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Last broadcast on Sun, 12 Jul 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Mike Wooldridge celebrates the role of the volunteer in the company of Glyn Roberts, whose own voluntary organisation has sent over two million reconditioned tools to help poor craftsmen and women in Africa and Asia to help themselves.
Something Understood: Volunteer Vision
This programme was presented by Mike Wooldridge.
The readers were Emily Raymond and Frank Stirling.
His guest was Glyn Roberts.
Music
‘Kobo’ performed by Baka Beyond and Baka Gbine.
‘Let’s Hear it for the Volunteers’ performed by Mustard’s Retreat. Available on the album The Wind and the Crickets.
‘Point of Light’ performed by Randy Travis. Available on the album High Lonesome, released by Warner Brothers.
‘We are Together (Thina Simunye)’ performed by Children of Agape. Available on the album We Are Together.
‘Symphony #1 in D Minor – Titan – II – Kraftig Bewegt’ composed by Gustav Mahler and performed by SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg. Available on the album Mahler Symphony No 1, released by Hanssler Classic.
Readings
‘Dedicatory Letter’ from Man and Superman, written by George Bernard Shaw.
‘Once Volunteering Was For Dreamers’ written by Ivan Scheier.
‘Volunteers’ written by anon.
Broadcasts
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Sun 12 Jul 200906:05
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Sun 12 Jul 200923:30
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