Programme Index

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Book of the Week

Letters from South Africa

Episode 4: This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi reads the third of five letters by five local writers exploring life in South Africa in the week of the African National Congress conference. Show more

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Mark Lawson examines how the stories being told on television in the digital age have adapted to the advent of streaming services, binge-watching and catch-up TV. Show more

Home Front

14 December 1917 - Johnnie Marshall

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

On this day in 1917, Lloyd George famously declared 'There is no halfway house between victory and defeat', and in Tynemouth, Johnnie veers dangerously near defeat. Show more

Contributors

Johnnie Marshall:
Paul Ready
Isabel Graham:
Keely Beresford
Alan Lowther:
David Seddon
Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Cressida Marshall:
Isabella Inchbald
Ada Stokoe:
Sophie Scott
Fraser Chadwick:
Edmund Wiseman
Judith Turner:
Kate Okello
Lester Reed:
Trevor Fox

Drama on 4

The Toffee Tip

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Semi-autobiographical childhood adventure-comedy, written and directed by Johnny Vegas. Johnny and Ian go on a quest to find a local dumping ground for shop-spoiled confectionery. Show more

Open Book

Lionel Shriver

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Lionel Shriver talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book The Standing Chandelier. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Lionel Shriver
Interviewer:
Ted Hodgkinson
Interviewed Guest:
Patjim Statovici
Interviewed Guest:
Ulla-Lena Lundberg
Interviewed Guest:
Jussi Valtonen
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Hodgson
Correspondent:
Jamie Quatro

The Film Programme

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Inside Science presenter Adam Rutherford joins Francine Stock to assess the latest instalment in the Star Wars saga. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Rutherford
Interviewed Guest:
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Rezende
Interviewed Guest:
Dariush Alavi
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Robey

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

Susan Calman tries to learn how to unwind, by taking a trip to Latitude music festival with Robin Ince. From December 2017. Show more

Front Row

Emma Rice, John Boyega, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Theatre director Emma Rice discusses her final production at Shakespeare's Globe and why she left after only two years. Plus actor John Boyega on Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Rice
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline Fraser
Interviewed Guest:
Eddie Higgins
Interviewed Guest:
John Boyega

The Citadel

Series 1

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Denny persuades Manson to take action to deal with the typhoid issue. But will they get away with it? Stars Richard Fleeshman. Show more

In Our Time

Thomas Becket

Duration: 53 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Becket, chancellor turned archbishop, who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral and whose tomb became a centre of pilgrimage across Europe. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Ashe
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Staunton
Interviewed Guest:
Danica Summerlin

Book of the Week

Letters from South Africa

Episode 4: This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi reads the third of five letters by five local writers exploring life in South Africa in the week of the African National Congress conference. Show more

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