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Last broadcast on Sat, 15 Aug 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 Professor Anthony Hollander. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young.
Studio guest :: Professor Anthony Hollander
Professor Hollander is a pioneer of stem cell research. He led the development of the first ever tissue engineered trachea – saving a patient's life by growing a healthy windpipe from stem cells to replace her failing one.
Topical story :: Fastnet survivor
The 2009 Fastnet race - the 608 mile British offshore yachting event has been taking place this week. Back in 1979 Matt Sheahan was sailing his first ever Fastnet with his father, on the Grimalkin – a boat that his dad had bought. Both were experienced sailors even though Matt was only 17 at the time of the race, but this wasn't enough when the yacht was caught up in a catastrophic storm. Matt came in to talk to us about the day that disaster struck.
Secret life :: Patrick Mercer MP
Patrick Mercer is the Conservative MP for Newark but in his spare time he collects ephemera from the Crimean War. Being the nosey type, JP Devlin couldn't resist going round Patrick's house for a look at his collection.
Inheritance Tracks :: Ossie Ardiles
Argentinean World Cup winner and ex-Tottenham legend Ossie Ardiles inherited 'Yesterday' by The Beatles and passes on 'The Sounds of Silence'by Simon and Garfunkel.
'Ossie's Dream' is published by Bantam Press.
Poet :: Murray Lachlan Young
Murray Lachlan Young makes stand up poetry, spoken word and performance art.
Poem :: Lammas Time
Adder basks the burning dune
Radgel calls the scented moon
Bass lies gliding off the rock
Martin wheels o'er corn in shock
Dog rose bloom, bright berry blush
Oak King push the final flush
Hedgerow sings the ancient rhyme
Season turns to Lammas time
Poem :: In this time of Bio Tec white heat
In this time of Bio Tec white heat
Comes news of the most miraculous feat
Clinically and technically
Really rather cleverly
Men are now rendered obsolete
As stem cells become sperm cells
And sperm cells grow those little tails
Systems tested, passed injected
Open door to ovum breach.
So no space no home
For the Y chromosome
Its X meets X in final defeat
Physically replaced by the pasteur pipette
No longer required to impregnate
The grubby relic of a popgun past
A beast to mock and subjugate
Driven from the shed to societies fringe
Clutching back issues of Nuts magazine
Heavily bearded, wearing tattered football shirts
Running in packs across the village green
Searching in vain for the pub that is gone
NO FLY TIPPING, DOGGING OR MEN
Captured by man wardens, humanly dispatched
Until all but one man, is left standing in the end
“What’s that there in the cage Mother?
What did they bring it here for”?
“Look well Daughter it’s the very last man
It’s the thing that used to cause all the war”
“What’s that there between its legs mother?
What’s that a-swinging to and fro”?
Some form of external appendix perhaps?
But the truth is, I don’t really know”
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Sat 15 Aug 200909:00
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