- Publisher: Cassell
- Year: 2019
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 512pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 233x153mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 1kg
- ISBN: 9781788400374
- Product code: 514988
BBC Radio 4 Today
A History of Our World through 60 Years of Conversations and Controversies
Ed. Edward Stourton New Hardback Illustrated
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Reporting from the Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common in 1983, or Tiananmen Square in 1989, interviewing strike leaders during the 1979 Winter of Discontent or discussing artificial intelligence with a professor of robotics ... Since it first went on air in October 1957, BBC Radio 4's Today has covered major developments in revolution and protest, politics, war, culture, social change, and science and technology. This volume presents Today discussions of 60 topics, introduced by the presenters.
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Today is the sound of history being made - live on air.
In an era of fake news, echo chambers and new fault lines in global politics, millions of listeners turn to BBC Radio 4's Today programme each morning to help them make sense of the world around them.
The first ever book from the iconic programme marks six decades of BBC Radio 4's Today programme with sixty world changing stories as they were broadcast. Covering war, rebellion and political transformation, to significant changes in culture, society, and the scientific world, the book explores events as they happened, and how they changed the world around us.
From the fall of the Berlin Wall and the anti-apartheid movement to 9/11 and the Rise of Islamic State, from the Rushdie affair to the emergence of Brit Art and from space exploration to the tomorrow's world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Key figures within the book include Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Hawking, Tracey Emin and Barack Obama.
Chapters include:
Chapter 1: Rebellion, Revolution and Protest
Chapter 2: Britain's Political Landscape
Chapter 3: War, Conflict and Security
Chapter 4: Art, Culture and Sport
Chapter 5: Social Change
Chapter 6: The Natural World, Science and Technology
Also available in Audio and Ebook.
Edited by Edward Stourton
Forewords by Nick Robinson & Martha Kearney
With an introduction by Sarah Sands, editor of the Today programme.
Shortlisted for the 2019 FutureBook of the Year award
In an era of fake news, echo chambers and new fault lines in global politics, millions of listeners turn to BBC Radio 4's Today programme each morning to help them make sense of the world around them.
The first ever book from the iconic programme marks six decades of BBC Radio 4's Today programme with sixty world changing stories as they were broadcast. Covering war, rebellion and political transformation, to significant changes in culture, society, and the scientific world, the book explores events as they happened, and how they changed the world around us.
From the fall of the Berlin Wall and the anti-apartheid movement to 9/11 and the Rise of Islamic State, from the Rushdie affair to the emergence of Brit Art and from space exploration to the tomorrow's world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Key figures within the book include Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Hawking, Tracey Emin and Barack Obama.
Chapters include:
Chapter 1: Rebellion, Revolution and Protest
Chapter 2: Britain's Political Landscape
Chapter 3: War, Conflict and Security
Chapter 4: Art, Culture and Sport
Chapter 5: Social Change
Chapter 6: The Natural World, Science and Technology
Also available in Audio and Ebook.
Edited by Edward Stourton
Forewords by Nick Robinson & Martha Kearney
With an introduction by Sarah Sands, editor of the Today programme.
Shortlisted for the 2019 FutureBook of the Year award
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Reporting from the Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common in 1983, or Tiananmen Square in 1989, interviewing strike leaders during the 1979 Winter of Discontent or discussing artificial intelligence with a professor of robotics ... Since it first went on air in October 1957, BBC Radio 4's <i>Today</i> has covered major developments in revolution and protest, politics, war, culture, social change, and science and technology. This volume presents <i>Today</i> discussions of 60 topics, introduced by the presenters.
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