Programme Index

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Mon 25^th Nov 2013, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Mon 25^th Nov 2013, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with Mark Lawson, including a review of Saving Mr Banks, Paula Milne discussing her Cold War thriller Legacy, and violinist Janine Jansen on her new album Bach Concertos. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:: Paula Milne
Interviewed Guest:: Janine Jansen
Producer:: Claire Bartleet

Front Row

Clive James on Dante, A Season in the Congo, Paula Milne's Cultural Exchange

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 17^th Jul 2013, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Wed 17^th Jul 2013, 19:15 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news. Clive James discusses his translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, a review of A Season in the Congo starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Paula Milne's Cultural Exchange. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:: Clive James
Interviewed Guest:: Paula Milne
Producer:: Jerome Weatherald
Editor:: John Goudie

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the Media

Formats

Magazines & Reviews

Brand

Front Row

Woman's Hour

Measles; women in maths; Paula Milne on political marriages; Kerry Young

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 16^th Apr 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Tue 16^th Apr 2013, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Jane Garvey discusses MMR and the current measles outbreak, and the lack of female maths professors. TV writer Paula Milne and journalist Julia Langdon discuss political marriages. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:: Paula Milne
Producer:: Shoku Amirani

Genres

Factual

Formats

Magazines & Reviews

Brand

Woman's Hour

Small Island

Episode 2

BBC One

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Audio described

First broadcast: Sun 13^th Dec 2009, 21:00 on BBC HDLatest broadcast: Wed 21^st Feb 2024, 23:25 on BBC Four

Available for 3 months

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Andrea Levy's award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in the Second World War. Hortense learns that England is not the golden land she hoped it would be. Show more

Contributors

Hortense :: Naomie Harris
Queenie :: Ruth Wilson
Gilbert:: David Oyelowo
Bernard:: Benedict Cumberbatch
Michael :: Ashley Walters
Narrator :: Hugh Quarshie
Winston :: Shaun Parkes
Mr Todd:: Roger Sloman
Mr Johnson:: Tom Watt
Shopkeeper:: Billy Carter
PO Worker 1:: Jonathan Harden
PO Worker 2:: Neal McWilliams
Woman with sweet:: Gillian Raine
Young Lad:: Andrew McMahon
Young Lad:: Joseph Hearns
Mrs Harper:: Laura Hughes
Josephine:: Kerri McLean
Granddaughter:: Cara Shearer
Grandson:: Lee Simmonds
Director:: John Alexander
Producer:: Joanna Anderson
Producer:: Vicky Licorish
Producer:: Grainne Marmion
Writer:: Paula Milne
Writer:: Sarah Williams

Genres

DramaClassic & Period

Formats

Docudramas

Series

Small Island

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour - Sheryl Sandberg; Jahmene Douglas; The Politician's Husband

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 20^th Apr 2013, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 20^th Apr 2013, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Facebook boss Sheryl Sandberg on why she's telling women to 'lean in', plus X Factor finalist Jahmene Douglas on his childhood experience of domestic abuse. Jane Garvey presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:: Paula Milne
Interviewed Guest:: Suranne Jones
Producer:: Emma Wallace
Series Editor:: Anne Peacock

Genres

Factual

Formats

Magazines & Reviews

Brand

Woman's Hour

Small Island

Episode 1

BBC One

Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Audio described

First broadcast: Sun 6^th Dec 2009, 21:00 on BBC HDLatest broadcast: Wed 21^st Feb 2024, 22:00 on BBC Four

Available for 3 months

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Andrea Levy's award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners during World War II. Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. Show more

Contributors

Hortense:: Naomie Harris
Queenie:: Ruth Wilson
Gilbert:: David Oyelowo
Bernard:: Benedict Cumberbatch
Michael:: Ashley Walters
Narrator:: Hugh Quarshie
Arthur:: Karl Johnson
Winston:: Shaun Parkes
Celia:: Nikki Amuka-Bird
Mr Todd:: Roger Sloman
Elwood:: Everaldo Creary
Mr Philip:: Glen Campbell
Aunt Dorothy:: Denise Black
Queenie's Mum:: Mary Jo Randle
Taxi Driver:: Terence Frisch
Miss Jewel:: Leonie Forbes
Mrs Ryder:: Rachel Pickup
Mr Ryder:: Andrew Havill
Pastor:: Teddy Price
Pastor's Wife:: Avenia Powell
Miss Morgan:: Kerstin Pringle
Celia's Mum:: Dorothy Cunningham
Doctor:: Michael Elwyn
Fulton:: Delroy Atkinson
James:: Alan Ricketts
Sergeant Baxter:: Damien Devaney
Ginger:: Laurence Spellman
Kip:: Mark David
Calhoon:: Eoin Macken
Waitress:: Caoimhe McErlean
Cinema Woman:: Barbara Adair
American GI:: Peter Brooke
Cinema GI:: Bentley Kalu
Military Police:: Tony Flynn
Producer:: Joanna Anderson
Producer:: Vicky Licorish
Producer:: Grainne Marmion
Director:: John Alexander
Writer:: Paula Milne
Writer:: Sarah Williams

Genres

DramaClassic & Period

Formats

Docudramas

Series

Small Island

Free Thinking

Dramatising Democracy: Michael Dobbs, James Graham, Paula Milne, Trudi-Ann Tierney

BBC Radio 3

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 20^th Jan 2015, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

From the BBC Radio Theatre in London, Anne McElvoy chairs a debate asking if dramas like The West Wing or This House aid our understanding of the way governments operate. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:: Michael Dobbs
Interviewed Guest:: James Graham
Interviewed Guest:: Paula Milne
Interviewed Guest:: Trudi-Ann Tierney
Presenter:: Anne McElvoy
Producer:: Harry Parker

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the Media

Formats

Discussion & Talk

Brand

Free Thinking