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(Andrea Catherwood continues to kick the ass of the Media Show and has better guests)
Feedback
Misha Glenny, Today Programme, and Social Media Ban
Feedback
It's a new series of Feedback. Andrea Catherwood sits down with Misha Glenny, former foreign correspondent and investigative journalist to talk about taking on the reins of In Our Time, following Melvyn Bragg's departure from the programme last year. Did Misha's long years in the fields of academia, Investigative journalism and being a BBC Foreign correspondence prepare him from taking on topics that range from cybernetics to Handel's Messiah?
We also received a comment from a listener who feels that the Today programme is changing editorially with too much chat between presenters.
And coverage of the new social media ban for under 16s in the UK has been featured heavily on BBC radio's news programme. A listener shares their opinion on PM's recent coverage of this move.
Finally, another nomination for our annual search for Interview of the Year. This time it's for an episode of Private Passions on Radio 3, in which presenter Michael Berkeley interviews sports and nature writer Simon Barnes.
Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Pauline Moore
Assistant Producer: Rebecca Guthrie
Executive Producer: David PrestA Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4
#BBCFeedback #BBCRadio4
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#Science of #Silicon avec la #MonicaGrady
Silicon
In Our TimeMisha Glenny and guests discuss the physics, biology and chemistry of the element silicon which is at the heart of some of the most useful and beautiful objects on the planet. While it is still being created throughout the universe, the silicon we have here was made billions of years ago in dying stars. In its compounds we have long used silicon for glass and, more recently, purified silicon has become the foundation of modern electronics. Perhaps less appreciated is the role silicon compounds play in the biology of life on Earth, on the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the cycling of elements between land, oceans and atmosphere that sustains us.
With
Kate Hendry
Oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey and Bye-Fellow of Queen’s College, University of CambridgeAndrea Sella
Professor of Chemistry at University College LondonAnd
Monica Grady
Professor Emerita in Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open UniversityProduced by Martha Owen
Reading list:
Christina De La Rocha and Daniel J. Conley, Silica Stories (Springer, 2017)
Bernard Quéguiner, The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean (John Wiley & Sons, 2016)
In Our Time is a BBC Studios Production
Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.
#BBCRadio4 #BBCInOurTime #MelvynBragg #WorthySuccessor #MishaGlenny
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Melvyn Bragg has left some really big shoes for Misha Glenny to fill 😬:
“Misha Glenny To present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time” [2025], BBC (https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/misha-glenny-in-our-time-bbc-radio-4).
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When I feel sad and angry about the BBC's willingness to be Nigel Farage's megaphone, I try to save myself from plunging into despair by remembering the kind of broadcasting which Melvyn Bragg exemplifies.
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Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time
#HackerNews #MelvynBragg #InOurTime #BBC #News #MediaTransition #Broadcasting
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Fabulous #sciencecommunication from @BBCRD - #InOurTime slot ranges across so many subject areas, but #MelvynBragg seems to have the knack for #LifeSciences
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@energiepirat @si_irini @2ndStar @mina @evelynefoerster @sil
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...noch jemand, von dem meist nur #Historiker wissen, [Tommelwirbel], den #Mönch #Alcuin of #York,
der überragende Berater von #KarlDemGrossen. Er reformierte die damalige #Bildungssprache #Latein und goss sie in die weitestgehend noch heute gebräuchliche Form.Nachzuhören in diesem genialen Beitrag von #MelvynBragg der #BBC-Serie, #InOutTime:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dqy8
Alternativ:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5U2zgijDoExtdHD7aFj19t//
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‘I’d been fired once; it didn’t hurt’: #MelvynBragg on breakdowns, bust ups and 1,000 episodes of #InOurTime - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/15/melvyn-bragg-1000th-episode-in-our-time-interview #PublicServiceBroadcasting #Radio #Podcast #BBC
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John David Rhodes
Stella Bruzzi
Ian Christie
and #MelvynBragg
somehow manage to discuss
#CitizenKane for 54 mins
without mentioning
HOW it was conceived
WHO actually scripted it
and WHY Mank used
#Rosebud 🥀🛷
as his Rosetta Stone.
#OrsonWelles #movies #1940s
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https://t.co/8hMBvWlsn9 Prof Karen O'Brien, Prof Fiona Stafford and Paddy Bullard on #BBCInOurTime with #MelvynBragg Thu 22 Dec 9am #BBCRadio4, then #BBCSounds discussing #JaneAusten's #Persuasion. A pre-#Christmas treat. Only the #bbc does this. Free to hear, funded by <44p a day per household licence fee. Because we’re worth it. “My idea of good company..is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of #conversation..”
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Listened to a brilliant “In Our Time” from @[email protected] today on way to/from work. “The Fish - Tetrapod Transition”. Great explanation of a fascinating period in evolution #inourtime #melvynbragg #bbc https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-our-time/id73330895?i=1000583020310
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CW: Friday Cartoon