/u/whatatwit's posts in /r/BritishRadio
Wow! How Did They Do That? A series presented by Roger Law about British inventions, designs and ingenuity that may have come to something. E1 concerns Adam Lowe of Factum Arte who makes legal reproductions of great works of art and e4 Charlie Paton's cooling greenhouses in hottest Africa!
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No Room For Secrets by Joanna Lumley. Dame Joanna Lumley famous for The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous, and Conversations From A Long Marriage, reads from her autobiography that uses her home as a metaphor: going from ground floor to attic in her life story. See comments for omnibus edition.
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Returned Without Thanks by Berkely Mather: This is a story from 1967 about a meticulous explosives expert with a mistress and an inconvenient wife. Unless mismarked in the listener weekend this must be one they stumbled upon while searching for a different listener request.
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Escape from the Maze: We hear the inside stories from former IRA inmates and security personnel about the mass breakout from the UK's most secure prison in 1983. Presenter, Carlo Gebler, also uncovers how certain decisions made by the Conservative government facilitated the escape.
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This is another weekend of programmes from the deep archives only retrieved after a reader's suggestion. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of many but there's no tag linking them. It's from '75 and pedestrian by modern standards. See also My Music e1 with Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
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