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Hey World, What's the Craic?

Patrick Kielty on Ireland's 1994. Patrick and producer Ruth Sanderson on how 1994 was an extraordinary faultline in Irish life, for Radio 4's Archive on 4. Listen on BBC Sounds.

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The Children's Hospital in Entebbe

A free, state-of-the-art children’s hospital is transforming paediatric care in Uganda. But is one hospital enough to reset the future for Uganda's children?

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BBC Witness History

Sweden's fight for gender-neutral personal pronoun ‘hen’. Maddy Savage speaks with Nasim Aghili from the queer art collective Ful, for the BBC World Service 'Witness History' strand. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c3l

A Northerner's Guide To London

In this satirical audio fiction, in the style of a 1940s public information film, lost northerner Ben is given crucial support on a make-or-break work trip to London.

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A Bespoken Media production for BBC Radio 4

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Commissioned in association with the Multitrack Audio Producers Fellowship for new talent in feature-making.

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The first Ultimate Frisbee World Championship

In 1983, Maini Schildt competed in the first Ultimate Frisbee World Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden. Maini was a teenager when, as part of the Finnish women's national team, she reached the final against the USA.

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Ultimate Frisbee was developed in the late 1960s in the United States before spreading to Canada and beyond. Maini Schildt tells Maddy Savage how it felt to compete at the tournament, the first of its kind in the history of the sport.

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Produced by Carys Wall

Presented by Maddy Savage

Exec Produced by Dave Howard.

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(Photo: The Finnish and American Ultimate Frisbee teams after the 1983 Ultimate Frisbee World Championship. Credit: Maini Schildt)