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| Accidental Entertainers, The | ...MICHAEL ROSEN investigates where stories like Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel came from and how a project which started as a serious scholarly endeavour could turn into one of the biggest cultural phenomena ever known.... |
| Adventures In Poetry | ...Contributors include children's writer Michael Morpurgo, playwright and film maker Debbie Isitt, Children's Laureate MICHAEL ROSEN and professor of children's literature Kim Reynolds.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...MICHAEL ROSEN explores the history of children's radio in the ENGLISH-speaking world, and finds that, for children in both hemispheres, the world stopped at five when their own radio programmes began.... |
| Archive On 4 | ...... |
| Blunt Instrument, A | ...MICHAEL ROSEN tells the story of Wilfred Scawen Blunt, atheist, libertine, adventurer and poet.... |
| Deeper Magic, The | ...A special programme of poetry written by under-18s allows MICHAEL ROSEN to see the world through the eyes of the next generation.... |
| Desert Island Discs | ...poet and children's writer MICHAEL ROSEN ... |
| Dons And Dragons | ...MICHAEL ROSEN is joined by Phillip Pullman, Jonathan Miller and A N Wilson as he explores the nooks and crannies of medieval buildings, rifles through dusty papers and climbs into hidden hide-aways to try to explain a conundrum: why has the city of Oxford produced some of the world's most famous fantasy writers for children?... |
| Early Music Show, The | ...With the help of art historian and author of several books on the artist, MICHAEL ROSENthal of Warwick University, Catherine explores what the Gainsborough portraits tell us about the role of music in the late 18th Century. The programme includes comment about his depictions of Karl Friedrich Abel, Johann Christian Bach and the Linley Family, as well as paintings of some notable amateurs from the English gentry such as William Wollaston and Anne Ford.... |
| Follow The Fool | ...MICHAEL ROSEN and Beatrice K Otto trace the history of the jester across different cultures and examine how authentic the figure of Rigoletto is in Verdi's opera of the same name.... |
| Georges Brassens | ...The name is famous, the songs are famous - but who was Georges Brassens? Artist and illustrator Quentin Blake gets behind the moustache to discover more about the great French singer and songwriter, with the help of his biographer Jacques Vassal, rock writer Jean-Daniel Beauvallet, and some of Brassens' British admirers, including Posy Simmonds, Julian Barnes, MICHAEL ROSEN and Tim Pigott-Smith ... |
| Ian Mcmillan's Writing Lab | ...Ian Mcmillan hosts the creative writing series. He is joined by poet and critic Mark Ford to discuss the vexed question of poetic form. Should the apprentice poet let their verse range free or conform to the creative restrictions of a structured format? Tips and advice are offered by leading poets Tom Paulin, Wendy Cope and MICHAEL ROSEN ... |
| In Search Of Hans Christian Andersen | ...Two hundred years after the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, MICHAEL ROSEN and Lars Tharp travel to Denmark to uncover the truth about the unlikely creator of some our best loved tales.... |
| Jack - 200 Years Up A Beanstalk | ...MICHAEL ROSEN explores one of Britain's classic folk tales. Now a popular betime story and panntomime, Jack and the Beanstalk first appeared in a pamphlet in 1807.... |
| Laughter Close To Tears | ...MICHAEL ROSEN uncovers humour in terrible times, crossing the globe from Burma to Zimbabwe to hear contemporary jokes from those chafing under repressive or omnipresent regimes.... |
| Lingua Franca | ...MICHAEL ROSEN embarks on the long and winding linguistic road through the roots of European language.... |
| Meet The Family | ...MICHAEL ROSEN hears from step-parents who have dealt with warring factions, divided loyalties and have tried bending over backwards to be fair.... |
| My Third Life | ...Writer and broadcaster MICHAEL ROSEN reveals how illness affected his career, his family and his understanding of himself.... |
| Oh My What A Rotten Song! | ...MICHAEL ROSEN revels in songwriting duo RP Weston and Bert Lee's uncanny knack for coming up with the catchy tune and the witty chorus that everyone loved to sing.... |
| On Being Inferior | ...MICHAEL ROSEN explores what being inferior means and how feelings of inferiority are created.... |
| On Being Wrong | ...Drawing on his own experience, expert analysis and the painfully honest confessions of ordinary people, MICHAEL ROSEN looks at what it is to be wrong.... |
| On Saying Goodbye | ...MICHAEL ROSEN presents a series on aspects of bereavement. 1: `The Romeo and Juliet Principle'. How children learn the difference between `bye for now' and `bye forever'.... |
| Parsing With Passion | ...MICHAEL ROSEN explores examination ENGLISH from Victorian times to the 1960s with his father, Professor Harold Rosen. Wordsmiths including Sian Phillips, Michael Frayn, Edwin Morgan and Ian Jack talk about how they were taught grammar and literature.... |
| People In The Playground Revisited | ...Children's Laureate MICHAEL ROSEN explores life in the playground today.... |
| Pick Of The Week | ...MICHAEL ROSEN presents his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.... |
| Pre-hear | ...The Arditti Quartet give the world premiere of MICHAEL ROSENzweig's String Quartet.... |
| Put Asunder | ...MICHAEL ROSEN presents four talks on the process of divorce and its aftermath, drawing on his own experience and eye-witness accounts from estate agents, grandparents, lawyers and counsellors.... |
| Quote Unquote | ...joan Bakewell, Roy Hudd, charles Osborne, MICHAEL ROSEN... |
| Shaking Up The Library | ...MICHAEL ROSEN tells the story of five groundbreaking children's books that inspired shelves of imitators.... |
| Songs My Mother Taught Me | ...MICHAEL ROSEN presents the first of two programmes looking at music and childhood, exploring how songs shape our early memories.... |
| Testing Times (presented By Michael Rosen) | |
| Theatre Revolutionary | ...Following the death last September of `theatre revolutionary' Joan Littlewood, MICHAEL ROSEN speaks to members of her company, writers and directors to assess her legacy.... |
| Time Tunnel | ...MICHAEL ROSEN travels through memory and sound along the South Kensington foot tunnel.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...An exploration of the dark, sinister and enchanted world of fairy tales. MICHAEL ROSEN, As Byatt and Richard Mabey take us into the woods - the realm where magic lurks, stange things happen, evil is vanquished and (usually) good prevails. Why do these tales and myths continue to exert such a powerful fascination for children and adults alike?... |
| Uncle Chukasha | ...For millions, his tale of a tyrannical cockroach became a metaphor for Stalin's reign of fear. For others he simply brought joy at a time when none was on offer. Today he is still as loved as ever, but newly published diaries reveal the true nature of his struggle with the Soviet system. MICHAEL ROSEN explores his life and legacy.... |
| Unknown Cachery Of Ogden Nashery, The | ...On the centenary of the birth of the great American poet and wit, MICHAEL ROSEN investigates a treasure trove of unpublished work kept by Ogden Nash's daughter Linell Nash Smith.... |
| When I Was A Boy | ...MICHAEL ROSEN (Author)... |
| When Knights Were Bold | ...MICHAEL ROSEN looks at how children's literature has tried to capture the excitement and danger of history.... |
| Who Put The Cat In The Hat? | ...MICHAEL ROSEN with a celebration of Dr Seuss, author of the Cat in the Hat children's books that helped two generations of children to learn to read. `Simpsons' creator Matt Groening is one of his many fans.... |
| Winnie The Who? | ...MICHAEL ROSEN explores the enduring popularity in Russia of translations of the Winnie the Pooh stories.... |
| Word Of Mouth | ...MICHAEL ROSEN presents the programme about words and the way we speak. 1: `It's a Cert!' With the sound of the Grand National still ringing in our ears, a look at the arcane language of the racetrack.... |
| Young Socialists On Tour | ...MICHAEL ROSEN talks to political radicals about the journeys they have made to the major sites of international socialism.... |