Past Programs
Rural - 2008
Radio Days
12/11/2008
Bakelite radio sets what were big in this country from the thirties to the fifties - the very sight of one evokes the period - and, though many were brown, many were very colourful and exuberantly designed. There's now a book about them. It's called Radio Days and one of its authors, Peter Sheridan, comes on to the show to tell us about it.
Guerrilla gardeners
12/07/2008
Horticulturalist and activist Richard Reynolds is on a mission to bring to our awareness the potential of the unused, abandoned and unloved garden spaces of our cities. His city is London. At night he and his team drive, walk, or cycle to 'their' abandoned lot—which could be simply an unruly sidewalk of weeds struggling through concrete or a traffic roundabout—and the action starts. Out come the daisies or lavender or Californian poppies—whatever is in season—and their night of guerrilla gardening has begun.
Mobile phones: could they eliminate poverty?
24/05/2008
The way we use our phones is changing. Mobile phones are increasingly the centre of our technological universe, and this is so not only in the West but in the emerging markets where the greatest sales growth is underway. In the next three years over 1 billion phones will be sold into the emerging markets. So find out how they are being used in these new markets—and how this could change all our lives. Could they eliminate poverty, for example?
