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Composing New York - BBC Radio 4 1.30pm Tuesday, 20th July
15th July 2010
New York City has always drawn composers from the Old World - from Dvorak and Mahler to Kurt Weill, Rachmaninov and Benjamin Britten. Some, like Puccini, crossed the Atlantic to premier new works, others like Gustav Mahler stayed for longer periods to compose, study and conduct. But all were shaped by the energy of New York, just as the city's musical culture was shaped, in turn, by them. Behind this extraordinary cultural exchange lay a deeper question: what should a truly American "classical" music sound like? Did it lie outside the concert hall and with the Broadway musical, as envisaged by Kurt Weill? Or was it Dvorak's iconic New World symphony, with its powerful invocations of the black American spiritual, that pointed the way?
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Freedom from Fear: Aung San Suu Kyi - Friday 18th June, 11am on BBC Radio 4 and at 8pm on the World Service
18th June 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi is a political icon, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the charismatic leader of Burma's struggle for human rights - but at immense personal cost. Under house arrest for many years, unable to watch her children grow up and excluded from public life, her plight is ongoing. As the Burmese regime prepares for its first election in years, Suu Kyi will be detained as a political prisoner throughout.
Gold at the Sony Radio Awards
11th May 2010
Brook Lapping Radio won Gold in the Best Feature category for ‘Archive on 4: Working for Margaret’, presented by Matthew Parris and produced by Simon Hollis for BBC Radio 4. The feature was praised by the judges for 'the way the producer mixed contemporary comment with archive recordings of Mrs Thatcher in her home environment. .. Parris’ affection for his subject and his skills as a writer made this an effortlessly compelling and affectionate portrait of his former boss’.
Madwomen in the Attic - BBC Radio 4 11.30am Tuesday 20th April
15th April 2010
Vivienne Parry explores ideas of madness and mental health among heroines of classic fiction.Following on from the positive response to 'A Nasty Case of the Vapours' in which the ailments of literature's great heroines were dissected and finally diagnosed using modern medicine (and a good deal of hindsight), 'Madwomen in the Attic' considers bedside analysis from afar for the mad, bad and sad heroines of classic fiction through the eyes of modern medicine and psychiatry.
Governing Away - BBC Radio 4, 11am Monday 22nd February
19th February 2010
Clive Anderson examines one of the strangest corners of international politics: governments and rulers in exile - a paradoxical area of international relations and international law. The programme takes examples from the entire world map, from the serious to the apparently ridiculous and tackles them with political sensitivity, a dash of legal rigor and some philosophical playfulness.
Bach Fever! – TUESDAY 29th DECEMBER 1.30pm BBC Radio 4
22nd December 2009
Universally loved, Bach's music has always been a serious resource for musicians: music teaching, composition, keyboard harmony and study of all sorts. But a resource for jazz, electronic, pop, acapella and easy listening as well? Oh yes ... the master is behind it all. Arrangements of Bach are everywhere, in every musical genre. Filled with brilliant music, this programme explores these other sides of Johann, and asks what it is about Bach in particular that lends itself to such extraordinary invention, imitation and pilfery ... from the Brandenburg Concertos recorded on a Moog to easy listening records like "Bach Goes Bossa!".
Turkey in Europe - SUNDAY 7 FEBRUARY, 9.30pm BBC Radio 3
20th December 2009
We bathe, drink coffee and eat croissants courtesy of the Ottoman Turks. Yet many nations resist Turkey joining the EU. Film-maker and broadcaster Dennis Marks visits Turkish communities in Vienna and the Moslem districts of Sarajevo to discover what contemporary Austrians, Bosnians and Turks - artists, scholars, politicians and historians - share, and what they fear.
Archive on 4: When Bailey Met Warhol - BBC Radio 4,10th and 12th October
16th October 2009
Andy Warhol’s friend and muse Jerry Hall interviews photographer David Bailey about his relationship to the pop artist – and tells the story of the infamous television documentary Bailey made about Warhol in 1973 which was temporarily banned in the UK, causing the greatest national public row on art, obscenity and censorship since the publication of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and the ‘Oz’ Magazine obscenity trial.
Jeopardising Justice
BBC Radio 4 Mondays for 3 weeks from 31 August
Lawyer and campaigner Helena Kennedy QC explores how attempts to reform the justice system can come up against another kind of law entirely – the law of unexpected consequences.
On the Outside it Looked Like an Old-Fashioned Police Box - Radio 4 23 June
22nd June 2009
Doctor Who writer and League of Gentlemen actor Mark Gatiss explores the hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of 1970s and 80s published by Target books.
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