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"The world is your lobster," says Carly Daniels, Britain's leading expert on the snap-happy crustacean. Photo: Johnny Fenn.
P.J.Harvey has recorded two new songs, together with the music for a new stage version of the classic movie All About Eve. John Wilson has b...
Barry’s Lunch Club is the new radio comedy show from Whistledown. Staring Alex Lowe as the 82 year old Barry from Watford, it is a talking s...
We’re saddened hear of the death of historian and biographer Lisa Jardine. Here she is in one of her last interviews, talking about the scie...
As Government papers are released, Radio 4's Cold War Confidential, produced by Whistledown, reveals how the British spy network failed to s...
In 1927 - or thereabouts, a car pulled up outside a hotel in central Chicago. The pianist Fats Waller was bundled in the back ... or was he?...
Sue MacGregor reunites cast and creatives to recall how director Peter Brook's revolutionary production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, set in...
The fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942 led to the surrender of 67,000 British servicemen, the single largest capitulation in British...
Former senior police detective Jackie Malton - the inspiration for Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the TV series Prime Suspect –...
Radio Today's Trevor Dann speaks to managing director of Whistledown, David Prest about the new RIGTrain scheme which aims to offer the skil...
It's 20 years since a precocious trader brought Britain's oldest merchant bank to its knees. In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor b...
Radio 4's long-running programme 'Face The Facts' is coming to an end. Its presenter John Waite, the doyenne of dogged investigative journal...
In post-Ferguson USA and on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, four unique voices from America consider the legacy of Malcolm X amid...
UK debt currently stands at over one trillion pounds. But while that sum may seem vast beyond comprehension, Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK...
“She was sweet man…” She’s credited with nurturing the talents of many of the key players in Jamaican Reggae when the industry took off in t...
The Arctic town of Longyearbyen in the remote Svalbard archipelago is the basis for the TV series “Fortitude”. One of the town’s best loved...
From politics to music, religion to transport, the defiant UK city of Manchester has always been a cutting edge driving force for change in...
National treasures Wallace and Gromit are the multi-Oscar, multi-BAFTA winning plasticine pair who swept to fame in the the 1980's, putting...
Mipsterz, or Muslim hipsters, are confronting cultural stereotypes and society expectations head on - in a hijab. How do they combine their...
It had to happen .. the team from Radio 4's Deadringers have finally done their take on The Reunion, as Sue MacGregor re-unites the Apostles...
Pulp's keyboard player Candida Doyle confesses all - erect nipples, performance anxiety, and being a woman at the centre of Britpop's best-l...
The recent D-Day anniversary reminds us of the story of how Robert Capa took the image which defined the day, recalled here in this 2013 Rad...
Sir David Attenborough and his cameraman Martin Saunders recall their encounter with the gorillas of Rwanda while filming the 1979 BBC TV se...
Mehmet Ergen is best known to UK theatre audiences as Artistic Director of London's Arcola Theatre, but his pioneering work in Hackney is on...
Twenty years on, Andie MacDowell remembers the making of “Four Weddings and a Funeral” for Radio 4’s The Reunion. In this extended extract f...
In this extract from BBC Radio 4's Something Understood, Samira Ahmed explores the role of transience in our lives. Anthony Denselow is the...
Ex-miners meet a former police officer and a Government Minister in this sparky edition of Radio 4's The Reunion, produced by Jerome Lyte fo...
Whistledown producer Deborah Dudgeon talks to Irish broadcaster Sean Moncrieff about the making of her programme "My War, My Playlist".
The ipod is the No 1 bit of kit to ease the boredom in Afghanistan. Coincidentally it was launched by Apple in the same month as the start o...
Never mind the anatomy of a car crash.. Iggy Pop introduces BBC Radio 4 listeners to his hero William Burroughs in this Whistledown special...
Robin Lustig investigates the claims of corruption and kickbacks that have dogged Sochi's Winter Olympic journey. Hear more in "The Road to...
A lovely interview with Pete Seeger who will be much missed. This taken from the Radio 4 series "Old Stubborn Guts", presented by Studs Terk...
An extract from Radio 4's UK Confidential, produced by Whistledown, in which Margaret Thatcher meets Mikhail Gorbachev for the very first ti...
A fast show taster of Radio 4's The Reunion. We gather Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and Simon Day. Catch the...
Radio historian and lecturer Tim Crook reveals some of the gems from his collection of WW1 propaganda phonograph cylinders.
Whistledown's Patrick Sykes has produced this lovely sound portrait of this year's Durham Miner's Gala.
Andrew Dilnot's 10 part Whistledown series looks at The History of Britain in Numbers. Here's a preview on The Today programme.
Sad to hear about the death of former BBC Political Editor John Cole. Here's one of his sterling performances, holding his own with Tony Ben...
Reckon you can tell when a poem has been computer-generated? Have a go… (Answer in Radio 4's Something Understood on Radio 4, Nov 10th). htt...
It's Hank Marvin's birthday. So here from the Whistledown Archives is a gem of an interview with a 2013 re-edit and re-mix. Hank talks about...
The wonderful David Graham - the voice of Parker from Thunderbirds dropped into the Whistledown studios a few days ago. We asked him about t...
Series Producer David Prest talks to Chris Stone of Radio Jersey about recording The Reunion on the German occupation of the island during W...
Former Dallas homicide detective James Leavelle recalls the shocking moment when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, just two days afte...
Roger Bolton and some of the best bits of Feedback from the recent past. A new series starts on June 14th.
It's very nice to be quoted: A couple of recent mentions for The Reunion. Stephen Woolley on Loose Ends talking about being inspired by hear...
Ten years on, Greg Dyke and Andrew Gilligan of the BBC lock horns with Defence Minister Geoff Hoon and No 10 spokesman Tom Kelly over the Go...
And now - something from our hippy archives. Here's Kevin Ayres of Soft Machine talking about living in Deya, Majorca in a programme for Rad...
The legendary film director and bon viveur Michael Winner was a regular contributor to many Whistledown programmes over the years. There've...
Who knew that talking into space could be such fun? A lovely extract from Rose de Larrabeiti's stunning radio piece "Space Ham" a Between th...
The world of cricket has lost two of its most respected figures in the last week. Commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins and the former Engl...