{"id":6040,"date":"2006-08-10T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T13:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2006\/08\/good-listening\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T13:23:44","slug":"good-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/08\/10\/good-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Good listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things on Radio 4 that you may have missed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Crossing Continents\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/crossing_continents\/5242096.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Continents: Thembi&#8217;s AIDS diary<\/a>. Incredibly moving, particularly the part when Thembi tells her father that she has AIDS.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Forging the Union\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/forgingtheunion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forging the Union<\/a>. Alan Little&#8217;s excellent history of the European Union which shows how, by dragging her heels and hanging back, Britain has always found herself disadvantaged in the EU.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Linda Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/comedy\/pip\/hb1qe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Smith &#8211; A Modern Radio Star<\/a>. I miss hearing Linda Smith as much as I miss John Peel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Radio 4 is, I think, producing some of the best programming I have ever heard right now. Whatever would we do without Radio 4?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I forgot to include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Unseen China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/unseenchina\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unseen China<\/a>. I don&#8217;t normally enjoy Peter White&#8217;s radio style (I remember when he was on South Today, 15-odd years ago), but this series is excellent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things on Radio 4 that you may have missed: Crossing Continents: Thembi&#8217;s AIDS diary. Incredibly moving, particularly the part when Thembi tells her father that she has AIDS. Forging the Union. Alan Little&#8217;s excellent history of the European Union which shows how, by dragging her heels and hanging back, Britain has always found herself disadvantaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}