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Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2012-02-12 11:19:00 Description: "And I Will Always Love You." BH reflects on Whitney Houston's singing career. A woman weighs up her future in austerity Greece, and a British student talks of his desire to go to the embattled Syrian City of Homs. Should the best actress category be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2012-02-05 10:52:00 Description: As the UK freezes, polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes talks about cold baths. We hear how a Falkland Islander became an Argentine and how knights lost their spurs. And reviewing the Sunday papers: ocean rower Roz Savage, Anastasia De Waal of the soci...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2012-01-29 11:06:00 Description: "It's a battle between democracy and the economy"; a Greek Minister warns us he'd resign if the Eurozone is allowed to dictate Greece's budget. Paddy stumbles upon a tale of tutus and tattoos in search of an elusive former star of the Royal Ballet. O...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2012-01-22 10:52:00 Description: Lucy Marcus throws open the doors to the board room; we visit the set of a pornographic film to ask the performers if they worry about their work corrupting young people; and Paddy hunts for the papparazzi hounding Pippa Middleton. Also comedy legend...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2012-01-22 10:52:00 Description: Lucy Marcus throws open the doors to the board room; we visit the set of a pornographic film to ask the performers if they worry about their work corrupting young people; and Paddy hunts for the papparazzi hounding Pippa Middleton. Also comedy legend...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2012-01-15 10:35:00 Description: Can the English and the Scottish discuss divorce without annoying each other? Social Commentator Peter York and historian Neil Oliver look back at the rocky Island marriage. Are Sundays, rather than Mondays, the worst day of the week? Author Blake Mo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2012-01-08 11:05:00 Description: "They framed me". Eddie Gilfoyle, who spent 18 years in prison for the murder of his wife, told Broadcasting House that previously undisclosed evidence held by the police could have led to his conviction being quashed. We also found out what would ac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell 1st Jan 2012 Updated: 2012-01-01 10:55:00 Description: Happy New Year! We summoned the spirit of January to test our life and times. Jon Snow, Antony Beevor, Rosie Boycott and Lord Hurd compared today and tomorrow with 1968 and 1989. The doyennes of radio criticism - Gillian Reynolds, Elizabeth Mahoney a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House- with Paddy O'Connell 18th Dec 2011 Updated: 2011-12-18 11:43:00 Description: Vive la difference! As a fierce war of words erupts across the Channel, the French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy tells us the entente is still very cordial. We hear of the remarkable rescue of the Terrier of Tehran; Pumpkin, the British Ambassador's...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-12-11 08:35:00 Description: A Scots fisherman speaks of the song of a gale in the rigging. What is the future of the Euro? And Kevin Connolly travels Libya's coastal highway, a road fought over by Greeks, Romans, Rommel and more recently. Reviewing the papers, Patience Wheatcro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Broadcasting House with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-12-04 09:45:00 Description: On Broadcasting House this week, we test the temperature of an angry nation. Three radio hosts, with nine million listeners between them, tell us they've never known a time like it. Playwright, diarist and one-time government minister, Chris Mullin, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-11-27 10:45:00 Description: On the programme today, are we suffering from a generation of political pygmies? Historians Peter Hennessey and Sir Max Hastings think we are. But who would be their composite perfect politician? Paddy visits the British firm selling tandoori overs t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-11-20 10:50:00 Description: This week Margaret Thatcher and Robin Day discuss painkillers; Lady Thatcher's assistant doesn't discuss Meryl Streep's new film. Also, a former classmate of Saif Gadaffi on lessons with a dictator's son. Why walking through doorways makes us forg...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-11-06 12:03:00 Description: Bond is back - but can he save the Eurozone from economic collapse? We bring you a former Bond Girl and a specially commissioned account. "I took the corner of my bed sheet to my mouth, sucked on it, and I dreamed of eating sandwiches with salami." A...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-10-30 11:06:00 Description: What can you do with an extra hour in the day? BH bakes a 60-minute tart. How will the world cope with 7 billion inhabitants? Also Lord Lloyd Webber worries about the Olympics. And reviewing the papers Jojo Moyes, Merril Stevenson, and Peter Whittle....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-10-30 11:06:00 Description: ssss...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-10-23 09:59:00 Description: The latest on the Arab Spring including an interview with Tunisian activist Lina Ben Halli on the day of her country's elections The man who caught Colonel Gadaffi -- Omran al-Oweib -- explains what happened. Blake Hounshell of Foreign Policy magaz...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-10-23 09:59:00 Description: Here's what I've written for Proteus -- may suit for the podcast blurb: The latest on the Arab Spring including an interview with Tunisian activist Lina Ben Halli on the day of her country's elections The man who caught Colonel Gadaffi -- Omran...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-10-16 09:49:00 Description: On Broadcasting House this week, we hear calls for a 'financial spring.' The Baby-Buster generation will have the endure the longest and deepest fall in living standards since modern records began. But are they really poorer than their Baby-Boomers f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-10-09 10:14:00 Description: Apocalypse News is a diet of doom and gloom for you and the economy - we'll debate whether things are as bad as they seem. There’s also some worm shaped good news, and in the week that the PM told us that it's the fight in your dog that counts, Ed ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-10-02 10:42:00 Description: Ten years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, we hear about President Karzai's role as part of a Mujahadeen delegation to Disneyland. As Songs of Praise celebrates its 50th anniversary, the famed atheist Sir Jonathan Miller explains why we all...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: 25th September 2011 - The Euro in Crisis Updated: 2011-09-25 10:32:00 Description: As George Osbourne announces that we have just 6 weeks to save the Euro we take a closer look at the long term options for Europe. Plus is your garden fit for the Olympics? We head to Newham to hear how guerilla gardening is helping to spruce up the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: With Kevin Connolly Updated: 2011-09-18 10:10:00 Description: As conference season gets underway - the search is on for public spending cuts that don't hit frontline services. We conduct a psychological experiment which might change the way we're governed. We set out to find a more cost effective examp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Kevon Connolly - 9th September 2011 Updated: 2011-09-11 08:00:00 Description: Broadcasting House reflects on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Reviewing the Sunday papers, the American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer, Tori Amos, who was in New York on that terrible day, journalist Jason Burke and the author, Fr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell - 4th September 2011 Updated: 2011-09-04 10:15:00 Description: We look to the future of the Conservatives in Scotland & revisit a very special reunion you may remember from PM....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell - 28th August 2011 Updated: 2011-08-28 07:29:00 Description: Broadcasting House hears again from the Tripoli journalist who can finally speak openly about the risks she ran; the latest from New York as Hurricane Irene approaches, and we reveal the story that The Hour didn't show you: how ITN took on the BBC. R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell - 21st August 2011 Updated: 2011-08-21 08:00:00 Description: Broadcasting House becomes Broadcasting Tent at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We have a house band -4 Poofs and a Piano to serenade us and welcome this week's guests who include Ruby Wax, Andrew Maxwell and Kate Wilson. Reviewing the Sunday papers, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-08-14 09:59:00 Description: London's mayor Boris Johnson tells us we can only learn so much from America's fight against gang violence. Writers and thinkers reflect on the most telling sights and sounds of the riots that flared across England. Radio 2's Steve Wright gives his p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Revisiting Down and Out in Paris and London Updated: 2011-08-14 08:00:00 Description: For Broadcasting House, Emma Jane Kirby retraces George Orwell's classic journey into poverty. She meets a woman crammed into a boarding house room with her two adult children; a kitchen hand who grabs only a few hours sleep each night; a homeless Po...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-08-07 09:53:00 Description: How loud is debt? What does a stock market crash sound like? BH convenes a brains trust to explain the economic crisis, and turns figures into sounds. A US pilot who survived his Blackhawk helicopter going down says he'd return to Somalia if it would...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: 31.07.2011 Updated: 2011-07-31 11:18:00 Description: Is today a blue skies day?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Paddy O'Connell Updated: 2011-07-24 10:22:00 Description: As the people of Norway mourn the loss of over 90 citizens, we ask if its cherished freedoms are at risk, and hear the rememberence of Sunday services in Oslo. Amy Winehouse's former manager gives us his assessment of her life and career. At h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD BH: with Sian Williams Updated: 2011-07-17 10:01:00 Description: We hear from the Facebook friend who is summoning Rebekah Brooks to answer questions in Parliament. A former mafioso tells us what it's like to work for the family. And we hear from Flight Lieutenant William Walker, the Battle of Britain hero who, at...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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