BBC Radio 3’s fascinating exploration of the disappearing Swedish language Elfdalian
This is a topic perfect for radio - the spoken form affords layers of understanding the written word could never…
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BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, Churchill’s Passions, is full of powerful images, and sounds fantastic
Over five days, the historian Andrew Roberts condenses some of his new book’s 1,152 pages into five essays that he…
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Pearl: Two Fathers, Two Daughters and the heartbreak of the McCanns
Simon Armitage’s translation of a 600-year-old poem is intercut with clips of Madeleine McCann’s father, to devastating effect.
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Intrigue: The Ratline: a new ten-part podcast about a Nazi hunt.
This is a “real-life mystery” that begins in a 14th century Austrian castle.
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The adolescent scent of Elon Musk
If lots of people dream of the visionary nature of a Tony Stark, those who really like Elon Musk are…
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Alastair Cook’s last ever Test innings causes fraught nerves on Test Match Special
Aggers grumbled about the inexplicably slow Oval scoreboard and Michael Vaughan kept saying the word tense.
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Podcast: The No-Deal Brexit Reality
The New Statesman podcast with Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush.
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The Art of Now and The Reunion voice powerful memories from two kinds of prisoners
The moving Radio 4 programmes tell of the theatrically “gladiatorial” designs of British prisons, and the heart-wrenching stories of Auschwitz…
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