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In Our Time

Rumi's Poetry

Duration: 47 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi, the Persian scholar and Sufi mystic of the 13th century, whose great poetic works are the Masnavi and the Divan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Alan Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Carole Hillenbrand
Interviewed Guest:
Lloyd Ridgeon

Woman's Hour

How to have a good death?

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Why do so many people struggle to talk about death? And if they do find it difficult, why do they need to learn to talk about it? How to have a good death. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Granger
Interviewed Guest:
Rabbi Neuberger
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny Kitzinger
Interviewed Guest:
Gemma O'Driscoll
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Freud
Interviewed Guest:
Barbara Chalmers

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

Nettie is still in a coma and the rest of the family are not dealing with the stress very well. Starring Tyger Drew-Honey. Show more

Home Front

11 February 1916 - Kitty Lumley

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

On this day nurse and women's rights campaigner Emma Golden was arrested in New York, and the Wilson family struggle with their secrets. Show more

Contributors

Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Florrie Wilson:
Claire Rushbrook
Albert Wilson:
Jamie Foreman

Drama on 4

Stage Left

Episode 4

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

It is 2015, and Stage Left Theatre Company has changed beyond recognition, but any tensions between the old friends dissolve as they visit Alan's wife Sue in hospital. Show more

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

John apologises for a delay and ponders his hobbies. Plus, a tale of Queen Victoria, and robots. With Simon Kane. From 2016. Show more

Front Row

The Survivalist, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Shakespeare in the Royal Library, The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary!

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including the post-apocalyptic world of The Survivalist, and Strapless, a new production from The Royal Ballet with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin O'Hare
Interviewed Guest:
Oliver Urquhart Irvine
Interviewed Guest:
Vicky Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Waldemar Januszczak
Producer:
Angie Nehring

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

Nettie is still in a coma and the rest of the family are not dealing with the stress very well. Starring Tyger Drew-Honey. Show more

In Our Time

Rumi's Poetry

Duration: 47 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Rumi, the Persian scholar and Sufi mystic of the 13th century, whose great poetic works are the Masnavi and the Divan. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Alan Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Carole Hillenbrand
Interviewed Guest:
Lloyd Ridgeon

BBC Radio 4 LW

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