On the Radio

COMING UP: Madam Miaow’s Golden Oldies
BBC R4 26th June 2012

Jeni Barnett Show BBC London 94.9
Sunday 12th February 2012
Guest reviewing the newspapers and talking about The Steampunk Opium Wars

Lucky Cat on Resonance 104.4 FM
Saturday 11th February 2012
Guest talking about upcoming The Steampunk Opium Wars at the National Maritime Museum
Podcast

Anna Chen St Ives BBC Radio 4

Radio Times Pick of the Day

St Ives and Me, BBC Radio 4
11:30am, Thursday 1st December 2011
Anna has been visiting the Cornish seaside town since she was a child. In St Ives and Me, she explains the attraction of the artists’ colony and why it is like catnip to anyone with a creative bone in their body.

Monocle.com
6.30pm, Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Interviewed by Rob Bound on Monocle24 radio on China’s Barbie doll wars.

Night Waves, BBC Radio 3
10pm, Tuesday 14th June 2011
Host Matthew Sweet. On with Chris Frayling talking about Anna May Wong and representation of Chinese in the British media.

New R4 commissions. Anna has been commissioned for two new programmes. Found In Translation is on Chinese humour and will be broadcast July 2011. The second is about Anna’s love for the Cornish town of St Ives and is expected to be aired in early 2012.

The Forum, BBC World Service
9am, Sunday 14th November 2010
I talked about Hollywood legend Anna May Wong on Sunday 14th November on the BBC World Service’s The Forum. Chaired by Bridget Kendall, I was on with Professor Dimitar Sasselov, discussing Super-earths, and Kwame Anthony Appiah on honour revolutions.

Chopsticks At Dawn
BBC Radio 4 — 13:30
Tuesday 8th June 2010
Written and presented by Anna Chen with Dr Jonathan Walker
What makes certain configurations of notes in Western music sound Chinese? And why does it set my teeth on edge?
More here
Pick of the Day: The Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Time Out, Radio Times and Mail On Sunday

China, Britain and the Nunzilla Conundrum
BBC Radio 4 – 11.00-11.30am
Friday 19 March 2010
PICK OF THE DAY Guardian Guide, Radio Times and Daily Telegraph which says, ” … tying it with a ribbon of her wit. “
PICK OF THE WEEK Sunday Telegraph
” … refreshingly original …”
Recommended by the Diocese of Liverpool
Made in China, designed in Britain, consumed in the West. Anna Chen asks what throwaway gifts such as the fire-breathing wind-up Nunzilla toy or Mummy Mike tell Britain about both its own society and its relationship with China. Producer Sally Heaven.

Anna May Wong: A Celestial Star In Piccadilly
Anna Chen writes and presents a half-hour profile of Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star for BBC Radio 4.
Broadcast 11:30, Tuesday 13th January 2009. Chosen as Pick of the Week by BBC R4, Guardian Guide, The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday. More here and here.

Chinese In Britain — BBC Radio 4
A ten-part series first broadcast April/May 2007, presented by Anna Chen
“A fascinating story” – Chris Campling, The Times
“Each episode sounded effortless only because it had been crafted with such supreme care” – Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph
Repeated as omnibus editions 9pm Fridays 16th & 23rd May 2008 on BBC Radio 4.
Visit the Chinese In Britain BBC page
Pictures of the series launch

8-9.15pm, Wednesday 22nd July 2009. Guest of Jan Kooper at Raiders FM, themed around politics in music.

9-10pm, Tuesday 10th February 2009, guest host on Resonance 104.4FM’s Lucky Cat hour.

11:40pm, Saturday 23rd August. BBC R5Live, the Stephen Nolan Show on the Beijing Olympics

10pm, Friday 8th August. BBC R5Live, the Stephen Nolan Show on the Beijing Olympics

1:10pm, Thursday 7th August. BBC Radio 2, the Jeremy Vine Show on the Beijing Olympics

10pm, Sunday 3rd August. BBC R5Live, the Stephen Nolan Show on China and the Beijing Olympics

5.20pm, Monday 14th July. BBC Radio London, Kath & Eddie Drivetime on the Chinese in Britain

Tuesday 24th June. BBC Radio 4, fourth and last of the Reith Lectures. Prof Jonathan Spence on China, the Beijing Olympics and the Body Beautiful. As an invited guest asking a question.

Thursday 10th April. BBC World Service, World Have Your Say on the proposed Olympic boycott

Wednesday 9th April. BBC R5Live, the Victoria Derbyshire programme

Thursday 14th February. BBC World Service, World Have Your Say

Red Guard, Yellow Submarine, BBC Radio 4, November 2005. Drama written and narrated by Anna Chen

Yoko Ono: A Life In Flux, Presented by Anna Chen BBC Radio 3, March 1999

One Response to On the Radio

  1. Tony Mason says:
    November 23, 2011 at 20:40

    Hi Anna

    Thanks for making a radio show about St Ives, I’m looking forward to it, we need all the publicity we can get these days ! In case it’s of any interest I made a video about my hometown – the link is above of Google ‘Slices of St Ives’.

    All the best

    Tony

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