Twenty Tales from the War Zone brings together some of the highlights of John Simpson's remarkable journalistic career. Guerrillas in Colombia, Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, a flatulent Colonel Gadaffi. It's a rollercoaster ride that is sure to thrill anyone who dares to join it...
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to...