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View Series page for Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

  • Sport

Extended interviews from Colin Murray's Gold Run – one man’s quest to meet every living GB gold medallist from the summer Olympics.

Sun, 27 May 12

25 minutes

View Series page for The Digital Human

The Digital Human

  • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology journalist Aleks Krotoski as she goes beyond the latest gadget or web innovation to understand what sort

Mon, 21 May 12

27 minutes

View Series page for Time To Move (BBC Learning)

Time To Move (BBC Learning)

  • Children's > Music
  • Learning > 5-11

Dance resources for children aged 6 to 8 covering popular cross-curricular topics, primarily for school use. Presented by Diane Louise Jordan and featuring music specially-composed for the series.

Wed, 23 May 12

19 minutes

View Series page for Daily Mayo

Daily Mayo

  • News
  • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

The best bits of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, with star guests, audience interactivity, intelligent conversation and much more.

7 hours ago

21 minutes

View Series page for Desi Download

Desi Download

  • Factual
  • News

Talat-Farooq Awan presents a pick of the week from BBC Local Radio Asian community programmes. News, views and a celebration of the cultural life of Asian people across England, all told in their own

Wed, 23 May 12

29 minutes

View Series page for Documentaries

Documentaries

  • News
  • Factual > History

Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.

Tue, 29 May 12

23 minutes

View Series page for Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

  • Sport

Extended interviews from Colin Murray's Gold Run – one man’s quest to meet every living GB gold medallist from the summer Olympics.

Sun, 27 May 12

25 minutes

View Series page for Inheritance Tracks

Inheritance Tracks

  • Music
  • Entertainment

Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.

Sat, 26 May 12

7 minutes

View Series page for Inheritance Tracks 2008-2011

Inheritance Tracks 2008-2011

  • Entertainment
  • Music

Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.

Sat, 31 Dec 11

7 minutes

View Series page for Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz

Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz

Geoffrey Smith with his weekly selection of jazz. Each Saturday at midnight, Geoffrey Smith introduces his personal sequence of jazz tracks, inimitably presented and covering the whole history of

Sun, 27 May 12

23 minutes

UK only

View Series page for The Digital Human

The Digital Human

  • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology journalist Aleks Krotoski as she goes beyond the latest gadget or web innovation to understand what sort

Mon, 21 May 12

27 minutes

View Series page for Sunday Supplement

Sunday Supplement

  • News

Vaughan Roderick presents a review of the week in Welsh politics with interviews, news, views and gossip. Broadcast weekly on BBC Radio Wales, Sundays from 0800–0900.

Mon, 30 Apr 12

50 minutes

  • The Radio 3 Documentary

    The Radio 3 Documentary

    Last Updated:
    9 hours ago

    Average Duration:
    44 minutes

    The Radio 3 Documentary

    • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media
    • Factual

    In-depth documentaries which each week explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 7.45pm on BBC

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    5 Episodes

  • Arts and Ideas

    Arts and Ideas

    Last Updated:
    Fri, 25 May 12

    Average Duration:
    44 minutes

    Arts and Ideas

    • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

    The best of BBC Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas programme Night Waves - featuring in-depth interviews with artists, scientists and public figures, vociferous debates, and reviews of the latest

    Updated weekly

    Programme Highlights

    145 Episodes

  • Breakfast Show Specialist Classical Chart

    Breakfast Show Specialist Classical Chart

    Last Updated:
    Tue, 22 May 12

    Average Duration:
    26 minutes

    UK only

    Breakfast Show Specialist Classical Chart

    • Music > Classical
    • Entertainment
    • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

    Tracks from the top CDs in this week’s Specialist Classical Chart. Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Petroc Trelawny present a selection of the top 20 best selling CDs. The podcast is taken from the Tuesday

    Updated weekly

    Programme Highlights

    1 Episode

  • Radio 3 Essay

    Radio 3 Essay

    Last Updated:
    Fri, 18 May 12

    Average Duration:
    14 minutes

    Radio 3 Essay

    • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media
    • Factual

    Authored essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week. Each episode is full of insight, opinion and intellectual surprise from one

    Updated daily

    Whole Programme

    5 Episodes

  • The Lebrecht Interview

    The Lebrecht Interview

    Last Updated:
    Mon, 5 Sep 11

    Average Duration:
    44 minutes

    The Lebrecht Interview

    • Music > Classical
    • Factual > Life Stories

    In-depth, biographical portraits of pre-eminent classical musicians and artists interviewed by Norman Lebrecht. Frank, self-appraising and psychologically revealing, these 44 minute interviews include

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    16 Episodes

  • A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects

    A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects

    Last Updated:
    Wed, 12 Jan 11

    Average Duration:
    10 minutes

    A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects

    • Music > Classical
    • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

    Mozart’s world rediscovered in objects of his time. Professor Cliff Eisen, a leading expert on Mozart’s life, looks at Mozart’s eighteenth century world through objects that were close to him.

    Updated daily

    Whole Programme

    11 Episodes

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