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Midweek

Noah Stewart, Mary Portas, Peter Layton, Rosemary Hughes

Duration: 43 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. Libby Purves meets retail guru Mary Portas, opera singer Noah Stewart, glass artist Peter Layton and florist Rosemary Hughes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Libby Purves
Interviewed Guest:
Mary Portas
Interviewed Guest:
Noah Stewart
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Layton
Interviewed Guest:
Rosemary Hughes

Brand

Midweek

Woman's Hour

Women in Nigeria; Disliking your child's friends; Gender and pain

Duration: 54 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

As religious attacks in northern Nigeria continue, Jenni Murray speaks to a woman who has brought Christians and Muslims together. Also, is pain a gender issue? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Producer:
Sarah Crawley
Interviewed Guest:
Ngozi Eze
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Mansfield
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Bourke
Interviewed Guest:
Liam O'Toole
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny Eclair
Interviewed Guest:
Lucy Cavendish
Interviewed Guest:
Marika Sherwood
Interviewed Guest:
Cagil Kasapoglu

15 Minute Drama

The Henry Experiment

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

The professor is angry with Anna's interference while Anna's own family make her question her parenting. Stars Emma Fielding. Show more

Boswell's Lives

Series 1

Episode 1: Boswell's Life of Freud

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 6 months

In attempting to write Sigmund Freud’s biography, Boswell finds it’s Freud asking all the questions. With Miles Jupp. From 2015. Show more

Contributors

James Boswell:
Miles Jupp
Sigmund Freud:
Henry Goodman
Writer:
Jon Canter
Director:
Sally Avens

Home Front

25 February 1915 - Johnnie Marshall

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 5 months

A pretty visitor turns heads at Marshalls factory. Show more

Contributors

Johnnie Marshall:
Paul Ready
Edie Chadwick:
Kathryn Beaumont
Fraser Chadwick:
Edmund Wiseman
Geoffrey Marshall:
Dominic Mafham
Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Paddy Blackshields:
Chris Garner

Drama on 4

Come to Grief

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

By Hannah Vincent. A woman is trapped in both a mental and physical limbo, unable to grieve for her dead daughter because she has no memory of having lost her. Show more

Front Row

Opera director Peter Sellars, It Follows, Politics on stage, Anna Smaill

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Peter Sellars on directing Purcell's final unfinished opera The Indian Queen, Teen horror movie It Follows reviewed, politics on stage, and Anna Smaill on her novel The Chimes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Sellars
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Indhu Rubasingham
Interviewed Guest:
Steve Thompson
Interviewed Guest:
Anna Smaill

15 Minute Drama

The Henry Experiment

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

The professor is angry with Anna's interference while Anna's own family make her question her parenting. Stars Emma Fielding. Show more

Midweek

Noah Stewart, Mary Portas, Peter Layton, Rosemary Hughes

Duration: 43 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. Libby Purves meets retail guru Mary Portas, opera singer Noah Stewart, glass artist Peter Layton and florist Rosemary Hughes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Libby Purves
Interviewed Guest:
Mary Portas
Interviewed Guest:
Noah Stewart
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Layton
Interviewed Guest:
Rosemary Hughes

Brand

Midweek

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 5 months

Tim’s grappling with dating through the medium of poetry and attempting to woo Anne White on a date. With Tom Basden. From 2015. Show more

BBC Radio 4 LW

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