Benji B on the decks at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studio accompanied by a 16 piece orchestra
The Outcasts (1985)
A BBC documentary about a Norfolk Hell’s Angels gang called The Outcasts. Featuring a number of arcing narratives, the main one of which traces funeral preparations after the tragic and gruesome death of a gang member. With copious amounts of sex, drugs and RnR, the documentary explores gang mentality and hierarchy by showing how various members deal with collective responsibility and personal tribulations. The soundtrack is a combination of heavy metal, prog rock and what sounds like some contributions from the Radiophonic Workshop. On the whole it is a disturbing portrayal with some graphic scenes of mindless littering. JC
In Our Time - Proust
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work Marcel Proust whose novel À La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or In Search of Lost Time, has been called the definitive modern novel. His stylistic innovation, sensory exploration and fascination with memory were to influence a whole body of thinkers, from the German intellectuals of the 1930s to the Bloomsbury set, chief among them Virginia Woolf, and innumerable critics and novelists since.
But how did he succeed in creating a 3000 page novel with such an artistic coherence? To what extent did John Ruskin influence Proust? Is his fascination with memory and recall simply a nostalgia for the past? And what impact did he have on the 20th century novel?
With Jacqueline Rose, Professor of English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London and author of Albertine; Malcolm Bowie, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge and author of Proust among the Stars; Dr Robert Fraser, Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department at the Open University and author of Proust and the Victorians
Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 objects"
100 programmes, written and narrated by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, and focusing on 100 objects from the British Museum’s collection.
The programmes travel through two million years from the earliest object in the collection to retell the history of humanity through the objects we have made.
Source: BBC
Late Junction
BBC Radio 3’s late night and laid-back, eclectic mix of music, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary
