FABULOUS FABLES BBC Radio 4, 5 x 14 minutes
Monday 28 February to Friday 4 March 2005 at 3.45 p.m.
Much of what we say and how we think we should treat others is based on Aesop's fables. But how well do they reflect the complexities of modern life and morals?
Presenter: Jo Morris
Producer: Matt Thompson
THE BIG QUESTION:
Who Needs Migrant Workers? BBC World Service 1 x 25 minutes
February 2005
Around 170 million people live and work outside their countries of origin. The figures are astonishing: Europe alone employs an estimated 60 million migrant workers. Compared to back home, they may be earning good money; but is there a personal price to pay?
Presenter: Omar Sattaur
Producer: Doug Campbell
THE GOODNIGHT TAPES BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Monday 14 March 2005 at 11.00 a.m.
Prisoners are encouraged to invent and record stories for their children in the hope that this will make them better parents and citizens. We follow the attempts to make often illiterate convicted criminals into people with a story and self-worth.
Presenter: Kim Normanton
Producer: Matt Thompson
TALKING TO THINGS BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Friday 18 March 2005 at 11.00 a.m.
Ray Brown investigates the practice of talking to things.
Presenter: Ray Brown
Producer: Nigel Acheson
THE THEATRE ON THE CLIFF BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Thursday 14 April 2005 at 11.30 a.m.
REPEATED 17 April 2005 at a quarter past midnight
The story of the Minack Theatre Porthcornow, Cornwall and its creator, Rowena Cade, whose passion for Shakespeare drove her to carve out a cliff-top theatre at the bottom of her garden.
Producer: Libby Spurrier
WHERE THE WILD KIDS ARE BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Friday 29 April 2005 at 11.00 a.m.
The late 60s and early 70s saw many experiments in new ways of living, but few perhaps as interesting as two parallel, unconventional "families" that were set up in Leeds and London in 1972. Part of their credo was that their 16 children would be "shared" among six different couples and adopt a common surname - Wild. We track them down to see how they turned out.
Presenter: Gerry Kennedy
Producer: Nigel Acheson
THE HOLY FIRE BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JERUSALEM RADIO AWARDS 2006
Friday 13 May 2005 at 11.00 a.m.
Every year in Jerusalem an ancient religious ceremony claims an annual miracle: "the Holy Fire", climax of the Orthodox Easter in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
"I enter the tomb an kneel in holy fear in front of the place where Christ lay after his death...I say certain prayers. Then, from the core of the very stone on which Jesus lay, an indefinable light pours forth. It rises and forms a column so that I am able to light my candles from it. Hereafter I give the flame to all people present in the church."
Presenter: Stewart Henderson
Producer: Joanne Coombs
HOW THE STARS BECAME BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Monday 16 May 2005 at 8.30 p.m.
Creation stories have astonishing variety. Kim Normanton talks to people of different faiths to discover what they were told as children to explain the mysteries of the universe.
Producers: Kim Normanton and Nigel Acheson
IT'S MY STORY:
THE RETIRING JOHN McKIE BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Thursday 19 May 2005 at 8.00 p.m.
John McKie has been a classics master in Glasgow for 38 years. He retired last Christmas. We follow John's last days at the school in lessons and through an audio diary. Along the way, we learn about the influence of the ancients on us all through the final days of a legendary teacher.
Producer: Matt Thompson
LEAVING THE LAND BBC Radio 4, 1 x 37 minutes
Tuesday 24 May 2005 at 8.00 p.m.
REPEATED Sunday 29 May at 5.00 p.m.
The BBC's former Harare correspondent, Grant Ferrett,
returns to Zimbabwe to find out what's happened to three farmers he first interviewed six years ago, before President Mugabe's government began its controversial land redistribution programme.
Presenter: Grant Ferrett
Producer: Nigel Acheson
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ANARCHISM? BBC Radio 4, 2 x 14 minutes
Sunday 10 & 17 July 2005 at 10.45 p.m.
REPEATED on Wednesday 13 & 20 July at 8.45 p.m.
Journalist and documentary-maker Wayne Brittenden weaves together the threads of a once weighty political movement.
Presenter: Wayne Brittenden
Producer: Nigel Acheson
IF THE SHOE FITS BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Friday 22 July 2005 at 11.00 a.m.
The abandoned shoe is a great big cliché in news journalism, films and fairy tales. Yet somehow the empty shoe still moves us. Why?
Producer: Matt Thompson
THOMAS MANN'S WAR BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Thursday 1 December 2005 at 11.30 a.m.
REPEATED on Sunday 11 December at a quarter past midnight
2005 is the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Mann, one of the towering figures of modern literature. This programme brings to life a fascinating period in Mann's writing career: his exile in California during the second World War.
Producer: William Catlin
TAKING ON TEHRAN BBC Radio 4, 1 x 28 minutes
Friday 9 December 2005, 11 am
Follow the fortunes of the British Muslim women's football team and their non-Muslim coach as they travel hopefully to the controversial 2005 Islamic Women's Games in Tehran. Inside an arena where male spectators are banned, the girls remove their veils, pull out their best Ronaldo moves and prepare to engage with Iraq.
Presenter Kim Normanton
Producer Jenny Steel
2005 radio programmes
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