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The detection of Gravitational Waves in 2015 was hailed as an astounding breakthrough in the world of physics and a triumph for the. LIGO project, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But the discovery was also a triumph for the men and women who had worked at LIGO during tumultuous times. DREVER, LIGO, is the poet Robert Crawford's meditation on the Scottish physicist Ronald Drever, and his role in the search for Gravitational Waves. Music by Jeremy Thurlow. Producer: David Stenhouse.

The three second rule - once more like folklore or hearsay - has been discovered to be the happiest condition for the human brain.In this imaginative journey through the synapses a work, rest and play - Susan Aldworth, Artist in Residence at York University, slips inside a scanner, under the suprvision of neuroscientists Professor Miles Whittington, and Dr Fiona LeBeau, who she has been working with on a project exploring sleep, to discover whether paying heed to the three second rhythm of the mind can help us work rest and play.By the time you finish this sentence you will have made up your mind. You don't know it yet but the three second rule governs your life. There is a brain pulse, a sequence of internal events that repeats every three seconds. This also applies to poems and music, even Beethoven's Fifth. The repetition of phrases three seconds long is easily grasped. Sentence interpretation is also best understood at three seconds. It seems that the rule applies also when we are chilling out. We turn our thoughts inside as we daydream away.Whether we are choosing a lover, Reading a poem, painting a picture, or singing, It seems that maybe we all operate this way. Our attention span working in bursts of time. In this programme we will hear a brain working. mixed with the musings of actor Michelle Newell, We will build up a sound world of three second pulses. Get a rhythm of irresistible beats going in the listener. In the brain of Susan Aldworth, artist and printmaker. With the mind of Simon Townley, musician and composer, The wiles of dating coach Shaun (aka Discovery), and Professor Miles Whitingdon, Dr Fiona LeBeau, Dr Kai Alter.If you've made your mind up to listen by now, I hope you choose well.Producer: Sara Jane Hall.

Karl Marx's penultimate journey was as a corpse in a coffin being trundled up the very steep hill of Highgate to what should have been his last resting place - a three-guinea plot in Highgate's East Cemetery - in March 1883, buried alongside his wife Jenny von Westphalen. The next year a memorial procession to his grave was turned away, but ever since then the Socialist world and the curious began to beat a path to his gravesite. But then, in 1954, they dug Karl Marx up and turned him into an icon in bronze. Karl Marx, wife Jenny, grandson and housekeeper (who were also buried in the same original plot) were re-interred in a new spot. Exactly 73 years after Karl Marx's death, the famous Marx headstone, sculpted by Laurence Bradshaw, was unveiled on March 14th 1956. Wrote Bradshaw, 'I felt some of the feelings that the old architects of ancient Egypt must have felt when raising a monument of theirs to their heroes, for they had to build on sand, and we had to build on clay and gravel, two rather treacherous substances. Also as a person who has been involved for some troubled time in the socialist movement, I felt there were bound to be some attacks on this tomb'Ever since its unveiling, the Marx memorial has attracted a never-ending flow of people, although as Bradshaw predicted the great bronze head has suffered its ignominies, including an attempt by the far right to blow it to pieces. Alan Dein follows the journey Marx made from death to bronze icon and also travels to Chemnitz, aka Karl Marx Stadt, in the former German Democratic Republic. Here the largest head of Marx in the world stares out across the town square. Once a symbol of East Germany's unofficial capital - now a tourist magnet and a source of unexpected stories.