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  1. More or Less

    Are bad teeth the number one reason kids go to A&E?
    More or Less

    Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:

    (00:33) Are crumbling teeth the number one reason children attend A&E? We drill down into the dental health of the nation’s kids.

    (08:20) The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has claimed that a quarter of pharmaceuticals used in the UK come from Israel. We check the facts.

    (13:20) Is former Education Secretary Michael Gove responsible for increasing number of young people not in education, employment or training?

    (20:11) An AI researcher has caused a global firestorm by suggesting there’s more than a 10% chance AI kills all humans within the next decade. We explore the rigorous maths (or lack thereof) behind these kinds of predictions.

    Guests:
    Dr Chris Vernazza - head of the School of Dental Sciences at Newcastle University
    Daisy Christodoulou - Director of Education at No More Marketing
    Dr Alexandru Marcoci - Assistant Professor of Global Risk and Resilience at the University of Cambridge

    Presenter: Tim Harford
    Series Producer: Tom Colls
    Reporter: Lizzy McNeill
    Producers: Nathan Gower, Phoebe Keane
    Editor: Richard Vadon
    Programme Coordinator: Maria Ogundele
    Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCMoreOrLess #TimHarford

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031jx0

  2. 🙄

    "China [is behind us in the technology] and so hasn't seen rogue AI swarms yet ..."

    (paraphrase quote) some guy from Anthropic

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCTheWorldTonight

  3. Medea #Medea #Euripedes

    Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
    Series 12
    Episode 7 of 7

    Natalie tells the story of Euripides' Medea, the sorceress who enacted the ultimate revenge on the husband who betrayed her, to a rapt audience at the Hay Festival.

    'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about ancient Greece and Rome.

    Producer Beth O'Dea

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    #NatalieHaynesStandsUpForTheClassics
    #NatalieHaynes

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003187y

  4. Crossing Continents

    Ukraine: Fighting Russia, Fighting Russian
    Crossing Continents

    Russian is the first language of millions of Ukrainians, including many of the country’s frontline troops. But it’s also the language of their enemy. And its public use is increasingly restricted by law, with ever more measures to enforce communication in Ukrainian. Ukrainians are allowed to speak Russian in private conversations. But they can be fined for playing a Russian language song in the street, if the singer or composer is a Russian citizen. The state says Russian must be policed because Russia uses the language as a weapon to spread its influence. But in primarily Russian-speaking places such as Odesa, Ukraine’s third-largest city, many are unhappy about the language laws. One popular entertainer says they’re beyond Kafkaesque. Tim Whewell reports on the arguments dividing a city under constant Russian bombardment, as one side calls the Russian language a colonial hangover, while the other says cultural diversity is what Ukraine should be fighting for.

    Producer: Tim Whewell
    Sound engineer: James Beard.
    Assistant producer: Serhiy Solodko
    Security adviser: Jack Bleach
    Production coordinators: Gemma Ashman and Keshia Agyei
    Editor: Penny Murphy

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCCrossingContinents

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031736

  5. Great Lives

    Ellen E Jones nominates Florynce Kennedy
    Great Lives

    One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with.

    She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker rights - proving that it was possible to care about and campaign for causes even if they didn't affect her directly.

    Flo was famous in her own time, not only for her passionate commitment to fighting injustice and her incredible talent as a phrase-maker - delivering punchy comments peppered with colourful language - but also for her flamboyant style, notably her trademark Australian hat. And yet today Flo's reputation has dwindled; she's arguably far less well-known than she should be according to her nominator Ellen E Jones, a journalist and broadcaster focusing on film and television who co-hosts the Radio 4 programme 'Screenshot'.

    Joining the discussion remotely from the United States, is Sheri Randolph, author of the biography ‘Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical’; also an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank.

    Matthew and his guests also hear from Flo's friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem, who says: "Wherever we went, somehow she created a community of our own by her presence. She was effervescent and smart and outgoing and irresistable... Flo, in her jodhurs and her Aussie hat, was just a symbol of all the movements together."

    Presented by Matthew Parris and produced for BBC Studios Audio by Lucy Taylor.

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    #FlorynceKennedy #GloriaSteinem

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027bny

  6. (Irvine swears throughout this then beats up Jim ...)

    Irvine Welsh
    Bookclub

    The award-winning Scottish writer Irvine Welsh speaks to Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, about his era-defining 1993 debut, Trainspotting.
    Following a non-linear plot and written in Scots and Scots English, the novel is more of a collection of interconnected stories told from multiple viewpoints, all centred around a group of friends, who have become household names - Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie - as they battle, among other things, heroin addiction, poverty, and a burgeoning HIV/AIDS crisis. The novel had sold well over a million copies in the UK by the year 2015 and has been translated into thirty languages. The novel was turned into a 1996 film, often described as a modern classic, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner and Kelly Macdonald. This episode was recorded at the Edinburgh International Books Festival in August 2026.

    Producer: Dominic Howell
    Editor: Gillian Wheelan
    This was a BBC Audio Scotland production.

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCBookClub

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316t6

  7. (boils down to nuclear or renewables)

    Can Britain’s Broken Energy System Be Fixed?
    Currently

    Britain has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. As of last year, nearly two and half million people live in fuel poverty, and it’s crippling our industries too. How did we get here?

    In 2024, a record 50.4% of our electricity came from renewable sources. We don’t need to pay for the wind to blow and the sun to shine, and solar panels have been getting less expensive every year. But creating an electricity grid that can cope with the challenges of renewable energy isn’t cheap – and it’s certainly not straightforward either.

    Yet as we emerge from another summer of record temperatures, wild fires and global fossil fuel price shocks, the question of how we manage our transition to clean energy has never been more important or more complicated.

    Journalist Jonathan Ford speaks to economists, policy makers and industry leaders who shed light on the past, present and potential future of the UK’s electricity system, and finds out what can be done.

    Presenter: Jonathan Ford
    Producer: Artemis Irvine
    Executive Producer: Robert Nicholson
    A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

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    #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031h8j

  8. (i'm not (yet) a fan of this show but the last 6 maybe 8 minutes of this episode are good)

    2. Something for Everyone
    Unspeakable
    Series 4 Episode 2 of 6

    In this episode we hear Jenny Eclair’s word for pride-induced highs, Charlie Higson's description for the sense of relief when your personal trainer cancels your class, and Ria Lina’s newly invented word for throwing someone under the bus.

    Ever struggled to find the right word for a feeling or sensation? Unspeakable sees comedian Phil Wang and lexicographer Susie Dent invite celebrity guests to invent new linguistic creations, to solve those all too relatable moments when we're lost for words.

    Hosts: Phil Wang and Susie Dent
    Guests: Jenny Eclair, Charlie Higson and Ria Lina
    Created by Joe Varley
    Writers: Matt Crosby and Katie Storey
    Recorded by Jerry Peal
    Producer: Jon Harvey
    Executive Producers: Joe Varley and Akash Lockmun

    A Brown Bred production for BBC Radio 4

    #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316r2

  9. #RayWinstone

    Ray Winstone
    This Cultural Life

    Actor Ray Winstone talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences and inspirations. A schoolboy boxing champion, he built a reputation playing tough, working class characters after being cast in the borstal drama Scum at the age of 17. Winstone won huge acclaim for his performance as an alcoholic abusive husband in the film Nil By Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, and Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast in which he played a bank robber forced out of retirement. Other big screen roles include the Martin Scorsese gangland drama The Departed, and Anthony Mingehella’s American civil war film Cold Mountain. On television, he’s played Henry the Eighth, Magwitch in Great Expectations and most recently, an imprisoned crime boss in the Netflix series The Gentlemen.

    Producer: Edwina Pitman

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThisCulturalLife

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031882

  10. #ArchiveOn4

    First Contact
    Archive on 4

    Horatio Clare explores the idea of First Contact.

    It begins with a news item.

    A group of indigenous people living around the border between Brazil and Peru emerge from the depths of the forest, cross a river and make what is described as first contact with the outside world.

    The film of this encounter is fascinating and uncanny.

    Within it we can discern a dim shadow of encounters that stretch back through history. James Cook in Botany Bay, Hernan Cortez in Mexico, Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean. Centuries of history seem to show us first contact as conquest – a prelude to catastrophe for the contacted people.

    But what do we mean by “first contact” anyway? Can there really still be uncontacted people in this day and age? Uncontacted by whom?

    The news clip that fascinates Horatio Clare cuts off as the indigenous people seemingly return back across the river to the edge of the forest – a border of sorts, between one world and another.

    But what happened next? And what should happen next?

    Is there always a winner and a loser when we make first contact?

    Featuring Mark Anstice, Julia Blackburn, Wade Davis, Felipe Milanez and Sarah Shenker.

    Readings by Sagar Arya and Sumaiya Chaudhary.

    Producer: Martin Williams

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    #BBCRadio4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031gz7

  11. Kemi's team are going to have to listen to this interview and explain why she is such a massive gobshite.

    #KemiBadenoch #BBCRadio4 #BBCTodayProgramme

  12. Oh, well, since YOU put it like THAT, this guy sounds COMPLETELY REASONABLE! 👍

    interview 2026-09-07 1310ish

    #Dover #DoverMarches
    #BBCRadio4 #BBCTheWorldAtOne #BBCWato

  13. (yet another look at UK education)

    Comps
    Archive on 4

    Financial Times columnist turned teacher Lucy Kellaway takes a personal journey through the education revolution launched fifty years ago to replace grammars and secondary moderns with comprehensives. The ambition was noble: the same opportunities for every child. But the story of Comps suggests that when lofty ideals collide with reality, things don’t always turn out as planned.

    Lucy visits two very different models of comp trying to reconcile the history and their local demands and priorities, and speaks to three of the most influential politicians responsible for shaping today's state secondary school system - Lords Baker, Blunkett and Gove. She also discovers the deep roots of the tensions and challenges facing today's comps in a journey through a rich archive that charts the evolution of the comprehensive system in the last fifty years.
    Producer: Jonathan Brunert

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    More episodes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316l1

  14. Loose Ends

    Liam Ó Maonlaí, Michael Fry, Emma Southon, Olivia McVeigh, Dónal O'Connor, Neil Martin, Clare Sands

    Loose Ends

    Stuart Maconie finds himself "i lár an aonaigh" - at the heart of craic, ceol, and much more at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (All-Ireland Fleadh), as Belfast hosts the festival celebrating Irish music and culture for the very first time.

    The Fleadh comes second nature to frontman and lead singer of Hothouse Flowers Liam Ó Maonlaí, who was brought up in a household full of traditional Irish music and song. As the band prepares for their "Greatest Hits" tour later this year, Liam reflects on the poignant story behind their hit single "Don't Go", and the time he was left behind by the band's tour bus.

    Olivia McVeigh mightn't be in a band, but alongside her fellow podcasters of The Girls Groupchat she's taking the show onstage, alongside Irish girl group legends B*witched and even to ABBA Voyage. She tells Stuart about how her diagnosis of alopecia changed her entire career trajectory, into a world of advocacy and empowering others with the condition.

    Emma Southon may have had a very different career as historian if she hadn't hated history so much at school. She talks about her new book Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire, which sets out to give readers a full picture of the reality of enslaved people in Ancient Rome.

    And Michael Fry muses on how a period of pure boredom pushed him towards comedy, and why he thinks the medium of radio is ripe for laughs, ahead of his third series of Lunchtime with Michael Fry on BBC Radio Ulster.

    Plus, musicians Dónal O'Connor, Neil Martin and Clare Sands give us just a "blaiseadh beag" - a very small taste of the great music coming out of the Fleadh.

    Presenter: Stuart Maconie
    Producer: Anthony McKee
    Technical Producer: Davy Neill
    Production Co-ordinators: Sylvie Conway and Caoilfhinn McFadden

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCLooseEnds #Fleadh
    #StuartMaconie #EmmaSouthon

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00300dc

  15. Cryogenics #Cryogenics

    "Frozen Frogs and Preserved People"

    Naturebang

    Becky Ripley and Emily Knight look to the freeze-thaw abilities of the North American wood frog to ask whether we can freeze ourselves in order to return to a future world...

    Early March is breeding season for the North American wood frog. They are frisky because they’ve just thawed out having spent the winter not just in hibernation, but frozen at -18°C. How do they do it, and still survive? And what can we learn from their frozen ways?

    Enter the growing field in medicine called cryo-preservation: the process of preserving cells, tissues, or organs by cooling them to very low, or freezing, temperatures. This can grant more time for medical procedures and operations, and help to preserve things like organs during a transplant. And if you take cryopreservation to the extreme, you get to the slightly sci-fi world of cryonics. The practice of cryo-preserving the whole body – immediately upon point of death - in the hope that future medicine can bring it back to life.

    Maybe in the future, we will crack the code on how to bring bodies back from the cold. And maybe some of the science lies in the freeze-thaw abilities of the wood frog. Or maybe cryopreserved bodies will remain frozen forever…

    Featuring Dr Allison Sacerdote-Velat, Curator of Herpetology at Chicago Academy of Sciences, and Dr Anders Sandberg, senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. Produced and presented by Emily Knight and Becky Ripley.

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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCNatureBang #BBCScience

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gxfx

  16. @Cyclist @VE3RWJ @pluralistic Talking of ,
    did a piece on it this morning with a dentist as the expert guest, 'for balance', who had never seen the thing. It felt more like an advertisement than journalism. Follow the money? I have zero "national pride" in Dyson.

  17. "a secular version of a christian eschatology where there is an inevitable progress [to an end]"

    Rev Giles Frasier criticising the way that so many press, politicians and business people have gone all starstruck over AI

    [nb: quote was quickly written by me]

    #BBCRadio4 #TheMoralMaze #BBCTheMoralMaze

  18. Eugene V Debs

    Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
    Great Lives

    Eugene Victor Debs, born 1855 in Indiana USA, was a railway worker, a trade unionist and a five time candidate for the presidency. He was imprisoned during the First World War for sedition. He'd urged resistance to the draft; President Woodrow Wilson called him a traitor to the nation, but Debs still ran for the presidency in 1920. His sentence was commuted the following year.

    Reginald D Hunter is an American stand-up comedian based in the UK. His many credits include Have I Got News For You and Reginald D Hunter's Songs of the South. Last year at Edinburgh his show Fluffy Fluffy Beavers briefly became headline news. In studio with Reginald and presenter Matthew Parris is Professor Clive Webb, author of Vietdamned.

    The producer for BBC Studios in Bristol is Miles Warde.

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCGreatLives
    #EugeneVDebs
    #ReginaldDHunter
    #MatthewParris

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026njv

  19. '... during Eclipse phases things will seem a little dimmer ...' (my paraphrase)

    [ light received in UK path 10% but eyes/vision-system will perceive it as 50% ]

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCPMProgramme

  20. The midnight BBCNews on Radio4 finally got to the "releasing more dangerous prisoners than [those convicted of manslaughter]" argument.

    #BBCRadio4 #ukpol

  21. (BBCDrama have been doing some adaptations of centuries old works that actually have very contemporary issues -- this one is like listening to scambuster cautionary tales)

    Episode Six
    The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
    Episode 6 of 10

    A classic comic novel from the 18th century.

    Life is good to the Reverend Dr Primrose, in his idyllic country parsonage, surrounded by his beloved family. But then his world unravels in a series of misfortunes and calamities.

    Episode 6
    Dr Primrose is briefly reunited with his son George, before continuing his search for Olivia.

    Oliver Goldsmith was born in Ireland in 1728. The Vicar of Wakefield was published in 1766. An essayist, dramatist and poet, his other works include the play She Stoops To Conquer and the poem An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. He died in 1774.

    Writer: Oliver Goldsmith
    Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
    Reader: Edmund Kingsley
    Producer: Jeremy Osborne

    A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4

    #BBCRadio4 #BookAtBedtime #BBCBookAtBedtime

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00300l6

  22. Writing Our Mothers
    Archive on 4

    ‘Mothers have such a weight of idealisation and expectation landed upon their bodies and their minds and what women writers can do is to take that apart and explore
    its underbelly,’ says feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.

    Whether worshipped or vilified, treated as lifetime confidantes or rarely trusted, the mothers we meet when we write them are re-inventions. Some may be closer to the
    truth than others. Many of them will have roots in the life experiences of the daughter-writer. Virginia Woolf, who lost her mother at the age of 13, said she was obsessed with writing her mother. Eventually she also argued that it was ‘the occupation of the woman writer to kill’ what she called ‘The Angel in the House’ – the perfect, self-sacrificing mother – who may well have been her own maternal influence.

    Drawing on interviews with Maya Angelou, we hear how for her to write her mother was to ‘write about a hurricane in its perfect power’. She describes how the influence of a mother who ‘abandoned’ her as a child forced her most urgent examinations of class, race and, importantly love. In another frank interview with Marguerite Duras from 1968, she describes writing as a search for connection with her raging and ‘mad’ mother. For Sylvia Plath, the process of writing about becoming a mother herself in the 1950s produced work of a psychic intensity rarely seen before.

    What the archive ultimately reveals is that a mother, whether present or absent, loving or cruel, might be as formative an influence on a writer’s work, as in life. ‘When I read about motherhood, I want to be shaken loose from whatever limitations I have when I think about what that means,’ says the writer Siri Hustvedt.

    With contributions from Susie Orbach, Jacqueline Rose, Kit de Waal and Siri Hustvedt, and narration from Amaka Okafor.

    Produced by Sarah Cuddon
    A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

    Archive sources:
    Desert Island Discs with Arundhati Roy (2017)
    A Chance to Meet ... Edna O'Brien (1971)
    Sylvia Plath, Peter Orr interview (1962)
    Audre Lorde, Pacifica Radio Archives and Academy of American Poets www.poets.org
    Maya Angelou, BBC News (1985)
    Jeannette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC, 1990) and Face To Face (BBC, 1994)
    Marguerite Duras, Worn Out With Desire To Write (1985)
    Toni Morrison, Brief Encounters (BBC, 2001)
    Jackie Kay, Book of the Week (The Waters Company for BBC R4, 2015)
    Elena Ferrante, Lying Lives of Adults (BBC, 2020)


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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    #ArundhatiRoy #EdnaOBrien
    #SylviaPlath #AudreLorde
    #MayaAngelou #JeannetteWinterson
    #MargueriteDuras #ToniMorrison
    #JackieKay #ElenaFerrante

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7s1

  23. Shadow World

    Breakin' the Cycle Episode 2 of 6
    2. A Hood Story

    As Colin and D begin turning their prison-written script into a real production, they recruit former pop stars and emerging actors, building a cast captivated by the promise of an authentic Black British crime story. Their film starts to feel like a genuine cultural moment. But most of the cast and crew are unaware of the true story behind the pair or their journey to becoming film-makers.

    Beneath the excitement of the production, the money, power, and instincts that built “Love of Money” are still very much in play. When D’s commitment to turning away from crime is tested, he is drawn back to familiar instincts.

    Gripping stories from the Shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK.

    Presenter and Producer: Lewis Albrow
    Series Producer: Emma Barnaby
    Producer: Louis Hollis
    Assistant Editor: Georgina Savage
    Sound Designer, Composer, and Mix Engineer: Axel Kacoutie
    Script Editor: Jason Lewis
    Fact Checker: Jessica Hatcher-Moore
    Production Manager: Anna-Marie Batho
    Production Executive: Letisha Kidza
    Head of Production: Nicky Murphy
    Production Support: Emma Wood and Olivia Bouton
    Executive Producers for Raw: Deborah Dudgeon, David Waters, and Tim Wardle.
    Business Affairs: Amy Ofori-Attah, Clotilde Leroux, Damian Kent, and Emma Ong.
    Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
    Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

    A Raw Production for BBC Radio 4

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCShadowWorld #BreakinTheCycleEpisode #StreetCream #MakinMovies #ProductionHell

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zsxg

  24. Those looking for a bit of education with their funnies (of vice versa) could do worse than "Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics', this week's episode is well worth a listen, this episode is on Ancient Alexandria, but also includes a pretty good dig at the idiot near the end!

    BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics share.google/UeA9VrwZ9bhDqziia

    #radio #bbcradio4 #comedy #science #theidiot

  25. (very good)
    (also *drama takes a huge bite out of "Weekend Woman's Hour" and laughs triumphantly)

    The Bacchae
    Drama on 4

    Euripides’ Greek tragedy reimagined by Katherine Soper. In this new version, myth entwines with modernity to explore the root causes of rebellion.

    When a group of young women discover the mysterious and charming Bacchus online, they instantly form an unshakeable devotion to him and to each other. It has awakened something inside of them that cannot be contained. Is this a supportive sisterhood or something more dangerous?

    Bacchus ….. Colin Morgan
    Joy ….. Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
    Song ….. Ella Bruccoleri
    Love ….. Matilda Tucker
    Freedom ….. Tia Bannon
    Agave ….. Clare Corbett
    Pentheus ….. Sam Swann
    Tiresias ….. Sam Dale
    Semele ….. Yasmin Mwanza
    Libation ….. Madeleine Clarke

    Directed by Gemma Jenkins

    Production Co-ordinator: Sara Benaim
    Casting Manager: Alex Curran
    Sound Design: Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson and Andrew Garratt

    The Bacchae by Katherine Soper after Euripides was commissioned and first performed as part of the Springboard Trainee Programme at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in July 2023.

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    1 hour, 27 minutes

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCRadioDrama #BBCDrama #Bacchanalia #BBCDramaOn4

    (... Cordwainer Smith did similar but in a more entertaining sci-fi way with Krishna as the central figure (or was it another Vedic?) in "Under Old Earth" ...)

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t10r

  26. 🌟 Did you discover our 'Researcher spotlight' in the latest issue of Changing Populations, our newsletter magazine? If not, you missed some great interviews, announcements and resources 🌟

    ▶️ Navigate to section 10 to read the full round-up: sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05

    #socialscience #economics #demography #eventhistoryanalysis #carers #caring #intergenerational #generations #migration #REF2029 #BBCRADIO4 #demographic #population #changingpopulations

  27. BBCRadio4 Thought for the Day
    Rt Rev Dr David Walker

    2025-09-29 0748-0750ish

    (i'll summarise it for you dear reader 👍)

    Erica Kirk is lovely and exemplifies Christian values such as supporting your husband's racism and desire to enslave and or murder people.

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThoughtForTheDay #EricaKirk

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m5lxn6

  28. BBCRadio4 Thought for the Day
    Rt Rev Dr David Walker

    2025-09-29 0748-0750ish

    (i'll summarise it for you dear reader 👍)

    Erica Kirk is lovely and exemplifies Christian values such as supporting your husband's racism and desire to enslave and or murder people.

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThoughtForTheDay #EricaKirk

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m5lxn6

  29. BBCRadio4 Thought for the Day
    Rt Rev Dr David Walker

    2025-09-29 0748-0750ish

    (i'll summarise it for you dear reader 👍)

    Erica Kirk is lovely and exemplifies Christian values such as supporting your husband's racism and desire to enslave and or murder people.

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThoughtForTheDay #EricaKirk

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m5lxn6

  30. BBCRadio4 Thought for the Day
    Rt Rev Dr David Walker

    2025-09-29 0748-0750ish

    (i'll summarise it for you dear reader 👍)

    Erica Kirk is lovely and exemplifies Christian values such as supporting your husband's racism and desire to enslave and or murder people.

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCThoughtForTheDay #EricaKirk

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m5lxn6

  31. BBCRadio4 Thought for the Day
    Rt Rev Dr David Walker

    2025-09-29 0748-0750ish

    (i'll summarise it for you dear reader 👍)

    Erica Kirk is lovely and exemplifies Christian values such as supporting your husband's racism and desire to enslave and or murder people.

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