Rediscovering the Music of Auschwitz
How stumbling across unfinished manuscripts in the archive of the death camp inspired a young composer
Thought-provoking, intelligent speech radio for people who have a faith – and those who just feel intrigued by the spiritual dimension to life.
Hear some of the most respected names in British journalism as well as new talent.
‘Freedom of speech is at stake here, and we’ll miss it when it’s gone’
John Sweeney visits Ukraine to recall Stalin’s great famine
‘Oh dear, the Metropolitan Police has been given the keys to the dressing-up box…’
‘We’ve seen a savaging of common sense – now it’s the turn of compassion’
‘I hate cigarettes, but as they’re legal people must be allowed to smoke them whether or not
it hastens disease…’ Politicians should not intervene.
A ‘selfish lifestyle choice’ does not merit so much verbal and practical support
As raped women find out to their cost – the police cannot be sued for negligence.
That has to change.
How and why the Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago.
How and why the Berlin Wall claimed so many lives.
Soldiers there, we are told, die to make us safe… But sometimes the unpalatable truth has to be faced: in some wars, soldiers die in vain.