BBC Radio Highlights this Week: The Kinks, Banksy, Ian Rankin, Sun Ra, More


Clicks the links to stream programs from the Beeb.

J to Z - Concert highlights from the Sun Ra Arkestra, recorded live at We Out Here festival 2023. 

The Banksy Story - James Peak tells the story of how Banksy went from wall-spraying hood rat, to the most famous, and infamous, artist in the world.

A Good Read - Ian Rankin and Colin MacIntyre. The crime writer and musician choose the books they love.

Drama on 4: Exodus to Shanghai - The story of five young people who evaded the Nazis by escaping to the only safe haven open to them: Shanghai. Adapted from eyewitness accounts by Kate McAll.

McLevy -  Brian Cox stars as David Ashton's sleuth - solving crimes on the streets of Victorian Edinburgh.

Tales From the Arabian Nights - Derek Jacobi and Carolyn Backhouse appear in these dramatizations of the classic tales.

Whodunnits: Hercule Poirot - Murder on the Orient Express - Hercule Poirot's train departs, but one passenger will never finish the journey. Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt.

Blue Canvas : The Artist Miles Davis -  A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life. With artist Jo Gelbard. From 2016.

The Davies Diaries - Fifty years on from the beginning of the Kinks, there is another chance to hear a series first broadcast in 2000 in which lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies recalls the band's career in the 1960s.

The Kinks: Live in Concert - The Kinks recorded at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire and the Golders Green Hippodrome in 1973 and 1974.

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