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Last broadcast on Sat, 19 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 musician and actor Gary Kemp. With poetry from Elvis McGonagall.
STUDIO GUEST: GARY KEMP
Actor and musician Gary Kemp achieved success in the 1980s as guitarist and songwriter for Spandau Ballet.
DAY TRIP: MARINA LEWYCKA
Author Marina Lewycka takes us to the Nine Ladies Stone Circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire.
TEENAGE DRINKING: JONATHAN
Jonathan started drinking at the age of 6 and was, by his own reckoning, an alcoholic by the age of 16.
POSTER BOY: ADAM PERRY
INHERITANCE TRACKS: BRIAN KEENAN
Brian Keenan chose Ol' Man River sung by Paul Robeson and the friendship duet from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet.
POET: ELVIS MCGONAGALL
Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker Elvis McGonagall plays with the words.
POEM: Goodbye Gastronaut
Unstop all the corks, shuck oysters by the dozen
Cook a coq au vin with gusto unalloyed
Have a quick slurp of Chateau Joie de Vivre
Then have another for Keith Floyd
POEM: I “Love” The 80’s
One “Man and Baby” Blu-Tacked
To a million bedroom walls
“Frankie Says” on every t-shirt
“Loadsamoney” in the shiny shopping malls
Suit sleeves rolled up to the elbow
“Sex On The Beach” on a yacht
Now that’s what I call the 80’s
The decade that taste forgot
Big poodle hair, pink frosted lipstick
Shoulder-pads by Ralph Lauren
Puff-ball skirts, leg-warmers, pixie boots
(And that was just the men)
Material Girls and City Boys screaming
“Greed Is Good!”, “No Pain, No Gain!”
The devil’s dandruff up their noses
Jacuzzis fulla floozies ‘n champagne
Filofaxes, Wham!, Tiananmen Square
Band Aid, Belgrano, RoboCop
Deelyboppers, Glasnost, Smurfs
Perestroika, “Cheggers Plays Pop”
Kylie ‘n Jason, Torvill ‘n Dean
Oh such bliss to reminisce
Cheap TV pundit clip show heaven
And quite handy for a poem like this
Chas ‘n Di commemorative tea-towels
“Hi-De-Hi!” holiday camp
Thatcher’s iron handbag, Tebbit’s bike
A crushed and broken miner’s lamp
Tory government, dole queues, Afghan war
Spandau Ballet on tour again
Hang on – we’re Back To The Future with Tomorrow’s World
Here it comes - 2010
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Sat 19 Sep 200909:00
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