Programme Index

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The Food Programme

Cooking clubs in Basqueland

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Spain's Basque region exerts a powerful influence on global cuisine, Dan Saladino finds out why. Heston Blumenthal and writer Harold McGee provide insights into this food culture. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Dan Saladino
Interviewed Guest:
Heston Blumenthal
Interviewed Guest:
Harold McGee

Drama on 4

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Episode 2

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Radio 4 LW

To ensure the future of their new home, the rabbits must confront the terrifying General Woundwort. Stars Gunnar Cauthery. Show more

Open Book

Margaret Drabble, Louis de Bernieres, Literary prizes, Wyl Menmuir on fictional islands

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to Margaret Drabble about her new novel The Dark Flood Rises. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Drabble
Interviewed Guest:
Wyl Menmuir
Interviewed Guest:
Louis de Bernieres

Natural Histories: Short Stories

Series 2

Face to Face with the Real Me by Fay Weldon

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 5 months

In Fay Weldon's story, beauty queen and trophy wife Sally Anne comes face to face with her true self in the Natural History Museum, in the form of a pygmy seahorse. Show more

Last Word

Leonard Cohen, Lt Col Robert Montgomery MC, Janet Reno, Sir Jimmy Young

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Matthew Bannister on singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen, war hero Robert Montgomery, US attorney general Janet Reno, broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Neil George
Interviewed Guest:
Arthur Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Barb Jungr
Interviewed Guest:
Stuart Maconie
Interviewed Guest:
Ken Bruce
Interviewed Guest:
Mike Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Phil Hughes
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Anderson
Interviewed Guest:
Jim Dorian

The Film Programme

Napoleon and I

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Cinema magazine programme. Historian Kevin Brownlow tells Francine Stock about his fifty-year quest to restore Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoleon to its six-hour glory. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Brownlow
Interviewed Guest:
Carl Davis

BBC Radio 4 LW

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