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📚 Here's another Douglas Adams treat: half an hour with the man himself talking about the writing of Hitchhikers…

https://bbc.in/4c7nw7v

#RadioDrama #comedy #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CultFiction #DouglasAdams #writing #literature #BookClub #reading #creativity

🌌 On this day in 1978 the very first episode of the very first version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy went out on Radio 4. We can't tell you how proud that makes us.

Here's a lovely programme about Douglas and his creation, presented by his friend John Lloyd, that went out on the 40th anniversary.

https://bbc.in/4c0ZRpr

#RadioDrama #comedy #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CultFiction #DouglasAdams

Three million British subjects died in the Bengal Famine during the second world war in India.

80 years on, Kavita Puri has recorded conversations with some of the last survivors of the famine. It's fascinating and moving.

Three Million, on BBC Sounds.

https://bbc.in/49NQM11

#famine #war #India #BengalFamine #BritishEmpire #colonialism #hunger #WW2

📱 Facebook is 20. Author Jamie Bartlett investigates the new digital elite and the power of the vast platforms they control.

Gatekeepers, a new podcast on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/4boLlHB

#Facebook #SocialMedia #PlatformEconomy #JamieBartlett #podcast #technology

🗡️ How's your Norse mythology?

Take our quiz.

https://bbc.in/4aKz1AZ

#Norse #myth #story #legend #ancient #storytelling #hero

“I didn’t want to die. I didn’t want to end my life. I wanted to get better.”

Billy plays with a football league which aims to help men open up about their mental health and to lose weight.

The Big League on BBC Sounds

https://bbc.in/3trDJD2

#MentalHealth #health #football #sport

🌒 Got 269 minutes? A desire to lose yourself in the realm where drama and religion become one? Peristent urge to explore the opposing realms of lust and compassion?

Radio 3 would like a word.

https://bbc.in/3SGOrzX #opera #Wagner #drama #festival #Germany #Bayreuth

"We’re performing a version of ourselves that people mistake for us, but it’s not actually us. We are more than that little avatar."

Naomi Klein: Eight things we learnt when she spoke to Kirsty Young on Young Again - Read more https://bbc.in/3Mkwovc

#NaomiKlein #NoLogo #literature #politics #author #writing

Adelaide Hall was born on this day 122 years ago today. She performed around the world, moved to Britain in 1938 and became a big star, entertaining the troops in wartime. When she was 71 and still working hard, she recorded her first Desert Island Discs.

From this clip it's obvious that presenter and music nut Roy Plomley knew and loved her work.

https://bbc.in/45HrAqu

#jazz #AdelaideHall #DesertIslandDiscs #Broadway

🌊 Miniature octopuses, scuba tanks, life rafts, flippers, sharks and some very rare green dragons are still washing ashore along the Cornwall coast today, 25 years after a container of Lego was washed off the deck of a cargo ship.

https://bbc.in/45lx2zp

#Lego #minifig #diver #sea #ocean #cargo #beachcomber #seaweed #toy

Photo by Nukamari on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed

Has Armageddon ever sounded so good? 👼 😈

The main theme from @neilhimself's #GoodOmens, composed by David Arnold, was one of the delights performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Huddersfield Choral Society at the #BBCProms this year. The concert was conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing.

🎧 Listen to Fantasy Film Music at the Proms on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3Zska9a

#StarWars #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #NeilGaiman #fantasy #film #soundtrack #OST #movie #BBCConcertOrchestra #AnnaMariaHelsing

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📺 Of course you can also watch the Fantasy Film Music Prom on BBC iPlayer, if you like that sort of thing: https://bbc.in/3LvUbba

📚 🎵 Think you might also enjoy @mastodon.social@neilhimself's terrific Desert Island Discs - David Bowie, Tori Amos, Michael Nyman, Thea Gilmore and 'a Victorian accounts ledger, a fountain pen and an unlimited supply of ink'.

It's on BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/3rWwS3h

#NeilGaiman #literature #fantasy #author #DesertIslandDiscs #music #GoodOmens

@Detour 198 rocks, of course, but I'm sorry to say the long wave transmitter's going to be switched off next year. Do you have the BBC Sounds app on your phone?

🏝️ Did you listen to @neilhimself's Desert Island Discs? His eight favourite records, from Bowie to Nyman to Tori Amos to, er, Gilbert & Sullivan? It's a real treat.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

#NeilGaiman #DesertIslandDiscs #music #BBC #GoodOmens

https://bbc.in/3rWwS3h

@Ra @neilhimself Search your podcast app, Ra, you should find the RSS version :-)

📖 According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, in fact.

The whole of our six-part adapation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's wonderful 1990 fantasy Good Omens is on BBC Sounds now - and you can listen from anywhere in the world. Tell your friends, good or evil.

#NeilGaiman #TerryPratchett #fantasy #drama #funny #GoodOmens
https://bbc.in/3qgSXt7

Who was Rabindranath Tagore and why is his work and teaching still so influential today?

From the archives, a special programme celebrating the life and work of the Nobel-prize winning poet, musician, and reformer who died in August 1941. Listen on BBC Sounds #poetry #literature #SouthAsia #history https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b012wckp

⚽️ "The players that came before us worked so hard. You don't only succeed for the team now but for everyone."

England Lionesses World Cup captain Millie Bright joins Maisie Adam to talk about her Euros victory memories.

Download all episodes of Maisie Adam's The Beautiful Game on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001npf6