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Marie's prayers for the safety of her fisherman husband are answered by a miracle.
A classic story written by Daphne Du Maurier.
Read by Lin Sagovsky
Story taken from "The Rendezvous and Other Stories".
Producer: Sara Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.

The Post Office scandal is one of the UK's most widespread miscarriages of justice, with hundreds of people wrongfully convicted of theft or false accounting. In most of these cases, the Post Office was the investigator, prosecutor and the alleged victim.

Did Post Office lawyers act unethically by failing to disclose evidence that might have helped the people they were prosecuting? Might they face criminal proceedings for attempting to pervert the course of justice?

The Post Office no longer brings private prosecutions in cases such as this. But should we still be allowing anyone apart from a public prosecutor to bring criminal proceedings in the name of the state?

Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg
Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Diane Richardson
Researcher: Marianna Brain
Editor: Clare Fordham
Production coordinator: Maria Ogundele
Sound engineer: Neil Churchill

Pour la 77e édition comportant dix concerts, la France est à l’honneur, ce qui occasionne la venue de deux de ses grandes phalanges symphoniques, l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse et l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. La première de ces formations ouvre les feux les 31 mai et 1er juin sous la direction de celui qui a fait sa renommée internationale de 2008 à 2022, Tugan Sokhiev. (...)

How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev - Episode 1

In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat the powerful Nazi propaganda machine, which crowed victory and smeared its enemies.

However, inside Germany, there was one notable voice of dissent from the very heart of the military machine – Der Chef, a German whose radio broadcasts skilfully questioned Nazi doctrine. He had access to high-ranking military secrets and spoke of internal rebellion. His listeners included German soldiers and citizens.

But what these audiences didn’t know was that Der Chef was a fiction, a character created by the British propagandist Sefton Delmer, just one player in his vast counter-propaganda cabaret, a unique weapon in the war.

Written by Peter Pomerantsev
Abridged by Polly Coles

Debbie Wilkins exploite une ferme près de la rivière Severn dans le Gloucestershire. Les inondations devenant un événement annuel sur ses terres, elle a appris à vivre avec de vastes zones de son exploitation sous l'eau pendant les mois d'hiver. Au début de l'année, un tiers de ses 900 acres a été inondé. Mais plutôt que de considérer cela comme un problème, elle modifie son mode d'exploitation et trouve des moyens de travailler en harmonie avec la nature tout en continuant à produire des denrées alimentaires à partir de la terre.
Sybil Ruscoe rencontre Debbie et apprend comment, en tant que membre du réseau d'agriculture respectueuse de la nature, elle en est venue à considérer la gestion des inondations comme faisant partie intégrante de son activité agricole. Debbie sait que le fait d'avoir ses champs sous l'eau soulage les zones résidentielles voisines menacées par les inondations, et dit qu'elle est heureuse de laisser les plaines d'inondation "faire leur travail". Elle explique qu'elle a modifié ce qu'elle plante dans certains champs, préférant les graminées aux cultures arables, car elles sont mieux à même de survivre au déluge. Sa stratégie permet également de créer un habitat important pour la faune et la flore dans la plaine d'inondation, qui sert de refuge aux échassiers, comme l'explique la conseillère locale du "Farming and Wildlife Group" (groupe pour l'agriculture et la faune). Sybil s'entretient également avec une professeur de l'université agricole royale, qui explique que de plus en plus d'agriculteurs doivent revoir leurs décisions en matière de plantation et de gestion de leurs terres pour s'adapter à la production de denrées alimentaires dans un climat changeant.

Debbie fait visiter à Sybil ce qu'elle appelle ses "champs qui travaillent dur" : ils permettent de stocker les eaux de crue, constituent un habitat pour la faune et fournissent le fourrage pour le bétail qui produit de la nourriture - tout cela en même temps.


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Debbie Wilkins farms near the River Severn in Gloucestershire. With floods becoming an annual event on her land, she's learnt to live with large areas of her farm being underwater during the winter months. Earlier this year, a third of her 900 acres were flooded - but rather than seeing this as a problem, she's changing the way she farms, and finding ways to work in harmony with nature while still producing food from the land.
Sybil Ruscoe meets Debbie and hears how, as a member of the Nature-Friendly Farming Network, she's come to regard flood management as part of her farming business. Debbie knows that having her fields underwater takes the pressure off nearby residential areas at risk from flooding, and says that she's happy to just let the floodplains "do their job". She explains how she's modified what she plants in some fields, choosing grasses over arable crops, as they are better able to survive the deluge. Her strategy also results in the creation of an important wildlife habitat on the floodplain, providing a home for wading birds - as the local Farming and Wildlife Group advisor explains. Sybil also talks to a professor from the Royal Agricultural University, who says that more and more farmers are having the re-asses their decisions on what to plant and how they manage their land as they adapt to producing food in a changing climate.
Debbie takes Sybil on a tour of what she describes as her "hard-working fields": they provide floodwater storage, a habitat for wildlife, and fodder for livestock which produce food - all at the same time.

4 Extra Debut. Will a businessman listen to his wife’s warning when he decides to convert an old mansion into a nursing home? Stars John Baker.
John .... George Baker
Nancy .... Susan Jameson
Harry .... Peter Woodward
Mr Gower .... Peter Baldwin

Adapted and directed by Derek Hoddinott.
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in July 1980.

New Storytellers présente le travail de nouveaux producteurs radio et audio, et cette série présente les lauréats du prix Charles Parker 2022 pour le meilleur reportage radio étudiant. Les juges ont fait l'éloge du reportage de Guy en déclarant qu'il était "intéressant d'entendre ce point de vue dans une belle interview". Les histoires racontées par le policier étaient "très vivantes" et le programme était " impressionnant à écouter - un peu macabre, mais pas dans le mauvais sens du terme ".

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New Storytellers presents the work of new radio and audio producers, and this series features the winners of the Charles Parker Prize 2022 for the Best Student Radio Feature. The judges praised Guy’s feature saying that it was ‘interesting to hear this perspective in a beautiful interview. The stories the policeman told were ‘very vivid’ and the programme was a ‘powerful listen – a bit gruesome but not in a bad way.’

Police officers often witness things outside the normal range of human experience – violence, brutality and traumatic death that many of us never see.

For most it is accepted as just part of the job and, although traditionally officers have not been encouraged to share their feelings, what is the emotional cost? How does dealing with trauma on a regular basis, change us as human beings? High profile atrocities like the murder of George Floyd in the US, and Sarah Everard's murder in the UK, have also led to scant understanding and sympathy for policemen and women dealing with the day-to-day realities of policing.

In ''He wears a Mask, and his Face Grows to Fit it'', retired policeman Guy Gardener reflects on the horrors he witnessed during his 30 year career in British policing and how he learnt to cope with the emotional fall-out of the job. Now 70, he recorded this candid interview with his son, also called Guy who was making a feature for his audio production course at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Guy the son discovered a great deal about his father’s long policing career - stories and feelings that had never been shared before – and he contrasted the reality with an upbeat period recruitment film.

Producer: Guy Gardener
A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4