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Woman's Hour

Frida Kahlo, upskirting and image based sexual abuse, Mahalia, Lesley Garrett & Madeleine Shaw

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Frida Kahlo's personal possessions, image based sexual abuse, Lesley Garrett and Madeleine Shaw's suffrage opera, and Mahalia on being a teenager in the music industry. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Producer:
Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:
Circe Henestrosa
Interviewed Guest:
Mahalia
Interviewed Guest:
Lesley Garrett
Interviewed Guest:
Madeleine Shaw
Interviewed Guest:
Erika Rackley

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

At 15, Maya is the first Afro-American conductor on the San Francisco trams. At 16, her life changes forever. Stars Adjoa Andoh. Show more

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

From a surprising travel programme to memory lapses – an all-star cast’s comic take on life. Starring Joanna Lumley. From 2018. Show more

Home Front

22 June 1918 - Cathy Lawrence

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

On this day in 1918, Totnes announced that the town had raised £24,000 in War Weapons Week, but not everyone in Devon is so supportive. Show more

Contributors

Cathy Lawrence:
Debbie Korley
Eli Lawrence:
Michael Shelford
Dieter Lippke:
Joe Sims
Hetty Cox:
Adie Allen
Gert Batley:
Maggie Steed
Teddy Lawrence:
Florence Duncalf
Robin Bowder:
Sean Murray
Jocelyn Ogden:
Christine Kavanagh

Last Word

Gennady Rozhdestvensky CBE, Maria Bueno, Gena Turgel, Zhao Kangmin, Leo Sarkisian

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Matthew Bannister on conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, tennis player Maria Bueno, holocaust survivor Gena Turgel, archaeologist Zhao Kangmin and musicologist Leo Sarkisian. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Robert Slotover
Interviewed Guest:
Gerard McBurney
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Evans
Interviewed Guest:
Karen Pollock
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Martin
Interviewed Guest:
John Man
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Margaronis

Dead Ringers

Series 18

Episode 3

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Topical satirical impressions. Drop in on David Dimbleby's leaving-do and Donald Trump's bedtime story. Show more

The Archers

22/06/2018

Duration: 13 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Kate plots her future, and Harrison has a big question. Show more

Contributors

Series Editor:
Alison Hindell
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
David Archer:
Tim Bentinck
Ruth Archer:
Felicity Finch
Pip Archer:
Daisy Badger
Josh Archer:
Angus Imrie
Kenton Archer:
Richard Attlee
Helen Archer:
Louiza Patikas
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Phoebe Aldridge:
Lucy Morris
Lilian Bellamy:
Sunny Ormonde
PC Harrison Burns:
James Cartwright
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Chris Carter:
Wilf Scolding
Alice Carter:
Hollie Chapman
Rex Fairbrother:
Nick Barber
Toby Fairbrother:
Rhys Bevan
Usha Franks:
Souad Faress
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Will Grundy:
Philip Molloy
Anisha Jayakody:
Anneika Rose
Kate Madikane:
Perdita Avery
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd

Front Row

Fly by Night, Tim Winton, Poems by teenagers, Music discovered in a painting

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Tim Winton on his new novel The Shepherd's Hut, Kate Clanchy and her student poets on their collection of migrant poems, music discovered in a 17th-century painting and pigeon art. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Tim Winton
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Clanchy
Interviewed Guest:
Francesca Vanke

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

At 15, Maya is the first Afro-American conductor on the San Francisco trams. At 16, her life changes forever. Stars Adjoa Andoh. Show more

Home Front - Omnibus

Episode 104: 18-22 June 1918 (Season 14 start)

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

Set in Devon in 1918, in the week that Viscount Grey published a pamphlet supporting President Wilson's proposal to establish a League of Nations. Show more

Contributors

Cora Gidley:
Joanna Monro
Sylvia Graham:
Joanna David
Hector Gidley:
Brian Protheroe
Elspeth Taverner:
Kelly Williams
Jocelyn Ogden:
Christine Kavanagh
Cathy Lawrence:
Debbie Korley
Adeline Lumley:
Helen Schlesinger
Rose Fairweather:
Helen Longworth
Arthur Hurst:
Mark Heap
Betty Newcombe:
Annie McKenzie
Silas Morrow:
Shaun Dooley
Hardy Walsh:
Damien Molony
Emily Colville:
Scarlett Brookes
Gert Battley:
Maggie Steed
Morris Battley:
Sean Baker
Clarence Ogden:
David Sterne
Cyrus Colville:
Anton Lesser
Moses Wickens:
Ed Gaughan
Eli Lawrence:
Michael Shelford
Dieter Lippke:
Joe Sims
Hetty Cox:
Adie Allen
Gert Batley:
Maggie Steed
Teddy Lawrence:
Florence Duncalf
Robin Bowder:
Sean Murray

Genres

A Good Read

Tony Parsons and Olly Mann

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Tony Parsons and Olly Mann talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert including Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty and Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Tony Parsons
Interviewed Guest:
Olly Mann
Producer:
Mair Bosworth

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