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Last broadcast on Sat, 11 Apr 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Fi Glover talks to a woman who found herself in Bam when the earthquake struck there.
Her studio guest is basketball player turned presenter turned psychologist John Amaechi.
There is a guerrilla report from a barber shop in Bristol where a line is drawn on the floor and no woman is allowed to cross it.
Plus a man who has streaked at more than 400 public events, the Inheritance Tracks of Daniel O'Donnell and poetry from Matt Harvey.
Studio Guest: John Amaechi
John Amaechi is a Boston-born and Stockport-raised NBA basketball player turned presenter turned psychologist.
Guerrilla Report: Men Only Spaces
This week’s Guerrilla Report takes us to a barber shop in Bristol where a line is drawn across the floor and no woman is allowed to pass over it.
Topical Stories: Iran Earthquake Rescuer
In December 2003 Ruth Millington travelled to Bam and woke up to find herself in the centre of an earthquake.
Ruth’s Charity
Extraordinary Stories: Streaker
Mark Roberts has whipped his clothes off more than 400 times in public places, from football matches to political party conferences via the Cannes Film Festival.
Inheritance Tracks: Daniel O’Donnell
The multi-million selling singer inherited the hymn 'Panis Angelicus' and plans to pass on his own 'My Lovely Island Home'
Poet: Matt Harvey
Poet, columnist, enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting, Matt performs up and down the country at festivals, cabarets, conferences and colleges and shares his thoughts with the world via his website and blog.
Poem: Easter Poem
Easter used to mean reflection
on the Christian resurrection
now it’s more about confection
-ary
seems we’ve ceased to make connection
with the Saxon goddess Eostre
up there on the pagan roster
sister of the god Testoster
so
- lest it should lose its lustre -
Christian, pagan, chocolate feaster
let’s all choose at least to foster
peace to each and all this Easter…
Poem: Streaker
Jiggly jokery
giggley blokery
he’s an artful jammy dodger
with a bibbly bobbly todger
it’s a wanton bit of wobbling
spontaneous life-modelling
a cheeky breach of protocol
a unilateral photocall
it reminds us we are humans
it’s a chance to use your zoom lens
there’s a curious catharsis as
they put the ‘arse’ in narcissist
but it isn’t for the insecure
and nor for the incontinent
you really have to be cocksure
thick-skinned and ultra-confident
so don’t streak if you’re peaky
or recovering from surgery
or if your nooks and crannies
have a fair degree of verdigris
don’t streak if you’re angry
it’s important to be dangly
streaking through a nudist camp
is technically just jogging
(but if you put your togs back on
you’re what’s known as a streaking Tom)
never streak near welding gear
or churches, mosques or synagogues
never do it anywhere
you think there might be sniffer dogs
but once you’ve streaked at Aintree
the Tour de France and Barcelona
worn your birthday suit at Ascot
and the Bull Run at Pamplona
done double-faults at Wimbledon
before Miss Kournikova
you must begin to think
perhaps your hobby’s taking over…
and maybe you have crossed that subtle line
between waving your organ of intimacy
and simply being one…
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