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In Our Time

The Fighting Temeraire

Duration: 46 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner's painting of a famous ship from the Battle of Trafalgar on its way to a breakers' yard on the Thames. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Susan Foister
Interviewed Guest:
David Blayney Brown
Interviewed Guest:
James Davey

Book of the Week

The Apple Orchard

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A visit to a fruit industry trade show leaves Pete Brown longing for the natural rhythms of an orchard; seeking inspiration, he heads to Somerset to pick apples in Avalon Orchard. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Gladys is jailed for murdering a younger man. And she vehemently opposes her daughter's desire to marry. Stars France Barber. Show more

Bookclub

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

James Naughtie and writer Louise Welsh discuss Kidnapped by RL Stevenson as part of Radio 4's support for students. Recorded with a group of readers at the Hawes Inn, Queensferry Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
James Naughtie
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Welsh
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

The Film Programme

Napoleon and I

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Cinema magazine programme. Historian Kevin Brownlow tells Francine Stock about his fifty-year quest to restore Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoleon to its six-hour glory. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Brownlow
Interviewed Guest:
Carl Davis

The Fair Intellectual Club

A Rendezvous with Mr Voltaire

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 6 months

The young ladies teach Voltaire the value of free speech and new uses for broom handles. Stars Lewis Macleod. From 2018. Show more

Front Row

Zadie Smith's NW, Rambert, Norman Ackroyd, War memorials

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. A review of the TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's novel NW, artist Norman Ackroyd in his studio, listing war memorials, and Rambert's The Creation. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Gaylene Gould
Interviewed Guest:
Roger Bowdler
Interviewed Guest:
Norman Ackroyd
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Baldwin
Presenter:
John Wilson

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Gladys is jailed for murdering a younger man. And she vehemently opposes her daughter's desire to marry. Stars France Barber. Show more

In Our Time

The Fighting Temeraire

Duration: 46 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner's painting of a famous ship from the Battle of Trafalgar on its way to a breakers' yard on the Thames. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Susan Foister
Interviewed Guest:
David Blayney Brown
Interviewed Guest:
James Davey

Book of the Week

The Apple Orchard

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A visit to a fruit industry trade show leaves Pete Brown longing for the natural rhythms of an orchard; seeking inspiration, he heads to Somerset to pick apples in Avalon Orchard. Show more

BBC Radio 4 FM

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