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- You, Me and the Wireless
Legendary broadcaster Gillian Reynolds shares her life and career in radio, spanning over 50 years. The role of politics on air is her theme in this essay.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rr79

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- Almost Famous
Ian Sansom reflects on obscurity as an index of cultural values through five figures whose reputations offer a map of shifting tastes. Today: wood engraver Gwen Raverat.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qhpp

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- Almost Famous
Ian Sansom reflects on obscurity as an index of cultural values through five figures whose reputations offer a map of shifting tastes. Today: the novelist Barbara Comyns.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qhl6

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- You, Me and the Wireless
Legendary broadcaster Gillian Reynolds shares her life and career in radio, spanning over 50 years. Her theme today – the power of the voice….
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rtgw

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- Almost Famous
Ian Sansom reflects on changing cultural values through five almost-famous reputations. Today: poet Charlotte Mew, who never gained the recognition her supporters expected.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh54

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- Almost Famous
Ian Sansom reflects on obscurity as an index of cultural values through five figures whose reputations offer a map of shifting tastes, beginning with composer Granville Bantock.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh4d

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- Full Moon on Progress St
Dr Rommi Smith examines the music and contributions of five leading Black female musicians, to civil rights and social change.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rhtw

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- Erland Cooper's Cities of the Imagination
Erland takes a mystical trip north of the Himalayas, to the 'earthly paradise' of Shambhala, to explore its luminous heart: the capital city of Kalapa.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sqpt

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- On Disappointment
Rachel Cooke surveys the perils and pitfalls of dating and argues that kissing a few frogs may not be such a bad thing after all.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rz18

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- Full Moon on Progress St
Dr Rommi Smith examines the music and contributions of five leading Black female musicians, to civil rights and social change.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rf4f

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- On Disappointment
Rachel Cooke looks at the disappointments of the creative life. Creative disappointment, which often follows years of solitary work, is, she feels, one of the worst kinds.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ryzt

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- Erland Cooper's Cities of the Imagination
Composer Erland Cooper discovers the mythical city of Kêr-Is, Brittany’s sunken city of excess, where ancient flood myths meet modern climate reality and Celtic legend.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sqfp

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- Erland Cooper's Cities of the Imagination
Erland journeys deep into the heart of the Sahara’s Great Sand Sea to uncover the mystery of Zerzura.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sq9h

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- Scotland Rocks
Kenneth Steven explores the history of this semi-precious stone and reflects in poetry on his finds. The first stone he found was serpentine from the beaches of the island of Iona.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024mff

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Alice Mary Smith, BBC Singers & Gabriella Teychenné:
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- Scotland Rocks
Kenneth Steven combines Scottish landscape and geological history with poetry. Scotland has some of the most exciting gemstones, but knowing where to find them is the secret.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024nmg

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- Five Kinds of Amadeus
Geoffrey Colman discovers Mark-Anthony Turnage's take on Mozart and composer rivalries like that between Mozart and Salieri in the film Amadeus.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022sq3

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- Vivaldi in a Warming World
The artist Nikita Gale shares why she considers the role of the season as a unit of measurement increasingly arbitrary – an idea she explored in her work Other Seasons.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025lpb

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- Five Kinds of Amadeus
Geoffrey Colman speaks to Dame Jane Glover about Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, and the reality of Mozart's life.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022tdc

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- Vivaldi in a Warming World
Kate Molleson speaks with Emily Isaacson, artistic director of Classical Uprising, about The [uncertain] Four Seasons.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025mh9

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- Five Kinds of Amadeus
Geoffrey Colman speaks to Vanessa-Mae about Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, and her own experience as a musical prodigy.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022sn1

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- Music Rediscovered
Charles Burney (1726-1814) was the author of the first history of music ever published In the English language. Sophie Coulombeau has been reading it and his letters and diaries.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3y7

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- Vivaldi in a Warming World
Kate Molleson talks with Magnus Lindberg, who takes us back to his 1985 piece Kraft (Power), one of the great sonic rumpuses of the late 20th century.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025mz2

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- Music Rediscovered
The Comet Prelude received its world premiere recording in 2025, seventy-three years after it was written by the mixed-race composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Leah Broad explores why.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3wh

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- Music Rediscovered
A remarkable online project is making available, for the first time in a hundred years, the rich repertoire of klezmer player Motl Reyder. Phil Alexander explores his tunebook.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s51r