Roundup

New Birth Missionary Church Hosts King's Funeral [4min]

The funeral for Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is being held Tuesday at the New Birth Missionary Church in a suburb of Atlanta, Ga. Bernice King, the couple's youngest child, serves as an elder at the church, the largest predominantly African-American church in the region. Charles Edwards of Georgia Public Broadcasting profiles its congregation.

Services Mark Passing of Coretta Scott King [18min]

President Bush, three former presidents and numerous members of the House and Senate join thousands in attendance at Coretta Scott King's funeral service.

Saying Farewell to Coretta Scott King [4min]

Funeral services are held Tuesday for the first lady of the civil rights movement, Coretta Scott King. The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. died last week at the age of 78. President Bush and a long list of dignitaries will attend the services. Juan Williams and Steve Inskeep report.

The Colonel Parker Story, Part 2 [60min]

Was Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, one of music's most manipulative managers or a misunderstood legend? Elvis fanatic Rob Brydon takes a radio road trip to try and find out.

Stubborn Kind of Fella: Remembering Marvin Gaye 3rd of 6 [30min]

In this six part series, fellow Motown colleague Smokey Robinson pays homage to the legend of soul, Marvin Gaye, and seeks to discover the real man behind the music.

David Starkey on Pope John Paul II [15min]

Dr David Starkey argues that five major Christian figures distorted, even betrayed, the Christian faith as envisaged by Jesus. Defenders argue back. 5/5. Pope John Paul II.

Imperialism & Edward Wakefield, Imperial Reformer [15min]

By the late 1830s the word imperialism was becoming one of the more sensitive nouns in the British Empire. Imperialism means conquest followed by absolute rule and, to the British, it meant national confidence just as it had the Romans and the French. Since the 13th century, the British nomanklatura had fought the monarchy's claim that its rule was beyond question. But now the British were proclaiming the monarch's inalienable right to rule something approaching a quarter of the gl

Survivor [28min]

In 1942 a US Navy destroyer was shipwrecked off Newfoundland. Of the few who survived, one man, Lanier Phillips, was black. The rescuers, never having seen a black man before, tried to scrub his skin clean and white. This is a story about growing up with fear in segregated Georgia, enlisting in a segregated navy, facing death in the icy North Atlantic, and a rescue which galvanized a man to fight racial discrimination.

The Homeboy and the Hurricane [28min]

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the number one contender for the middleweight crown and outspoken civil rights advocate, was convicted of a triple murder in 1966 and was sentenced to three life terms. Lazarus Martin was fifteen, essentially illiterate, and trying to survive a violent ghetto in Brooklyn. Both their lives were changed through the efforts of a group of aging Canadian hippies who took in Lazarus and took on Carter's legal cause. Producer Jon Kalish brings us the fascinating stor

Hogarth and Harlots -- Moll Hackabout and Other Creations [10min]

William Hogarth is famous for his bawdy, bustling paintings of teaming London life in the 18th century. This week’s drama on"Woman’s Hour" brings to life one of his most famous heroines, Moll Hackabout, an innocent country girl who meets an unhappy end as a prostitute. Hogarth’s biographer, Jenny Uglow, and satirist Ian Hislop talk to Ritula Shah about the artist’s attitude towards women, and about prostitution throughout the century in England’s rapidly expanding cities. Uglow is author of H

Reuven Frank, Broadcast News Pioneer, Dies at 85 [4min]

Robert Siegel remembers Reuven Frank, the former president of NBC News. Frank teamed Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on the evening news and picked Tom Brokaw to succeed them. He also pioneered network coverage of political conventions. He died last night at age 85.

Memories of 'Aunt Betty' Friedan [4min]

The world mourns Betty Friedan, who died Saturday at 85, as the author of The Feminine Mystique and a catalyst for the modern women's movement. Kitty Eisele first knew her as"Aunt Betty." She offers a remembrance of a family friend.

Kurt Vonnegut, 'Man Without a Country' [30min]

In an exclusive interview, Mark Lawson talks to American writer Kurt Vonnegut about his views on America and literature in his new book "A Man Without a Country".

Thucydides' Continuing Relevance [11min @30:17]

Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at Cambridge, joins a 45min roundtable discussion on alternative medicine, human enhancement and life extension, and an end to world poverty, to discuss how, despite being written over two thousand years ago, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars discusses war, newspeak and class hatred, terrorism, revolution and genocide. So are there universal themes in war and is it inevitable that history will repeat itself? Prof Cartledge will be tak

Oswald Mosely's New Party [14min]

Shaun Ley explores small parties that had a big impact on British politics, starting with the New Party set up by Sir Oswald Mosley in 1931, Vanguard; the hardline Unionist party from 1970's Northern Ireland; and Militant, the Trotskyites who operated as a party with the Labour Party in the mid 1980's. Mosley was recently rated the greatest British villain of the twentieth century by a group of historians for leading Britain's fascists. But before that he left the Labour Government in 1931 to se

Playing Rosa's Tune: Music of the Civil Rights Struggle [30min]

In October 2005, Mrs Rosa Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement, died at the age of 92. Fifty years earlier, then an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and her subsequent arrest, ignited the civil rights movement in America. Stephen Evans tells the story of how music was used to chronicle the struggle she had initiated, and how important it was as an integral weapon of its armoury.

Historical Files Generate Controversy in Spain [4min]

Danny Ward reports on the archive of documents from the Spanish Civil War, which have been transferred to Barcelona.

Child Labour Builds the British Empire [15min]

Most accounts of British slaving date from the 16th century with the Mshipping Africans to the Spanish Main. But less discussed is what happened to English and Scots eight, nine and ten year-olds in places like Aberdeen, London and Bristol. Many from those places were sold for forced labour in the colonies. "This Sceptred Isle: Empire" is a narrative history of the British Empire from Ireland in the 12th century to the independence of India in the 20th, told in 90 programmes written by

The History of Blacksmithing 5th of 5 -- The Blacksmith and the Torch [15min]

From Picasso to the artist/blacksmiths working in Britain today, artist/blacksmith David Petersen explores the emergence of the blacksmith as an artist in his own right.

Brighton Theatre Haunted by 1st Female Manager [15min]

"The Grey Lady" is the tale of Brighton's first female theatre manager, Mrs Nye Chart, who haunts a building to this day, in the 3rd of 5 original stories celebrating the life of an important woman in Brighton's history. Presented by Lynne Truss. By Roy Apps, read by Joanna David. Directed by Celia de Wolff.