Radio show
Radio LivesGenre | biographic |
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Running time | 40 mins |
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Language(s) | English |
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Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
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Original release | 23 August 1990 – 5 December 1996 |
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No. of series | 7 |
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No. of episodes | 41 |
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Radio Lives was a long running BBC Radio 4 biographical series consisting of portraits of great radio figures. Running over seven series from 1990–96, each episode featured a personality who was influential either on the air or behind the scenes, and was presented by someone with a keen interest in their subject.[1] The programmes demonstrated a striking range of subjects as varied as Edward R. Murrow (the voice of Britain for an American radio audience at the height of the London blitz) to Kenneth Williams, and William Hardcastle (inaugural presenter of The World at One) to Nancy Spain (socialite). Presenters have included Patricia Routledge, Charles Kennedy, Mark Lawson and Humphrey Carpenter.
Programmes
Series 1, 19 July – 23 August 1990
Subject | Presenter | Producer |
C. E. M. Joad | June Knox-Mawer | Julian Hale |
Gracie Fields | Patricia Routledge | Elizabeth Burke |
J. B. S. Haldane | Professor John Durant | Mark Savage |
Stephen Potter | Mark Lawson | Hamish Mykura |
Gilbert Harding | Brian Masters | Nigel Acheson |
A. P. Herbert | Charles Kennedy | Fiona Couper |
Series 2, 23 May – 20 June 1991
Subject | Presenter | Producer |
Derek McCulloch | Trevor Hill | Simon Elmes |
Isobel Barnett | June Knox-Mawer | Mark Savage |
Tommy Handley | Phil Smith | Julian Hale |
J. B. Priestley | Ronald Eyre | Penny Lawrence |
William Hardcastle | Christopher Cook | Fiona McLean |
Series 3, 6 August – 10 September 1992
Series 4, 27 May – 1 July 1993
Series 5, 9 June – 14 July 1994
Series 6, 29 June – 3 August 1995
Series 7, 31 October – 5 December 1996
References
- ^ Donovan, Paul (1992). The Radio Companion. Grafton. p. 220. ISBN 0-586-090126.