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Last broadcast on Sat, 20 Jun 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by film critic and television presenter Barry Norman. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.
Studio Guest :: Barry Norman
A change of subject for film critic and friend of Saturday Live, Barry Norman, who joins Fi in the studio to talk cricket.
Barry Norman's "Book of Cricket" is published by Quercus
Extraordinary Stories :: Bunny Girl
In 1965 Joan Hodges left her job in Harrods' telephone exchange and headed to Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion to train as a Bunny Girl.
Extraordinary Stories :: Mafia Man
Louis Ferrante is a mobster who was sentenced to thirteen years in jail for racketeering. After two months in solitary confinement he decided that something had to change - and it was his decision to read his way out of his life of crime that set him on a more productive path.
Guerrilla Report :: Suntans
Ilda Di-Vico likes to tan, and with the help of her local salon and their trusty sunbeds she's barely had a pale day in the past twenty years.
Inheritance Tracks :: Ernest Borgnine
Celebrated Hollywood actor Ernest Borgnine inherited Ruggerio Leoncavallo's opera 'I Pagliacci' sung by Beniamino Gigli and he passes on 'For Once in My Life' by Stevie Wonder.
Murray does Glastonbury for the beeb
Murray is poet in residence all next weekend at Glastonbury and you can catch him on BBC 6 Music and by pressing the red button on your telly during Glastonbury.
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