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Time to trace the history of the movie musical 🎭
24/11/2024

Time to trace the history of the movie musical 🎭

The foot-tapping films that pushed the musical into bold new directions.

Martin Lewis: 'This is a better time for savers than it has been for quite a long while'
24/11/2024

Martin Lewis: 'This is a better time for savers than it has been for quite a long while'

Martin Lewis explains what’s happening to savings rates.

Ever heard of hun culture?
23/11/2024

Ever heard of hun culture?

Nat and Jo learn all about Hun culture with Hunsnet aka Gareth Howells.

Christian Horner: 'It's not about looking backwards, it's about looking forward'
23/11/2024

Christian Horner: 'It's not about looking backwards, it's about looking forward'

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner reflects on the season so far.

How damaging are coffee pods to the environment?
23/11/2024

How damaging are coffee pods to the environment?

Does coffee pod convenience harm the environment with all those discarded plastic shells?

What the Must Watch reviewers think of Bad Sisters
23/11/2024

What the Must Watch reviewers think of Bad Sisters

Every week the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows

Jonathan Dimbleby on the assisted dying bill
17/11/2024

Jonathan Dimbleby on the assisted dying bill

A law has been proposed to give terminally ill people the option to end their life.

Lioness Steph Houghton: “When something like this disease happens, it’s important that you live each day as it comes"
17/11/2024

Lioness Steph Houghton: “When something like this disease happens, it’s important that you live each day as it comes"

Lionesses great Steph Houghton opens up about her husband’s MND.

Eight iconic scenes of the city that never sleeps 🌃
16/11/2024

Eight iconic scenes of the city that never sleeps 🌃

Ellen and Mark explore gritty and glamorous depictions of the city that never sleeps.

It's a murder that obsessed the nation and a disappearance that's mystified police for 50 years...
16/11/2024

It's a murder that obsessed the nation and a disappearance that's mystified police for 50 years...

Every week the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows

As the nights drawn in, which podcasts have you been cosying up to?
13/11/2024

As the nights drawn in, which podcasts have you been cosying up to?

Nine things we learned about novellist and playwright Hanif Kureishi. ✍️
10/11/2024

Nine things we learned about novellist and playwright Hanif Kureishi. ✍️

The hugely respected writer talks about his life-changing accident and recovery.

Young Again: seven things we learned about Irvin Welsh🗣️
09/11/2024

Young Again: seven things we learned about Irvin Welsh🗣️

Highlights from Kirsty Young's Young Again episode featuring Irvine Welsh

'You don't always need a huge deposit': Advice for first-time home buyers 🏡
09/11/2024

'You don't always need a huge deposit': Advice for first-time home buyers 🏡

Advice for first-time home buyers from Money Box Live.

Would you swap sugar for salt in your tea? ☕️
09/11/2024

Would you swap sugar for salt in your tea? ☕️

Is it time to use salt instead of sugar for tea?

The Archers radio star June Spencer dies aged 105
08/11/2024

The Archers radio star June Spencer dies aged 105

The actress played matriarch Peggy Woolley in BBC Radio 4's long-running drama from 1951 until 2022.

June Spencer, the last original cast member of The Archers, has died aged 105.Mohit Bakaya, Controller of Radio 4 said: ...
08/11/2024

June Spencer, the last original cast member of The Archers, has died aged 105.

Mohit Bakaya, Controller of Radio 4 said: “June Spencer has been a longstanding presence and companion for Radio 4 listeners during her exceptional run on The Archers. Many have grown up with June as Peggy and listened as she journeyed through life’s many chapters, with all of its ups and downs.  In her later years, her portrayal of a devoted wife caring for a husband with Dementia, including their very moving final goodbye, was deeply poignant and powerful radio. We send all our love and condolences to June’s family and the many people whose lives she touched.”

Jeremy Howe, Editor of The Archers added: “”Working with June was like working with a legend, and has been one of the great privileges of my time at the BBC. Here was this person, immaculately dressed and sitting bolt upright in the Green Room at BBC Birmingham, script at the ready, all meticulously marked up with little pencil squiggles and dashes like musical notation, who had been in the first ever episode of the Archers back in 1951. June Spencer wasn’t just a brilliant Peggy Woolley, the ultimate matriarch of Ambridge, but a brilliant actress. I only ever worked with her in radio, but her technique, her precision, her delivery were flawless. One of the cast once remarked that in all her time in the show he had only ever heard her fluff her lines the once. She was an actress who revelled in her craft, someone who could score a bullseye with a gently insulting cough as if it were a bon mot from Oscar Wilde. She was also a great company member – funny, sharp, warm, never gossipy, but with wonderful stories of the early days of radio drama, self deprecating and a great companion. The two things I would never commit to with June were being driven by her at the age of one hundred and one or taking her on at Scrabble. She was a Scrabble demon. June’s Peggy Woolley was and always will be the Queen of Ambridge, and with her death The Archers has lost its link with the birth of the show over seventy years ago. It is a humbling moment for us all.”

Seven things you need to know about buying a house 🏡
05/11/2024

Seven things you need to know about buying a house 🏡

Advice for first-time home buyers from Money Box Live.

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