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Maya Angelou - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

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

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Maya Angelou, originally broadcast on Radio 3’s Viewing the Century on 22/11/1998. Maya Angelou’s prose depicts her personal history, her pride as a black woman...

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BBC Radio: The Listeners' Archive

Date

20 Sep 2012, 08:58

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

A part of the BBC's 90th anniversary (it was founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd.) is looking to fill gaps in its holdings and is asking those who recorded broadcasts off-air...

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Work in Progress: Ian McEwan (2000)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speech/workinp/mcewan.shtml Online

A recording from November 2000 when Ian McEwan was writing a novel, which he was considering calling ‘Atonement’. He describes how he shapes stories, creates atmospheres of strange fears and adrenalised...

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Chinua Achebe - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

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

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Chinua Achebe, originally broadcast on 27 July 1986 in the AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES series on the BBC World Service. Chinua Achebe talks to Fiona Ledger about: 1)...

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Work in Progress: Carol Ann Duffy (2000)

Subject

English language and literature; FE

A recording from November 2000 with poet Carol Ann Duffy reflecting on her work and her recent shift in writing for children.

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Vladimir Nabokov - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

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

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Vladimir Nabakov originally broadcast on Radio 4’s REVIEW on 4/10/1969. Vladimir Nabokov talks to James Mossman about: his view of other writers and the difference...

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Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999 Audio)

aka: Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letter from America’ Vol 3

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 160 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A specially compiled collection including interviews and ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts, charting the career of journalist Alistair Cooke. Introduced by Nick Clarke, Cooke’s biographer.

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Man and Superman (1996)

Director

Peter Hall

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Download, 256 minutes), £17.55

'Man and Superman’ was the first drama to be broadcast on the BBC’s Third Programme on October 1st, 1946. To celebrate Radio 3’s 50th anniversary, the play was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved...

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Forty Years on (2000 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 95 min. 2 compact discs. 95 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive) audiocassette 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) CD

Alan Bennett stars in a radio production of his satirical comedy ‘Forty Years On’ (1968). The plot concerns a soon-to-retire headmaster who attempts to bestow his nostalgia-ridden influence on the...

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John Betjeman - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

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

Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with the English poet, journalist and architectural critic John Betjeman. Poet Laureate in 1972, Betjeman’s popular verse celebrated architecture, but concentrated...

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