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This looks like a repeat, but:

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Alderley Edge - Alan Garner

Alderley Edge - Alan Garner
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Tomorrow, 06:07 on BBC Radio 4
Synopsis

Alan Garner spent his early childhood in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England, and he remains associated with the area. Many of his works, including The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, are drawn from local legends and locations. Clare Balding walks with him to hear more about the area and how it inspired his writing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0122k8h - has various photos

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I've heard a couple of rather odd trailers for this - there are three of them, each about 3 minutes long, mostly some blokw talking.

Coming up soon ... a science fiction classic from Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Read by Kerry Shale.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vs65f

1. Mon 8 Nov 2010
18:00
BBC Radio 7
2. Tue 9 Nov 2010
00:00
BBC Radio 7

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In case you didn't hear it, this one may be of interest:

Who are these fellow-travellers and their friend?
The most recent might provide a habitat for lilies. Another, a few years ago, might come and do your bathroom for you. Going back nearly four decades, another could make sure you had sufficient funds. And the very first of all would take charge of the gang.

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Kudos to Evan Davies who told Jim Naughtie off for thanking Andrew Marr on Monday's Toady programme at about 8.30. Marr had clearly been precorded and Naughtie - who should know better - wasn't fooling anyone.
The Anthony Gormley statues seen in London are now lying on the roof of the De la Warr Pavilion - I feel a trip to Bexhill on Sea coming on. And maybe a visit to the bookshop.
My blood pressure is up - having nearly forgotten to go into a well known pharmacy to pick up my prescription, I had to explain that my name wasn't Batch, rather I had a batch prescription lodged with them. Further I had to explain that these were situated through the back. I had brought six psecriptions in a month ago, and this was not the last one. And as it was already signed and dated, I didn't need to sign and date it. I begin to regret telling the doctor - who had, after all, talked me into using this scheme "for the convenience" - that I had finally got them trained at the chemist after two years. Frankly, going in the the surgery to drop off a repeat prescription and picking it up 48 hours later is less stressful.

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Radio 4's Madwomen in the Attic managed to include an interview with Sandra Gilbert, but didn't mention any of her previous books.

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Documentary on Douglas Adams on BBC Radio 4 at 11am.

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11:00–11:30
The Doctor and Douglas
Jon Culshaw examines the influence of the man who changed Dr Who forever: Douglas Adams.

Shame it's Jon Culshaw. How long before he does a Tom Baker impression? (that'll be the point when he says, "Hello, I'm the Doctor" as he's of a generation who introduce their impressions so you can guess who they are. Come back Mike Yarwood, all is forgiven)

H'mmm:

As a new generation of fans await the debut of the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, long-time fan Jon Culshaw travels back in time to look at the man who changed Doctor Who forever: Douglas Adams.

After years toiling for success as a writer, in 1978 Douglas' world turned upside down. Just weeks after the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was commissioned, so was his first script for Doctor Who. The following year - just as Hitchhikers was taking off - he was offered the job as script editor, one of the most demanding jobs in television.

The scripts he wrote for Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet, City of Death and Shada - still stand as a benchmark for the series today. But his time on the series was beset by problems. Technician strikes would seriously affect production, inflation was squeezing the series budget, and Douglas was exhausted by the simultaneous demands of Hitchhikers and Doctor Who.

Nevertheless, Douglas left an indelible mark on Doctor Who, bringing in a sharp wit that hadn't been seen before in what was ostensibly a children's TV series. Today's crop of writers and producers strive to emulate the intelligence, humour and ideas in Adams' scripts from 1979.

Jon Culshaw looks at Douglas' work on a television institution, talking to the writers, directors and actors who worked with him, and looks at the legacy of his work on Doctor Who with new executive producer Steven Moffat.

Produced by Simon Barnard and Kieron Moyles. This is a Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4.

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Will Self presents the Archive Hour on Radio 4 on JG Ballard at 8pm BST - repeated next Monday 3PM and on Listen Again

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World Service - I guess also on Listen Again http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/2009/03/000000_world_drama.shtml

World Drama

Hear some great British and international radio drama

'Moving Bodies' by Arthur Giron - LA Theatreworks, USA

Broadcast Saturday 26 September 2009 at 1901 GMT
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This week the final play in our Worldplay season (on the theme of science) which comes from the USA.

This engaging biography of the Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman explores the colourful scientist’s life in relation to his involvement with some of the major scientific endeavors of the 20th century. Starring Alfred Molina as Richard Feynman. Directed by Rosalind Ayres.

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Radio 4 has a programme which throws together random readings and slivers of music conducted by one of a number of men with striking voices, in the hope that we find it profound. It seems to be on at 6am and 11.30pm on a Sunday, when it is fairly easy to sound profound.

Yesterday was about spring, and the impact it has on emotions, and I was caught up short a) by his reference to May being the commonest time for suicide (I thought they were more evenly spread but I might be wrong - my memory is of someone attributing the period of Christmas as the most depressing period) and b) by the parsing of SAD as Seasonally-Adjusted Depression.

In seasonally-adjusting, do we not compensate for the factors that vary according to season, and so this would be the very opposite of SAD?

On the other hand, going in search of what precisely SAD stands for I found:

Sagittal Abdominal Diameter,
Schizoaffective disorder
Separation anxiety disorder
Sexual arousal disorder
Selected area diffraction
Social anxiety disorder
Standard American Diet

I think I suffer from several of these - although I don't think want to know this at 6.00 in the morning or 11.30 at night.

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Vril

04 Jan 2009, 21:30 on BBC Radio 3
SYNOPSIS:
Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, the infinitely powerful energy source of the species of superhumans which featured in Victorian author and politician Edward Bulwer Lytton's pioneering science fiction novel The Coming Race. Although it was completely fictional, many people were desperate to believe it really existed and had the power to transform their lives. With a visit to Knebworth House, Lytton's vast, grandiloquent Gothic mansion, where Matthew meets Lytton's great-great-great-grandson, and hears how his book was meant to be a warning about technology, soulless materialism and utopian dreams. At London's Royal Albert Hall, he discovers how a doctor, Herbert Tibbits, along with a handful of aristocrats, tried to promote the notion of electrical cures and the possibility of a 'coming race'. Along the way, Matthew and his contributors consider why so many English people have been so desperate to see the fantasy of regeneration transformed into fact.

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I turned the radio on on Monday night to ~~Kaleidoscope~~Front Row to hear the unmistakeable tones of Mark Lawson asking Mark Billingham how much of something was true and how much was made up.

Argh!

Last night it was going to be Mark Lawson interviews J.G. Ballard "who has sifted the truth from the fiction in a new autobiography."

Argh!

Why shouldn't the made up be the truth?

"It's the truth even if it didn't happen."

[And Ballard was interviewed by James Naughtie on the Toady Programme last week, an interview uninforming even by Ballard's standards, not giving him a chance even to trot out the same lines he always uses:

JN: "So, you wrote a book about your experiences in Shanghai?"

JGB: "Yes, I did."

JN: "And Spielberg film it, in a most remarkable movie."

JGB: "Yes, he did."

No mention of sf, naturally, no indication that Naughtie had even read the books.]

So which bits of this post are the truth and which bits made up?

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Some guy from the Asian Dub Foundation talks PKD on Radio 4's Breakfast programme, Today. I think Mark E Smith claims that Dick told him his was the only record he had (or had in 1979? The words are blurred). Yea, right.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today3_dick_20070407.ram

(This link probably only valid until Monday unless someone records it...)

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Why This Is Hell

Nor Am I Out of It

Alan Garner

Do Androids Dream of BBC Radio 7

Round Britain Quiz

A Metatheses Pork Night

How to Suppress...

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Ballard heads up

Feynman Play Heads up

Something Misunderstood

The Coming ... Documentary

Mark Bloody Lawson

PKD on Toady Programme

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