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| 151 : John Arlott - Cricket's Radical Voice | ||||
| first broadcast: Sat Jan 7 2012 |
8.00 pm BBC Radio 4 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker |
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| John Arlott, who died just over twenty years ago, was not just the greatest ever cricket commentator. He was also a brave and radical political voice both inside and outside the game. | ||||
| 152 : The Sad Story of Jim Thorpe - the 'Greatest Ever' Athlete | ||||
| first broadcast: Wed Jul 4 2012 |
11.00 am Radio 4 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker |
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| 2012 will be the 100th anniversary of the Stockholm Olympics, where the greatest star was the 'Indian' American Jim Thorpe. He returned a national hero, but in 1913 he was stripped of his medals by a jealous and racist US athletic elite. In 1953 his widow sold his remains to a Pennsylvania town, and his descendents are now trying to get them back. | ||||
| 153 : The Art of Remembrance | ||||
| first broadcast: Sun Nov 11 2012 |
11.45 am Radio 4 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally |
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| Mark Whitaker looks at some of the more unusual ways that artists remembered the Great War, through the works of an painter, an architect, a film-maker, a sculptor and a poet | ||||
| 154 : The Naughty Pictures Committees | ||||
| first broadcast: Mon Nov 12 2012 |
11.00 am Radio 4 |
presenter: Laurie Taylor |
producer: Mike Hally |
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| On the centenary of the British Board of Film Censors, Laurie Taylor investigates how local councils used to ban films passed by the BBFC and permit others the Board had banned | ||||