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The Harpoon was a BBC Radio 4 series broadcast between 1991 and 1994, written by Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham. It consisted of three four-part series and two Christmas specials, and was performed by Julian Dutton, Peter Baynham, Susie Brann, Alistair McGowan and Mary Elliott-Nelson. It was produced ("on stretched goat's vellum") by Sarah ...
The programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. [2] Four series have been broadcast, along with a special 2010 Christmas Day episode. [2] [3] The show's finale, entitled "Zurich", was broadcast as a two-part special on 23 and 24 December 2014. [4] [5] The series' opening music is Mikhail Glinka's Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila. [6]
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. [1] The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. [2]
The Christmas Oratorio is an oratorio for soprano, baritone, chorus, and orchestra written in 2019 by the Scottish composer James MacMillan.The work was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with support of The Boltini Trust, NTR Zaterdagmatinee, Radio 4's concert series in The Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic.
This is a list of current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.. When it came into existence – on 30 September 1967 – Radio 4 inherited a great many continuing programme series which had been initiated prior to that date by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service (1939–1967), and in some cases even by stations which had preceded the Home Service.
1 January –. BBC Radio 2 dedicates five hours of New Year's Day programming to Take That, including a two-hour countdown of their top hits. [1] Damian Lewis presents a two hour programme, A Blues and Swing Special, on Jazz FM. [2] Charlie Higson returns to Scala Radio for a second series of Charlie Higson and Friends. [3] 2 January –.
In interviews for the BBC Radio 4 programme Today in 2009, and The Guardian in 2016, Rea said he wrote "Driving Home for Christmas" many years before its first recording; this was in 1978 when Rea needed to get home to Middlesbrough from Abbey Road Studios in London.
The top song on the list is one of the best Christmas songs there is, "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms. The hit, which was released in 1967, was listened to 969 million times on Spotify. No. 2 on ...