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Square Dog Radio programmes for BBC Networks in 2008 click here for forthcoming programmes |
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15:30 |
presenter: Maggie Fox |
producer: Gillian Hush | ||
| "Mooncall", written by Karen Wolfe of Hornsea Writers. The full moon has a dramatic effect on Kenneth, which drives his sister to despair until a chance encounter with a nice old woman outside the butcher's brings a solution satisfactory to all. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Rod Arthur |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| "St John the Better", written by Celia Burney of Hexham Writers, is set outside an abandoned tower block, where a group of local lads have set up an unorthodox clubhouse. When they reluctantly report a strange wailing noise coming from an upstairs window, their action has unexpected consequences. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Lynn Bains |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| "Room Service" written by Cathy Bolton, of the Sheffield Hallam University Short Story Group. In which a chance encounter with a pregnant guest helps a bereaved hotel worker to move on after a terrible loss. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Siobhan Finneran |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| In "Nature's Way", written by Helen Cadbury from York University's Centre for Lifelong Learning, 'Merrill' is stuck looking after her idle brother, just as her mother did before her. But she hesitates when she gets a chance to escape her drudgery. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Delia Corrie |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| "Rowing Upriver from Bridge Cottage", written by Lesley Jackson of Sheffield Hallam University Short Story Group, shines a light on a long marriage through a river journey with changes of direction, arguments over destinations and the occasional sudden squall. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Essam Edriss |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Gamal el-Ghitani: an Egyptian farmer is dazzled by a proffered deal from a glitzy international hotel; his sons don’t trust it at all. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Alia Alzougbi |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Rachida el-Charni: the degradations of work in a foreign-owned textile factory as experienced by a young Tunisian woman. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: William El-Gardi |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Tayib Saleh: a trio of middle-class young people fantasise that opening a travel agency will allow them to escape from their own culture in Sudan. | ||||
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15:30 |
presenter: Sherif Eltayeb |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Said al-Kafrawi: an Egyptian man is ambushed by the past when he returns to the village of his childhood. | ||||
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112: North African Short Stories (5): You Taught Me To Love Life, Father |
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15:30 |
presenter: Youssef Kerkour |
producer: Mark Whitaker, Mike Hally, Gillian Hush | ||
| Written by Arousia Naluti: what his wife’s pain in childbirth teaches a young Tunisian man about his country | ||||
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21:00 |
presenter: Hermione Cockburn |
producer: Mike Hally | Portrait of Clair Patterson. Picture copyright Caltech | |
| The extraordinary story of one man’s discovery of the global contamination of the environment by man-made lead compounds -- a story of brilliant applied science, painstaking research and a refusal to bow to vested interests. Preview picture of Patterson is copyright Caltech |  |
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114: Olympic Arts |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| It was called the ‘Pentathlon of the Muses’, and at each Olympic Games between 1912 and 1948 there were medals for architecture, sculpture, painting, music and literature. But most serious artists are not ‘amateurs’, so these forgotten and controversial contests were eventually brought to an end. Preview picture (right) copyright Mark Whitaker |  |
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21:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| ¨Peer Review¨ is supposed to be the ¨gold standard¨ of quality control for research projects and academic studies, yet evidence of its many deficiencies has been building up for over 20 years. That knowledge has been confined to the academic world until recently but now peer review’s tarnished image is being revealed to a wider audience. Rightly so, because this is no academic argument – hen it comes to medicine, inadequate peer review of proposed new drugs and other treatments can be literally a matter of life and death. |  |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| September 3rd 2008 will mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s death : but his severed head was only finally put to rest in 1960. This is the extraordinary story of what happened to it. |  |
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117: Textbook Diplomacy |
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11:02 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mark Whitaker | ||
| Across Europe school history textbooks are being used to build bridges over deep fault lines of nationalist hatred or suspicion; but while it's proved easy enough to create a joint Franco-German textbook, the task is both more difficult and more urgent in a country such as Bosnia. |  |
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11:30 |
presenter: Fred Freeman |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| He's been called "the most important Scottish poet since Burns" but he's better known overseas than elsewhere in the UK. Nelson Mandela sought him out after his release from Robbin Island, Pete Seeger gamely attempted some of his Scots dialect poetry and E P Thompson called him "that rare man, a poet". This programme gives a flavour of the extraordinary life and work of Hamish Henderson. | ||||
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119: The Menin Gate |
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11:45 |
presenter: Mark Whitaker |
producer: Mike Hally | ||
| The Menin Gate in the little Belgian city of Ypres is an extraordinary symbol of remembrance - the Last Post has sounded every night since 1929 (bar WW2) and it's the most visited site on the Western Front. This is a little cameo for Remembrance Day, following ''the Roots of the British Legion'' last year and ''the Roots of Remembrance Day'' the year before. |  |
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