Pennine Productions -- details of
"Being Yourself (2)"
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Network:  Radio 4
Date: 
 Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Time: 
 15:45
Duration: 
 15
Presenter: 
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Producer: 
 Clare Jenkins
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Jan Ravens, impressionist, meets her namesake, Jan Ravens, mental health administrator  
 

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 Five imaginative excursions into Same Name Syndrome, presented by a poet, an impressionist, a TV presenter, an actor and a radio broadcaster.

We all think we are unique, so it can come as rather a shock to discover we share our names with scores, maybe even hundreds of people. How can they be us? Are they the same as us? Are we all an illusion?

The idea for this thought-provoking series on how we all construct, internalise and project images of ourselves came about because there's another Clare Jenkins at the BBC - a DVD and video producer - who occasionally receives emails meant for Pennine Productions' Clare Jenkins and patiently sends them on.

Today: Jan Ravens - the actress and Dead Ringers impressionist spends much of her time pretending to be other people - Fiona Bruce, Linda Barker, the Queen. Underneath the different hairstyles and clothes, who's the 'real' Jan Ravens? And what happens when she meets up with her 'alter ego' - a mental health administrator - in Reigate?
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