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    Oct 21

    🚨 New podcast series 🚨 From the makers of The Battersea Poltergeist, Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. 🕵️‍♂️ Subscribe to Uncanny on 👇👇

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  2. 59 minutes ago

    Just sharing Miriam Margolyes' chat with again, as if you could possibly have forgotten. Miriam: but what happens to the balls? Louis: do you want an answer to that? Miriam: not really The whole episode is on

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  3. 3 hours ago

    On every British nuclear submarine there's a safe and in that safe there's a sealed letter from the Prime Minister… ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉

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  4. 3 hours ago

    Here's a really exciting discussion of Animal Farm - three experts, passionate about Orwell and his work and Melvyn Bragg keeping order. In Our Time on

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Bassist is founder of 🎶 🎼🎶 🎼

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  6. 5 hours ago

    A terrific folk show triibute to the great Paddy Moloney, with

    Paddy Moloney, Irish folk musician and founder of the Chieftains
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  7. 5 hours ago

    Was Muhammad Ali really The Greatest? 🥊 👑 🥊 👑 🥊

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  8. 10 hours ago

    🥊 The Rumble in the Jungle, Ali vs Foreman, October 30, 1974. From the archives, the original electrifying BBC commentary. |

    A black and white photograph taken during the George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali Rumble in the Jungle boxing match on 30 October 1974
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  9. 20 hours ago

    🎻 The musicians of the chamber ensemble share the joy (and the terror) of playing Schubert's glorious Trout Quintet.

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  10. 20 hours ago

    The Reunion brought back together the pioneers of Britain's first nuclear submarines. It's a gripping tale of innovation, diplomacy and courage.

    A press photograph of submarine HMS Valiant in the 1960s
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  11. 21 hours ago

    He was a giant of Irish traditional music and lynchpin of The Chieftains, the groundbreaking band he founded in 1962. On his terrific episode of Desert Island Discs he tells the story of how he took Irish folk to the world. 🎶 🎶 🎶

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  12. 21 hours ago

    John Clunies-Ross, once ruler of the Cocos Islands, a tiny coral archipelago which he ran in the style of a Scottish fiefdom, has died aged 92. His story is remarkable. The Last Word, on 🇨🇨 🏝

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  13. 21 hours ago

    The fabulous, dramatic life of war photographer, surrealist and Vogue model Lee Miller. A fascinating article from

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  14. 22 hours ago

    It's 1621. King James I of England is standing on the bank of the Thames, peering into the murky river. Under the water, the world's first submarine. The story of Cornelis Drebbel, inventor of the submarine. on

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  15. 23 hours ago

    Orwell's bleak, gripping allegory of dictatorship, compliance and tyranny is on , complete and unabridged.

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  16. 23 hours ago

    "Movie-making is a grotesque profession…" John Carpenter has made dozens of films, many cult classics - The Fog, Halloween, Escape from New York… He also writes the music. Sound of Cinema on 🎬 🎶 🎬 🎶

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  17. Oct 29

    Yes, it's Arnold , bodybuilder, Terminator, hunter of various fearsome Predators, Governor of California and, let's face it, one of the richest sources of memes in history. He's on now 💪 🌿 🏭

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  18. Oct 29

    As you'd expect, John Cooper Clarke is an enormously entertaining castaway - and his musical taste is superb 🏝 🎶 📖

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  19. Oct 29

    Billie Whitelaw, an actress who worked closely with Samuel Beckett, told Dr Anthony Clare about the enormous impact the playwright had on her life.

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  20. Oct 29

    Ten songs, ten fascinating and moving episodes

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  21. Oct 29

    A great British polymath - with excellent musical taste Desert Island Discs, on

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