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The Seasonal Trimmings round-up episode of BBC’s The Unbelievable Truth radio programme includes Richard Osman and Holly Walsh teasing David Mitchell about nuts. (Recording available for around five weeks from now.)
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A BBC Radio 3 adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles for orchestra and half a dozen actors, led by Mark Gatiss and Sanjeev Bhaskar as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
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Shakespeare’s Restless World, a 2012 series by Neil MacGregor of the British Museum, exploring late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England through contemporary objects. The fifteen radio episodes are accompanied by galleries of the objects discussed.
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BBC 1968 radio dramatization of The Hobbit is available to listen to gratis on archive.org.
(Via @gwjschenk on Twitter)
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Australian National anthem, Advance Australia Fair, has again been tweaked by the Prime Minister to better represent modern Australia.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in which Proteus is a terrible friend. An audio version of the complete play. Part of an irregularly updated podcast from the BBC.
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Claire Corbett reads Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen delightfully in 61 short episodes (five to ten minutes each).
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Another cover of Blue Monday, this time by Orkestra Obsolete
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Douglas Adams's text adventure game of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is available to play on the BBC web site.
(Via Joe Shadow 👤 on Twitter)
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Timeline of ancient civilizations
(Via kottke.org on Twitter)
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In Our Time: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Via A Midsummer Night’s Dream — In Our Time — Overcast)
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BBC coverage of the the People’s Vote March on 2019-03-23 includes aerial footage showing the scale of the crowds, and quotes from some of the marchers.
(Via BBC Politics on Twitter via Mike Galsworthy on Twitter)
Noted by Damian Cugley .
