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Post by stu77 on Jun 8, 2024 22:01:55 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Jun 25, 2024 22:13:05 GMT
In late 2023 a group of German journalists released a podcast series, Legion: Most Wanted. It described their ultimately unsuccessful search for a terrorist suspect, Daniela Klette, using an AI facial recognition tool. She had been on the run for more than 30 years, together with two accomplices. The trio are believed by the police to have been members of the Red Army Faction, the RAF, an anti-imperialist terrorist group, often referred to as the Baader Meinhof gang. The RAF claimed responsibility in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the assassination of a number of prominent Germans. None of these crimes has ever been cleared up.
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Post by stu77 on Jul 7, 2024 1:49:22 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020xjrDirty Old Town at 75 Archive on 4 Radio 4 has commissioned a brand new version of Dirty Old Town, the timeless classic that Ewan MacColl wrote about Salford. Mike Sweeney grew up on it’s streets, he's been singing the song his whole life, but when he brings Ewan’s widow, the folk legend Peggy Seeger back to the city to record a new version, he uncovers revelation after revelation. Peggy's new orchestral version with the BBC Philharmonic recalls all the longing and loneliness, felt by a young Ewan MacColl as he roamed Salford as a young man. Mike unlocks the secrets of the song, peeling back layers of history, meaning and emotion. He hears about the love and hate that Ewan had for Salford -and what Ewan thought of famous covers of Dirty Old Town by The Dubliners and The Pogues. He learns about the song's 'missing verse' , and hears Peggy perform it live and exclusively, in an emotional finale overlooking the docks that MacColl sang about.
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Post by stu77 on Jul 8, 2024 0:11:30 GMT
Rage Against the Regime Metal, according to a recent Spotify poll, is the most downloaded genre of music in the world. It’s a highly complex, intellectual form of music, intertwined with politics since its inception with Black Sabbath’s anti-war anthem ‘War Pigs’
This music has a special kind of power—a sonic force that inspires courage and rebellion, spurring people to speak truth to power. It can make regimes fear and attack those who use it, and can connect people across continents, even when powerful forces seek to keep entire populations and their cultures isolated and silent.
In "Rage Against the Regime: The Revolutionary Power of Metal Music," metal journalist Dannii Leivers explores the stories of bands who have faced repression in various Middle Eastern countries over the past two decades and highlights the experiences of three important metal artists
Nikan Khosravi, lead singer of Confess who was, along with his bandmates, imprisoned by the Iranian authorities for blasphemy and spreading anti-government sentiment.
Cherine Amr, who was labeled a satanist by members of the Muslim Brotherhood after the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, partly because those in power couldn’t understand why a woman would scream like she did during shows.
And Abed Hathout, co-founder of the Palestinian band Khalas — thought to be the first metal band to sing in Arabic — who opened a window into Palestinian culture and resisted the narrative of perpetual hate in the region by touring with an Israeli band across Europe.
Join us as we dive into the revolutionary power of metal music and uncover the stories of those who dare to rage against the regime. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020xsf |
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Post by stu77 on Jul 8, 2024 18:14:29 GMT
Scunthorpe United www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j8bf45When Bury FC was expelled from the Football League after 125 years, the government commissioned a fan-led review of football's financial stability. Centring the importance of football clubs to hundreds of local communities, it recommended tough new rules about governance and ownership of football clubs. Five years on and with both Labour and the Conservatives supporting the creation of a new regulator, Scunthorpe United has become a case study for why politicians think they need to step in. A succession of owners, a string of relegations and a more than gloomy balance book left the North Lincolnshire town wondering what life without its football club might look like. But the efforts of the local community led to a small piece of hope. For Radio 4, lifelong Scunthorpe fan and BBC political journalist (in that order) Jack Fenwick tells the inside story of how it all went so wrong and what happened next. |
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Jul 19, 2024 23:45:14 GMT
Post by stu77 on Jul 19, 2024 23:45:14 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Jul 23, 2024 10:46:55 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 23, 2024 11:49:18 GMT
Just downloaded it 👌🏻
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Post by stu77 on Jul 31, 2024 1:40:58 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Aug 1, 2024 0:51:29 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Aug 1, 2024 19:36:28 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Aug 7, 2024 1:46:19 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Aug 13, 2024 1:02:37 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021w6yRace Riots in Britain The Long View
Mob violence breaks out across the country, with an explosion of hatred directed at minority communities who feel under siege. As British courts process hundreds of those involved in the riots of August 2024, Jonathan Freedland looks back more than 800 years ago when hatred was directed at a different group of outsiders. In the late 1180s, Britain's small Jewish community was targeted by violent mobs in the wake of the coronation of Richard I. The worst incident was the York Massacre of 1190 in which 150 people died. What are the historical parallels with today's race riots against British Muslims and asylum seekers, and what can be learnt about how to heal communities?
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Post by stu77 on Aug 16, 2024 11:39:11 GMT
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Aug 19, 2024 17:41:48 GMT
Post by stu77 on Aug 19, 2024 17:41:48 GMT
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