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  • iPlayer – Catch Up With BBC Favourites

    iPlayer – Catch Up With BBC Favourites

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    The BBC’s Director of Future Media & Technology Ashley Highfield discusses this month’s launch of the BBC iPlayer – a free catch-up service for UK licence-fee payer. The platform has developed by the BBC’s Future Media & Technology division in partnership with Siemens and Red Bee Media. “Your favourite programmes from all the BBC’s network…

  • Lenny Henry Explores British Humour

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    Acclaimed comedian Lenny Henry travels the UK exploring what makes us laugh and how we use our humour in everyday life in Lenny’s Britain, a new series for BBC One which starts next week. The 4 part documentary series, a collaboration with the Open University, promises to show Lenny “as we’ve never seen him before”…

  • Nebulous – BBC Audio

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    This three-disc set contains all 6 episodes of the first series of Nebulous, a comedy sci-fi series which follows the adventures of Professor Nebulous (Mark Gatiss) and KENT – the Key Environmental Non-Judgemental Taskforce – dedicated to getting a post apocalyptic planet back on the right track. I’d missed the radio broadcasts so I was…

  • The Midwich Cuckoos – BBC Classic Radio Sci-Fi

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    This 2003 radio production of John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoosstars Bill Nighy as Richard (whose character also serves as thenarrator) and Sarah Parish. Set in the remote village of Midwich the story tells of a series ofunexpected pregnancies and subsequent births which all occur on thesame day. Each child the ability to communicate telepathically, a…

  • The Chrysalids and Survival – BBC Classic Radio Sci-Fi

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    This double disc entry in BBC Audiobooks’ Classic Sci-Fi range features two classic stories from John Wyndham – The Chrysalids and Survival. Spanning both discs the main feature in the release is The Chrysalids.First aired in 1981 this is an eery and dramatic tale of the villageWaknut whose inhabitants seek to drive out any signs…

  • This Life + 10

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    A decade ago, This Life premièred on BBC Two and changed the face of television drama.