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Saturday, June 04, 2005
Deep Throat
At last, we know the identity of the Watergate mole. Of course, Richard Nixon denied all, as Weekend Edition reminded us.
Friday, June 03, 2005
Vampire on the loose
Wake Up To Wogan listeners (aka TOGs - Terry's Old Geezers/Gals) are notoriously hard of hearing and frequently mishear items in the news. Today, traffic news reader Deadly Alancoat's mention of a van fire prompted several listeners to panic about a vampire on the loose. BBC Radio 2, The Coffin-dodger's network.
Stolen People
Zita Wallace is one of the Stolen Generation, children of Aboriginal and European parents who were taken away by the Australian government. After decades of separation in the Tiwi Islands, she returned home to the Central Desert, where she is now going through women's initiation and being taught her tribal language by the children. She tells her tale on the ABC's Street Stories.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Ode to Non/Nee
Here's a modified version of the European Union's anthem, 'Ode to Joy', as heard on Newsnight yesterday. The Dutch have sinced voted an emphatic 63% Nee. to match the 54% French Non.
Violin passion
A quick snippit of daftness from Wednesday, June 01, 2005
The Reign of Terror and university committees
There was a spirited discussion of the French Revolution and the resulting Terror on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time last week. Describing the inordinate amount of wine that was drunk during meetings of The Committee of Public Safety, one academic compared it to a university committee.
Ears Wide Open
Would you know your lover in the dark? What about if your ex-lover conspired to intercept your caresses? That's just what happened in this clever mini-play, 'Soft and Gooey' by Sheila Goff, part of a series about the dark, Ears Wide Open, this week on Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
The forgotten Apollo 8
Things We Forgot To Remember this week recalled the revolutionary voyage of Apollo 8. The CIA found out that the Soviet Union was on the verge of launching a man into space and pushed for moon orbit. It was this successful mission, the first to completely leave earth, not Armstrong’s footsteps from Apollo 11, that ended the Soviet programme.