The comments section of the Ringway Manchester video on this from last week is full of people from faraway places (e.g. Canada) relating how they could listen to #BBCRadio4 on #LongWave .
Interesting episode of Rare Earth (okay, okay, they all are!) on fossil fuels, from Friday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ww0s
#RareEarth #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #DontLookUp
British acting legend Geraldine James: "I’m endlessly cast as The B***h"
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/radio/geraldine-james-moon-tiger-interview/
Interesting piece on Radio 4 while cleaning the kitchen before the shipping forecast this morning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002wsyg
(side-hustle show from Kate Lamble ("More Or Less") about the state of UK water industry and water environment)
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Rinsed Episode 1 of 13
After watching their local river grow murky and lifeless, two retired neighbours decide to take on the water industry and its regulators. The unlikely sleuths begin a ten-year battle to clean up our rivers.
On the banks of the River Windrush in Oxfordshire, Kate Lamble meets campaigners Ash Smith and Peter Hammond
Reported and presented by Kate Lamble
Producer: Elle Scott
Sound Design: Andy Fell
Executive Producer: Joe Kent
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
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Archers family feud!
BBC Radio 4 explores shortwave broadcasting and soft power
https://swling.com/blog/2026/05/bbc-radio-4-explores-shortwave-broadcasting-and-soft-power/
#BBCRadio4 #InternationalBroadcasting #JosephineMcDermott #Radio4 #RadioDocumentaries #ShortwaveRadio #TheSoundOfSoftPower
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer
1939 and 2026: The Furies of War
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer
Episode 10 of 10
The story of the residents of Weimar during the rise and reign of Hitler.
Weimar – On the Edge of Catastrophe is written by Katja Hoyer.
The reader is Sian Thomas.
The abridger is Julian Wilkinson.
The producer is Lu Kemp.
Hiking in the Ettersberg Carl Weirich is conscious of how the concentration camp has ruined the beautiful natural landscape of his local area. Meanwhile the net is drawing in around Rosa, as more and more demands are made to authenticate her heritage.
In the early 2020s historian Katja Hoyer visits Weimar to research the story of the people who lived there, and meets those who remember them.
Weimar explores ‘the question of how and why a nation that prided itself on its culture and civility enabled the catastrophe of Nazism haunts us to this day because we fear a repeat.’ The book is about the tension between individual and collective responsibility and sounds a warning for our own times.
Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian, journalist and the author of the international bestseller Beyond the Wall as well as Blood and Iron. A visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she writes for Bloomberg and Berliner Zeitung and is a commentator on German current affairs for many British newspapers. She was born in Germany and is now based in the UK.
2026-05-23 0030-0045 (last episode)
Locked and Downloaded: The rise in 3D printed guns
File on 4 Investigates
Police have dealt with scores of cases involving home-made 3D printed guns in the UK in the last three years. Data obtained by File on 4 Investigates from the National Crime Agency shows that criminals and extremists have attempted to manufacture the weapons.
We hear from police who successfully prosecuted a group who had manufactured printed firearms to sell on to criminal gangs. As Adrian Goldberg asks, how much of a threat are these printed weapons in the UK and what can be done to deter people from making them?
Producer: Paul Grant
Technical Producers: Cameron Ward & Nicky Edwards
Production Co-ordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Tara McDermott
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