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List Of BBC Podcasts
This is a list of current and former BBC shows that have been released as podcasts. The podcasts have been arranged in tables according to genre. Original Podcasts True Crime Life Stories History Investigative journalism References {{reflist Lists of podcasts, BBC BBC-related lists, Podcasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podcast
A podcast is a Radio program, program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. Typically, a podcast is an Episode, episodic series of digital audio Computer file, files that users can download to a personal device or stream to listen to at a time of their choosing. Podcasts are primarily an audio medium, but some distribute in video, either as their primary content or as a supplement to audio; popularised in recent years by video platform YouTube. In 2025, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg reported that a billion people are watching podcasts on YouTube every month. A podcast series usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. Discussion and content within a podcast can range from carefully scripted to completely improvised. Podcasts combine elaborate and artistic sound production with thematic concerns ranging from scientific research to Slice of life, slice-of-life journalism. Many podcast series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fake Heiress
''Fake Heiress'' is a podcast on BBC Radio 4 about the criminal career of Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, a Russian-born German con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access the upper echelons of New York City's social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017. The series was created and hosted by BBC World BBC News is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. – a subsidiary of BBC Studios – and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, an ... journalist Vicky Baker and playwright Chloe Moss. References Crime podcasts BBC Radio 4 programmes {{podcast-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death In Ice Valley
''Death in Ice Valley'' is a 2018 true crime podcast produced by NRK, the Norwegian radio and television public broadcasting company and BBC World Service. It is authored by Marit Higraff, a Norwegian investigative journalist with NRK, and Neil McCarthy, documentary producer with BBC. The podcast follows a two-year investigation into the Isdal Woman case, concerning an unknown woman whose burned body was found in western Norway in 1970. It instigated a crowd-sourcing campaign for new leads in the investigation, gathered around the eponymous Facebook group run by World Service editor Anna Doble and journalist Beth Ryder. Higraff makes use of modern forms of journalism, mostly podcasting. She is one of the leading experts on the case of the Isdal Woman and successfully encouraged the Bergen Police to reopen the case in 2016. References External links Marit Higraffon de Volkskrant ''De Volkskrant'' (; ), stylized as de Volkskrant, is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Is George Gibney?
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The Hurricane Tapes
''The Hurricane Tapes'' is a 13-part BBC World Service podcast series, released in 2019, discussing in detail the case of Rubin Carter, an American-Canadian middleweight Boxer (boxing), boxer, wrongfully convicted twice of murder in 1966 and 1976 respectively and later released following a petition of habeas corpus in 1985 after serving almost 20 years in prison. Presenter Steve Crossman and producer Joel Hammer use interviews with survivors, case notes from the original investigations, and 40 hours of tapes recorded with Carter by author Ken Klonsky for his 2011 book ''The Eye of the Hurricane'' and recordings of Vincent DeSimone, the lead detective. Reception According to Sarah Larson in ''The New Yorker'' ''The Hurricane Tapes'' skilfully shows how the violence central to Rubin Carter’s meandering life led to a boxing career—and how quickly boxing took him from pariah to hero and back again. The exhaustive amount of research was praised upon its inclusion in ''The Atlanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Island Discs
''Desert Island Discs'' is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942. Each week a guest, called a " castaway" during the programme, is asked to choose eight audio recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would like to take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst discussing their life and the reasons for their choices. It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley. Since 2018, the programme has been presented by Lauren Laverne. More than 3,400 episodes have been recorded, with some guests having appeared more than once and some episodes featuring more than one guest. An example of a guest who falls into both categories is Bob Monkhouse, who appeared with his co-writer Denis Goodwin on 12 December 1955 and in his own right on 20 December 1998. When ''Desert Island Discs'' marked its 75th year in 2017, ''The Guardian'' called the show a radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grounded With Louis Theroux
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The Life Scientific
''The Life Scientific'' is a BBC Radio 4 science programme, presented by Jim Al-Khalili, in which each episode is dedicated to the biography and work of a living scientist. The programme consists of an interview between Al-Khalili and the featured scientist, with others contributing anecdotes. It is broadcast on Tuesday mornings in the UK, and is available online and via BBC Sounds, as is an archive of past episodes. In October 2021 the programme reached its 10-year anniversary with discussion between Ottoline Leyser, Paul Nurse, Christopher Jackson (geologist), Christopher Jackson and Sue Black (computer scientist), Sue Black on the topic of 'What makes a scientist?'. Guests Guests have included: References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Life Scientific BBC Radio 4 programmes Science radio programs 2011 radio programme debuts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Our Time (radio Series)
''In Our Time'' is a BBC Radio 4 discussion series and podcast exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific and philosophical topics, presented by Melvyn Bragg, since 15 October 1998.BBC ''In our time'' It is one of Radio 4's most successful discussion programmes, acknowledged to have "transformed the landscape for serious ideas at peak listening time". The series passed its 1,000th episode in September 2023 and attracts a weekly audience exceeding two million listeners. Programme The series, devised and produced by Olivia Seligman (with others) and currently produced by Simon Tillotson with Victoria Brignell, runs weekly throughout the year on |
A History Of The World In 100 Objects
''A History of the World in 100 Objects'' was a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, consisting of a 100-part radio series written and presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor. In 15-minute presentations broadcast on weekdays on Radio 4, MacGregor used objects of ancient art, industry, technology and arms, all of which are in the British Museum's collections, as an introduction to parts of human history. The series, four years in planning, began on 18 January 2010 and was broadcast over 20 weeks. * * * * A book to accompany the series, ''A History of the World in 100 Objects'' by Neil MacGregor, was published by Allen Lane on 28 October 2010. The entire series is also available for download along with an audio version of the book for purchase. The British Museum won the 2011 Art Fund Prize for its role in hosting the project. In 2016, a touring exhibition of several items depicted on the radio programme, also titled ''A History of the World in 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50 Things That Made The Modern Economy
''50 Things That Made the Modern Economy'' is a radio show and podcast on the BBC World Service. It is presented by economist and journalist Tim Harford. The first series was broadcast between 5 November 2016 and 28 October 2017. A second series began on 30 March 2019. Harford explained in a BBC interview in 2017 that his motivation for creating the show was "to paint a picture of economic change by telling the stories of the ideas, people, and tools that had far-reaching consequences". He was "fascinated" by the many unexpected outcomes, such as "the impact of the fridge on global politics, or of the gramophone on income inequality." Towards the end of the first series, a public call was made for suggestions of a "51st thing". Harford chose six submissions for an online vote. The winning item was announced as the credit card in an episode on 28 October 2017. A bonus episode about Santa Claus was broadcast on 24 December 2018. The first series was published in Britain as ''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
