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In Our Time

Aurora Leigh

Duration: 47 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel-poem published in 1856, three years before her death in Florence. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Reynolds
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Karlin
Interviewed Guest:
Karen O'Brien

Woman's Hour

Paula Wilcox, Deborah Levy

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Author Deborah Levy and her new novel; are your 20s your defining decade? Jayne Senior and her campaign to expose the child sexual abuse in Rotherham; Paula Wilcox. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Deborah Levy
Interviewed Guest:
Meg Jay
Interviewed Guest:
Virginia Ironside
Interviewed Guest:
Julia Sutherland
Interviewed Guest:
Jayne Senior
Interviewed Guest:
Paula Wilcox

15 Minute Drama

Hollywood Endings

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Caceres decides to ask Martha Howard what she thinks of limo driver Curtis Wexler's relationship with her dead brother's wife. Show more

Contributors

Detective Caceres:
Kathleen Turner
Curtis Wexler:
Nathan Osgood
Sarah Howard:
Laurel Lefkow
Jerry Howard:
Eric Loren

Genres

Setting the Past Free

Episode 2: Part II, Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner, the Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, continues to be retold

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner, one of the most controversial figures to emerge from the Holocaust, has been retold within Israel. Show more

Drama on 4

A Sudden Surge

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

By Jack Dickson. A belligerent bus driver discovers the unexpected benefits of a sudden surge of hormones as he begins to 'feel', for the first time in his unreconstructed life. Show more

Ramblings

Series 32

Eyam, Derbyshire

Duration: 23 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Clare Balding walks along a new long-distance path towards Eyam, the Derbyshire village best known for its heroic approach to the bubonic plague in the 17th century. Show more

Open Book

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on Waking Lions

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Her new book, Waking Lions, is a morality tale about a doctor who kills a man in a hit-and-run accident. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison
Interviewed Guest:
Amy Liptrot
Interviewed Guest:
Michiel Heynes
Interviewed Guest:
Alison MacLeod

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Hal

Series 1

Death

Duration: 25 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

A stay-at-home husband has health problems - but salvation comes in the form of a charity race. Stars Hal Cruttenden. From 2014. Show more

Front Row

The Passion, Zootropolis, Max Stafford Clark, Blue Eyes

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Samira Ahmed on a new version of Bach's St Matthew Passion sung by homeless people. And Max Stafford-Clark on why he is blindfolding the audience of All That Fall. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Penny Woolcock
Interviewed Guest:
Harry Christophers
Interviewed Guest:
Viv Groskop
Interviewed Guest:
Max Stafford-Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Bridget Kendall

15 Minute Drama

Hollywood Endings

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Caceres decides to ask Martha Howard what she thinks of limo driver Curtis Wexler's relationship with her dead brother's wife. Show more

Contributors

Detective Caceres:
Kathleen Turner
Curtis Wexler:
Nathan Osgood
Sarah Howard:
Laurel Lefkow
Jerry Howard:
Eric Loren

Genres

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

In Our Time

Aurora Leigh

Duration: 47 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel-poem published in 1856, three years before her death in Florence. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Reynolds
Interviewed Guest:
Daniel Karlin
Interviewed Guest:
Karen O'Brien

Small Scenes

Series 3

Episode 4

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

Overblown, melodramatic modern life. With Daniel Rigby, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker and Jessica Ransom. From 2016. Show more

Book of the Week

But You Did Not Come Back

Episode 4: Living with the Past

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Marceline Loridan-Ivens reflects on life after the death camps and how the horror has haunted her adult life. Show more

BBC Radio 4 LW

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