BBC Collection III - Radio Plays, Comedies & Odd Stuff

   Edward Burra - Twentieth Century Eye - Jane Stevenson's biography of one of the 
   greatest English watercolourists of the 20th century.    
   1.5 - Burra had an extraordinary circle of friends.
   Edward Burra - Twentieth Century Eye 2.5 - In 1921 at the age of 16, Burra enrolled 
   as a student at Chelsea College of Art.
   Edward Burra - Twentieth Century Eye 3.5 - Burra's first visit to France in 1926 took him to the coast 
   that inspired much of his work.
   Edward Burra - Twentieth Century Eye 4.5 - Burra visited Mexico in 1937 to stay with the novelist 
   Malcolm Lowry.
   Edward Burra - Twentieth Century Eye 5.5 - The Battle of Britain was fought in the air directly over Burra's 
   home in Rye.

   Ethel & Albert - 19480831 - #1128 - Counting Wallpaper Stripes 
   Ethel & Albert - 19480907 - #1133 - Bad Sunburn  
   Ethel & Albert - 1948xxxx - #1221 - Finding Stamps - Date Unsure, Et Also Said Rb 480831 

   Fags, Mags and Bags - s01e01- Raising Keenan - Ramesh is keen that young tearaway Keenan has good male role models.
   Fags, Mags and Bags - s01e02- The De-Magowarning Of Ramesh - Ramesh is delighted as he teaches his son, but why is 
   Sanjay so keen to learn?
   Fags, Mags and Bags - s01e03- Wall of Crisps - The Chutney Windmills bring more trouble than they are worth.
   Fags, Mags and Bags - s01e04- Build The Titanic - Mrs Muirhead's devotion to the scale model of the Titanic is as 
doomed as the ship itself.
   Fags, Mags and Bags - s01e05- The Festival of Maltodextri - Ramesh concocts a fake religious festival in an attempt 
to shift a mountain of fireworks.
   Fags, Mags and Bags - s01e06- January, February - Trouble brews when Ramesh allows a political poster in the 
shop window.




   Tarka the Otter 1 of 5                                                                          
   Tarka the Otter 2 of 5                                                                          
   Tarka the Otter 3 of 5                                                                          
   Tarka the Otter 4 of 5                                                                          
   Tarka the Otter 5 of 5 

   Testtubes and Tantrums - When great science minds collide, the insults traded and the bile spilt 
   has been both personal and scandalous. But all too often, the victor's reputation is scrubbed clean 
   by the passage of history. William Hartston rakes up some of the muck that has always been part 
   and parcel of the nature of scientific practice, but that few of us know about. 
   Testtubes and Tantrums 1 of 5
   Testtubes and Tantrums 2 of 5 
   Testtubes and Tantrums 3 of 5 
   Testtubes and Tantrums 4 of 5 
   Testtubes and Tantrums 5 of 5 

   The Viking Way - The truth behind the many myths about the Vikings: who they 
were where, how they fought, their skills as explorers & story-tellers.
   The Viking Way - 1 of 3 - The origin of the term 'Viking', Norse 
   nautical supremacy - in boat-building & navigation.
   The Viking Way - 2 of 3 - What happened when the vikings arrived 
   on British soil and how this arrival affected the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings 
themselves.
   The Viking Way - What the Vikings did for fun, after a hard day's pillaging; their 
high-brow and low-brow activities, their moral code and conversion to Christianity.
  
   Things We Forgot to Remember - s02e01- Jack the Ripper - Londoners were certainly 
   afraid in the late 1880s, but not, as we might expect, of a top-hat wearing, knife-wielding 
   psychopath. Michael travels from the East to the West End of the city to reveal that the fear 
   that stalked those streets was not down to one man, but to the catastrophic collapse of a 
   whole way of life.                                         
   Things We Forgot to Remember - s02e02- First World War - Close to 100 years after the conflict began, the popular 
memory of the First World War is of mud, blood and futility. We remember the incompetent Generals of Oh! What a 
Lovely War, the doomed youth of the War Poets, fields of poppies, the stalemate of trench warfare.
   But there are less familiar memories of the war, accounts of the liberation of occupied towns, the pride of ordinary 
soldiers, of military success. Michael Portillo tells the story of battles fought in the last 100 days of the war and asks 
how British forces progressed from the slaughter of the Somme to the forgotten victories of 1918.
   Things We Forgot to Remember - s02e03- Magna Carta - Nearly 800 years after it was signed, Magna Carta is 
still venerated as the bedrock of English justice and liberty. Yet in truth its impact was a good deal less far-reaching 
than is popularly believed. Another document, signed two years after Magna Carta, was the true charter for the common 
man. Michael Portillo goes in search of this forgotten manifesto for English rural life.

   Tomorrow, Today - S02e01 - Dr Chaotica and the Rise of the Atomic Man-Bees - Comedy series by Christopher 
William Hill, set in 1962. A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the unimaginably futuristic world of 
2008. Dr Chaotica and the Rise of the Atomic Man-Bees. Suspicious deaths provoke mixed reactions.
   Tomorrow, Today - S02e02 - Squab Is Not the Language of Love - Radio writer Hugo defects to TV.
   Tomorrow, Today - S02e03 - They Come to Freeze Our Children - An actress is forced to face her worst fear and 
work with a child.
   Tomorrow, Today - S02e04 - Prey of the Bog Monster - The show avoids censorship by becoming an outside 
broadcast.
   Tomorrow, Today - S02e05 - Countess Natasha and the Red Menace - Prime Minister Harold Macmillan guest 
stars in the same week that the programme is infiltrated by a spy.
   Tomorrow, Today - S02e06 - Taffy Jones, Protector of the Universe.- With war imminent, the production relocates 
to Wales, but is it safer?

   Tribes of England 1 of 5 - Native in Norfolk 
   Tribes of England 2 of 5- Cornish Granite
   Tribes of England 3 of 5- Mountain Neighbours
   Tribes of England 4 of 5- Durham's Disinherited
   Tribes of England 5 of 5- Forever Barnsley

   Try This At Home 1 of 5 - Dark Matter: Ben 'I did a degree and half PhD in Experimental Physics' Miller investigates 
dark matter at the bottom of a Yorkshire mine.
   Try This At Home 2 of 5 - Super Nova: Ben Miller visits Cambridge to investigate exploding stars, the curvature of the 
universe and repulsive forces. 
   Try This At Home 3 of 5 - Extra Dimensions: Ben Miller travels to Geneva in search of an 11 Dimension world. 
   Try This At Home 4 of 5 - Entanglement: Ben Miller gives tips on how to do your own table top experiments, based on 
the bizarre laws of Quantum Physics.
   Try This At Home 5 of 5 - Boomerang: Ben Miller visits Cardiff, where scientists are preparing an experiment to explore 
the first microseconds of the universe.

   World Stories - 01 of 10 - Medellin Transformed


   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S01e01 - Musical Evening - (at which Mrs Naughtie performs her 
Dance of the Seven Voles)
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S01e02 - Murder Mystery - What's happened to Mrs Naughtie? 
And can the rumours about her and the Doctor be true? Hamish and Dougal investigate.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S01e03 - Romance in the Glen - (Hamish finds a love rival)
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S01e04 - Shooting Party - (Hamish & Dougal assist in summoning 
up the heavy armaments for an afternoon's shooting on the moors)
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S02e01 - Vampire of the Glen - our heroes are suspicious after the 
Laird asks them to dig a hole in his allotment large enough for a coffin-shaped wardrobe.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S02e02 - Fame Idol - Hamish and Dougal are anxious to enter 
'Fay McAdemy', the famous Highland talent contest.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S02e03 - Fitness Club - A contest of a different kind is on the agenda 
in The Fitness Club, when the Laird challenges Dougal to a MacAthlon- an endurance test, which 
involves swimming Loch Crankie, cycling to the bottom of Ben Kingsley and then running the length 
of Glen Close.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S02e04 - Poison Pen Letters - The daffy duo try to discover the identity 
of the author of a series of unsettling anonymous letters.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S02e05 - Monster in the Loch - The duo accidentally manage to hook the 
Loch Jaw Monster while out fishing.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S02e06 - Trapped - And to round off proceedings, in Trapped they find 
themselves stuck between floors in a trip to a well-known department store on London's Oxford Street.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S02e07 - Hogmanay Special - James Naughtie joins Barry Cryer and 
Graeme Garden for a special edition featuring the popular 'Clue' duo.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S03e01 - Gambling Fever - Hamish becomes addicted to gambling, after 
winning a free Sporran Cosy in the Glen MacLottery.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S03e02 - There's Something About Mrs Naughtie - Mrs Naughtie gains a 
large inheritance from her mysterious Uncle Nab.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S03e03 - Subsidence Adventure - Hamish and Dougal advertise their services 
as 'builders to the gentry'.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S03e04 - Inverurie Jones and the Thimble of Doom - Treasure hunter Inverurie 
Jones has plundered the local museum.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S03e05 - Look Who's Stalking the Laird - The Laird (Jeremy Hardy) appoints 
Hamish and Dougal as ghillies to a party of chums up for a week stalking in the Highlands. Unfortunately he is 
unable to take part himself, after an earlier stalking incident left him with a restraining order.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S03e06 - Porridge Votes- The Laird stands in the local by-election, and Hamish 
and Dougal decide to run against him.
   You'll Have Had Your Tea - S03e07 - Burns Night Special- There is great excitement in the Glen as Hamish 
and Dougal propose their first ever Burns Night - a foreign tradition they plan to import to Scotland.


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