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Reading between the Lines

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Michael Morpurgo finds out what Systematic Synthetic Phonics are.

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Asylum Seeker or Scrounger?

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Last broadcast on Thu, 16 Sep 2010, 15:45 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts both grand and petty. Julian Putkowski distills them down.

Klimowicz was just another Polish stowaway seeking political asylum in London in 1954. The Home Office got ready to boot him out. Then the Prime Minister, Churchill, got involved. His solution? Send in the destroyers. With Shami Chakrabarti

Reader: Crawford Logan

Producer: Matt Thompson
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.

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  1. Sun 14 Oct 2007
    14:45
    BBC Radio 4
  2. Sat 16 Feb 2008
    05:45
    BBC Radio 4
  3. Thu 16 Sep 2010
    15:45
    BBC Radio 4

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Episode 4 of 5 from

  1. The Preposterous Files

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