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
