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Woman's Hour

The experience of childbirth, Midwife Clemmie Hooper, Novelist Claire Fuller, Women's football

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Midwife Clemmie Hooper answers questions mothers are too shy to ask. Plus the Crawley Old Girls prove you're never too old to take up football and novelist Claire Fuller. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Producer:
Erin Riley
Interviewed Guest:
Clemmie Hooper
Interviewed Guest:
Elizabeth Duff
Interviewed Guest:
Claire Fuller

15 Minute Drama

Clutch, Throttle, Brake

Episode 2: Tuesday

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 3 months

Nat (Samantha Spiro) is determined to pass her driving test but her mother Suki (Alison Steadman) suspects that at some subconscious level she may not want to pass. Show more

Home Front

31 January 1917 - Marion Wardle

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

On this day in 1917, three people were arrested for their secret plot to assassinate the prime minister, and in North Shields, Marion tells Edie Kitty's secret. Show more

Contributors

Marion Wardle:
Laura Elphinstone
Edie Chadwick:
Kathryn Beaumont
Jean Claude Lengela:
Fiston Barek
Writer:
Katie Hims

Drama on 4

All Mouth and Trousers

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

4 Extra Debut. All Gas and Gaiters writers Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps reveal their struggle to launch the TV sitcom. Stars John Sessions. From April 2016. Show more

Contributors

Young Pauline:
Lily-Fleur Bradbury
Young Edwin:
James Joyce
Frank Muir:
John Sessions
Stuart Allen:
Nicholas Boulton
William Mervyn:
Gareth Williams
Robertson Hare:
Trevor Littledale
Derek Nimmo:
Zeb Soanes
John Barron:
David Collings
Director:
David Blount

Genres

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

John lets Lawry take over, with inevitable reactions on the musical finale from Carrie, Margaret and Simon. From 2017. Show more

Front Row

Cyrano, Víkingur Ólafsson plays Philip Glass, Toni Erdmann

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Deborah McAndrew adapts Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac for Northern Broadsides, pianist VIkingur Olafsson plays Philip Glass' Etudes, Briony Hanson on film Toni Erdmann. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Producer:
Angie Nehring
Interviewed Guest:
Deborah McAndrew
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Clare Binns
Interviewed Guest:
Víkingur Ólafsson

15 Minute Drama

Clutch, Throttle, Brake

Episode 2: Tuesday

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 3 months

Nat (Samantha Spiro) is determined to pass her driving test but her mother Suki (Alison Steadman) suspects that at some subconscious level she may not want to pass. Show more

Book at Bedtime

Reading Europe - Norway: The Bird Tribunal

Episode 7: The Nithhogg

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

In Agnes Ravatn's psychological thriller, Allis and Bagge take to the water and the mythic story of the dragon Nithhogg casts a shadow. Lydia Wilson reads. Show more

The Infinite Monkey Cage

Series 15

Episode 3: Science's Epic Fails

Duration: 46 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests Rufus Hound, Alice Roberts and Adam Rutherford look at science's biggest mistakes and why failure is no bad thing when it comes to science. Show more

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