{"id":300,"date":"2009-08-13T13:33:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-08-13T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:33:35","slug":"iplayer-13th-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"iPlayer: 13th August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some recommendations from Monday onwards.
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Monday 10th August<\/h1>\n

09:00: MI6: A Century In The Shadows: New Enemies<\/h2>\n

Recommended this previously. Number 3 in the series. Talks about the run up to the Iraq war and the like.<\/p>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

13:30: Round Britain Quiz<\/h2>\n

Ok, this is an absolute love or hate programme I find. Teams from around Britain have to decipher cryptic connections between disparate concepts. For an example, here’s the first question from this episode.<\/p>\n

1) Why might it be unbearable to be in a room with the creator of Herzog, an engraver of 17th century London, and a prominent translator of Montaigne?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

20:00: On The Top Deck<\/h2>\n

Conversations with a few passengers and drivers of buses in London. How has it all changed since under 16s got free travel?<\/p>\n

He hears the feelings of many older passengers that things have got out of control; that crime, overcrowding and anti-social behaviour have increased; and that some buses have been turned into mobile youth clubs.<\/p>\n

Plus teenagers talk about the unwritten rules of the top deck – who may sit where, what you can get away with and the risks of being robbed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 11th August<\/h1>\n

09:00: Fry’s English Delight<\/h2>\n

What more could you want than Stephen Fry discussing the way that the English language is used?<\/p>\n

Stephen examines how ‘wrong’ English can become right English. For example, nowadays, more people use the word ‘wireless’ in a computer context than in a radio one. With help from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a Times sub-editor and a judge, Stephen examines the way in which usage changes language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

11:00: The Partisan Coffee House<\/h2>\n

The Partisan was a continental style coffee house in Soho in the late 50s. Bit of an oral history of the place.<\/p>\n

Founded by Raphael Samuel, a young radical historian, the Partisan aimed to recreate a European-style meeting place for politically engaged young people in the wake of such events as the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution.<\/p>\n

Featuring interviews with surviving Partisan participants including historian Eric Hobsbawm and sociologist Stuart Hall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

18:30: Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds<\/h2>\n

Bunch of sketches on the theme ‘Joining In and Opting Out’. Running order of sketches:<\/p>\n

1. L&G Joining In Intro \u2013 Laurence Howarth & Gus Brown
\n2. D\u2019Artagnan\u2019s Final Test \u2013 Stuart Beale
\n3. Apologies \u2013 John-Luke Roberts
\n4. The New Recruit \u2013 Toby Davies
\n5. Joining In (Masons) \u2013 John Finnemore
\n6. Butcher\u2019s Convention \u2013 John-Luke Roberts
\n7. SONG Anna Curtain \u2013 Isy Suttie & Gavin Osborn
\n8. The Dads \u2013 Laurence Howarth
\n9. Making Friends 1 \u2013 Toby Davies
\n10. Frog \u2013 Simon Kane
\n11. Why Don\u2019t We Not \u2013 Stuart Beale
\n12. Making Friends 2\u2013 Toby Davies
\n13. The Minister Will \u2013 John Finnemore
\n14. Getting the Gang Together \u2013 Jon Hunter & Holly Walsh
\n15. Making Friends 3\u2013 Toby Davies<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

20:00: The Fraud Capital of Britain<\/h2>\n

Apparently Thamesmead is the fraud capital of Britain. Never knew that, but this details what’s happened and is happening.<\/p>\n

Thamesmead was one of the most exciting new towns to be built in the 1960s, intended as a vibrant, riverside community of 60,000 people in south east London. Forty years on, the area is perhaps best known as a notorious hub of fraud, dubbed ‘Little Lagos’ because of its association with west African criminal gangs.<\/p>\n

Phil Kemp investigates how this reputation has stuck. He talks to a former fraudster and meets residents fighting to turn the community around and shake off its crime-ridden image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 12th August<\/h1>\n

11:00: The Naming Of Genes<\/h2>\n

All about the way that genes are named in research in fly research. For example, one that reduces the tolerance to ethanol is called Cheap Date. Really quite funny.<\/p>\n

Chardonay is a reference to the white blood cells and other wine genes are Chablis, retsina and Chianti. The wine collection is housed at Dr Leonard Zon’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School. When one of Dr Zon’s students discovers a new wine gene, they are awarded with a bottle of that particular wine, although he has got wise to them choosing some of the more rarified and expensive vintages.<\/p>\n

Other labs prefer to use Shakespeare characters, musical references or more colloquial terms such as Lush, referring to an increased affection for alcohol. Sometimes there are races to name the gene, and a fight may break out between institutions. Kathy Matthews of the Bloomington Drosophilia Stock Centre in Indiana proudly says that fly geneticists were the first geneticists and therefore in the early days it was like being in the Wild West, but now political correctness is moving in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

16:00: Thinking Allowed<\/h2>\n

Laurie Taylor talking about the Scottish diaspora, and the history of the British police.<\/p>\n

Robert Peel brought the Metropolitan Police Force into being in 1829; it was a centralised body of 3,000 uniformed men expected to patrol designated areas. They were the original ‘Bobbies on the Beat’. However, in an age of mass public protests, Chartism and agitation for electoral reform, the police were founded more as a response to a crisis in public order than in a move to protect private property. The Weekly Dispatch of 1829 warned, ‘The New Police is a military body employed in civil duties … it is a powerful engine in the hands of government, and may be employed for the suppression of public freedom.’ How much has changed?<\/p>\n

Laurie also discusses the worldwide influence of the Scottish diaspora and asks why such an enormous number Scots left their country of birth even when times were good. Tom Devine enlightens Laurie ahead of his talk at the Festival of Politics in Edinburgh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

18:30: The Odd Half Hour<\/h2>\n

Sketch show. Quite good. Not much else to say.<\/p>\n

BBC page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iPlayer link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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