Pennine Productions (Archive) LLP
programmes for BBC Radio in 2003
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35: Dig Here |
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15:30 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Janet Graves | ||
| For six weeks every summer, John and Ann Hearle's large hill top cottage garden is taken over by a group of professional and amateur archeologists. This year they make an important discovery which proves that their garden in the village of Mellor, on the border between Derbyshire and Cheshire, has had a community living there for three thousand years. Presenter Mark Whitaker joins archeologists and their amateur helpers, on this year's Mellor dig. |  |
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| There are eight major rugby nations in the world ; and seven of them are either part of the UK or former British colonies. The odd-country out is France. Yet the game is as much the national sport for the French as it is for New Zealanders and white South Africans. Reporting from l'Ovalie - which is how many refer to the rugby heartland of south-west France - this programme explores how and why this came about. |  |
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33: Jollywood |
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11:30 |
presenter: C P Lee |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| If you think British post-war cinema means Elstree, Ealing and Pinewood, then join us on an entertaining tour around "the Hollywood of the North" in Manchester where a stream of Lancashire comedies were produced over six prolific years from 1948 to 1953. Pop Blakeley's "Mancunian Film Studios" made screen stars of George Formby, Frank Randle, Josef Locke, Sandy Powell, Diana Dors, Jimmy Clitheroe and a host of others. Many of these artistes and the skilled technicians who filmed them, became the basis of Granada Television in the later Fifties. |  |
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13:30 |
presenter: n/a |
producer: Janet Graves | ||
| Giving a piano its voice takes eight years of training and a lifetime of discovery. In 'Voicing The Piano' we join the small team at Steinway;s technical factory in West London to discover how Jef Prett the renowned 'voicer' gives a piece of wood and metal a distinctive voice of its own. The progamme follows a single piano from wood and string in Hamburg to its 'voice'in London. Pianists are invited to play and describe the 'voice of the piano.' |  |
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13:30 |
presenter: Clare Jenkins |
producer: Clare Jenkins | ||
| The story of a 20-year project to preserve Yorkshire's folksongs, featuring a previously unheard treasury of such songs from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. As well as telling the story of their discovery and record, the programme would ask why they should have been overlooked by such experts as Cecil Sharp and Percy Grainger, and what this itself says about the perhaps inexact or random collection of parts of our heritage. | ||||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| This programme marks the hundredth anniversary of Britain's offer to the Zionist movement in 1903 of a large part of Kenya as a homeland for East Europe's Jews. The offer was a serious one: and it was treated seriously. It split Zionism in two, between those who wanted a safe haven, almost anywhere, and those who insisted it had to be in Palestine. A forgotten and poignant perspective on the tragedy of the Middle East |  |
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29: Painted Fabrics |
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15:30 |
presenter: Clare Jenkins |
producer: Clare Jenkins | ||
| 'Extraordinary and inspiring documentary' Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph; 'terrific, a little-known chapter of our past brought to life' the Times; 'Pick of the Day', Daily Mail. An account of an inter-war artistic project - nicknamed the 'New English peasant industry' - that aimed to create work and homes in the North of England for disabled ex-servicemen. |  |
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Between 1947 and 1949 the British government, desperately short of workers in the 'essential' industries of agriculture, coal mining and textiles, turned to the millions of East Europeans living in Displaced Persons camps in Germany. Nearly 100,000 were brought here as 'volunteers', and those who stayed founded the East European communities of Northern England. In the early 1980s the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit (a pioneer of local authority oral history) interviewed dozens of Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians and Yugoslavs about their often difficult early days in Britain. The interviews they gave then form the basis for this programme. | ||||
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally & Janet Graves | ||
| Walking on the Formby seashore some years ago, retired teacher Gordon Roberts saw some human footprints preserved in a dark layer of solidified silt, apparently running towards and the disappearing under later-deposited sediments. He brushed away the top layers to reveal more prints, among them the very large hoofprints of a species of cattle that he'd never before seen. He has made almost daily surveys along the Formby seashore ever since, looking for more prints briefly revealed by the shifting sands. He records their location, photographs and casts them, working with university and other experts to build up a picture of prehistoric life around 5000 years ago. The story of an amateur archaeologist whose investigations have excited the experts. |  |
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14:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| A programme for Easter. In October 1656 a man called James Nayler, one of the prominent early Quakers, rode into Bristol, dressed in white and accompanied by women followers. It was a provocative mock-up of Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. The government of the country then ground to a halt for nearly two months as Oliver Cromwell and Parliament tried to decide what to do with him. Informative fun for a secular age | ||||
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| Winter is a time of consolidation. A chance to go round the bee-keeping groups, advising them how to keep their colonies alive through the winter, and how to watch out for disease next spring. And highlight of this final programme is a rare chance to go inside the Government?s Central Science Unit at York, home of the specialist bee research unit. David is a regular visitor, but access for this programme is something rather special. |  |
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| By the autumn, programme three, the inspections are winding down, though there are fears that a major outbreak of disease in the midlands may spread north. David still keeps bees and takes the opportunity to harvest his own honey. | |
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23: Will Power |
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11:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Each week, at various locations around New York City, groups of elderly people - male and female, rich and poor - meet to read Shakespeare together. The sessions are led by sixty-one year old Bob Smith, a man who says that his own life has been 'rescued' by the great English poet and playwright. He says he's passing on to the elderly his realisation that Shakespeare's words can help them understand and live with the complexities of loss, guilt and grief. The Bard, he believes, 'says it exactly as old people feel, only better, much better.' | ||||
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| The second part is summer-time, with a round of County Shows to add to the numerous individual inspections. David is joined by seasonal bee officers to share the load, but its still a very busy time. Bad weather keeps the growing colonies inside their hives until, like mischievous children on a rainy day, they break out and swarm in places they?re not wanted. | |
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14:45 |
presenter: David Kemp |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| Who do you call when your bees stop buzzing or the honey goes off? Why, the Bee Inspector of course. He may be the man from the Ministry, but David Kemp is the saviour of many a bee-keeper. What?s more he?s full of fascinating facts about these extraordinary little creatures and he has that rare gift of conveying his enthusiasm in everyday language. You don?t have to own a bee suit to enjoy this series! The first programme finds David in the spring, checking how well bee colonies have survived the winter and looking for the first signs of disease as the days get warmer. | |
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15:45 |
presenter: Judy Merry |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| An account of the astonishing exchange of letters between a very determined lady from Watford and some of the highest officials in the BBC that led on 2nd January 1928 to the first of 75 years of Daily Services ("Gillian Reynolds' Choice", Daily Telegraph). |  |
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