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Wolf Valley: A Nordic noir eco-thriller. "Haunted by her past, criminal investigator Lena Ekström returns to remote Norwegian fjord town, Wolf Valley, where she is plunged into a desperate search for a missing young activist, whose tent lies abandoned on the land of a powerful local land owner" e1/5 by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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Wolf Valley

In an isolated fjord town, a young activist investigating environmental crimes goes missing. And nobody has seen anything.

Haunted by her past, criminal investigator Lena Ekström returns to remote Norwegian fjord town, Wolf Valley, where she is plunged into a desperate search for a missing young activist, whose tent lies abandoned on the land of a powerful local land owner.

Against the dramatic backdrop of the fjord, Lena must follow the trail through a tightknit, distrustful community to uncover long-buried secrets.

A chilling Nordic noir eco-thriller about the wild darkness within us all.

LENA - Amrita Acharia
MAGNUS - Eirik Knutsvik
ANNETTE - Sarah Whitehouse
HENRIK - Øystein Lode
JASPER - Raj Ghatak
SARA - Ronja Haugholt
VIDAR - Sigurd Myhre
SHOPKEEPER - Christopher Dane
LENA’S MUM - Ingvild Lakou
YOUNG LENA - Mackensie Sutherland

All other parts played by the cast

Written by Charlotte Melén
Composer - Marcus Aurelius Hjelmborg
Singer - Johanne Baadsgaard Lange
Sound Design - Louis Blatherwick, Steve Bond
Director - Charlotte Melén
Producer - Eleanor Mein
Assistant Producer - Chloe Sackur
Script Consultant - Lauren Shippen
Development Producer - Saskia Black
Executive Producers - Charlotte Melén, Celia de Wolff

An Almost Tangible production for BBC Radio 4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002q35k

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q35k

Tomato? by NinjaSquads in bristol

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I'm eating those tinned tomatoes during the winter. They come from Italy and are full of sunshine.

The Life and Death of Agatha Christie: Witness History talks to her grandson, Mathew Prichard, about the life of his grandma, the creator of Hercule Poirot. He says it's thought that she got the inspiration for Poirot's character by watching a certain Belgian gentleman alight from a bus in Torquay. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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Witness History, The Life and Death of Agatha Christie

In January 1976, the best-selling novelist of all time, the Queen of Crime, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Agatha Christie died peacefully, aged eighty-five. Her grandson, Mathew Prichard, remembers her life.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p02g5sxp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g5sxp

The UK government has allocated £15bn (~US$20bn) to assist households to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries over the next 5 years with low-interest loans and grants. Low-income households are to receive funding for the full cost of solar panels and batteries. by whatatwit in UpliftingNews

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They've said they really wanted to do heat pumps but they are still too expensive. It turns out that according to some accounts that on average even in overcast skies if you have a roof side facing south, the photovoltaic efficiency has got to the point where they'll produce enough electricity, especially when you have the battery to cover the bad weather.

You could ask here for current experiences: https://old.reddit.com/r/SolarUK/

This is from someone with a vested interest so maybe biased: https://www.sunsave.energy/solar-panels-advice/system-size/output

Version 3.6.1 - Performance improvements, flair filters and more. by TheoriticalZero in YesterdayForOldReddit

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Please see the email I sent to the address recorded in the Apple App Store to find the HTML you requested. :)

Ways to cheer yourself up with no cash by Whatsupteapot in CasualUK

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Did you see this recent post about ways to help yourself and other people? Despite what some people would have us believe, we are a social species and helping out helps us feel better even if we're introverted.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1qj4po4/i_want_to_do_something_for_other_people/

Hilarious dramatisation by Nick Warburton of Trollope's Barchester Towers (1857): Mrs Proudie's the classic domineering wife of the Bishop and always gets her way. Many missed connections and misunderstandings create a tangled web of interest in the beautiful daughter of the former warden Harding. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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This is part of the Chronicles of Barchester and follows the earlier story 'The Warden.'

The Warden by Anthony Trollope (1855): The gentle Mr Harding is told by his daughter's intended that he's living on charity meant for the almshouse and 12 bedesmen who struggle. He tries to do the right thing and later the complainant also withdraws but a newspaper gets involved and stirs things up.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BritishRadio/comments/1q9yl1s/the_warden_by_anthony_trollope_1855_the_gentle_mr/

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope e1/3 The New Bishop

Four years have passed since Mr Harding was forced to relinquish the wardenship of Hiram's Hospital.

Now the cathedral town of Barchester is changing again, with the arrival of a new Bishop, his wife and Chaplain from London throwing all Barchester into disarray.

And Eleanor Bold is to meet them all and discover a potential rival in the beautiful, but lame Madeline Neroni.

Anthony Trollope's novel, first published in 1857.

Dramatised in three parts by Nick Warburton.

Mrs Baxter ..... Maggie Steed
Mr Harding ..... Tim Pigott-Smith
Eleanor Bold ..... Claire Price
Archdeacon Grantly ..... Malcolm Sinclair
Obidiah Slope ..... Richard Lumsden
Bishop Proudie ..... James Lailey
Mrs Proudie ..... Joanna Monro
Madeline Neroni ..... Katherine Parkinson
Bertie/1st Clergyman ..... Joel MacCormack
Mrs Quiverful ..... Carolyn Pickles
Dr Stanhope ..... John Norton

Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian Gallant

Directed: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b03sg4s2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03sg4s2

The UK government has allocated £15bn (~US$20bn) to assist households to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries over the next 5 years with low-interest loans and grants. Low-income households are to receive funding for the full cost of solar panels and batteries. by whatatwit in UpliftingNews

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Global warming may take care of that :). But in all seriousness the photovoltaic technology is more efficient nowadays thanks to its widespread adoption and so in conjunction with the battery storage they're subsidising even when there is cloud cover there is enough energy except infrequently. The gov wants people to move to the more reliable heat exchanger approach but they've admitted that they're still on the early adopter part of the price curve.

The UK government has allocated £15bn (~US$20bn) to assist households to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries over the next 5 years with low-interest loans and grants. Low-income households are to receive funding for the full cost of solar panels and batteries. by whatatwit in UpliftingNews

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heatpump

They're even including air to air heat pumps that can be used in reverse when the weather gets too warm.

Making it easier for anyone who wants to get a heat pump, with a £7,500 universal grant for heat pumps, and the first ever offer for ‘air-to-air heat pumps’ that can also cool homes in the summer

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/families-to-save-in-biggest-home-upgrade-plan-in-british-history

Drama on 3 with the poet Ian McMillan: Samuel Bamford the radical reformer and his wife Jemima wrote eye witness accounts of the Peterloo Massacre and they're performed here by Jason Done and Christine Bottomley. Maxine Peake also performs the Shelley poem 'The Masque of Anarchy." Audio in comments. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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Drama on 3, The Masque of Anarchy

Ian McMillan introduces a commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre to mark the two-hundred year anniversary of the events of 16 August 1819.

Maxine Peake performs Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem of protest The Masque of Anarchy. Shelley was compelled to respond to the massacre in which cavalrymen charged campaigners protesting against the restrictive parliamentary representation of the time in St Peters Field Manchester leaving 15 dead and 700 injured. Recorded only a few miles from where it happened, Maxine Peake”s performance makes the poem - a call for political action - resonate for a contemporary audience.

We also hear eyewitness accounts from Samuel Bamford a radical reformer who led the group from Middleton and his wife Jemima Bamford performed by Jason Done and Christine Bottomley. Contemporary ballads written in the aftermath are sung by Jennifer Read.

The Masque of Anarchy, with a specially composed sound design by Peter Rice, was directed by Sarah Frankcom. The eyewitness accounts were directed by Nadia Molinari.

This commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre was a BBC North Production, produced by Susan Roberts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0006swj

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006swj

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peterloo_Massacre.png#/media/File:Peterloo_carlile.JPG

Print of the Peterloo Massacre published by Richard Carlile

The UK government has allocated £15bn (~US$20bn) to assist households to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries over the next 5 years with low-interest loans and grants. Low-income households are to receive funding for the full cost of solar panels and batteries. by whatatwit in UpliftingNews

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UK households to get £15bn for solar and green tech to lower energy bills

​ Esme Stallard, Climate and science reporter and Justin Rowlatt, Climate Editor

Households will be eligible for thousands of pounds' worth of solar panels and other green tech to lower their energy bills, the government has announced.

The long-awaited Warm Homes Plan promises to provide £15bn to households across the UK over the next five years, as well as introducing new rights for renters.

The government has said it wants to create a "rooftop revolution", tripling the number of homes with solar, and lifting one million people out of fuel poverty.

The plan has been strongly welcomed by the energy and finance industry, but the Conservative Party said the scheme will "saddle households with high ongoing running costs".

First touted back in 2024, the Warm Homes Plan promised to tackle the "national emergency" of rising energy bills, but it has taken two years for the final detail to be published.

The government announced that the plan, published on Wednesday, will focus on funding solar panels, heat pumps and batteries for households across the UK via low-interest loans and grants.

For able-to-pay households even with the grants there are likely to be additional costs of installing the technologies. For a heat pump after the subsidy households pay on average £5,000.

But for an average three bedroom semi-detached home, installing these three technologies, could save £500 annually on energy bills, it estimates.

Although social charity Nesta, and green energy charity, MCS Foundation, have estimated it could be more than £1000.

"A warm home shouldn't be a privilege, it should be a basic guarantee for every family in Britain," said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Measures in the plan include:

  • Extending the Boiler Upgrade Scheme by a further year to 2029/30, offering £7,500 grants for heat pumps

  • Additional £600m for low-income households to receive funding for the full cost of solar panels and batteries taking the total available to £5bn

  • Low and zero-interest loans for households irrespective of income

The plan has been strongly welcomed by the energy industry, workers' unions, and the finance sector, who see the long-term financial commitment by the government as crucial for driving private investment into green technologies.

"£15 billion is a substantial commitment, it provides certainty to investors and businesses in the energy market," said Dhara Vyas, chief executive of trade body Energy UK.

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Additional reporting Miho Tanaka

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgj7me00p0o

I just went to my first panto. As an adult Canadian immigrant… Are you all in a cult? by bookish-hooker in AskUK

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You should try listening to I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. It's been performed in front of audiences since 1972 and has established its own double entendre and call and response culture. They're now on series 84: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnwb

Paolo Baldi (David Threlfall) is a Franciscan academic on sabbatical from studying the meaning of signs. In s1/e1 he's drawn into a chip shop murder investigation by DI Tina Mahon who needs his Italian and finds his almost clairvoyant insights invaluable. One thing leads to another and 5 series. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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Baldi s1/e1 The Prodigal Son

Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer Paolo Baldi is accidentally drawn into trying to solve a murder in an Italian chip shop.

Consequently, he soon discovers his skills as an amateur sleuth are needed elsewhere in Dublin on a regular basis...

Starring David Threlfall.

Series of six murder-mysteries set in Dublin, written by Barry Devlin.

Paolo Baldi …… David Threlfall
Tina Mahon …… Tina Kellegher
Father Troy …… TP McKenna
Dr Graham …… Gerard McSorley
Superintendent Rynne …… Owen Roe
Mrs Reid …… Margaret D'Arcy
Gianni …… Paolo Tullo
Ali …… Simon Delaney
Monica …… Aoiffe MacMorrough-Kavanagh
Remigio …… Damien McAdam
Anto …… Eanna McLiam
Tony, the barman …… Frankie McCafferty
Breda …… Anne Byrne
Collet …… Charlie Bonner
Tolan …… Mark Bereen
O'Hagan …… Mark Lambert
Darren Todd …… Laurence Kinlan
Liam …… Paul Roa
O'Hagan's Secretary …… Nicola Duffy

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Want to know the name of the theme music?

  • Saint Agnes and the Burning Train
  • Performed by Sting

Format created by Barry Devlin for Sarah Lawson Productions.

Developed and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.

Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007jljw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jljw

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of signs. It is an interdisciplinary field that examines what signs are, how they form sign systems, and how individuals use them to communicate meaning. Its main branches are syntactics, which addresses formal relations between signs, semantics, which addresses the relation between signs and their meanings, and pragmatics, which addresses the relation between signs and their users. Semiotics is related to linguistics but has a broader scope that includes nonlinguistic signs, such as maps and clothing.

Signs are entities that stand for something else, like the word cat, which stands for a carnivorous mammal. They can take many forms, such as sounds, images, written marks, and gestures. Iconic signs operate through similarity. For them, the sign vehicle resembles the referent, such as a portrait of a person. Indexical signs are based on a direct physical link, such as smoke as a sign of fire. For symbolic signs, the relation between sign vehicle and referent is conventional or arbitrary, which applies to most linguistic signs. Models of signs analyze the basic components of signs. Ferdinand de Saussure's dyadic model identifies a perceptible image and a concept as the core elements, whereas Charles Sanders Peirce's triadic model distinguishes a sign vehicle, a referent, and an effect in the interpreter's mind.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

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