Radio recommendations

Today

Oscar Sings

Oscar Sings
BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 LW
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Film critic Andrew Collins explores how the prize for Best Song at the Oscars has developed, and reflects on the...

It's Not What You Know

It's Not What You Know
BBC Radio 4
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New series. Comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp, in which three guests comedians pick one of their nearest...

Johnnie Walker's Long-Players

Johnnie Walker's Long-Players
BBC Radio 2
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The presenter revisits two albums from 1970, Cat Stevens' Tea for the Tillerman and Van Morrison's Moondance.

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Tomorrow

The Unseeing Eye

The Unseeing Eye
BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 LW
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As Britain's last glass eye maker is about to retire, Jolyon Jenkins explores how people use the prostheses not...

This week

Inspired by Birds

BBC Radio 3
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Musician Tom McKinney explores how birds have influenced music throughout history, and reflects on works by...

Noughts and Crosses

BBC Radio 4 LW, BBC Radio 4
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Malorie Blackman's drama set in a dystopian world, centred on two teenagers who have been friends since infancy...

Sud's Law

Sud's Law
BBC Radio 2
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One-off panel-show pilot in which host Tracy-Ann Oberman (who played Chrissie Watts in EastEnders) tests...

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Living World

BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 LW
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Miranda Krestovnikoff learns about the habits of flies during winter. She visits an ice-bound pond and woodland...

The Cruel Sea

BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 LW
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Part one of two. By Nicholas Monsarrat, dramatised by John Fletcher. The lives of inexperienced seamen on board...

Wilkie Collins

BBC Radio 4
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By Peter Ackroyd, abridged by Libby Spurrier. An exploration of Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins' life,...

Recycled Radio

Recycled Radio
BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 LW
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Extracts from archive BBC broadcasts on the theme of failure are chopped up and reformatted to create a new...

Composer of the Week: Sally Beamish

BBC Radio 3
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Donald Macleod visits Sally Beamish (b 1956) in her home near Loch Lomond, to talk about her work. Sally has...

When Rock Chicks Ruled

When Rock Chicks Ruled
BBC Radio 2
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Sally Boazman charts the rise of female singer-songwriters in the 1960s at a time of huge social and political...

Swimming Home

BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 LW
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By Deborah Levy, abridged by Sally Marmion. A mysterious girl joins two couples on holiday in the south of...

The Essay

Wild Things II - Wild Ponies
BBC Radio 3
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In a second series of Essays on five native wild animals, poet and writer Ruth Padel investigates how people's...