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In Our Time

Kant's Categorical Imperative

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Kant's best known ideas: 'Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law'. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Hills
Interviewed Guest:
David Oderberg
Interviewed Guest:
John Callanan

Woman's Hour

Gina McKee, Brexit, Martina Cole, Big moves

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Where are the women in the Brexit negotiations? Crime novelist Martina Cole; relocating; Gina McKee on playing the blood-lusting warrior, Boudica. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Seema Malhotra
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Reynolds
Interviewed Guest:
Gina McKee
Interviewed Guest:
Martina Cole
Presenter:
Jenni Murray

15 Minute Drama

Just a Girl: Series 3

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

As her parents try to resolve the petition, Amy gets more support from young people and decides to take her activist campaign to social media. Ted's accident shocks everyone. Show more

Home Front

21 September 1917 - Victor Lumley

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

On this day in 1917, 27 were killed in a munitions factory explosion in Arklow, Ireland, and at the Bevan hospital, Victor Lumley's day is volatile. Show more

Contributors

Victor Lumley:
Joel MacCormack
Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Adeline Lumley:
Helen Schlesinger
Ulysses Pilchard:
Khalid Abdalla
Howard Argent:
Gunnar Cauthery
Writer:
Katie Hims
Series Editor:
Jessica Dromgoole

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

By Christine Entwisle. A prize-winning deliciously comic drama about a fortysomething woman at the end of her tether who finds resolution in an unlikely place. Show more

Ramblings

Series 37

Listeners' Walks: Blaenau Ffestiniog

Duration: 23 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Clare Balding is near Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales to walk with three generations of the same family: Tegid Davies, his daughter Eryland her son Llewellyn, and dog Twm. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Clare Balding
Interviewed Guest:
Tegid Davies
Interviewed Guest:
Eryl Davies
Interviewed Guest:
undefined Llewellyn
Producer:
Lucy Lunt

BBC National Short Story Award

BBC National Short Story Award 2017

Murmur by Will Eaves

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Short story of a man on the wrong side of conventional morals, later becoming a 2019 award-winning novel. Read by Blake Ritson. Show more

The Film Programme

Bertrand Tavernier

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Director Bertrand Tavernier takes Francine Stock on a journey through French cinema, as his new documentary on the Nouvelle Vague and beyond is released. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Bertrand Tavernier
Interviewed Guest:
Elliot Grove
Interviewed Guest:
Eva Riley
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Usborne
Interviewed Guest:
Ildiko Enyedi

Front Row

Juliet Stevenson, Basquiat, Tony Blackburn, NSSA shortlisted Jenni Fagan

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Juliet Stevenson in Arthur Kopit's Wings; Ekow Eshun on Jean-Michel Basquiat; Tony Blackburn looks back as Radio 1 turns 50; and Jenni Fagan on the BBC National Short Story Award. Show more

15 Minute Drama

Just a Girl: Series 3

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

As her parents try to resolve the petition, Amy gets more support from young people and decides to take her activist campaign to social media. Ted's accident shocks everyone. Show more

In Our Time

Kant's Categorical Imperative

Duration: 49 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Kant's best known ideas: 'Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law'. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Hills
Interviewed Guest:
David Oderberg
Interviewed Guest:
John Callanan

Short Works

BBC National Short Story Award 2017

The Cold God of Bad Luck

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

By Colin Barrett. Lorna keeps an eye on boozy Bo, a very boozy father and a mother in denial. Fourth commissioned short story to celebrate the BBC National Short Story Award 2017. Show more

Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side

Series 1

Episode 3: Taking Care of Business

Duration: 13 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Denouncing the wage gap and corporate capitalism. Can Elvis change his dyspeptic view of life? From May 2014. Show more

A Good Read

Philip Pullman and Caroline Criado-Perez

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Philip Pullman, Caroline Criado-Perez and Harriett Gilbert talk books by Graham Greene, Tove Jansson and Alice Munro. From 2015. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Philip Pullman
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline Criado-Perez
Producer:
Beth O'Dea

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