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Last broadcast on Sat, 5 Sep 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4.
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Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Hamish Anderson. With poetry from Kate Fox.
STUDIO GUEST: HAMISH ANDERSON
KINDERTRANSPORT: SUSI BECHHOFER
Susi Bechhofer left Munich in May 1939 as part of the Kindertransport, the rescue mission that saw the UK take more than 10,000 children from Nazi Germany to safety and place them in homes all around Britain.
XHOSA TRIBE: JOHN LOCKLEY
John Lockley is one of the first white men in recent history to become a fully initiated Sangoma in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa – the tribe that gave us Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
SECRET LIVES: LEEE JOHN
INHERITANCE TRACKS: CHERIE BLAIR
Cherie Blair chose 'Ferry Across The Mersey' by Gerry and the Pacemakers and 'Que Sera, Sera' by Doris Day.
POET: KATE FOX
Kate Fox is a satirist, poet and stand up performer based in the North East of England. Sometimes she's funny, sometimes she's not. She likes the sea.
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Sat 5 Sep 200909:00
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