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

    interview 2026-09-07 1310ish

    #Dover #DoverMarches
    #BBCRadio4 #BBCTheWorldAtOne #BBCWato

  2. Mr Jefferson's Library (5 part series)

    Michael Goldfarb visits the Library of Congress and Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello in Virginia to see how Jefferson's reading shaped the beginnings of American history.

    #MichaelGoldfarb
    #LibraryOfCongress
    #ThomasJefferson
    #Monticello

    #BBCRadio4 #BookOfTheWeek #BBCBOTW #BBCBookOfTheWeek

    (15 minute episodes) (very fast reading presentation style)

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ybb7

  3. (absolutely enfuriating)

    Pakistan: hospitals putting children at risk of HIV
    Crossing Continents

    Outbreaks of HIV have become regular occurrences in Pakistan. And too frequently it is the children who suffer. In the city of Taunsa, for example, children have tested positive for HIV while their parents have not. So what’s been going on? In Crossing Continents Ghazal Abbasi investigates what and who is to blame. With the help of a staff insider and undercover recording in the city’s main hospital, the BBC finds shocking lapses in medical protocol. Medicine vials and syringes are often re-used for different children. Cross-contamination seems inevitable. But the local authorities deny the hospital is at the centre of the problem.

    Reporter: Ghazal Abbasi
    Producer: John Murphy
    Studio Mix: Neil Churchill
    Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison
    BBC Eye editor: Dan Adamson
    Crossing Continents editor: Penny Murphy

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    29 minutes

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    Next Monday
    00:15
    BBC Radio 4

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCCrossingContinents #MedicalMalpractice #Pakistan

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tzqr

  4. **There are warnings of gales**

    There are warnings of gales
    Depending on where you are in relation to the steep white cliffs or the brown dirt hillsides
    Depending on the lush green valleys filled with cows and sheep and goats and pigs
    Looking out across the wheat fields in the late summer filled with the sway of the long stemmed grasses wishing they were oceans free of human intent for their impending death
    Somewhere out in the world
    There are warnings of gales
    Inner turmoils or extra terrestrial battles
    Or arguments in the corner shop over who could have the last packet of plain chocolate digestives
    It is all relevant. Everything has its own equivalency. Each strike of potential catastrophe is equivalent to the next.
    I recall the storm of 1987, which I slept through like a soft baby in a warm blanket. My mother called the following morning and I had no idea what she was talking about. The gales had swirled around me and might have caused total destruction, yet, I was safe in my swaddling clothes of care and love and a good bedsitter in Earls Court.
    But, be aware of warnings of gales. In the end they will get us all.

    A poem in celebration of the Shipping forecast. (bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv)

    #bbc #bbcradio4 #shippingforecast #newyearsday

  5. Broadcasting

    The BBC's radio Shipping Forecast celebrates it's 100th year in 2025. As a commemoration on New Years' Day, BBC Radio 4 is transmitting programmes themed on the Shipping Forecast , from the serious to the sublime.

    One example (which may or may not be included) can be heard here. It includes the line "COW in sea area Shannon, moving eastwards. Sorry, that should be LOW."

    youtube.com/watch?v=s2noiJKiUX

    #shippingforecast
    #bbcradio4

  6. @Laplantgenetics Yes! A few weeks ago i turned on #BBCRadio4 and, by chance, there was a programme about what to do in a #Heatwave and what the #UK overall needs to do for #ClimateAdaption. Good of course but hearing BBC voices talking about this made it all so much more real; brought home that this really is it now. I found this atrangely upsetting and surreal, even after years of campaigning and asking for more media coverage.