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Vikram Seth - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Audio extracts from a radio interview with Indian poet and novelist Vikram Seth, originally broadcast as a Meridian Feature on 4/10/1999, In the extract Vikram Seth talks about: his view of himself as a...

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Here’s One I Prepared Earlier (2005)

Subject

Music; Psychology

Georgina Ferry explores musical memory and how musicians remember the words, scores and stage directions for live performances. Musicians and researchers talk about how the brain performs this amazing feat....

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Richard Wagner: Power, Sex and Revolution (Part 2) (2013)

Subject

History; Music

Two hundred years after the composer’s birth, journalist Paul Mason takes a fresh look at Wagner. In the second part of his journey through his music, Mason turns to the seemingly conventional world of a...

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International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

Subject

Music; Women’s studies

A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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Future Radio (2008)

Subject

Media studies; Technology

Audio recording of a public discussion on the future of radio, held at the Royal Society for the Encouragements of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) on 10/3/2008. Future radio offers radical new ways of...

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Lamia (2011)

Subject

Drama; Literature

A BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of Keats’ narrative poem ‘Lamia’, about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, and the innocent mortal Lycius. [1 hour] Featuring original music by John...

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Prelude, The (2011)

Director

Susan Roberts

Subject

Drama; Literature

Distribution

Audio (Download, 115 minutes)

Ian McKellen reads the compete text of William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem.Featuring original music by John Harle and singer, Sarah Leonard. With Paterson Joseph as the Narrator, Charlotte Emmerson...

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Richard Wagner: Power, Sex and Revolution (Part 1) (2013)

Subject

History; Music

What’s really going on in Wagner? Two hundred years after the composer’s birth, journalist Paul Mason takes a fresh look at the man whose music has gripped him for as long as he can remember. The...

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Made in China (2007)

Director

Yves Scagiola; Roman Weber

Subject

Social Studies

MADE IN CHINA is an expedition through the urban Chinese underground and the slowly budding youth culture in Beijing and Shanghai. Ten young intellectuals in film, art, literature and music describe and...

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Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds (2005)

Subject

Psychology

A two part series in which Georgina Ferry explores the condition of synaesthesia, a condition affecting as many as 1 in 2000 people, in which the five senses intermingle and some people see colours and...

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