Pennine Productions (Archive)
programmes for BBC Radio in 2002
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11:00 |
presenter: Clare Jenkins |
producer: Clare Jenkins & Janet Graves | ||
| A study of the UK's last surviving sheep punds and sheep 'court', an annual event on Orkney's most northerly island (nearer Oslo than London) of North Ronaldsay, home to a unique breed of sheep | ||||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| On October 17th the English cricket team will set off for Australia. They?ll slip out, unnoticed, from Heathrow airport ; and their journey will be dull, routine and fast. But for 100 years, from 1861 to 1962, teams went slowly by boat. | ||||
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20:00 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| "This excellent documentary" (Peter Barnard, Radio Times). By 1930 the power of the British Empire was under threat from movements for colonial independence and the growing influence of American money and culture. The first British Empire games, held in Hamilton, Canada, in august that year, were a last-gasp effort to assert the world-wide relevance of the British race. | ||||
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11:00 |
presenter: Clare Jenkins |
producer: Clare Jenkins & Janet Graves | ||
| "This fascinating doucmentary" (Peter Barnard, Radio Times) | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Richard Schofield |
producer: Janet Graves | ||
| "Captured a man at his wits' end trying to retain village life as he once knew it" (John Robinson, Guardian). The villagers of Tosside bring their local magazine to life by reading aloud the poems, stories, adverts and items of news that make up their village life. It’s a magazine with no deadline, an unusually thoughtful editorial policy and a blossoming circulation | ||||
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09:30 |
presenter: Roger McGough |
producer: Clare Jenkins | ||
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09:30 |
presenter: Roger McGough |
producer: Clare Jenkins | ||
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09:30 |
presenter: Roger McGough |
producer: Clare Jenkins | ||
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09:30 |
presenter: Roger McGough |
producer: Clare Jenkins | ||
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09:30 |
presenter: Roger McGough |
producer: Clare Jenkins | ||
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20:00 |
presenter: Jill Liddington |
producer: Janet Graves | ||
| Daughters of the Radical Suffragists broadcasts for the first time nationally the voices of the daughters of working class women who fought for the vote at the turn of the last century. It tells the missing part of the suffrage story, dominated so far by the Pankhursts and the militant suffragettes. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Glenn Easley |
producer: Janet Graves | ||
| Meet Glenn Easley "a terrific and knowledgeable communicator" (Peter Barnard, Radio Times) piano tuner, as he roars off by motorbike from his Derbyshire home to solve the scientific puzzle which is the piano. | ||||
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