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2021-03-18

  I'm officially a "Doctor of Lobsters"

"The world is your lobster," says Carly Daniels, Britain's leading expert on the snap-happy crustacean.  Photo: Johnny Fenn.
  Whistledown author
2019-02-04

  Fasten Your Seatbelts .. it's P.J.Harvey

P.J.Harvey has recorded two new songs, together with the music for a new stage version of the classic movie All About Eve. John Wilson has been granted special back stage access for "Behind the Scenes" - and it's a Whistledown production for BBC Radio ...
  Whistledown author
2016-04-28

  Barry from Watford on Steve Wright

Barry’s Lunch Club is the new radio comedy show from Whistledown. Staring Alex Lowe as the 82 year old Barry from Watford, it is a talking shop for the retired people of Britain. Here, Barry is on Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the afternoon talking abou...
  whistledown author
2015-10-26

  An inspirational and brilliant communicator

We’re saddened hear of the death of historian and biographer Lisa Jardine. Here she is in one of her last interviews, talking about the scientist Leo Szilard, a friend of her father’s for a Whistledown documentary on the origins of the H-Bomb. The pro...
  whistledown author
2015-10-23

  The secrets of Burgess and Maclean

As Government papers are released, Radio 4's Cold War Confidential, produced by Whistledown, reveals how the British spy network failed to spot the traitors in their midst.
  whistledown author
2015-05-26

  When Fats met Al

In 1927 - or thereabouts, a car pulled up outside a hotel in central Chicago. The pianist Fats Waller was bundled in the back ... or was he? Kurt Elling investigates one of the strangest footnotes in jazz in this extract from the forthcoming Radio 2 d...
  whistledown author
2015-05-15

  The Reunion: Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sue MacGregor reunites cast and creatives to recall how director Peter Brook's revolutionary production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, set inside a brilliantly-lit white box, changed theatre and Shakespeare forever. Sue MacGregor is joined by Peter Bro...
  whistledown author
2015-05-15

  The Reunion: Far East Prisoners of War

The fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942 led to the surrender of 67,000 British servicemen, the single largest capitulation in British military history.While many were sent to forced labour projects such as the Thailand-Burma railway, many more we...
  whistledown author
2015-05-15

  Women in Blue

Former senior police detective Jackie Malton - the inspiration for Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in the TV series Prime Suspect – talks to retired and serving officers to explore whether the laddish canteen-culture and sexist attitudes among ...
  whistledown author
2015-03-13

  Radio Today interview with David Prest

Radio Today's Trevor Dann speaks to managing director of Whistledown, David Prest about the new RIGTrain scheme which aims to offer the skills required to expand the independent radio production sector, and to support the freelancers working in the ind...
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