The history of folk music, as told by Michael Morpurgo
BBC Radio 4's Michael Morpurgo's Folk Journeys explores the musical tradition of songs about war, protest, immigration and love.
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Melissa Harrison’s podcast The Stubborn Light of Things brings nature to you
In each episode, Harrison walks through the nearby countryside – she might explore an arable farm, a stately home or simply her…
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The last years of Georgia O’Keeffe
BBC Radio 4’s I Was Georgia O’Keeffe’s Five Year Companion was a short but vivid look at life with the…
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Futile Attempts: Kim Noble’s meandering and miserable comedy podcast
Instead of a grumpy comic monologue, Futile Attempts is a bold mix of documentary, fiction and meta-satire.
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How an Olympic swimming coach accused of child abuse hid in plain sight for 30 years
A new podcast series from BBC Sounds looks at how George Gibney abused his power and then disappeared unpunished.
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Narrating 400 years of American history
A new series of monologues, broadcast on Radio 4 to mark the Mayflower 2020 anniversary, understands the sheer scale of…
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The oh-so-chummy world of Times Radio
Launched some two months ago, Times Radio’s thrust was to be unambiguously genial – an answer to Radio 4’s exhausted…
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Why BBC Radio 4’s The Punch made me cry all day
In 2011 an 18-year-old called Jacob Dunne drunkenly killed another young man during a scuffle and went to prison. Years…
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