A CURIOUS MIX OF BRITISH FOLK MUSIC AND AMERICAN POLITICS
Josie Long presents new short documentaries on searching for hope in the gathering dark.
John McCarthy and Brian Keenan look back on a single act of human kindness that glows amid much darker memories, a late night conversation explores the hope bound up in playing the lottery, and we hear as voices fade in a Danish hospice.
The Gloaming
Featuring John McCarthy and Brian Keenan
Produced by Geoff Bird
Stream or Download at: BBC Radio 4 – Short Cuts, Series 17, The Gloaming
The RadioTimes.com team recommends their favourite podcasts – from politics to comedy to real life stories
Podcasts are everywhere in 2018. But how do you find shows that are actually good?
To answer this question, the RadioTimes.com team has sorted the proverbial wheat from the chaff, the brilliant from the merely mediocre. We have pulled together our top recommendations – in no particular order – from podcasts that will make you laugh to podcasts that will make you cry.
Fortunately… with Fi and Jane
Nothing warms the cockles more than the sound of two incredibly sharp, intelligent and mischievous women discussing totally random things for 40 odd minutes. BBC Radio veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey have one special guest per episode and discuss everything from Marxism to sex positions. [ . . . ]
Read the complete list at RADIO TIMES: The 39 best podcasts you need to listen to right now
Why do we have regional accents?
“How do accents start and where did they come from?” asks Sachin Bahal from Toronto in Canada.
Hannah is schooled in speaking Geordie by top accent coach Marina Tyndall. And Adam talks to author and acoustics expert Trevor Cox about how accents evolved and why they persist.
We meet Debie who has Foreign Accent Syndrome – an extremely rare condition in which your accent can change overnight. After a severe bout of flu, which got progressively worse, Debie’s Brummie accent suddenly transformed into something distinctively more European.
Listen to the podcast at: BBC Radio 4 – The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, Series 12, The Stressful Scone
Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a TV special of their hit science/comedy panel show.
Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th episode of their hit science/comedy show, by inviting some very well known monkey cage alumni to join them. Brian Blessed, Eric Idle, Katy Brand, Dave Gorman and Andy Hamilton (to name a few) take to the stage to consider what has been learnt since Episode 1, back in November 2009. Joining them are science royalty, including Alice Roberts, American astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson, Prof Sue Black and Prof Fay Dowker, to look at the big scientific discoveries that have happened in the time since Brian and Robin first hit the airwaves.
Watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06dmygk/player
Source: 100th Episode TV Special, The Infinite Monkey Cage – BBC Radio 4