... A story to haunt you BY MOIRA PETTY From the heart of her own horror, a 12-year-old victim of the Sierra Leone war spoke with stoicism, humour and imagination. Child of the Border -- Africa, Sia Mia's Story, was the first in a series, CMM of Our Time (R4, from Monday, June 5) about children from different cultures. The project is the brainchild of leading dramatist Lee Hall and head of BBC ...

... This femme was fatally good By Moira Petty There was sex and something approaching shopping (the eponymous queen petulantly trying on 30 dresses from her wardrobe) in a stunning reworking of Jean Racine's Phedre (Festival Radio for R3. Sunday, June 11). Racine's original was set in the Ancient World and adapted from that beguiling storehouse of sexual intrigue and political machination, Greek ...