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Creative Writing Groups (5): 'Water Mouse' |
first
broadcast:
Fri Jun 23 2006 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Angela Mounsey |
producer:
Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally |
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A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Water Mouse” by Maureen Fenton, Clitheroe Writing Group, read by Angela Mounsey
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Creative Writing Groups (4): 'Whitby Pier' |
first
broadcast:
Thu Jun 22 2006 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Emma Lowndes |
producer:
Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally |
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A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Whitby Pier” by Mary C Clarke, Airedale Writers Circle, read by Emma Lowndes
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Creative Writing Groups (3): 'Working From Home' |
first
broadcast:
Wed Jun 21 2006 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
David Fleeshman |
producer:
Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally |
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A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Working from Home” by Iris Woodford, Lancaster Writers, read by David Fleeshman
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Creative Writing Groups (2): 'Old Blood' |
first
broadcast:
Tue Jun 20 2006 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Carol McGuigan |
producer:
Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally |
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A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. Today's story is “Old Blood” by Christiane Algar, Alnwick Playhouse Writers Group, read by Carol McGuigan
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Creative Writing Groups (1): 'Squirrels' |
first
broadcast:
Mon Jun 19 2006 |
3.30 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Barbara Marten |
producer:
Gillian Hush/Mark Whitaker/Mike Hally |
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A week of readings highlighting the best work from Creative Writing Groups in the North of England. Over 250 groups were invited to submit their best two stories, on any theme. This selection is the pick of more than 130 stories submitted. The first story is “Squirrels” by Karen Whitchurch, of the Hornsea Writers, read by Barbara Marten
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69 :
Treating Strictly Prohibited |
first
broadcast:
Wed May 10 2006 |
11.00 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Allan Beswick |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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The story of the Government's response to an earlier epidemic of binge-drinking - the nationalisation of Carlisle's pubs and breweries as a wartime experiment in 1916, an experiment that lasted until 1971.
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33 :
Jollywood |
first
broadcast:
Thu Oct 9 2003 |
11.30 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
C P Lee |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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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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27 :
Prehistoric Footprints Under the Sand |
first
broadcast:
Tue May 6 2003 |
11.00 am
Radio 4 |
presenter:
Mark Whitaker |
producer:
Mike Hally & Janet Graves |
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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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25 :
The Bee Inspector (4): winter |
first
broadcast:
Sun Feb 23 2003 |
2.45 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
David Kemp |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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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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24 :
The Bee Inspector (3): autumn |
first
broadcast:
Sun Feb 16 2003 |
2.45 pm
Radio 4 |
presenter:
David Kemp |
producer:
Mike Hally |
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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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