervening years.
I can’t get enough of #rutgerbregman ‘s first #reithlecture . His analysis of the decay of the West seems accurate to me, but what I really love is his optimism for a future built on a moral revolution. His proposition: just imagine what we could achieve if we self organise and work together on meaningful endeavours. I’m compelled to quote nearly everything he says…
Start The Week - BBCRadio4
Digital Futures and Information Crises
Start the Week
How can we reclaim the internet? Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the digital age - its supporters and discontents.
Tech critic Cory Doctorow introduces his new book Enshittification, a blistering diagnosis of how online platforms have decayed — from innovation to exploitation — and what we can do to make it better for ordinary users.
Novelist and broadcaster Naomi Alderman draws on history in Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today, arguing that we’ve lived through information crises before, and that lessons from the invention of writing and the printing press can help us navigate today’s digital turbulence.
Journalist Oliver Moody, the author of Baltic: The Future of Europe, discusses Estonia’s radical embrace of digital governance, and what it reveals about the possibilities — and limits — of a truly connected state.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Assistant Producer: Natalia Fernandez
#BBCStartTheWeek #BBCRadio4
#CoryDoctorow #NaomiAlderman #OliverMoody
(downloadable episodes)
BBCInsideScience just did a massive Cricket shit in the middle of what is supposed to be a Science programme. They're going on about Sports statistics.
presenter Tom Whipple (science writer for the Times newspaper) said "Cricket is the Queen of Science"
#BBCRadio4 #BBCInsideScience #Mi6
(... at least it wasn't the usual Radio4 going blah blah blahHarry Potter blah blah blah ...)
Enjoying Tim Berners-Lee on #DesertIslandDiscs immensely. What a lovely, brilliant and yet humble man. With interesting music taste.
#Audiodrama is my favourite way to consume stories, over film or reading. I thought #thebetrayed was a brilliant representation of the radicalisation of a normal white Irish guy. It makes it easy to see how people get sucked into extremist views and actions. Gripping plot.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m002kfn0
#bbc #bbcradio4 #immigration #racism #fiction #drama
Jeez Saturday Live with Adrian Chiles is like a real life Alan Partridge show on North Norfolk Digital. As the yoot would say, it’s utter cringe.
#radio4 #bbcradio4
Listening to BBCWato and reminded that Mark Mardell did this excellent strand which is here collected and available forever!
Asylum hotels and mental health
All in the Mind
More than 32,000 asylum seekers are being housed in hotels in the UK, the latest figures show.
There's been intense political debate in recent weeks focused on the cost – both financially for the government and for local communities.
But what about the cost to the mental health of those living in the hotels?
Today we’re going to hear from an asylum seeker who spent more than a year in a hotel in London, and we’ll examine the evidence for the impact on people’s mental health.
Dr Peter Olusoga, senior lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, joins us in the studio with the latest research, including a study that raises the prospect of using a common acne drug to cut risk of schizophrenia and new evidence on the psychology of losing.
And what if we could mentally reframe winter to make it more enjoyable? We get some tips from clinical psychologist Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Gerry Holt
Content editor: Ilan Goodman
Production coordinator: Jana Holesworth
Studio engineer: Tim Heffer
Details of organisations offering support with mental health, or feelings of despair, are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.
28 minutes
Immigration The Danish Way
Currently - Radio4
2025-11-09 1330-1400
#BBCRadio4 #BBCCurrently
#ImmigrationUK
downloadable
Now just a pointless BBC magazine colour supplement where BBC employees get cosy and discuss their old, present and future BBC projects.
The Media Show
2025-11-05 1615-1700
On the Today programme they just said that the basic rate of income tax hasn’t changed in 50 years. It certainly felt like it did in 2008 when the 10p “starting” rate was abolished (I definitely noticed!) and probably did in 1999 when it was introduced. Disingenuous reporting, what a surprise.
Desert Island Discs - Lorraine Kelly
#BBCRadio4 #DesertIslandDiscs
#LorraineKelly #ITV #ITVLorraine
#Lockerbie #Dunblane
This was great; educational, balanced, and not unamusing. I’ll listen to the 2 previous episodes in due course… #BBCRadio4 #CarbonLifeforms #FairAndBalanced
Desert Island Discs - Lennie James
presented by Lauren Laverne #LaurenLaverne
2025-10-26 1000-1100
#BBCRadio4 #BBCDesertIslandDiscs
#LennieJames #BlackMastodon
Just heard "an expert" say something stupid on an In Our Time best-of-archive show.
Basically, he said, if you look at a piece of radioactive material then you [can] stop it radiating.
Uh-Oh! #DemonCore
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