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147: The New MBAs (2) |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
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146: The New MBAs (1) |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
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145: The War is Not Over |
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11:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
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21:00 |
presenter: Hermione Cockburn |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| It's often claimed you're never more than 10 feet from a rat, and you could probably say the same about lasers. In the home and at the shops, throughout medicine, the military, and almost everywhere else the laser has become one of the most ubiquitous pieces of modern technology. And that's in just 50 years, not bad for a device that, after its first successful test on 16th May 1960 was immediately dubbed “a solution looking for a problem”. | ||||
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21:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | Artist's impression of Roger Angel's proposed 'solar shield' spacecraft | |
| Following December's climate conference in Copenhagen the world is now committed to holding global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees centigrade -- in theory. But without a binding treaty to curb carbon emissions, there's growing interest in "geoengineering" as a kind of insurance policy against the possibility that the worst predictions of some climate scientists come true. Mark Whitaker reports on research in key centres in Britain and the USA into ways of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth -- and on the massive technical, financial and political hurdles they face. |  |
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11:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| The fourth in our series of annual ¼ -hour vignettes for Remembrance Sunday. It's not just how the Poppy became the symbol of remembrance in Britain - though that is a fascinating story, rarely told in full - but also a deeper analysis of why it rapidly became such a strong and enduring symbol, to the point where some fear it is becoming over-exploited. Plus a look at France's rather less ubiquitous flower of remembrance, the blue cornflower, and through these symbols an insight into the two countries' different approaches to remembering those who have died in conflicts past. |
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21:00 |
presenter: Louise Batchelor |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| Honeybees have hogged the news recently and surely everyone now knows they are essential to our agriculture but are dying in large numbers due to the mysterious “colony collapse disease”. What’s much less well known is that bumblebees are arguably just as important – indeed they pollinate many crops and flowers that honeybees don’t touch – and they too are in serious decline. |  |
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21:02 |
presenter: Gerry Northam |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| - 'Open Source Means Business'. A lot’s been said about ‘open source’ software, like the free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers scattered around the world collaborate in a “virtual anthill” to create products that rival more commercial offerings. So in this programme Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to see how it’s done – and to show how its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business, with some startling results. |  |
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119: The Menin Gate |
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11:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| The Menin Gate in the little Belgian city of Ypres is an extraordinary symbol of remembrance - the Last Post has sounded every night since 1929 (bar WW2) and it's the most visited site on the Western Front. This is a little cameo for Remembrance Day, following ''the Roots of the British Legion'' last year and ''the Roots of Remembrance Day'' the year before. |  |
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11:30 |
presenter: Fred Freeman |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| He's been called "the most important Scottish poet since Burns" but he's better known overseas than elsewhere in the UK. Nelson Mandela sought him out after his release from Robbin Island, Pete Seeger gamely attempted some of his Scots dialect poetry and E P Thompson called him "that rare man, a poet". This programme gives a flavour of the extraordinary life and work of Hamish Henderson. | ||||
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21:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| ¨Peer Review¨ is supposed to be the ¨gold standard¨ of quality control for research projects and academic studies, yet evidence of its many deficiencies has been building up for over 20 years. That knowledge has been confined to the academic world until recently but now peer review’s tarnished image is being revealed to a wider audience. Rightly so, because this is no academic argument – hen it comes to medicine, inadequate peer review of proposed new drugs and other treatments can be literally a matter of life and death. |  |
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21:00 |
presenter: Hermione Cockburn |
producer: Mike Hally | Portrait of Clair Patterson. Picture copyright Caltech | |
| The extraordinary story of one man’s discovery of the global contamination of the environment by man-made lead compounds -- a story of brilliant applied science, painstaking research and a refusal to bow to vested interests. Preview picture of Patterson is copyright Caltech |  |
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112: North African Short Stories (5): You Taught Me To Love Life, Father |
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15:30 |
presenter: Youssef Kerkour |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Arousia Naluti: what his wife’s pain in childbirth teaches a young Tunisian man about his country | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Sherif Eltayeb |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Said al-Kafrawi: an Egyptian man is ambushed by the past when he returns to the village of his childhood. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: William El-Gardi |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Tayib Saleh: a trio of middle-class young people fantasise that opening a travel agency will allow them to escape from their own culture in Sudan. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Alia Alzougbi |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Rachida el-Charni: the degradations of work in a foreign-owned textile factory as experienced by a young Tunisian woman. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Essam Edriss |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Gamal el-Ghitani: an Egyptian farmer is dazzled by a proffered deal from a glitzy international hotel; his sons don’t trust it at all. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Siobhan Finneran |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| In "Nature's Way", written by Helen Cadbury from York University's Centre for Lifelong Learning, 'Merrill' is stuck looking after her idle brother, just as her mother did before her. But she hesitates when she gets a chance to escape her drudgery. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Lynn Bains |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| "Room Service" written by Cathy Bolton, of the Sheffield Hallam University Short Story Group. In which a chance encounter with a pregnant guest helps a bereaved hotel worker to move on after a terrible loss. | ||||
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11:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| It seems like the Royal British Legion has always been with us -- synonymous with Remembrance Day, red poppies and be-medalled veterans parading with quiet dignity past cenotaphs in London and around the country. Yet it grew out of an assortment of rival ex-services associations that themselves arose from the awful experience of 'total war' and the country's poor treatment of returning soldiers. These new groups were quite different from the traditional Victorian philanthropic charities that had previously looked after their welfare, for these were self-help groups and they asserted their rights rather than asking for charity. | ||||
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11:02 |
presenter: Frauke Jensen |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| Namibia has the largest population of cheetahs in the world yet no-one really knows how many – “2,500” is a widely quoted figure but it’s twenty years old and was largely guesswork even then. Counting the shy and elusive cheetah is difficult but Okatumba Wildlife Research, a project set up by two German scientists, is developing new methods, assisted by groups of volunteers from Biosphere Expeditions who pay to spend a fortnight in the Bush collecting the raw data. |  |
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91: Thomas Midgley |
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21:00 |
presenter: Dr Hermione Cockburn |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| The story of the scientist who gave the World both lead in petrol and chlorofluorocarbons in refrigeration -- important and remarkable advances in their time, but with environmental impacts that led to their eventual banning. | ||||
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11:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| The ingredients of the Remembrance Day service – the Cenotaph, the Last Post, the two-minute silence, the marching veterans and the laying of wreaths – have been in place since just after World War I. But how did this enduring ceremony, so moving in its simplicity and so widely copied in local commemorations in the UK and around the world, come about in the first place? This programme reveals the surprising origins and evolution of Remembrance Day, including the protests that greeted it in some parts of the country in its first year. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Angela Mounsey |
producer: Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally | ||
| A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Water Mouse” by Maureen Fenton, Clitheroe Writing Group, read by Angela Mounsey | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Emma Lowndes |
producer: Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally | ||
| A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Whitby Pier” by Mary C Clarke, Airedale Writers Circle, read by Emma Lowndes | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: David Fleeshman |
producer: Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally | ||
| A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Working from Home” by Iris Woodford, Lancaster Writers, read by David Fleeshman | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Carol McGuigan |
producer: Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally | ||
| A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Old Blood” by Christiane Algar, Alnwick Playhouse Writers Group, read by Carol McGuigan | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Barbara Marten |
producer: Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally | ||
| A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. The first story is “Squirrels” by Karen Whitchurch, of the Hornsea Writers, read by Barbara Marten | ||||
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11:00 |
presenter: Allan Beswick |
producer: Mike Hally | Three of the State Management Scheme's popular beers | |
| The story of the Government's response to an earlier epidemic of binge-drinking - the nationalisation of Carlisle's pubs and breweries as a wartime experiment in 1916, an experiment that lasted until 1971. |  |
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33: Jollywood |
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11:30 |
presenter: C P Lee |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| If you think British post-war cinema means Elstree, Ealing and Pinewood, then join us on an entertaining tour around "the Hollywood of the North" in Manchester where a stream of Lancashire comedies were produced over six prolific years from 1948 to 1953. Pop Blakeley's "Mancunian Film Studios" made screen stars of George Formby, Frank Randle, Josef Locke, Sandy Powell, Diana Dors, Jimmy Clitheroe and a host of others. Many of these artistes and the skilled technicians who filmed them, became the basis of Granada Television in the later Fifties. |  |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally & Janet Graves | ||
| Walking on the Formby seashore some years ago, retired teacher Gordon Roberts saw some human footprints preserved in a dark layer of solidified silt, apparently running towards and the disappearing under later-deposited sediments. He brushed away the top layers to reveal more prints, among them the very large hoofprints of a species of cattle that he'd never before seen. He has made almost daily surveys along the Formby seashore ever since, looking for more prints briefly revealed by the shifting sands. He records their location, photographs and casts them, working with university and other experts to build up a picture of prehistoric life around 5000 years ago. The story of an amateur archaeologist whose investigations have excited the experts. |  |
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| Winter is a time of consolidation. A chance to go round the bee-keeping groups, advising them how to keep their colonies alive through the winter, and how to watch out for disease next spring. And highlight of this final programme is a rare chance to go inside the Government?s Central Science Unit at York, home of the specialist bee research unit. David is a regular visitor, but access for this programme is something rather special. |  |
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| By the autumn, programme three, the inspections are winding down, though there are fears that a major outbreak of disease in the midlands may spread north. David still keeps bees and takes the opportunity to harvest his own honey. | |
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| The second part is summer-time, with a round of County Shows to add to the numerous individual inspections. David is joined by seasonal bee officers to share the load, but its still a very busy time. Bad weather keeps the growing colonies inside their hives until, like mischievous children on a rainy day, they break out and swarm in places they?re not wanted. | |
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| Who do you call when your bees stop buzzing or the honey goes off? Why, the Bee Inspector of course. He may be the man from the Ministry, but David Kemp is the saviour of many a bee-keeper. What?s more he?s full of fascinating facts about these extraordinary little creatures and he has that rare gift of conveying his enthusiasm in everyday language. You don?t have to own a bee suit to enjoy this series! The first programme finds David in the spring, checking how well bee colonies have survived the winter and looking for the first signs of disease as the days get warmer. | |
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15:45 |
presenter: Judy Merry |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| An account of the astonishing exchange of letters between a very determined lady from Watford and some of the highest officials in the BBC that led on 2nd January 1928 to the first of 75 years of Daily Services ("Gillian Reynolds' Choice", Daily Telegraph). |  |
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09:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| "Last in this offbeat, but informative series" (Susan Jeffreys, Daily Mail). Shortly after World War II, a New Zealand engineer started a sociology degree at the London School of Economics. Bill Phillips had already shown remarkable courage and ingenuity, winning an award for bravery in the Far East, then making electrical gadgets as a prisoner of war. At the LSE he didn’t take to sociology but economics fascinated him. He wrote an essay comparing the national economy to a machine pumping coloured water round clear plastic tubes. An older student persuaded him to build one, and it was an immediate success. | ||||
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09:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| "I am enjoying this series so much" (Peter Barnard, RT). The Ukrainian city of Kyiv (Kiev) was over-run by the Nazis in World War 2, liberated by the Soviet Army a couple off years later, and by 1945 was in a terrible state. But while re-building started a small group of scientists and engineers found an abandoned monastery in an idyllic setting on the outskirts of the city, in a place called Feofania. There they built “secret laboratory number 1” and started work on the Soviet Union’s first electronic computer. | ||||
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09:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| This programme joins a group of retired engineers who meet every Fall in Connecticut to re-discover the forgotten history of the first American business computer. They worked for Remington Rand, in a converted barn that still “smelled of horses” and had a stuffed moose’s head overlooking them as they worked. | ||||
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09:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
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112: North African Short Stories (5): You Taught Me To Love Life, Father |
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15:30 |
presenter: Youssef Kerkour |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Arousia Naluti: what his wife’s pain in childbirth teaches a young Tunisian man about his country | ||||
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