The Blackbirds in Gardens survey is active until September amid increasing wild bird deaths now that mosquitos and their viruses are finding the climate hospitable. Of particular concern is Usutu: the first mosquito-borne viral disease to arrive in the UK which can be transmitted to humans.
A place to glory in the wonderful ecosystem of plants and wildlife in the UK, and talk about protecting and rewilding it with a focus on science and fact.
Helen Mark visits Bristol and learns about the historic hydraulic engineering with William Jessop's 1809 floating harbour, his lock and cut, his Overfall weir that sent excess water back to the Avon, his severe silting problem and the modern creation of wildlife corridors and tourist attractions.
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Helen Mark visits Bristol and learns about the historic hydraulic engineering with William Jessop's 1809 floating harbour, his lock and cut, his Overfall weir that sent excess water back to the Avon, his severe silting problem and the modern creation of wildlife corridors and tourist attractions.
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Scroll to 15:30 to hear an interview with the late designer Kenneth Grange responsible for vintage objects inc. the parking meter, the Parker 25, the Kenwood mixer and the Intercity 125. Not to forget Wilkinson triple razors, bus shelters, and black cabs. He was promoting his illustrated book.
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Maths Professor, Ruth Gregory, Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, and Nobel Laureate and Mathematician, Roger Penrose give Melvyn Bragg an overview, without too much Maths, of Special Relativity and General Relativity, and their relationship to Maxwell's equations, Minkowski space, and Cosmology.
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Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949 by Virginia Nicholson. Using real diaries, autobiographies, and memoirs this book adaptation shows the changing role of women in the ramp-up to the 2nd World War, the total war, and how they were expected to resume their lives after the war.
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Velma and Therese a comic drama by Bryony Lavery ('96) with apologies to Thelma and Louise: A couple of mature ladies decide they've had enough of being where they've found themselves in their lives and take off in a borrowed car, embarking on inevitable life of crime taking the tortoise with them.
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The Mountain Pygmy Possums of NSW are bouncing back after a steep decline in their numbers. Thanks to recovery efforts including kids baking macadamia and mealworm biscuits replicating the nutritional value of their favourite moths. The average adult pygmy possum is now shiny and plump (40g 1.4oz).
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The Madman's Library: The QI researcher Edward Brooke-Hitching is a rare book collector's son. He's been exposed to many weird books over the years and here presents some of his favourites: books written in blood, killer books, hoax books, invisible books and some that have not been decyphered.
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As western churches become too liberal for them, there's a movement in the US to Eastern Orthodox Christianity including online Russian Orthodox churches boasting hundreds of thousands of US converts whose leaders suggest, as the Kremlin does, that Russia is the last bastion of true Christianity.
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Artworks, Surrounded by Sound: Itself in Binaural Sound this programme presents Ray Dolby: "the extraordinary inventor whose Dolby Noise Reduction system revolutionised recorded sound, transformed the cinema experience, and whose company, Dolby Laboratories, celebrates its 60th birthday in 2025."
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On the 6th March 1987, lorry driver Larry O’Brien, was on the ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise in the incompatible Zeebrugge port when coordination between overworked employees and the unadapted ferry led to it capsizing. 193 people lost their lives but 30 were saved by this non-swimmer.
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VE Day, the end of the Second World War in Europe on 1945-05-08, was met by people in very different ways depending on who they were and where they were. With interviews and archive material Charles Wheeler presents interpretations of what VW Day meant to people in Britain and across the world.
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The Invention of Radio: There were many threads of pure research that were needed before wireless telegraphy and then radio would become a commercial proposition but it took the fascist Italian Guglielmo Marconi, who didn't mind stepping on a few toes, to be acknowledged for pulling them together.
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The choreographer Sir Wayne McGregor known for his diverse collaborations talks to John about his beginnings in Stockport and the factors that influenced his dance works. Lately STEM has been an influence on his work. He's even used AI to align his vision with the capability envelope of a performer.
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MI9 was the inspiration for Bond's ingenious gadget inventor Q. The mandate was to smuggle data and devices to POWs in the 2nd WW to enable exfiltration. John Dalziel talks to some who were involved in the manufacture of these hidden maps and devices and finds that some MDs were reluctant to help.
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The Story of Solent City: Author Owen Hatherley goes in search of the lost future of Solent City the extraordinary plan, devised in the mid-1960s at the height of the post-war modernisation of Britain, to join the historic city-ports of Southampton and Portsmouth with a vast, Los-Angeles style grid.
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6 of 60+ events mostly in Hampshire in 2025 to mark 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen in Steventon. She lived almost all of her short life in Hampshire including Chawton, Winchester and Southampton and shopped and danced in Basingstoke and all and more locations have events. More in comments.
For all things Jane Austen. Her novels, short stories, adaptations, etc. For fan-fiction please go to the designated sub below. Not the place to ask for help with your school work! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Related reddits: * /r/books * /r/literature * /r/HistoricalRomance * /r/LizzieBennet * /r/JaneAustenFF
6 of 60+ events in and around Hampshire in 2025 to mark 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen in Steventon. She lived almost all of her short life in Hampshire including Chawton, Winchester and Soton and shopped and danced in Basingstoke and all and more locations have events. More in comments.
A subreddit for those in the County of Hampshire, UK. Please post local news and events. What is going on near you?
After nine months on the run Leonardo, Rachel Etches' pet tortoise, has been found one mile from his home in Ulverston, Cumbria.
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The Reunion: Kirsty Wark and guests Dinah Collin (Costume Designer), Susie Conklin (Script Editor), Alison Steadman (Mrs Bennet), Adrian Lukis (Mr Wickham), Crispin Bonham Carter (Mr Bingley), David Bamber (Mr Collins) and Andrew Davies (Screenwriter) discuss making the 1995 film Pride and Prejudice
For all things Jane Austen. Her novels, short stories, adaptations, etc. For fan-fiction please go to the designated sub below. Not the place to ask for help with your school work! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Related reddits: * /r/books * /r/literature * /r/HistoricalRomance * /r/LizzieBennet * /r/JaneAustenFF
The Reunion: Kirsty Wark and guests Dinah Collin (Costume Designer), Susie Conklin (Script Editor), Alison Steadman (Mrs Bennet), Adrian Lukis (Mr Wickham), Crispin Bonham Carter (Mr Bingley), David Bamber (Mr Collins) and Andrew Davies (Screenwriter) discuss making the 1995 film Pride and Prejudice
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The Tunnel under the World by Frederik Pohl ('55): A dramatisation by Mike Walker that modernises some of the language and references in this famous sci-fi story.
Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer. Fantasy too. Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein and other SF books. SF movies and TV shows. Fantasy stuff like Tolkien and Game of Thrones. Laser guns, space ships, and time travel. etc. Star Trek, Battlestar, Star Wars, etc.