Seriously... Podcast
Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations. Introduced by Vanessa Kisuule. This feed is no longer being updated. Thanks for listening.
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You May Now Turn Over Your Papers
Fri 8 Jul 2016
Mary Beard tells the intriguing story of the history of exams.
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In Wales the Ball is Round
Fri 17 Jun 2016
Elis James argues that football - not rugby - best reflects modern Welsh identity.
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While My Guitar Gently Bleeps
Tue 14 Jun 2016
Isy Suttie delves into video game music, attempting to create her own electronic opus.
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Moss Side Gym Stories
Fri 10 Jun 2016
MIke Gary and Jackie Kay present the two part Moss Side Gym Stories.
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The Camera Never Lies
Fri 27 May 2016
Film-maker Molly Dineen examines the concept of truth in documentary.
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Return to Subtopia
Fri 13 May 2016
A timely retracing of the passionate Subtopia campaign against postwar town planning.
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The Force of Google
Tue 10 May 2016
Google dominates internet searching. Rory Cellan-Jones asks if it is too powerful.
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For Better or Worse
Fri 6 May 2016
Peter McGraith hears personal accounts of same-sex marriage in post equality Britain.
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How to Turn Your Life Around
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Succeeding against the odds. What does it take to turn your life around?
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Suck It and See
Fri 1 Apr 2016
Songwriter Amy Wadge investigates the history and potential of the harmonica
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The Women Who Wrote Rock
Tue 29 Mar 2016
Kate Mossman tells the story of the long-overlooked female music writers of the 60s
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The Actors' Gang & The Actors' Gang on the Outside
Tue 22 Mar 2016
A two part Seriously with Tim Robbins and Rajesh Mirchandani as they enter Norco prison.
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The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Anarchy Must Be Organised
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Neil Innes looks at the collision of art, humour, music and anarchy in Bonzo Dog.
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Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms and That's All
Tue 15 Mar 2016
Tim Key gives his surreal take on the Soviet absurdist writer Daniil Kharms.
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A Brief History of Disobedience
Fri 11 Mar 2016
American satirist Joe Queenan explores the importance of not doing what one is told.
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Glad to Be Grey
Tue 8 Mar 2016
Grey-haired Professor Mary Beard investigates why fewer people are now glad to be grey.
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Laverne in the Willows
Fri 4 Mar 2016
Lauren Laverne celebrates Kenneth Grahame's classic tale The Wind in the Willows.
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Six Degrees of Connection
Tue 1 Mar 2016
Julia Hobsbawm investigates the idea that we are all connected by only six links.
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Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley
Fri 26 Feb 2016
The colourful career of British composer and transgender pioneer Angela Morley.
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Batman and Ethan
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Ethan, a 10-year-old blind boy and gifted musician, learns echolocation from Daniel Kish.
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Reaction Time
Sun 14 Feb 2016
Stories about love straight from the smartphones of Radio 4 listeners.
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Jarvis on McCullers
Tue 9 Feb 2016
Jarvis Cocker celebrates the life and work of literary wunderkind Carson McCullers.
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Gay Bombay
Fri 5 Feb 2016
Zareer Masani returns to Mumbai to measure India's changing attitudes to homosexuality.
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Herland
Tue 2 Feb 2016
Geoff Ryman explores stories about women and men in future worlds. What might change?
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Raising the Dead
Tue 26 Jan 2016
Composer Adam Gorb goes on a journey to listen to the lost music of concentration camps
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Deciding Fast and Slow
Fri 22 Jan 2016
Elinor Goodman investigates how government ministers take decisions in the 21st century
Nazanin and the mystery of a decades old tank debt
Has an old tank debt with Iran cost Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe her freedom?
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