radiostation:radio 4

Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is back | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/feb/27/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-bbc-radio-4

In 1985, #Douglas_Adams said the #BBC’s view of the first series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was like Macbeth’s attitude to murder: “Initial doubts, followed by cautious enthusiasm, then greater and greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking.” Those days are, however, long gone and the BBC is marking the 40th anniversary of Adams’ ground-breaking creation in style.

The original cast has been reunited to record a new radio series of the intergalactic comedy that, from small beginnings in 1978 on Radio 4, grew into a juggernaut that spawned a TV series, a Disney film, a much-loved series of books, several stage shows and even a video game.

What makes the performance all the more poignant is that they are playing a scene written by Adams but never previously recorded. The new series combines unpublished material, dug out of Adams’ notebooks by archivist and superfan Kevin Jon Davies, and newer plotlines drawn from And Another Thing, Eoin Colfer’s book continuing the saga, which was commissioned by the Adams estate after the author’s sudden death at the age of just 49 in 2001.

The 40th-anniversary series starts on BBC Radio 4 on 8 March.

#science_fiction #radio #fiction #audio #humour

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BBC Radio 4 - Seriously... - Seriously... - 10 Women Who Changed Sci-Fi
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3NFWVm1zyTX6pFKkDS3MBFV/10-women-who-changed-sci-fi

As the Radio 4 documentary Herland examines how science fiction tackles ideas of gender in future worlds, we present a selection of great female authors who have radically altered the genre...

#science-fiction #littérature

‘Silver bullet’ wall-building to deter migrants counterproductive and dangerous | #Ruben_Andersson

Professor Andersson explains to Radio 4’s PM that barriers built to deal specifically with migration are rarely successful and instead create more dangerous entry routes

▻https://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/news/2018silver-bullet2019-wall-building-to-deter-migrants-counterproductive-an
#murs #barrières_frontalières #asile #migrations #réfugiés #efficacité #frontières
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Huffington Post editor thinks journalism is only authentic when you don’t pay the writer
▻http://www.newstatesman.com/2016/02/huffington-post-editor-thinks-journalism-only-authentic-when-you-dont-
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I love this question,” said Stephen Hull, the editor-in-chief of Huffington Post UK, when Steve Hewlett asked him on Radio 4’s Media Show yesterday why he doesn’t pay his writers.

And this is the answer Hull apparently loves to give:

“If I was paying someone to write something because I want it to get advertising, that’s not a real authentic way of presenting copy. When somebody writes something for us, we know it’s real, we know they want to write it. It’s not been forced or paid for. I think that’s something to be proud of.”

The bitter story behind the UK’s national drink - BBC News
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34173532

Several of Britain’s biggest tea brands, including PG Tips, Tetleys and Twinings, have said they will work to improve the tea estates they buy from in India after a BBC investigation found dangerous and degrading living and working conditions.

Harrods has stopped selling some tea products in response, and Rainforest Alliance, the ethical certification organisation, has conceded the investigation has revealed flaws in its audit process.

The joint investigation by Radio 4’s File on Four and BBC News in Assam, north-east India, found workers living in broken houses with terrible sanitation. Many families have no toilets and say they have no choice but to defecate amongst the tea bushes.

Living and working conditions are so bad, and wages so low, that tea workers and their families are left malnourished and vulnerable to fatal illnesses.

There was also a disregard for health and safety, with workers spraying chemicals without protection, and on some estates, child labour being used.
Toilets overflowing

Plantation owners in India are obliged by law to provide and maintain “adequate” houses, and sanitary toilets for workers.

Yet homes on the tea estates were in terrible disrepair, with leaking roofs and damp and cracked walls. Many toilets are blocked or broken.

Workers said their homes were not repaired despite repeated requests to management, often over many years.

#thé #exploitation #santé #pesticide

Subliminal messages in video – Do they really work?
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015/01/subliminal-messages-in-video-do-they-really-work

BBC R&D were approached last year by Radio 4 documentary producer Phil Tinline to help with a documentary he was putting together surrounding the myths and truths of subliminal advertising in video. In order to test the impact of subliminal message in video, an experiment was devised for the audience of the Infinite Monkey Cage. This blog describes a brief background on subliminal advertising and the technical aspects of the experiment. The Radio 4 “Can You Spot the Hidden Message?” and the Infinite Monkey Cage episode which accompanies the experiment are both available on iPlayer for your listening pleasure.

#subliminal #radio