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programmes for BBC Radio in 2002

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 19:The Shearing Shore   

 
  first broadcast:
Wednesday, November 06, 2002

11:00
Radio 4

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
(pic when available)
 

 18:It Was More Fun by Boat   

 
  first broadcast:
Saturday, September 28, 2002

20:00
Radio 4

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.
(pic when available)
 

 17:No Sport, No Empire   

 
  first broadcast:
Thursday, July 25, 2002

20:00
Radio 4

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.
(pic when available)
 

 16:India Calling - How May I Help You?   

 
  first broadcast:
Monday, July 22, 2002

11:00
Radio 4

presenter:
Clare Jenkins
producer: Clare Jenkins & Janet Graves   
"This fascinating doucmentary" (Peter Barnard, Radio Times)
(pic when available)
 

 15:Tosside News - unabridged   

 
  first broadcast:
Saturday, July 06, 2002

15:30
Radio 4

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
(pic when available)
 

 14:The End of the Line (5): Liverpool   

 
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, June 04, 2002

09:30
Radio 4

presenter:
Roger McGough
producer: Clare Jenkins   
(pic when available)
 

 13:The End of the Line (4): Sheffield   

 
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, May 28, 2002

09:30
Radio 4

presenter:
Roger McGough
producer: Clare Jenkins   
(pic when available)
 

 12:The End of the Line (3): Manchester   

 
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, May 21, 2002

09:30
Radio 4

presenter:
Roger McGough
producer: Clare Jenkins   
(pic when available)
 

 11:The End of the Line (2): Newcastle   

 
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, May 14, 2002

09:30
Radio 4

presenter:
Roger McGough
producer: Clare Jenkins   
(pic when available)
 

 10:The End of the Line (1): London   

 
  first broadcast:
Tuesday, May 07, 2002

09:30
Radio 4

presenter:
Roger McGough
producer: Clare Jenkins   
(pic when available)
 

 9:Daughters of the Radical Suffragists   

 
  first broadcast:
Saturday, March 02, 2002

20:00
Radio 4

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.
(pic when available)
 

 8:The Art and Science of the Piano   

 
  first broadcast:
Saturday, February 02, 2002

15:30
Radio 4

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.
(pic when available)
 


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