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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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Do Black Holes Have No Hair? (2016)

Producer

Jim Frank

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Radio 4 broadcast. The first of Professor Hawking’s 2015 Reith lectures delivered 24 November 2015 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Professor Hawking describes the history of scientific thinking...

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Brief History of Mathematics, A (2014)

Subject

Mathematics; Science

Podcasts. Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the...

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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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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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Celia Birtwell (2012)

Subject

Design; Media studies; Women’s studies

Radio programme. Fashion designer Celia Birtwell discusses her life and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

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Anya Hindmarch (2012)

Subject

Design; Media studies; Women’s studies

Radio programme. Fashion designer and businesswoman Anya Hindmarch discusses her life and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Given her first handbag by her mother at 16, Hindmarch knew...

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Today Lecture 2012, The: Sir Mervyn King (2012)

Subject

Economics

Audio recording of The Today Programme 2012 lecture given by Bank of England Governor, Sir Mervyn King, talking about the recent financial crisis, followed by a Q & A session. The lecture was given on 2 May...

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Germaine Greer (2012)

Subject

Literature; Women’s studies

A short podcast looking at Australian born feminist and academic Germaine Greer, who is credited with making feminism appealing and accessible for a large audience of both men and women. Part of The New...

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Cicely Saunders (2012)

Subject

Social welfare; Women’s studies

A short podcast looking at the founder of the modern hospice movement, Cicely Saunders, who revolutionised palliative care. Part of The New Elizabethans, a series presented by James Naughtie to mark the...

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