For Your Information V
Interesting, Educational and often Comical Nonfiction Broadcasts
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***A Brief History of Cunning - American writer and satirist Joe Queenan traces the
history of cunning, from Odysseus to Karl Rove, via Machiavelli, Richard Nixon
and Margaret Thatcher.
***A Brief History of Irony
***A Cloud in a Paper Bag - This drama-documentary by biographer Richard Holmes
tells the story of the first decades of ballooning in the early 1800s.
***A Smile and a Shoeshine - Laurie Taylor explores the world of the travelling salesman, examining the
allure of the character for so many writers, film-makers and dramatists.
***All In The Mind - Broadmoor Special - Dr Raj Persaud explores the limits and potential of the mind,
revealing the latest research and bringing together experts and commentators from the worlds of psychiatry,
psychology and mental health.
***Thr Ancient Novel - Tibor Fischer explores the ancient novel. 2,000 years before Hollywood, Greek and Latin writers
were producing tales that read like film scripts, from romances to religious mystery texts. They incorporate plot twists,
bawdy humour and magical episodes in ways that are strikingly similar to their modern counterparts, and their influence
on world literature is vast.
***Bard of Salford - John Cooper Clarke - an English performance poet from Salford,
Greater Manchester; he is often described as a punk poet, having initially achieved
recognition in the late 1970s during the flourishing punk movement.
***Britistanis 1.2 - Navid Akhtar explores the lives of British Pakistanis, looking at issues
of family, religion, ambition, racism, pathways to success and national identity.
Britistanis 2.2
***Cambridge Spies - The members of the ring were Donald Maclean
(1913 - 1983), Guy Burgess (1911 - 1963), Harold 'Kim' Philby (1912 - 1988)
and Anthony Blunt (1907 - 1983). Several other people have been suggested as
belonging to the ring, including John Cairncross. Blunt became a communist in
the early 1930s and was recruited by the NKVD (later KGB), the Soviet security
agency. While teaching at Cambridge University, Blunt was influential
in recruiting the other three, who were all students there.
***Cold Case 1.2 - Penny Marshall follows West Yorkshire Police as they bring a rapist to justice.
Cold Case 2.2 - Penny Marshall looks at the problems and the issues raised by the latest DNA techniques.
***Crisis on the Top Shelf - Rowan Pelling looks at the history of top-shelf magazines in Britain, their changing
content, society's attitude toward them and their future in the face of internet competition and declining sales.
She looks at the effect that the rise of 'lads mags', the feminist movement and the increasing sexualisation
of society have had on adult magazines.
***Dreaming of Toad Hall - A hundred years after the publication of
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, John O'Farrell returns
to the Berkshire riverbank of Grahame's childhood to explore the
relationship between the author and his son Alastair and some
of the themes and imagery of this classic tale.
(See Great Radio Plays)
***How Radio Comedy Changed a Nation - Radio comedy has not only
entertained audiences for some 70 years, it's also been a medium for
change in British society itself, says Nicholas Parsons.
***Imagining Albion_ the Great British Future - 1 of 4 - Francis Spufford charts the history
of Britain - through its Science Fiction. Francis won't quite be arguing that every starship
in British SF is a milkfloat in disguise but the diversity of ideas in British SF means that
these novels do give startling alternative snapshots of Britain down the years.
Imagining Albion_ the Great British Future - 2 of 4
Imagining Albion_ the Great British Future - 3 of 4
Imagining Albion_ the Great British Future - 4 of 4
***King of Comedy - Angus Deayton presents a tribute to comedy producer, writer and
performer Geoffrey Perkins, producer of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and
countless other comedy hits.
***Letters From Space 1 Jerry Linenger - Inspiring letters of an embattled astronaut in space
to his young son on Earth.
In January 1997, astronaut Dr. Jerry Linenger embarked on a "routine" five-month mission to the
Russian space station Mir, leaving behind his pregnant wife and 14-month-old son, and the
everyday pleasures of planet Earth. Before he left, he promised to write. Though his mission
did not go as planned, he kept his word.
Letters From Space 2
***Libelled Lady - Mgm - Jean Harlow
***Life's Soundtrack - How do the sounds we make and the sounds
we hear change during our lifetime, from the vague rumblings that first greet us
in the womb to our last gasping breath? Join presenter Trevor Cox, who also
happens to be Professor of Acoustics at Salford University, as he explores the
evolution of hearing and the voice as we journey though Life’s Soundtrack.
***Look What We've Found - Lighthouse Keeper
***Makers of History - Declaration of Independence (13 mins)
Makers of History - War with Tripoli (13 mins)
***Man With The Golden Brain - Jean Paul Sartre - In the centenary year of
Jean-Paul Sartre's birth, Kevin Jackson celebrates the philosopher, novelist
and playwright's achievements.
***More or Less - exploring numbers and statistics.
***Morrissey - Salford Lad 1.2 - Stuart Maconie tells the story of the Manchester lad
who became a British icon. We hear from friends, fans, colleagues and fellow musicians
including: Richard Boon, Mike Hinc, Jo Slee, Andrew Paresi, Willy Russell,
Badly Drawn Boy, Zoe Williams, John Hegley, Preston, Stephen Street, Tony Visconti,
Andy Rourke and Suggs.
Morrissey - Salford Lad 2.2
***Nigel Balchin- Small Back Room Boy - DBC Pierre reassesses the work of Nigel Balchin.
In addition to writing thillers such as The Small Back Room, Balchin was a scientist and one
of Britain's first industrial psychologists. When working for Rowntree's chocolates, he
invented the Kit Kat brand name.
***NWIAHA - s01e01 - Herbert Morrison and Ernest Bevin - It is said that when suggested that his cabinet
colleague and deadly rival Herbert Morrison was "his own worst enemy", the great wartime and post-war
Labour minister Ernest Bevin, retorted "Not while I'm alive, he ain't!"
In this series for The Westminster Hour, bearing the name of Bevin's supposed comment, Brian Walden
examined the intense and often destructive rivalries of leading politicians.
NWIAHA - s01e02 - Harold Wilson and George Brown
NWIAHA - s01e03 - David Steele and David Owen
***Operation Eagle Claw - 08-00 - Operation Eagle Claw
(or Operation Evening Light) was a United States military
operation to rescue the 53 hostages from the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran, Iran on April 24, 1980. The failure of the operation
led to the creation of the United States Special Operations Command
(USSOCOM) and the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations
Aviation Regiment (“The Night Stalkers”). The hostages were
eventually released after extensive diplomatic negotiations on
January 20, 1981, Carter's last day in office, after 444 days of
captivity. Jimmy Carter was determined to ensure the release
under his administration, particularly as the Democratic nomination
for the 1980 presidential election neared, but the release did not
occur until immediately after Reagan had taken the oath of office.
The plan was to land aircraft covertly in the desert allowing special
forces to infiltrate Tehran and free the 52 hostages.
But the planning was flawed, and the mission had to be aborted when two helicopters were damaged
in a sandstorm and failed to reach the rendez-vous point. Worse was to come when another crashed
into a transport plane as it was pulling out.
Operation Eagle Claw - 08-31 - Today Program
Operation Eagle Claw - 09-00
Operation Eagle Claw - 10-00
Operation Eagle Claw - 11-00 - Parliament
Operation Eagle Claw - 12-00
Operation Eagle Claw - 13-00 - Carter
Operation Eagle Claw - 18-00
***Phil Jupitus' Comic Love - Phill Jupitus offers some personal insights into the world of the
satirical newspaper comic strip.
Contributors include the Daily Telegraph duo who lampoon the City in Alex and the American
right's nemesis Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury fame. They discuss the impact and political significance of their work.
***Remembering Alan - A year on from Alan Coren's death, Christopher Matthew talks to his friends
and relatives about their recollections of the comic writer and broadcaster.
***Retreat To Bug River BY Rana Mitter - Rana Mitter traces the dramatic events of August 1920
when the Red Army marched on Warsaw in the hope of exporting the Bolshevik revolution to Poland,
Germany and beyond.
***Sandy Denny Story
***Secret Science 1.2 - NIBSC - Micromedicine - Vivienne Parry
meets the scientists whose work remains unknown to the
general public.
Secret Science 2.2 - Porton Down - Microbiology
***Sharpen Your Memory - Memory and Identity and Me and My Memory - Prosopagnosia -
Mariella Frostrup talks to leading scientists and artists to find out how your memory works.
***Simulated Patient - Documentary looking at an unusual aspect of
medical training. Medical schools hire actors to play the roles of patients
in order to allow trainee doctors to practise the art of breaking bad news.
Some older doctors are sceptical about the value of such education.
***Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell's Head - Mark Whitaker explores a bizarre and gruesome story. In 1661,
the former Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed and hanged at Tyburn. His head was cut off
and displayed on top of Westminster Hall as a warning to anyone opposed to the monarchy. It stayed there
until 1684, when it went missing. It was finally put to rest in Cambridge in 1960, but what happened during
the intervening years?
***Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat - A tribute to John Peel - This special one hour
documentary celebrates the life and work of John Peel. Presented by Jarvis Cocker,
it features contributions from artists and DJs such as Led Zeppelin, Billy Bragg, Pink Floyd,
Ash, Orbital, the Cure and Captain Beefheart.
***That Reminds Me - Keith Barron
***The Accidental Entertainers - The Brothers Grimm are responsible for producing some of the best loved
fairy tales of all time and have inspired countless spin-offs by writers, movie makers, composers and artists
down the years.
Michael Rosen investigates where stories like Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel
came from and how a project which started as a serious scholarly endeavour could turn into one of the biggest
cultural phenomena ever known.
***The Beast of Boleskine, Aleister Crowley
***The Hippy Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach Robert Rietti
***The Miscarriage
***The Number Stations - Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher - A wild journey to the outer
limits of radio cryptography and espionage as Simon Fanshawe enters the clandestine
world of shortwave Number stations.
Are they the mad aural daubings of pirate DJs, an extraordinary and elaborate hoax or are they, as many believe,
coded messages broadcast by intelligence services and governments to their agents in the field?
***The Original - The fake Winston Churchill
***The Tenth Man - 01 - Punishment Without Crime - A series dealing with mental illness.
The Tenth Man - 02 - The Silent Men
The Tenth Man - 03 - The Child Is Father To The Man
The Tenth Man - 04 - The Old Folks At Home
The Tenth Man - 05 - Which World For Susan
The Tenth Man - 06 - Love Without Words
The Tenth Man - 07 - On Wings Of Clay
The Tenth Man - 08 - Out Of The Shadows
The Tenth Man - 09 - Figs From Thistles
The Tenth Man - 10 - Doctor Troubleshooter
The Tenth Man - 11 - The Tie That Binds
The Tenth Man - 12 - Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
The Tenth Man - 13 - The Lady And The Lawmakers
***The Vaccine Hunter - Maurice R Hilleman saved more lives than any other scientist in the 20th Century.
Given his extraordinary achievements, he is surprisingly little-known outside his field. He is the only scientist
ever to make a flu vaccine in advance of a pandemic, a task scientists are now struggling to achieve in the
face of bird flu. But, one of his creations, the combined MMR shot, remains controversial in the UK to this day.
Jeryl Lynn Hilleman presents the incredible story of her father, Dr Maurice Hilleman.
***Three Men in a Float - Ian Vince, Dan Kieran and Prasanth Visweswaran seek an antidote to
the modern world's fixation with speed and time as they embark upon a journey from Lowestoft to
Land's End in a second-hand milk float.
***Tibet- The Story of a Feud - Rob Gifford explores the history of Tibet. According to the Chinese,
the land has been part of China since the 13th Century. Tibetans, however, claim that the country
was independent until the Chinese occupation of the 1950s.
Unfortunately, neither side appears to be entirely correct. What are the chances of a peaceful resolution
to this long-running political feud?
***Torturers Tale - Jolyon Jenkins speaks to former torturers from different countries about the process of
crossing the line from acceptable to unacceptable behaviour, and asks how they cope with the knowledge
that they had done wrong.
***Troman Harper, Rumor Detective 421220 - Do Gi's Eat Alfalfa - The U.S. Govt's way to deal with wartime rumors
during WWII. Was it true that U.S. G.I.'s were reduced to eating alfalfa? Troman Harper will set you straight.
Troman Harper, Rumor Detective 431024 - Are Chinese Commies
***Tropicalia - Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, is a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s
and encompassed theatre, poetry, and music, among other forms.
***True Story of Whisky Galore - In 1941 an 8,000-ton cargo ship ran aground in the Sound of Eriskay
in the Outer Hebrides. In the difficult war years any gift from the sea was welcome, and the SS Politician
had among her cargo a quarter of a million bottles of whisky. The events that followed inspired Compton
Mackenzie's novel Whisky Galore. Using eyewitness accounts, historical papers, and official documents,
this tells the story of the SS Politician and the circus that surrounded her, from islanders in small skiffs
to wartime excise officers and the final solution, to the problem of the vessel affectionately known as the "Polly."
***Trumpton Riots - It's Friday. It's Five to Five and It's... - A nostalgic look a children's TV
Trumpton Riots - Nogs, Togs & Clangers
Trumpton Riots - Pugwash, Windy & Barney Mcgrew
Trumpton Riots - Today Is Saturday
Trumpton Riots - Val or Sue, John or Tommy
Trumpton Riots - We Can not Return Your Paintings
***Truth bending - A satiric look at news reporting.
***Tunnellers of World War I - Aubrey Manning travels to Northern France where he goes deep underground beneath
the battlefields of World War I to uncover the legacy of an underground war fought over 90 years ago. Aubrey meets
members of the Durand group, a team of volunteer archaeologists, munitions experts, historians and both retired and
serving soldiers. They're investigating a vast network of hundreds of miles of tunnels which criss-cross beneath France
and Belgium. These tunnels were dug by skilled miners and used to support the fighting overhead in the trenches. Linking
to deep below the battlefields, tunnels were vital for communication, joining army headquarters, relief supply depots, huge
water reservoirs, chapels and hospitals. The tunnels were also crucial for laying mines and explosives. Specially-trained
listeners could recognise the sound of enemy digging, mine-laying and even pick out the sounds of slugs. Their skills saved
the lives of hundreds of men. Join Aubrey as he walks along the often cramped and claustrophobic tunnels to uncover the
staggering story of World War I's underground war.
***UK Confidential, 1975 - A glance at unclassified documents on the 1975 UK government.
***Walking A Stick Back Home - Poet and historian James Crowden inherited a walking stick formerly belonging to
19th-century author Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Accompanied by biographer
Grevel Linop, he takes it home via Edinburgh to Wordsworth's Dove Cottage.
***Where Scotland Meets England 1.2 - Hardeep Singh Kohli traces the history of the border country between
England and Scotland. 2/2: Hardeep travels from Liddesdale to Gretna, and meets border resident Lord Steel.
Where Scotland Meets England 2.2
***Who Ate All the Pies - Pork pie-making possibly isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of
your average pub regular - but for one Scarborough hostelry the annual 'Men Only' Pie Contest has become
a famous local tradition.
***Who the Wild Things Are - Philip Glassborow explores the origins of Maurice Sendak's classic children's
book Where the Wild Things Are. Contributors include Sendak's British editor Judy Taylor, his long-time friend
playwright Tony Kushner, children's literature expert Leonard Marcus and children of Little Milton Primary School
in Oxfordshire. The programme features readings by Henry Goodman and extensive use of Jewish Klezmer music.
***Word of Mouth Swearing - Michael Rosen explores the world of words and the way we use them.
***World Bank - A Crisis Too Far - Justin Webb asks what the future holds for the World Bank in the aftermath
of Paul Wolfowitz's dramatic departure.
Can this organisation, born from the ashes of the Second World War, address global poverty in the new century?
Can the incoming head Robert B Zoellick, known to be tough and sometimes abrasive, restore the organisation's
credibility among donor and recipient countries?
***Zimbabwe Out of Control - 1 of 2 - For the past seven years, Zimbabweans have been
struggling to cope with an ever-deepening political and economic crisis. How did it become
so bad, and what's the solution?
Paul Bakibinga considers what Zimbabweans might do to recover a more stable footing.
Zimbabwe has the world's highest inflation rate. It also has one of the world's lowest levels
of life expectancy.
But is it hopeless? How can Zimbabwe get back to being the prosperous 'bread basket'
it once was?
Before Paul Bakibinga can consider the way forward, he must approach the subject of
'the elephant in the room' - namely Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabwe Out of Control - 2 of 2
***Zina Sarowiwa Babalu's World - Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995)
was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmentalist. Initially as spokesperson, and then as President,
of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against
environmental damage associated with the operations of multinational oil companies, especially Shell.
He was executed by the Nigerian military in 1995, his death provoking international outrage.
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