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Listen LIVE: Desert Island D...-Simon Murray
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Kirsty Young invites the businessman and adventurer Simon Murray to choose eight records.
Highlights
- Inside City Hall - Inside City Hall
Key figures discuss the years since the introduction of the London Mayoralty.
- Darwin: In Our Time - 4. Life After Origins
Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
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Darwin: In Our Time - 1. On the Origins of Charl...Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
4 episodes
Darwin: In Our Time - 3. On the Origin of Specie...How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November...
4 episodes
Darwin: In Our Time - 2. The Voyage of the Beagl...How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
4 episodes- The Line Between Life and Death - Episode 1
Jonathan Miller explores the complex questions that arise from trying to define dea...
- State of Mind - 1. Total Institution
The 1950s promised a new deal for the mentally ill, with new drugs and radical legi...
- Obama: Professor President - Obama: Professor President
Kwame Anthony Appiah investigates president-elect Obama's academic career.
- In Business - Thu, 08 Jan 2009
Business models that challenge conventional wisdom about charging for goods and ser...
2 episodes - Book of the Week - Episode 4
Charlie follows in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie and travels to the Isle o...
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Advertising: The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Clothes On!
Episode 1Robin returns to the location of his first job in advertising in the late 1960s.
Alistair Cooke's Seasonal Letters from America
Episode 8Justin Webb introduces eight of Alistair Cooke's seasonal Letters from America.
Anglomania
AnglomaniaJournalist John F Jungclaussen explores the German love of all things British.
Archive on 4
The Bow DialoguesJoan Bakewell revisits the debates that took place in a London church in the 1960s and 70s
Beyond Westminster
Episode 2Elinor Goodman discovers what membership of the euro might mean for UK jobs and prices.
Birds and the Battlefield
Birds and the BattlefieldBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner examines the links between soldiers and birds.
Book of the Week
Episode 4Charlie follows in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie and travels to the Isle of Skye.
Book of the Week
Episode 1Charlie traces Boudicca's rampage of vengeance, walking from Norwich to St Albans.
A Box of Wittgensteins
4. The SurvivorsMargaret discovers documents which stir memories of their talented but difficult family.
Broadcasting House
Sun, 04 Jan 2009News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
Case Notes
AntibioticsDr Mark Porter studies the latest guidelines on antibiotic prescriptions for ear ache.
Correspondents' Look Ahead
Correspondents' Look AheadStephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead.
Costing the Earth
Better Living Through Chemistry?How being exposed to a cocktail of pesticides could potentially damage our health.
Crossing Continents
Malaysia: Racial Supremacy No More?Tensions between ethnic Malays and Malaysians of ethnic Chinese and Indian origin.
Crossing Continents
The Iraqi Backstreet BoysCaroline Hawley meets an Iraqi boyband formed towards the end of Saddam Hussein's rule.
Darwin: In Our Time
3. On the Origin of SpeciesHow Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
Darwin: In Our Time
2. The Voyage of the BeagleHow Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
Darwin: In Our Time
1. On the Origins of Charles DarwinDarwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
Dear Darwin
Episode 4Dr Peter Bentley tells Darwin about the emerging field of evolutionary computing.
Dear Darwin
Episode 3Prof Jerry Coyne tells of the evidence that has been discovered to support Darwin's work.
Excess Baggage
Sat, 03 Jan 2009Sandi Toksvig hears about two overland trips that provided very different experiences.
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