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A man named Johnny Maxen walks through Gare du Nord station in Paris.
He's reluctantly returning to a life he thought he'd abandoned forever back in Scotland...
Where is his estranged wife who's mysteriously disappeared?

Starring Gordon Jackson.
Edward Boyd's thriller serial in eight parts. (...)
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1966.

Musique de chambre par les artistes de la nouvelle génération : James Newby chante Dichterliebe de Schumann dans une interprétation mémorable qu'il a enregistrée l'été dernier avec le pianiste Joseph Middleton.

Chamber music from the New Generation Artists: James Newby sings Schumann's Dichterliebe in a memorable performance he recorded last summer with pianist Joseph Middleton.

(...)  Over the weekend, the Daily Telegraph reported that “an anonymous Radio 4 Extra listener” had “discovered the BBC had been quietly editing repeats of shows over the past few years to be more in keeping with social mores.” To which the BBC said . . . well, yeah. In a statement addressing the charge, the institution confirmed that “on occasion we edit some episodes so they’re suitable for broadcast today, including removing racially offensive language and stereotypes from decades ago, as the vast majority of our audience would expect.” Thus, in the absence of law or regulation, has the British establishment begun to excise material it finds inappropriate by today’s lights. (...)

Philaunet(https://regardfc.1fr1.net/t13p740-bbc-radio-3-radio-4#37672) a écrit:Une perle de pièce radiophonique interprétée magistralement et montée de façon à tenir en haleine. Nous étions en 1966 : The Same River Twice Episode 1 of 8 - Rediffusion le 22/02/2022. (...)

Publisher's Summary: Gordon Jackson stars in this classic noir thriller, with the music of Miles Davis.

A man named Johnny Maxen reluctantly walks through the Gare du Nord on his way back to a life he thought he'd left behind. Summoned by a letter from his sometime mother-in-law, Helen Duncan, he returns to Glasgow and the news that his estranged wife has been missing for three months.
As far as Johnny's concerned, his dealings with Julia ended five years ago. He's paid his dues and knows he should cut and run. But for Helen's sake, he agrees to find her - alive or dead.
Asking around, he gets some strange reactions to his enquiries. And when his search turns up the body of a girl, who has committed suicide in Julia's flat, he faces his own deadly threat. Then the police start to take an interest in the case. It seems that wherever Johnny goes, violence follows - and as the corpses pile up, suspicion swirls around him.
His attempts to clear his name lead him to a lochside cottage and a meeting with an old flame. Can Johnny find out the truth about Julia - and uncover the secret behind his daughter Sarah's death?
Created by Edward Boyd, whose credits include Castles in Spain and Z-Cars, this suspenseful crime drama was first broadcast on the Light Programme in 1966 before being adapted as a novel and BBC TV series under the title The Dark Number. It stars Gordon Jackson as Johnny Maxen, with Roddy McMillan as Inspector Wardlaw.
Production credits:
Written by Edward Boyd
Produced by Eddie Fraser
Musical score by Miles Davis

A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi BBC 4 March 2022

A Alger, en 1936, le jeune Edmond Charlot réalise son rêve de créer "Les Vraies Richesses" : "... une bibliothèque, une librairie, une maison d'édition, mais surtout un lieu d'accueil pour les amis qui aiment la littérature de la Méditerranée."
Tout au long de l'histoire mouvementée de l'Algérie du 20e siècle, Les Vraies Richesses sont demeurées. Mais aujourd'hui, en 2017, la librairie a définitivement fermé ses portes, destinée à être transformée en boutique de beignets.
Un jeune étudiant, Ryad, est arrivé pour vider la boutique, mais il est observé avec attention par Abdullah, un vieil homme et ancien employé des "Vraies Richesses"....

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In Algiers, in 1936, the young Edmond Charlot fulfilled his dream of setting up Les Vraies Richesses: “… a library, a bookstore, a publishing house, but above all a place for friends who love the literature of the Mediterranean.”
Throughout the turbulent history of 20th century Algeria, Les Vraies Richesses remained. But now, in 2017, it has closed for good, destined to be turned into a beignet shop.
A young student, Ryad, has arrived to clear out the shop, but he is keenly watched by Abdullah, an old man and former employee of Les Vraies Richesses …

BBC 4 The Food Programme The Meaning of Cod 12-12 2021.



How did cod become such an important fish in so many different and diverse parts of Europe? In search of the past, present and future of cod, Dan Saladino travels to the west coast of Norway and the Arctic island of Lofoten.
Presented and produced by Dan Saladino.

An unusual chain of events forces an elderly woman to confront a tragedy from her past.

How does international criminal law regard Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Joshua Rozenberg speaks to Professor Philippe Sands QC, whose grandfather was forced to flee the Ukrainian city of Lviv over a century ago.

One recent piece of secondary legislation made it legal in England for children in care aged 16 and above to be housed in unsupervised adult accommodation such as hostels. Joshua hears from a care-experienced writer what that was like, and the risks that vulnerable children might face in such housing. The law is now being challenged in the courts.

Is our democracy being eroded by the government, by reducing parliament’s opportunities for scrutiny? Two reports from the House of Lords Select Committees, titled "Government by Diktat" and "Democracy Denied", say there is an urgent need to return power to parliament. They worry about power grabs and an increased use of secondary legislation - ie laws made by ministers, that can’t be amended by MPs or peers

Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Researchers: Octavia Woodward and Matt Toulson
Sound: Rod Farquhar
Production Coordinators: Maria Ogundele and Jacqui Johnson
Editor: Hugh Levinson

1. CPE Bach and the Nazi Hoard
   
2. A Very Modern Composer
   
3. The Sentimental Style
   
4. Reinvention in Hamburg
   
5. A Bid for Posterity
   

This week we look at CPE Bach's music and reputation in the light of the sensational rediscovery of much his archive in 1999. Throughout the week we'll hear recent recordings of this 'new' music. In this episode, Donald Macleod tells the story of the loss – and eventual rediscovery in 1999 – of much of CPE Bach’s music, following a fascinating journey.

From 1750, for the next 60 years the name "Bach" was almost exclusively associated with the initials "CPE". Born in 1714, Carl Philipp Emanuel's influence resonates to this day: his book on keyboard playing permanently changed the practice; his music changed the direction of travel. Bach left his life's work tidy and well organised on his death in 1788, with most works still in print. His estate was largely sold to Felix Mendelssohn's father Abraham, but by the 1800s CPE Bach's music had all but disappeared.

The collection of CPE Bach manuscripts found its way into the library of the Sing-Akademie in Berlin, one of the most prestigious performing institutions in the Prussian capital, closely associated with the royal court. This was the finest collection of Bach family manuscripts in the world. In the face of Allied bombing in 1943, the Sing-Akademie was one of over 500 mostly private collections from the Berlin area to be evacuated. It was carefully packaged up into 14 crates and sent to a remote castle in Silesia, in present-day Poland. As the war ended, the collection was found by the Red Army, and disappeared from public view for the next 50 years.

In this episode, Donald Macleod explores the sound of CPE Bach's music, written in the 'Empfindsamer Stil'.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s music sits somewhere between the high baroque of his father, JS Bach, and the stripping back of ornamentation by Haydn and Mozart. It’s often described using the German word for sensitive or sentimental, 'Empfindsam'.
The Empfindsamer style aimed to express ‘true and natural’ feelings, in contrast to the baroque, and drew on a very wide range of cultural influences: poets, painters, philosophers and writers, in particular Laurence Sterne, whose Sentimental Journey was translated into German as Empfindsame Reise. All of that is far from the almost exclusively theological focus of JS Bach. For Carl Philipp Emanuel, music wasn’t about technical brilliance, but all about stirring the emotions of the listener. Bach believed that music should reflect human nature, and hold up a mirror to the emotional world of man. The emotions should be stirred, and this should have a cathartic effect.

Dans cet épisode, Donald Macleod explore le son de la musique de CPE Bach, écrite dans le "Empfindsamer Stil".
La musique de Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach se situe quelque part entre le haut baroque de son père, JS Bach, et le dépouillement de l'ornementation par Haydn et Mozart. On la décrit souvent en utilisant le mot allemand "Empfindsam", qui signifie "sensible" ou "sentimental".
Le style Empfindsamer visait à exprimer des sentiments "vrais et naturels", contrairement au baroque, et s'inspirait d'un très large éventail d'influences culturelles : poètes, peintres, philosophes et écrivains, en particulier Laurence Sterne, dont le Sentimental Journey a été traduit en allemand par Empfindsame Reise. Tout cela est loin de l'orientation presque exclusivement théologique de JS Bach. Pour Carl Philipp Emanuel, la musique n'est pas une question de brillance technique, mais d'émotion pour l'auditeur. Bach pensait que la musique devait refléter la nature humaine et tendre un miroir au monde émotionnel de l'homme. Elle doit susciter des émotions et avoir un effet cathartique.

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