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- 2021– 1mPodcast EpisodeComing soon with Vanilla Ice... 'Sport's Strangest Crimes: The Real Story of Shergar the Super Horse'. This is the story of the world's most high-profile kidnap...of a horse. Welcome to Epsom, the year is 1981 and 'Shergar' a prized stallion, has just won the 202nd Derby by ten lengths - the longest winning margin in the race's history. Owned by the Aga Khan, the millionaire community leader, the champion horse gained international prominence and was regarded as a national hero during a difficult period in Irish history. On a cold winter night in 1983, a group of armed men entered the Ballymany Stud in balaclavas and stole the stallion declaring: "We have come for 'Shergar'. We want £2 million for him." The codeword for future negotiations was to be "King Neptune". While the facts of this case have been widely reported, this series unpicks the theories about the disappearance. We'll revisit all the bizarre events that took place after the kidnap, from psychics to horse skulls to negotiations led by English journalists. We unpick the police case and the comedy character leading it, trilby-wearing superintendent James Murphy and meet the sport's journalist Derek "Tommo" Thompson who was flown to Belfast to negotiate the release. Using archives, news reports and new interviews, we go along on a ride that has some strange turns, oddball characters and juicy conspiracies. Almost 40 years on from his kidnap, we look back at a story that gripped the world to try and understand why the horse's legacy still lives on. Told by the Texan tones of Vanilla Ice, we'll reveal some of the strange theories that made this Irish story go global.
- 2021– 1mPodcast EpisodeDr Michael Mosley returns to the radio (and podcasts) and looks ahead to the new series of his 'BBC - Radio 4' programmes in which he'll be revealing more surprisingly simple and scientifically proven ways to improve your health and wellbeing.
- 2021– 2mPodcast EpisodeIn the Second series of 'Sport's Strangest Crimes', Greg James is our new presenter investigating Money laundering, the FBI, drug cartels, Ponzi schemes, extra marital affairs, off shore banks, and of course some cricket. For the past 12 months, Greg has been trying to find out who exactly is Allen Stanford.
- From GPS to Google search, meet the innovators and engineers who shape our digital world. Teenagers from around the globe talk to the tech pioneers who have changed our lives. Hosted by 17-year-old Anna Zanelli - herself a budding designer from London - we find out about the trials, errors, incredible hard work and sometimes just plain luck that made some of the most important digital inventions possible. And in the process of describing how they achieved their goals, we hear some words of wisdom for a new generation of innovators. Using the BBC and other archives we'll also hear journalists, experts and the public talking at the time, giving their first reaction when the technology was launched.
- From BBC Scotland News' and 'The Big Light', an introduction to a beguiling story of sporting vision or something far from palatable. This will be an epic David and Goliath tale of money, power and resistance. A small Scottish community battle Donald Trump's dream to create the world's greatest golf course in their backyard.
- Mishaps happen as Freddy and other heroes/heroines invade the English systems entertainment productions.
- 2021– 5mPodcast EpisodeIn the 3rd series of 'Sports Strangest Crimes', Alice Levine will tell the incredible true story of greed and manipulation in the world's most popular game. From Nottingham to North Korea - how conman Russell King got took the oldest club in the football league to the brink of oblivion with promises beyond their wildest dreams.
- Joe presents the current affairs with Joe and Nel reporting.
- Nel presents the current affairs with Nel, Martin and Joe reporting.
- Ricky presents the current affairs with Ricky and Martin reporting.
- Ricky presents the current affairs with Ricky and Martin reporting.
- Nel presents the current affairs with Martin and Ricky reporting.
- Leah presents the current affairs with Joe live reporting.
- Nel presents the current affairs with Joe and Martin reporting.
- Leah presents current affairs with Ricky, Joe and Martin reporting.
- Nel presents the current affairs with Martin and Joe reporting.
- Leah presents the current affairs with Martin reporting.
- Leah presents the current affairs with Martin and Leah reporting.
- Nel presents the current affairs with Nel and Ricky reporting.
- Joe presents the current affairs with reports from Joe.
- Joe presents the current affairs with Joe and Daniel Sandford reporting.
- Ricky presents current affairs with Martin reporting.
- Ricky presents the current affairs with a report from Ricky and Alicia from Film Club UK.
- Martin presents the current affairs with Nel reporting.
- Martin presents the current affairs with Martin and Nel reporting.
- Spoofs. Bond spoofs. Inside Cinema takes aim at the sub-genre of spies that have parodied 007, from the shaggadelic International Men of Mystery to the sharp dressed Kingsmen. These agents of comedy know James Bond's looks, villains, gadgets and missions better than Mr Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang himself.
- Short film inspired by the "Time's Up" movement. It stars several A-list actresses auditioning for a leading lady role, offering a critique of the casting process. The casting directors ask increasingly ridiculous requests of the women.
- Transports viewers to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, where Major Sam Nicholls is the medic on a MERT helicopter. As Sam prepares to return to England on secondment, her boyfriend Corporal Dean quizzes her about her motives for returning. Suddenly they're interrupted by a call on his radio. There's been a suicide bombing at a civilian tea house and, with insurgents still at large, the MERT team must treat as many casualties as they can in ten minutes before the helicopter leaves. As Sam treats a severely-injured little boy, Hassan, he points to the back of the tea house where his father Saleh lies injured. Amidst further blasts, Sam risks her life to treat the patient. But as Saleh starts to act in an agitated fashion and reaches for a device in his pocket, Sam makes a split-second decision which has life-changing consequences. How do the events affect Sam's state of mind? Just what is the situation with Corporal Ian Dean? And what will be the impact of the events on Sam's long-term future?
- 2017– 8mPodcast EpisodeThe world's butterfly population doesn't seem to be online - so what is it?
- Aerospace engineer Dr Anita Sengupta led the team that developed the supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa's Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012. It's still on the Red Planet today, and its main goal is to assess whether there is, or ever was, life on Mars. She tells 17-year-old astrophysics enthusiast Avantika, from India, how her love of space began when she watched a science-fiction show on TV.
- 2017– 9mPodcast EpisodeWe ask whether there are any risks posed by the release into the Pacific Ocean.
- The breakthrough design of the iPod - a portable music player that made the CDs and cassette tapes that had gone before redundant - totally changed our listening habits. Tony Fadell is its inventor. Speaking to 17-year-old budding designer Anna Zanelli in London, he explains how his love of DJing inspired his iconic creation. And, he tells her, the design would go on to transform how we talk to each other, with the launch of the iPhone.
- Assistive robots can act as companions and coaches to young and old alike, from autistic children to stroke survivors. Eighteen-year-old Saliha, from Bangladesh, talks to Professor Maja Mataric, from the University of Southern California, about why she is convinced technology can be a force for good.
- Forty years ago, Professor John Goodenough developed the lithium ion battery and kick-started the wireless revolution. From electric cars to mobile phones, the world now relies on rechargeable batteries. Now, 97, and just awarded the 'Nobel Prize for Chemistry', Professor Goodenough still works at the University of Austin in Texas. Seventeen-year-old Adam from Poland asks him about lessons from life as well as lessons from science, and why he still works on developing the lithium ion battery even further.
- The digital world only works if it is connected. In the early 1970s, Professor Bradford Parkinson was working with the United States Air Force as an engineer leading the team that developed the Global Positioning System, or GPS, which uses satellites to pinpoint users wherever they are. Sixteen-year-old Malak from Israel finds out from Professor Parkinson how it all came about, and why he still uses maps to sail by.
- In 1998, a small company was launched offering a simple way to search the World Wide Web. That company was Google. Now every day billions of questions are put into the search engine. Ben Gomes, head of Google Search, talks about these early days - and what followed - to 17-year-old Osine from Nigeria.
- In 1995, 'Pixar Animation Studios' created 'Toy Story', the first feature length computer animated film, and a blockbuster that changed cinema history. Here we bring together Danielle Feinberg, director of photography for lighting at Pixar, and 16-year-old Robin, an aspiring animator himself. Danielle has worked on many films including 'Monsters Inc', 'The Incredibles' and 'Finding Nemo'. Hear about what inspired her to work in animation, and how to realise your own dreams.
- Computer programmer Radia Perlman is often called "the mother of the internet". In the late 1970s, she started working in network routing - the way data is moved from one network to another - and made a huge contribution to the internet as we know it today. Seventeen-year-old Audrey from the Philippines, who is a budding developer herself, asks Radia about what it has been like working in a male-dominated field, and what she makes of the way we use the internet today.
- In 1973, Marty Cooper made the first public mobile phone call using his newly invented cell phone. Now, there are more mobile phones on the planet than people. Fourteen-year-old Becky, from Northern Ireland, asks Marty about that call and how his invention changed our lives.
- In the late 1990s, engineer Dr Caroline Hargrove was working with the 'McLaren motor racing team' when she developed the first Formula 1 simulator - a machine that helps racing teams design faster cars and improve performance. Sixteen-year-old motor racing fan, Marielle from Hong Kong, quizzes Caroline on her work in motor sport, how the simulator works and how drivers came to love it - eventually.
- Eighteen-old-entrepreneur Leander, from Greece, discovers how sci-fi became reality, through the work of leading orthopaedic surgeon Professor Munjed Al Muderis. He has developed a new generation of implants for amputees which replaces the traditional socket based technology with a robotic prosthetic limb. We also hear about Professor Al Muderis's life, and the journey he made as a refugee from Iraq to Australia.
- Eighteen year old Michael, from Dubai, who wants to become an engineer, talks to Keller Rinaudo, whose company Zipline has built what they say is the world's fastest delivery drone. Travelling at more than 100 km per hour, these battery-powered aircraft look like small planes. Doctors in remote areas of Rwanda and Ghana send requests for medical supplies via text and Whatsapp, which the drone then delivers. We hear how they work and how the doctors first reacted to them.
- When dirtgirl's bathtub springs a leak, it's time for carrots! A carrot bathplug? Or a carrot bed? The old bathtub becomes a new place to grow... carrots, of course.
- It's breakfast time in dirtgirlworld and everyone likes something different.
- The Chevalier d'Éon was an 18th Century French nobleman, trusted spy to King Louis XV, and for the last 33 years of their long and colourful life, a woman.
- It's an emotional day for Oliver and Tracy fears for the future.
- What is Pip's New Year's Resolution? Susan wants to turn back the clock.
- Rex needs to relocate, and someone is making himself right at home.
- Things are hotting up in the kitchen for Adam before some shocking news arrives.
- Has coverage of the Referendum campaign made it clear which campaign claims are true?