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  1. (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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    57 minutes

    On air

    Today
    20:00
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    #BBCRadio4 #BBCArchiveOn4

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316l1

  2. (... the_WORST_episode_of_this_series_on_BBC_Radio4 ...)  

    Café Hope -- Change Please

    #BBCRadio4 #BBCCafeHope

    Cemal Ezel, from Change Please, tells Rachel Burden how they help address homelessness by selling coffee. The social enterprise trains homeless people for employment through the sale of coffee, offering them a living wage, housing and therapy support.

    Café Hope is our virtual Radio 4 coffee shop, where guests pop in for a brew and a chat to tell us what they're doing to make things better in big and small ways. Think of us as sitting in your local café, cooking up plans, hearing the gossip and celebrating the people making the world a better place.

    We're all about trying to make change. It might be a transformational project that helps an entire community or it might be about trying to make one life a little easier. And the key here is in the trying. Not everything works, and there are struggles along the way. But it's always worth a go.

    You can contact us on [email protected]

    Presenter: Rachel Burden
    Series Producer: Uma Doraiswamy
    Sound Design: Nicky Edwards
    Editor: Clare Fordham

    (QuangoNote: The interviewee advocates for #PreEmploymentChecks (- and probably adhers to #WorkReady or #JobReady -) which is part of the fuck-knuckle jobnobbling strategy of Ian Duncan Smith, Tim Montgomerie and the neverending identity checks of our lame-ass security-intelligence community. Their approach is a right-wing capitalist one.)

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q2qp

  3. **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

  4. 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