HE MAY have established himself through the ground-breaking 1960s satire show That Was the Week That Was, but today Sir David Frost is best remembered for his TV interviews with the great, the good, the mad and the bad, from Mary Whitehouse to his
famous grilling of Richard "Tricky Dicky" Nixon.
In
The Frost Collection, the man with the clipboard looks back at some landmark interviews from a lengthy career, during which he has interrogated a succession of British prime ministers, American presidents and other world leaders such as the Shah of Iran, King Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin. He selects extracts from some of these encounters, as well as meetings with Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon and his extraordinary 1977 session with Nixon, three years after Watergate.
It's almost 20 years ago since Chico Mendez, the Brazilian rubber tapper, trade unionist and environmental campaigner, was shot dead by ranchers opposed to his activism. In
Chico Mendez: Father of the Forest, the BBC World Service celebrates his life and legacy, and examines how his activism can be credited with preserving major tracts of Amazonia.
They say you can see the shrinking rain forests from space. For a less disquieting take on matters extra-terrestrial,
Words and Music goes into orbit, with verse including Whitman, Lorca and Auden, as well as an extract from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Edwin Morgan's wittily memorable First Men on Mercury. Interspersed through this celestial selection is music ranging from Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon to Nordic sax wizard Jan Garbarek at his most ethereal.
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