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In Our Time

Wuthering Heights

Duration: 50 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's story of Heathcliff and Cathy, of love, hatred, revenge and self-destruction across two generations in a remote moorland home. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Karen O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
John Bowen
Interviewed Guest:
Alexandra Lewis

Woman's Hour

Abortion referendum in Ireland, Prostitution, The murder of Elizabeth Short 'The Black Dahlia'

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The abortion referendum in Ireland. Exploring working life for women in 1960s Fleet Street with former newspaper editor Eve Pollard. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Noone
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Stanton
Interviewed Guest:
Eve Pollard
Interviewed Guest:
Piu Eatwell
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Watson
Interviewed Guest:
Joan Hamer

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

On the day of her Cambridge interview, Jeanie takes a train to Scarborough, in search of her sister. With Jennifer Walser. Show more

Drama on 4

Hull 2017: Lamanby

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

In Lamanby, Jacob Polley recovers a dream-memory about a childhood house on the eve of its sale, exploring how we might hold on to what matters. With composed music by John Alder. Show more

Contributors

Genres

Ramblings

Series 37

Overton Hill, The Ridgeway

Duration: 23 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Clare Balding joins Jo Fielder, who has multiple sclerosis, on a training walk before her attempt to take on all 87 miles of the Ridgeway in seven days. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Clare Balding
Interviewed Guest:
Jo Fielder
Interviewed Guest:
Jake Fielder
Interviewed Guest:
David Hemery
Producer:
Lucy Lunt

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Francine Stock talks to director Jennifer Brea, who turned the camera on herself as she began to fight a disease that the medical profession does not always recognise. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Brea
Interviewed Guest:
Edina Ronay
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Quirke
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Rosemary Fletcher

Front Row

Benny Andersson, Sophie Wu, National Poetry Day

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Benny Andersson plays from his new album and Sophie Wu talks about her new play Ramona Tells Jim. Plus a review of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian on the stage. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Benny Andersson
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Wu
Interviewed Guest:
Sam Marlowe
Interviewed Guest:
William Sieghart
Presenter:
Kirsty Lang

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

On the day of her Cambridge interview, Jeanie takes a train to Scarborough, in search of her sister. With Jennifer Walser. Show more

In Our Time

Wuthering Heights

Duration: 50 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's story of Heathcliff and Cathy, of love, hatred, revenge and self-destruction across two generations in a remote moorland home. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Karen O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
John Bowen
Interviewed Guest:
Alexandra Lewis

Book at Bedtime

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Pandora organises a sock protest at school, Barry Kent gets a dose of his own medicine, and Adrian finally gets his first passionate kiss. Show more

Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side

Series 1

Episode 4: Go Wild in the Country

Duration: 13 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Elvis ponders what's so great about country life. Should he run with the deer or shoot them? With Clarke Peters. From May 2014. Show more

A Good Read

Will Self and Rachel Johnson

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

4 Extra Debut. Will Self, Rachel Johnson and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Raymond Carver, JR Ackerley and Doris Lessing. From 2017. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Will Self
Interviewed Guest:
Rachel Johnson
Producer:
Sally Heaven

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