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GUEST PRESENTER: PEGGY REYNOLDS
On Midweek this week:-
STEVEN HOOPER
"Ever since I was a young man, inspired by my grandfather's wonderful collection, I have dreamed of one day curating a Polynesian exhibition."
Steven Hooper is Director of the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at UEA.
He is now curator of Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860which runs at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia until 13 August.
BARBIE PROBERT-WRIGHT
In 1945, at the age of just seven, Barbie Probert-Wright and her sister Eva made an epic journey three hundred miles across Germany to find their mother. She has written her moving memoir. Little Girl Lost by Barbie Probert-Wright, with Jean Ritchie, is published by Arrow on 20 July, at £6.99.
JIM TOMLINSON
Jim Tomlinson is a saxophonist, perhaps best known for his work as the compelling counter-voice to singer and wife, Stacey Kent. His latest album, The Lyric, has been nominated for Album of the Year for the BBC Jazz Awards 2006.
SUSAN KITTREDGE COOKE
Susan Kittredge Cook is the daughter of Alistair Cooke.
Alastair Cooke travelled the length and breadth of America as the United States entered the war in 1942. Just before his death in 2004 a manuscript of the journey was discovered in a cupboard and has recently been published.
American Journeys - Life on the Home front in the Second World War is published by Penguin at £20.
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