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TODAY’S RADIO
Another Day In The Death Of America
9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4 Nine-year-old Jaiden was shot as he left his house to go to school, and he died the next day, on November 23, 2013. Nine other children across America were killed by guns on that day, and none of their deaths made the national news. Gary Younge tells the story of the short lives of these children.
Moving Pictures
4PM, RADIO 4 This new, three-part series gives us a chance to get a close and informed look at a great painting – listeners can follow the link on the BBC Radio 4 website to explore a high-resolution image of the artwork as they listen. In this opening programme, we will be able to see all kinds of detail in Bruegel the Elder’s bucolic masterpiece The Harvesters. Cathy Fitz-Gerald takes us on a tour of a landscape in which harvesters are eating their lunch, while the locals are up to all sorts in the background.
Analysis
8.30PM, RADIO 4 The 2015 election and the EU referendum have thrown spanners into British politics, leaving voters and politicians struggling to find a way through the new political landscape. In this first of an eight- part series, Rosie Campbell, a politics professor at Birkbeck University, explores these profound changes in British politics.
The Wonder
10.45PM, RADIO 4 Lib, who served as a nurse at Scutari with Florence Nightingale, is hired by a newspaper to stay with a girl in an Irish village. The child has not eaten for weeks, and claims that she lives on ‘manna from Heaven’. Her bleak room is now a place of pilgrimage, and it’s Lib’s job to find out what’s going on. Carey Mulligan is the reader for this ten-part adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s new novel.
Thank You For Being My Friend
10PM, RADIO 2 Ken Bruce presents this two-part tribute (concludes tomorrow) to Terry Wogan, which includes memories from some of Terry’s colleagues, friends and fans. There is also music from some of the artistes who Terry helped to promote.