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111 :
North African Short Stories (4): Provisions of Sand |
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broadcast:
Thu May 8 2008 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Sherif Eltayeb |
producer:
Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush |
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Written by Said al-Kafrawi: an Egyptian man is ambushed by the past when he returns to the village of his childhood.
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110 :
North African Short Stories (3): If She Comes |
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broadcast:
Wed May 7 2008 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
William El-Gardi |
producer:
Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush |
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Written by Tayib Saleh: a trio of middle-class young people fantasise that opening a travel agency will allow them to escape from their own culture in Sudan.
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109 :
North African Short Stories (2): The Furnace |
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broadcast:
Tue May 6 2008 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Alia Alzougbi |
producer:
Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush |
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Written by Rachida el-Charni: the degradations of work in a foreign-owned textile factory as experienced by a young Tunisian woman.
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108 :
North African Short Stories (1): The Crop |
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broadcast:
Mon May 5 2008 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Essam Edriss |
producer:
Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush |
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Written by Gamal el-Ghitani: an Egyptian farmer is dazzled by a proffered deal from a glitzy international hotel; his sons don’t trust it at all.
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106 :
Creative Writing Groups (4) |
first
broadcast:
Thu Feb 21 2008 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Siobhan Finneran |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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In "Nature's Way", written by Helen Cadbury from York University's Centre for Lifelong Learning, 'Merrill' is stuck looking after her idle brother, just as her mother did before her. But she hesitates when she gets a chance to escape her drudgery.
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105 :
Creative Writing Groups (3) |
first
broadcast:
Wed Feb 20 2008 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Lynn Bains |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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"Room Service" written by Cathy Bolton, of the Sheffield Hallam University Short Story Group. In which a chance encounter with a pregnant guest helps a bereaved hotel worker to move on after a terrible loss.
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102 :
The Roots of the British Legion |
first
broadcast:
Sun Nov 11 2007 |
11.45 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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It seems like the Royal British Legion has always been with us -- synonymous with Remembrance Day, red poppies and be-medalled veterans parading with quiet dignity past cenotaphs in London and around the country. Yet it grew out of an assortment of rival ex-services associations that themselves arose from the awful experience of 'total war' and the country's poor treatment of returning soldiers. These new groups were quite different from the traditional Victorian philanthropic charities that had previously looked after their welfare, for these were self-help groups and they asserted their rights rather than asking for charity.
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92 :
Sun, Spoor and Spots: counting Namibia's Cheetahs |
first
broadcast:
Tue Mar 20 2007 |
11.02 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Frauke Jensen |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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Namibia has the largest population of cheetahs in the world yet no-one really knows how many – “2,500” is a widely quoted figure but it’s twenty years old and was largely guesswork even then. Counting the shy and elusive cheetah is difficult but Okatumba Wildlife Research, a project set up by two German scientists, is developing new methods, assisted by groups of volunteers from Biosphere Expeditions who pay to spend a fortnight in the Bush collecting the raw data.
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91 :
Thomas Midgley |
first
broadcast:
Wed Jan 10 2007 |
9.00 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Dr Hermione Cockburn |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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The story of the scientist who gave the World both lead in petrol and chlorofluorocarbons in refrigeration -- important and remarkable advances in their time, but with environmental impacts that led to their eventual banning.
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89 :
The Roots of Remembrance Day |
first
broadcast:
Sun Nov 12 2006 |
11.45 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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The ingredients of the Remembrance Day service – the Cenotaph, the Last Post, the two-minute silence, the marching veterans and the laying of wreaths – have been in place since just after World War I. But how did this enduring ceremony, so moving in its simplicity and so widely copied in local commemorations in the UK and around the world, come about in the first place? This programme reveals the surprising origins and evolution of Remembrance Day, including the protests that greeted it in some parts of the country in its first year.
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