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On Midweek this week:-
SIMON CHAPLIN
Simon Chaplin is the senior curator, museums, Royal College of Surgeons.
The Hunterian Museum re-opens to public on Saturday 12 February, having been closed for 2 years for refurbishment.
GRAYSON PERRY
When artist Grayson Perry accepted the Turner Prize in 2003, he was dressed as his alter-ego 'Claire'.
Grayson has been a transvestite all his adult life and in a television documentary he'll be exploring one of Britain's oldest subcultures: Why Men Wear Frocks is on Channel 4 on Wednesday 16th February, at 9pm.
SUE ELLIOTT
Sue Elliott was adopted as a baby in the 1950s. Forty years later she traced her birth mother, Marjorie. Before long she discovered she wasn't the only daughter Marjorie had given up for adoption - there was a second, and then a third...
Sue has written a book which combines the story of the discovery of her family with the social history of adoption in the twentieth century.
Love Child is published by Vermillion, price: £14.99.
JOHN GIMLETTE
In 1893, writer John Gimlette's great-grandfather, Eliot Curwen, set off for Newfoundland as part of a medical mission. 109 years later, John Gimlette set off after him. There was a curious symmetry between the two journeys. Not least in that they met some of the same families, separated by two generations.
Theatre of Fish - Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador, is published by Hutchinson, price: £16.99.
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