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Guilty Pleasures. As an antidote to an those January diets, Sheila Dillon celebrates the guilty culinary pleasures that make life more delicious, including doughnuts, bread and dripping, and fudge. Producer Rebecca Moore Repeated tomorrow at 4pm Radio features: pages 130-131
Sheila Dillon celebrates guilty culinary pleasures. Food writer and gardener Lynda Brown sings the praises of the doughnut and chef Fergus Henderson extols the virtues of dripping. Show more
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With Cuba about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its revolution, Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have given the country such a prominent image on the world stage. Show more
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1/4. Myxomatosis. In 1953 the rabbit population in Britain was costing farmers a fortune. In Australia, myxomatosis had been used to keep numbers down but the British government was not so sure that the public would accept it as an answer. Chris Ledgard explores the battle between those who wanted to spread the disease and the so-called
"Beatrix Potter lobby". Producer Chris Ledgard
Contemporary history series. Chris Ledgard recalls the outbreak of the early 1950s which almost wiped out the country's entire rabbit population. Show more
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