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149: Stunned to Death |
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presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
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148: A Brave Medical Life |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
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144: William Quilliam |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The ‘Drink Question’; Past and Present To round off his history series on the politics of alcohol Mark Whitaker talks to Britain’s leading historians on the subject, asking them how the past can inform present policy. | ||||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The Doctors Take Over: Continuing his series on the politics of alcohol in Britain Mark Whitaker looks at how and why the NHS, in the 1960s, embarked on the hospital treatment of alcoholics. | ||||
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presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The Improved Pub: Mark Whitaker’s series on the politics of alcohol reaches the 1920s. With consumption falling, and nationalisation threatened, the industry invested heavily in ‘improved pubs’. | ||||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The Central Control Board: Continuing his series on the politics of the ‘Drink Question’ Mark Whitaker looks at the Central Control Board, set up in 1915 to run some of the liquor trade for the state. | ||||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| ‘Habitual Drunkards’ and the Asylum: As part of his history series on the politics of alcohol Mark Whitaker looks at the late C19th panic over ‘habitual drunkards’, when special asylums were built for them. | ||||
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presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Political Thinkers and the Drink Question Continuing his history series on the politics of alcohol Mark Whitaker shows how for John Stuart Mill and T.H. Green the ‘Drink Question’ raised the central dilemmas of liberalism. | ||||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The 1872 Licensing Act and the Challenge of Temperance At the General Election of 1872 one of the most divisive issues between the parties was drink. Mark Whitaker shows how the temperance movement had got a grip on political life. | ||||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The Beer Act, 1830 Continuing his series on the politics of alcohol, Mark Whitaker explains why in 1830 the British government thought easier access to beer would solve the problem of drunkenness. | ||||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The Gin Act, 1736 Continuing his narrative history series Mark Whitaker explores the eighteenth century Gin Craze, the response to it of Defoe and Fielding, and what the authorities did. | ||||
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| King James 1: Drunkenness “is not one sin, but all sins”, said a preacher in 1624. Mark Whitaker begins his history series on the politics of alcohol with King James I’s campaign against it. |  |
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10:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| In Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia historians are struggling to produce school textbooks that will help overcome deep-seated misunderstandings and hatreds between neighbouring states. This week -- Europe |  |
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10:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| In Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia historians are struggling to produce school textbooks that will help overcome deep-seated misunderstandings and hatreds between neighbouring states. This week - South Africa | |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Over the past twenty years the archives of many of the U.K.’s most important living writers have ended up in America, bought for the University of Texas at Austin by Thomas Staley. Mark Whitaker profiles a remarkable and controversial man, and reports on efforts to stop the continuing export of our literary heritage. |  |
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125: Anthropology at War |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The US Army has introduced a scheme which ‘embeds’ anthropologists with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan : the aim is to make military decisions more ‘culturally informed’, but the scheme’s caused a furore in the academic community. |  |
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23:00 |
presenter: Jonathan Ree |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| William Hazlitt is recognised as a founder of English literary criticism and a magnificent exponent of the art of the essay. But he spent the first half of his career grappling with abstract questions in philosophy, and these 15-minute talks evoke and celebrate Hazlitt’s work as a philosopher, and show how it helped shape the celebrated ‘familiar style’ of his later essays. Five: Acquaintance with Poets | ||||
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23:00 |
presenter: Jonathan Ree |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| William Hazlitt is recognised as a founder of English literary criticism and a magnificent exponent of the art of the essay. But he spent the first half of his career grappling with abstract questions in philosophy, and these 15-minute talks evoke and celebrate Hazlitt’s work as a philosopher, and show how it helped shape the celebrated ‘familiar style’ of his later essays. Four: a Metaphysical Discovery | ||||
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23:00 |
presenter: Jonathan Ree |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| William Hazlitt is recognised as a founder of English literary criticism and a magnificent exponent of the art of the essay. But he spent the first half of his career grappling with abstract questions in philosophy, and these 15-minute talks evoke and celebrate Hazlitt’s work as a philosopher, and show how it helped shape the celebrated ‘familiar style’ of his later essays. Three: the Fate of Modern Philosophy | ||||
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23:00 |
presenter: Jonathan Ree |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| William Hazlitt is recognised as a founder of English literary criticism and a magnificent exponent of the art of the essay. But he spent the first half of his career grappling with abstract questions in philosophy, and these 15-minute talks evoke and celebrate Hazlitt’s work as a philosopher, and show how it helped shape the celebrated ‘familiar style’ of his later essays. Two: William Hazlitt Snr | ||||
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23:00 |
presenter: Jonathan Ree |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| William Hazlitt is recognised as a founder of English literary criticism and a magnificent exponent of the art of the essay. But he spent the first half of his career grappling with abstract questions in philosophy, and these 15-minute talks evoke and celebrate Hazlitt’s work as a philosopher, and show how it helped shape the celebrated ‘familiar style’ of his later essays. One: Winterslow | ||||
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117: Textbook Diplomacy |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Across Europe school history textbooks are being used to build bridges over deep fault lines of nationalist hatred or suspicion; but while it's proved easy enough to create a joint Franco-German textbook, the task is both more difficult and more urgent in a country such as Bosnia. |  |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| September 3rd 2008 will mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s death : but his severed head was only finally put to rest in 1960. This is the extraordinary story of what happened to it. |  |
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114: Olympic Arts |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| It was called the ‘Pentathlon of the Muses’, and at each Olympic Games between 1912 and 1948 there were medals for architecture, sculpture, painting, music and literature. But most serious artists are not ‘amateurs’, so these forgotten and controversial contests were eventually brought to an end. Preview picture (right) copyright Mark Whitaker |  |
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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: Delia Corrie |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| "Rowing Upriver from Bridge Cottage", written by Lesley Jackson of Sheffield Hallam University Short Story Group, shines a light on a long marriage through a river journey with changes of direction, arguments over destinations and the occasional sudden squall. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Rod Arthur |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| "St John the Better", written by Celia Burney of Hexham Writers, is set outside an abandoned tower block, where a group of local lads have set up an unorthodox clubhouse. When they reluctantly report a strange wailing noise coming from an upstairs window, their action has unexpected consequences. | ||||
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101: Occupation |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| An examination of the Bush Administration's claim that the post-WW2 occupations of Japan and Germany are a good historical analogy for the occupation of Iraq today. | ||||
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00:01 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Second and final part of a series for 'One Planet' about the health and development implications surrounding household energy and domestic smoke in the developing world. Smoke inhalation kills more people that malaria according to the WHO | ||||
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00:01 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | Open fire indoors | |
| A series for 'One Planet' about the health and development implications surrounding household energy and domestic smoke in the developing world. Smoke inhalation kills more people that malaria according to the WHO. |  |
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22:15 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| A myth has been constructed that makes Don Bradman the 'ideal Australian' - but it doesn't bear much relation to the real country or to what's becoming known about the real man. |  |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Lack of housing was perhaps the most urgent social problem facing post-war Britain. In the summer of 1946 tens of thousands of people took the situation - and the law - into their own hands, squatting first military camps and then luxury flats and hotels in London. Those still alive tell what happened and how the authorities responded. |  |
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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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11:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| An insight into the secretive work of the Spoliation Advisory Panel - a small team of academics and art historians who advise government - and British galleries and museums - in relation to claims that works held in this country were looted during the Nazi era and should be returned to their rightful owners. | ||||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The North African countries of Morocco and Tunisia are both celebrating fifty years of independence from French colonial rule. They're two of the most pro-western states in the Arab world and both claim to be on the road to political democracy. Yet young Moroccans and Tunisians are prominent among those accused of involvement in Islamic terror groups in western Europe. Mark Whitaker investigates. | ||||
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66: Radio Ramadan |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Dozens of local 'Radio Ramadans' across the UK provide a unique insight into how our Muslim communities see themselves, and their relationship with the wider worlds of Islam and British culture. The programme will follow the build-up to Ramadan in two communities. It will talk to those who broadcast, and those who they broadcast about. It will provide an immediate insight into the meanings - and joys - of Ramadan itself, while providing a month-long self-portrait of Muslim communities in a Britain that is so profoundly mistrustful of them. |  |
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11:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Come with us into the little-known world and work of the Government Art Collection - Whenever a government minister resigns or gets the sack, or whenever a British Ambassador moves on, it's all hands on deck at an unmarked building somewhere near Tottenham Court Road. This is the HQ of the Government Art Collection (GAC), whose 6000 works - paintings, sculptures, photographs - adorn ministerial and ambassadorial walls in the UK and around the world. | ||||
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10:05 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Fires have been burning for up to ninety years under the ground in India's largest coalfield. Smoke seeps from the ground, making it the unhealthiest place in the country for up to a million people. In places fire breaks through the surface, consuming homes. In the USA whole towns have been abandoned -- one after a 12 year old boy was almost swallowed up by a hole caused by a mine fire, and a whole family was lucky to escape carbon monoxide poisoning. | ||||
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10:05 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Fires have been burning for up to ninety years under the ground in India's largest coalfield. Smoke seeps from the ground, making it the unhealthiest place in the country for up to a million people. In places fire breaks through the surface, consuming homes. In the USA whole towns have been abandoned -- one after a 12 year old boy was almost swallowed up by a hole caused by a mine fire, and a whole family was lucky to escape carbon monoxide poisoning. | ||||
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| A programme about amateur nature-watchers around Britain whose meticulous private records are now being collated to provide startling evidence for how our climate is changing. |  |
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13:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Peter Gavuzzi was probably Britain's greatest ever distance runner, but he's been forgotten - because he was a working class professional. This is the story of his taking part in the two 'Bunion Derbys' across America in 1928 and 1929. |  |
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15:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| St.Wenceslas, King of Bohemia in the early 10th century, is the greatest of all Czech national heroes. And when a Victorian cleric wrote a carol about him in 1853 it was a pointed political gesture. |  |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Between 1934 and 1959 a middle-class community in North Oxford shielded itself from the working-class next door behind seven foot high walls. Those who grew up in their shadow tell the story. |  |
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40: Red Games |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | 1930s Workers Olympiad, picture courtesy Peoples History Museum in Manchester, photographer unknown | |
| The International Olympic Committee has done its best to portray the 'official' Olympics as the only Games on offer since 1896. Not so. Between the wars rival 'Workers Olympics' attracted more athletes and more spectators. They were the centrepieces of the socialist sports movement that thrived across Europe, and which regarded the Olympic Games as a propaganda tool of aristocrats, business leaders and the far right. Using testimony from some who took part, this programme retrieves a lost chapter in the political history of sport. |  |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| For most of the time between 1906 and 1914 a young Englishwoman by the name of Millie Graham Polak, together with her husband, shared the same house in South Africa as Mahatma Gandhi and his family; she and Gandhi talked about everything under the sun, and Millie wrote down their conversations, later publishing them in a small book. This programme recreates those revealing exchanges. |  |
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21:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Israel Zangwill has largely been forgotten ; but from the early 1890s until his death in 1926 he was a giant figure in the English literary landscape. He made his name with Children of the Ghetto in 1892 – a panoramic novel about the life of the Jewish poor in the East End of London. And for thirty years Zangwill mixed his life as a writer with one as a political activist. He was an ardent and controversial Zionist - opposing Palestine as the location for a Jewish homeland – as well a pacifist and supporter of women’s suffrage. In this programme Mark Whitaker assesses Zangwill as both a literary and political figure. |  |
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| There are eight major rugby nations in the world ; and seven of them are either part of the UK or former British colonies. The odd-country out is France. Yet the game is as much the national sport for the French as it is for New Zealanders and white South Africans. Reporting from l'Ovalie - which is how many refer to the rugby heartland of south-west France - this programme explores how and why this came about. |  |
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| This programme marks the hundredth anniversary of Britain's offer to the Zionist movement in 1903 of a large part of Kenya as a homeland for East Europe's Jews. The offer was a serious one: and it was treated seriously. It split Zionism in two, between those who wanted a safe haven, almost anywhere, and those who insisted it had to be in Palestine. A forgotten and poignant perspective on the tragedy of the Middle East |  |
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Between 1947 and 1949 the British government, desperately short of workers in the 'essential' industries of agriculture, coal mining and textiles, turned to the millions of East Europeans living in Displaced Persons camps in Germany. Nearly 100,000 were brought here as 'volunteers', and those who stayed founded the East European communities of Northern England. In the early 1980s the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit (a pioneer of local authority oral history) interviewed dozens of Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians and Yugoslavs about their often difficult early days in Britain. The interviews they gave then form the basis for this programme. | ||||
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14:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| A programme for Easter. In October 1656 a man called James Nayler, one of the prominent early Quakers, rode into Bristol, dressed in white and accompanied by women followers. It was a provocative mock-up of Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. The government of the country then ground to a halt for nearly two months as Oliver Cromwell and Parliament tried to decide what to do with him. Informative fun for a secular age | ||||
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23: Will Power |
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presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Each week, at various locations around New York City, groups of elderly people - male and female, rich and poor - meet to read Shakespeare together. The sessions are led by sixty-one year old Bob Smith, a man who says that his own life has been 'rescued' by the great English poet and playwright. He says he's passing on to the elderly his realisation that Shakespeare's words can help them understand and live with the complexities of loss, guilt and grief. The Bard, he believes, 'says it exactly as old people feel, only better, much better.' | ||||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| On October 17th the English cricket team will set off for Australia. They?ll slip out, unnoticed, from Heathrow airport ; and their journey will be dull, routine and fast. But for 100 years, from 1861 to 1962, teams went slowly by boat. | ||||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| "This excellent documentary" (Peter Barnard, Radio Times). By 1930 the power of the British Empire was under threat from movements for colonial independence and the growing influence of American money and culture. The first British Empire games, held in Hamilton, Canada, in august that year, were a last-gasp effort to assert the world-wide relevance of the British race. | ||||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| The extraordinary story of the first overseas cricketers ever to visit England -- a team of Australian Aborigines who toured in 1868. The quality of their cricket surprised the English crowds, but it was a commercial tour and they were marketed as racial freaks. They were never paid and only three ever played again. They were the first cricketers to represent Australia overseas, yet no Aborigine has played for his country since. | ||||
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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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