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STUDIO GUEST :: JACKIE CLUNE
Jackie joins Sian and Richard to talk about musicals, motherhood, lapsed lesbianism and growing up in Essex.
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POEM :: LUKE WRIGHT
Poet Luke Wright waxes lyrical about conkers. (Full poem below)
Luke Wright -
LAPSED VEGETARIAN :: ROB MANUEL
Rob Manuel became a vegetarian for moral reasons. Almost 15 years later he left vegetarianism behind and now loves meat and fish.
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TRAVEL :: THORPENESS
John McCarthy visits Thorpeness on the Suffolk coast. Built 100 years ago as an eccentric holiday village by the local landowner, how is it surviving in the twenty-first century?
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JAMAICAN NEW TESTAMENT :: COURTNEY STEWART
Courtney Stewart is the General Secretary of the West Indies Bible Society and has spent twenty years trying to elevate his native tongue - Jamaican patois - into a more widely accepted and respected language. His efforts have resulted in the very first publication of the New Testament in Jamaican.
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SECRET LIFE :: JON CULSHAW
Impressionist and comedian Jon Culshaw takes JP Devlin on a tour of the Hampstead Observatory.
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WE WERE ON THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR :: SYLVIA AND JENNI
35 years after it was first broadcast, The Beatles’ film Magical Mystery Tour will be shown again on BBC 2, preceded by an Arena documentary. Sylvia and Jenni were in it, after answering an advert sent out to area secretaries of the Beatles fan club.
Beatles unseen footage -
INHERITANCE TRACKS :: RALPH MCTELL
The singer songwriter best known for ‘The Streets of London’ chooses ‘I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now’ by the Dinning Sisters and ‘Crossroads Blues’ by Robert Johnson.
Ralph McTell
Ralph is on a UK tour from now until 8 December. -
POEM :: CONKERS
BACK TO SCHOOL the shop front posters yell,
all freckled kids and cheesy chalk mark font
and just as all around us starts to die
our children are renewed with pencil cases
and anecdotes of summer holidays,
the corridors that wee bit smaller now.
Then after bell they're out across the road
like truffle hogs in brand new lace up shoes.
They snuffle out the polished antique brown
till pockets swell and only trampled shells
are left beneath the glum horse chestnut tree.
They're tearing home now: Mum, just look at these.
My father had this ancient hand-wound drill,
though often, mum would skewer them for us
so by the time he walked in, rain-flecked, knackered
the kitchen stunk of vinegar and wood
his dinner late, his boys still uniformed
a mess of string and strategies and glee.
Now every year there's HEALTH & SAFETY HORROR
as childless journos muse on childhood's death
but still the children gather up their conkers
and formulate their complex snagging rules.
They cherish bully-twenties, laud their laggies
aware that you can loose it in a stampsie. -
Sylvia Hillier, Jenni Evennett, Rev Courtney Stewart, Jackie Clunes, Richard, Sian and Rob Manuel
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 4Sat 6 Oct 2012 09:00 BBC Radio 4
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