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Last broadcast on Sat, 10 Oct 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 the creator and writer of the Bafta-winning In The Night Garden and Teletubbies, Andrew Davenport.
With poetry from Kate Fox.
STUDIO GUEST: ANDREW DAVENPORT
Andrew Davenport is a producer, writer and composer of children's television programmes. He created In The Night Garden and co-created The Teletubbies.
FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST: PROF SUSAN BLACK
Professor Black's work involves dissecting human remains to the point where they can be identified or, as she describes it, "giving back a name to a nameless corpse".
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER: GORDON MEDLICOTT
Gordon Medlicott was one of the last lighthouse keepers in this country, retiring when they became fully automated in 1998.
An Illuminating Experience by Gordon Medlicott is published by Whittles Publishing.
SECRET LIFE: JOE PASQUALE
Comedian Joe Pasquale gets in the boxing ring and shows us what he's made of.
INHERITANCE TRACKS: DAVID MCKEE
David McKee is an author and illustrator of children's books and animations and he created Mr Benn. He chose 'Christopher Robin is Saying his Prayers' and 'All Along the Watchtower' by Bob Dylan.
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.
POEM: Obama's nabbed the Nobel
Obama's nabbed the Nobel
for the peace he might one day make,
I wonder if they should crown me Masterchef
for the brilliant souffle I want to bake.
Or give me a million quid,
cos I think it would be good if they'd cure cancer,
or Strictly Come Dancing's Championship
though I'm a) Not in it and b) A rubbish dancer.
One day I intend to write a Saturday Live poem
that will make everyone say "Wow!",
so they should reward my ambition
and hand over the Nobel Prize for Literature now.
POEM: CBeebies does Conference Season
Once a year, they leave the House of Jeeryboos,
where they go in and out of wooden cupboards in shiny shoes,
and take chauffeur driven Brum Brums
(or the Ninky Nonk if their hair's well set)
and go play by the seaside,
or far from where they usually get.
To the Land of the Dark North where
people say "What" not "Pardon",
the ToryTubbies went In the Right wing Garden.
Laa Laa was there,
Po was standing proud,
but not Tipsy Wipsy
cos no Torytubby toasts were allowed.
Noo Noo Labour went to the Land of Sad,
and pulled their mouths down,
even when it was time to Listen with Mother Brown,
or to the old Blairytales.
Though they cheered up when Mandy Pandy came out to play
and said they could fight another day.
Again! Again! They cry
Eh Oh said the Torytubbies.
Uh Oh said Noo Noo Labour
and even the Sun fell out of the sky.
And grown ups became children,
and children became grown ups,
And flashing up special words again and again is what they all do,
and have bright colours and loud music and that bloke from U2,
and say a money shower's on the way or the crunch monster's coming to get you,
either way-it's us who'll be in charge cos we're bigger than you.
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