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F:\FYI VII ========== America Looks Abroad - The World was very Interested 1940-01-07
Grey Seal Odyssey 1.5
Grey Seal Odyssey 2.5
Grey Seal Odyssey 3.5
Grey Seal Odyssey 4.5
Grey Seal Odyssey 5.5
******A dramatic and evocative story in sound following Selkie, a male
grey seal, as he travels the coast of Britain on an epic journey in search
of a mate.
Narrated by Bill Paterson, each programme in this 5-part series follows a different leg
of this challenging journey, combining a rich soundscape - with sounds recorded on
location by Chris Watson and a powerful narration written by Paul Dodgson
- to produce an evocative and absorbing series.
Hacked to Pieces by Jolyon Jenkins
******Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether we have lost the war on cybercrime and looks at a new
criminal economy which has grown to feed the demand for our most private details.
Jolyon finds that the security details of ordinary members of the public - their bank details,
passwords, and secret security questions are being openly traded in cybercrime forums.
He hands over his own laptop computer to an 'ethical hacker' and finds that it takes two
minutes for its password to be cracked. Within a few more minutes, the hacker has
installed a key-logging Trojan that secretly passes all his computer activity - passwords,
emails and all - back to the hacker's own computer.
How Tickled Am I - s01e01 - Frank Randle
How Tickled Am I - s01e02 - Jimmy Clitheroe
How Tickled Am I - s01e03 - Les Dawson
How Tickled Am I - s01e04 - Sandy Powell
How Tickled Am I - s01e05 - Ken Dodd
How Tickled Am I - s01e06 - Jimmy James
How Tickled Am I - s02e01 - Eric Morecambe
How Tickled Am I - s02e02 - Ted Ray
How Tickled Am I - s03e01 - Arthur Askey
******Mark Radcliffe presents profiles of the comedians who have made us laugh over the years
Island of Secrets by Paul Evans
******Haunting sound portrait of Orford Ness in Suffolk,
Europe's largest vegetated shingle spit. Writer and narrator
Paul Evans and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson
explore this wild and remote extremity of eastern England,
which is also the site of secret cold war military testing.
It is an unsettling landscape where the wind howls,
the sea sighs and hisses across the shingle,
gulls screech, redshank cry in a morse code of alarms,
railings whine and rattle, twisted metal clangs,
doors crash and shadows flit.
Jihad and the Petrodollar 1.2- Wahhabism
Jihad and the Petrodollar 2.2- The Money Trail
******Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own puritanical form of Islam
to every corner of the globe?
Last Nazi Hunter by Jonathan Charles
******Jonathan Charles presents a profile of Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre,
as he travels across Europe in dedicated pursuit of former war criminals.
M R James
******Muriel Gray gives a biographical appreciation of ghost-writer MR James.
Most Godless Town in Britain
******Jolyon Jenkins follows the work of a missionary sent by the Church of England to 'redeem'
the residents of the Shropshire town of Telford, which has the lowest per capita church attendance in Britain.
Mark Berry, from the Church Mission Society, hopes to tap into the huge number of people who now describe
themselves as 'spiritual but not religious', and sets out to compete with reiki healers, gong therapists and the
local football club for the town's attentions.
My Lai Tapes
******This weekend, forty years ago exactly, as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese
civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known as the My Lai massacre and
proved to be a turning point in the Vietnam War.
Mystery of the Black Boy
******Lemn Sissay explores the demise of the Black Boy as a name for a pub. The origins of the term are
shrouded in mystery and many stories are in circulation. Some believe that it is connected with the slave
trade while others claim its association with coal mining or chimney sweeps. The most likely reason for the
Black Boy name turns out to be none other than Charles II, his dark-hued skin and his exile during Cromwell's reign.
Papal Ball
******On the eve of Euro 2008, writer and comedian Danny Robins visits Rome to discover if the
Catholic Church can inject new morality into Italian football.
Parade's Gone By
******The magic of the silent screen, illuminated by the recollections of those who created it.
Price of a Pint of Milk
******Following Derrick Weaver, who has been a milkman in Birmingham for 44 years,
as he makes his deliveries around the Harborne area of the city. His day starts at 2.15am
when he loads his float at the depot, and he delivers milk until 10.30am. On the way he
has been known to be chased by poodles, asked to change old peoples' light bulbs
and even find the odd corpse.
Revelations
Roman Road
******Horace the poet.
Roman Way - 1 of 4
Roman Way - 2 of 4
Roman Way - 3 of 4
Roman Way - 4 of 4
******Using contemporary accounts from all levels of society, from the chattering
classes to humble foot-soldiers, from senators to slaves, The Roman Way explores
four aspects of everyday life, two millennia ago.
Roots of Remembrance
******Mark Whitaker reveals the surprising origins and evolution of Remembrance Day.
How did this enduring ceremony, so moving in its simplicity and so widely copied in local
commemorations in the UK and around the world, come about in the first place?
Saving the Sounds of History
******Sean Street tells the story of Marie Slocombe and the BBC Sound Archive. One of the most important
collections in the world, the archive began almost by accident one day in the 1930s when Marie, a temporary
secretary, was told to clear out some old records.
The first batch included recordings by GB Shaw, GK Chesterton and Winston Churchill. Slocombe held on to
them and spent the rest of her career developing the collection, from the great and the good to the
experiences of ordinary people.
Science Blacklist
******BBC Washington correspondent Justin Webb investigates claims that the US government
is manipulating scientific research.
Political interference in science is causing widespread alarm across the United States.
Thousands of scientists are accusing the Bush administration of systematically suppressing,
manipulating and distorting their work.
Many government scientists have resigned in protest, claiming that industrial and ideological powers
are infiltrating their work to an unprecedented level.
In The Science Blacklist, BBC Washington correspondent Justin Webb investigates the growing number
of US science scandals - from editing climate change research to repressing the sale of contraceptives.
Soup in a Basket 1.4
Soup in a Basket 2.4
Soup in a Basket 3.4
Soup in a Basket 4.4
******Comedian Lee Mack tells the story of the Northern clubs in their heyday
Stadium of Spooks
******Chris Bowlby reveals how football will come face to face with memories of Nazi death cults
and British Cold War activity.
Stand Ups and Strumpets - s01e01 - Meera Syal
Stand Ups and Strumpets - s01e02 - Jenny Eclair
Stand Ups and Strumpets - s01e03 - Maureen Lipman
Stand Ups and Strumpets - s01e04 - Josie Lawrence
Stand Ups and Strumpets - s01e05 - Sheila Hancock
******Interviews with female comics
Street Science 1.5 - Human Animal Embryos
Street Science 2.5 - Nuclear Power
Street Science 3.5 - GM Foods
Street Science 4.5 - MMR
Street Science 5.5 - Nano Technology
******Most scientists are passionate about what they do and believe it's in a good cause.
But what happens whey they're taken out of their comfort zone, to church or to the school gates,
to try to explain what they do and why, to members of the public?
Five leading scientists working in controversial areas go face to face with some of their harshest critics.
The Criminal Mind by Joshua Rozenberg
The Criminal Mind
******Joshua Rozenberg examines new medical insights into
the criminal mind. He joins scientists as they examine the brains
of violent criminals and sees startling evidence of physical brain
damage caused by neglect and abuse during infancy.
Joshua asks whether offenders who suffer from this kind of brain
dysfunction can be held responsible for their behaviour.
There's More Here Than I Thought
******Writer Kate Mosse explores the extraordinary life of Winifred Gill. She was an artist, craftswoman,
puppeteer and social reformer, and a friend and supporter of painters such as LS Lowry, Duncan Grant,
Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and poet Walter de la Mare, as well as being a tireless letter writer.
Gill died in 1981 and her name has been little known. But thanks to the hard work and persistence of her
niece Margaret Bennett and Margaret's cousin Chrystine Bennett, that is about to change. Gill's papers
are now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and, in June 2009, the Courtauld Gallery in London
devotes a whole room to her work.
Towers of Silence
******The Parsis fight to keep alive their faith's ritual of
feeding dead bodies to vultures.
Ardashir Vakil reports from Bombay.
Ursula Le Guin At 80 by China Mieville
******Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction
writer Ursula Le Guin.Le Guin was a trailblazer - writing in the
1960s, her series of books about the adventures of a boy wizard,
Ged, included characters of every race and colour. Her fiction
has been acutely concerned with politics, portraying worlds
destroyed by environmental catastrophe that prefigured modern
concerns about global warming, and societies without gender
just as modern-day feminism began to take off.
Featuring contributions and tributes from Iain Banks
and Margaret Atwood.
Von Karajan
******Profile of Herbert von Karajan, one of the most renowned conductors of the 20th century and
leader of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years.
What Is a Wife by Geraldine Bedell
******Writer Geraldine Bedell examines the role of the wife in modern society and asks why anyone
would still want to be one.
Wonderful World of Neem
******The Neem tree grows prolifically throughout South Asia, especially in India, Sri Lanka and Burma.
Its medicinal properties have been known about for thousands of years - Neem features in ancient Sanskrit texts -
and its uses are so varied that this tree is called the "Village Pharmacy" of South Asia.
Wrecked
******The history of the illicit activities of the Wirral peninsula's wreckers.
Neil McCarthy explores the history of the illicit activities of the Wirral peninsula's wreckers,
who ransacked Liverpool-bound vessels with notorious ferocity. After the end of the
wrecking era, huge crowds came to the Victorian seaside resort of New Brighton,
but they too have now gone. Neil tries to discover whether the wild spirit of the wreckers
lives on in the area today.
Zippe Type - A Poor Man's Bomb
******This is the extraordinary story of Dr Gernot Zippe, a pensioner currently living in Germany,
who invented a uranium centrifuge which gave Iraq, Pakistan and North Korea the potential
to build cheap nuclear bombs.
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