All Out have a wealth of experience in writing and producing innovative, attention-holding programmes.
In the weeks before the yet to be decided England Squad head off to South Africa, Ian Mcgarry spends a revealing day with Arsenal and England winger Theo Walcott, as he visits Great Ormond Street hospital and sits down with him to ask about his childhood foot-balling dreams, the reality and pressure of being on the national team and the world cup dreams he has yet to realise.
BBC Radio 5 Live Monday 3rd May 4.15 pm
Producer: Jo Meek
Presenter: Ian McGarry
The story of Tito: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
“We have spilt an ocean of blood for brotherhood and unity of our
peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or to destroy it from
within.” Josip Broz Tito
May 4th saw the 30th anniversary of the death of the charismatic leader of
the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia died. For Thirty-Five years Josip Broz Tito seemingly held together a republic of seven frontiers, six republics,
five nationalities, four languages, three religions and two alphabets.
But during his reign ethnic tensions were always bubbling under the
surface and ten years after his death they exploded into violence not witnessed in Europe since the second world war.
In this two part series Martin Bell returns to the region he spent much of the 1990s reporting from, tracing the events that kept the Yugoslav Republic together and subsequently tore it apart. And he asks whether 15 years after the Dayton Peace Agreement, the Balkans is precariously balancing on the edge once more.
In episode one Martin takes a journey through history- his own and Tito’s- across the mountains of Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia; To Kumrovec, the birthplace of Tito, Jajce the birthplace of the republic and Belgrade- where Tito is buried. During his travels he speaks with the Crown Prince of Serbia at Tito and Milosevic’s former Presidential Palace, Stepjan Mesic and Raif Dizdarevic prominent Communist leaders who helped run Yugoslavia with Tito, and after he had died.
Talking with those who knew, respected, feared and loved Tito, Martin looks at the legacy of the man who defied Stalin and turned himself into a World Statesman. Charting the decade from Tito’s death when Yugoslavia hung together by a thread, to the outbreak of war, he investigates whether Tito could have done more to keep his beloved republic together and asks why a man who’s funeral was attended by high profile delegates from every corners of the globe was so quickly forgotten by the West.
These programmes investigate how the shadow of Tito looms over the former Yugoslavia, a symbol of a century’s worth of attempts to keep a fractious region together, a history threatening to repeat itself once more.
BBC Radio 4 Monday 26th April and 3rd May 8 pm
Producer: Gemma Newby
Presenter: Martin Bell
The Ambassador's Reception
BBC Radio 4
“Being thrown out of the US embassy in Ankara with Arthur Miller- a voluntary exile- was one of the proudest moments of my life”
In March 1985 Harold Pinter and American playwright Arthur Miller took a trip to Turkey that culminated in their being thrown out of the American Ambassador’s dinner party held in Arthur Miller’s honour. They were not in Turkey for a play or a literary event but to draw attention to the ruthless limits being set on freedom of expression in Turkey at that time, and the many writers languishing in prison.
In this Radio 4 documentary All Out Producer writer Maureen Freely retraces their footsteps and takes us on a journey across Istanbul into the homes and meeting places of the Turkish literati, who in the 1980’s were oppressed, imprisoned and tortured for their opinions. Until then the world had turned a blind eye to their plight.
Evoking images of a country full of promise yet stunted by doubt and distrust Maureen met painters, writers, and publishers- those who remember the trip vividly, those who were locked up for speaking their mind, and the new generation of authors. She finds out whether Turkey is a better, safer and freer place to be a writer today than it was in the spring of 1985 or whether having an opinion that deviates from the official line remains a dangerous path to tread.
* The Ambassador’s Reception was Radio 4’s podcast of the week
BBC Radio 4 Saturday 10th April 2010
Producer: Gemma Newby
Presenter: Maureen Freely
In Search of the Real Drogba
BBC Radio 5 Live
Didier Drogba is one of the most controversial figures in football, hated by the majority of football fans, we went on a hunt for the real Didier, a hunt which took us to the Ivory Coast.
In March 19 football fans were crushed to death as they attempted to see the match between Ivory Coast and Malawi in the capital Abidjan.
The next day, the Ivory Coast players toured the hospital visiting the dozens of injured fans who were strewn around the tatty wards and corridors
Les Elephants biggest star Didier Drogba was so moved by what he saw that day that he vowed to raise the money to build his home town and new hospital
With Ian McGarry we followed Drogba back to The Ivory Coast to see how the Chelsea star is worshiped in his home country and why he has promised to raise the 5 million pounds for a new hospital.
BBC Radio 5live 25th December 2009 5pm
Presenter: Ian McGarry
Producer: Jo Meek
When the King Met The President
BBC Radio 2
It was a normal December day in the Presidency of Richard Nixon, until Elvis Presley turned up at the White House and asked to meet the President. Martin Sheen reveals what happened next for BBC Radio 2
"Dear Mr. President. First, I would like to introduce myself. I am Elvis Presley and admire you and have great respect for your office..."
All Out Productions have worked with Hollywood actor (and fictional resident of the West Wing) Martin Sheen to tell the story of when the King of rock 'n' roll met the President of the United States to offer his services to his country as a special secret agent.
In this hour long special for Radio 2's Elvis season Martin Sheen tells the bizarre story of how Elvis expressed his desire to Richard Nixon be made a "Federal Agent at Large" in order to communicate with and report on what he felt were harmful factions threatening America.
Presley arrived at the White House gate on the morning of December 21 1970 with his two body guards with a letter for Nixon and within hours he was standing in the Oval office shaking hands with the President and smiling for the camera for a photo that has become one of the most famous and requested in the American national archives.
The programme hears from President Nixon's aides who were in the meeting with Elvis on the day they met - Egil 'Bud' Krogh and Dwight Chapin and from hear from Jerry Schilling, one of Elvis' inner circle, who was with him in the Oval Office when the King met the President.
BBC Radio 2, 5th January 2010 10:30pm
Producer Jo Meek
Researcher: Wayne Wright
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pkbs4
Keeping Traditions Alive
BBC Radio 2: 21st to 24th December 2009
Presenters Billy Bragg, Kate Rusby, Jon Boden and Julie Fowlis
Hark, Hark! the carollers are coming. In the month before Christmas the village pubs of small towns around Sheffield are packed with the merry making of enthusiastic singers. Come out of the cold and warm yourself by the fire as you eavesdrop on a centuries-old tradition of secular Christmas carols, songs and lyrics that locals fiercely claim as their own.
But wait, across the hills and down the coast voices can also be heard on cold December Sundays in Padstow. Join the procession as locals go from street to street singing the Cornish Curls they have proudly nurtured.
Ssssh! A breath of anticipation. On a frosty winters night, in tiny villages dotted across North Wales there’s a local Christmas tradition that will transport you over the hills, into the valleys, and back in time. In a candlelit church Plygain singers step forward to present the Christmas hymn that has been in their family for generations, the unaccompanied sound of small Welsh choirs echoing in the stillness of the service.
And if you weren’t already in the mood, we end with a good old knees up at Leigh-on-Sea where Christmas revellers have introduced their own caroling tradition to welcome Yuletide. Borrowing a lyric here and a melody there, reviving old instruments to play their songs, a group of carollers, musicians, folk fans and storytellers are meeting up to celebrate Christmas the old fashioned way
We have been lucky to get 4 great presenters to lead our searc, Kate Rusby goes back to her childhood in South Yorkshire, Billy Bragg examines the great traditions in the South West, John Boden of Bellowhead travels to Essex, and Julie Fowlis listens to the mystical and magical Plygain singing of North Wales.
Producer: Gemma Newby
Researchers: Gillian Donovan Lisa Needham
He Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger at 90
Pete Seeger has been called America's tuning fork - he is a living breathing history of the country, and the reason many of the great songs are still sung today and may of the great singers sing
Pete Seeger tells a story that when he had finished playing with Bruce Springsteen on the day Barack Obama was sworn in, the new President stopped and said that his mother used to play Seegers records to a 4 year old Barack, that's Pete Seeger and that why he was given a 90 minute special programme on BBC Radio 2
All Out were lucky enough to be able to produce it and what came out was the story of a fascinating, brave, committed man who saw the value of the traditions of his country.
He Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger at 90
BBC Radio 2 9th December 2009
Presenter: Billy Bragg
Producer: Richard McIlroy
Researcher: Wayne Wright
Last year US pharmaceutical's spent $65 billion on research and development and they have made it clear that "reform must protect the US' lead in medical innovation." For BBC Radio 4 Justin Webb investigated with us whether all that money, prohibitively expensive drugs, and cutting edge technology translates to better health care and asks if cuts can been made without stifling innovation?He talks to those who are involved in making the decisions and those who will be affected by them when the health reform bill is delivered to the President at the end of October, and he speaks with leading figures in the NHS to ask if American fears are well founded.With 1/16 of American GDP spent on healthcare, and projected to increase massively, how much of that is really going into making America the lead in innovation and how much is about flooding the market with newer drugs and technology that cost more but aren’t necessarily better?If the federal government places tighter regulations on drug and biotech companies in order to reign in spiralling costs will, as pharma claims, the industry, and ultimately the patient, both in America and here in the UK, be the ones who lose out?
BBC Radio 4 11th October 2009 1:30pm
Producer Gemma Newby
Researchers Lisa Needham and Gillian Donovan
Scene Stealers
BBC Radio 1
TV is the new Radio" that's according to Phil Chadwick, manager of Elbow for 15 years - the band are now in the studio recording their follow up to The Seldom Seen Kid and he told All Out that when the time comes to release tracks from the next album they will look first to films like Twilight rather than Radio
As part of Radio 1 stories, Greg James looked at how films and TV shows like Skins and Gossip Girl are becoming more and more important for bands wanting to make that break through.
We heard from Pete Tong, Muse, Temper Trap and the creator of Skins, Jamie Brittan about why bands are targeting TV programmes.
The art of matching songs with pictures is called syncing and the Queen of syncing is Alex Patsavas. She has been the music supervisor on The OC, Greys Anatomy and on Twilight New Moon she told us about how getting the right track in the right scene can create memorable moments.
Scene Stealers
BBC Radio 1 5th October 2009
Presenter: Greg James
Producer: Richard McIlroy
Researcher David Smith
Earth Wind and Pyre
30 years ago an army of rock fans gathered on a Chicago baseball field and blew up thousands of records. Disco Diva Candi Staton joined us to tell the story of the explosive demise of disco.
In 1979 the disco industry was worth an estimated $4 billion - more than movies, television or professional sport - and accounted for up to 40 per cent of the singles chart. The same year in Chicago, Steve Dahl, a disgruntled rock DJ left his WDAI radio show in protest at its switch to an all-disco play list. He really hated disco. A switch to a rival rock station, which shared the same owners as the Chicago White Sox baseball team, resulted in an audacious publicity stunt that signalled the death knell of disco.The promotion was simple: For a mere 98 cents listeners could bring all their unwanted disco records to the White Sox's Comiskey Park and watch them being blown up by Dahl and his chums, who called themselves "The insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army." Over 70,000 people turned up to offload their disco records and chant, "Disco sucks! Disco sucks!" Thousands were locked out and the riot police were called in to quell pitch invasions.Recalling the event, Dahl has said: "Disco was a fad probably on its way out but the event hastened its demise."
Presenter Candi Staton sets out to uncover if there was a true anti-disco sentiment while legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles charts disco's revenge and metamorphosis into house a decade later. We tracked down some of the pitch invaders and baseball players to find out how strongly they felt about disco then, and how they view the events of that steamy July evening thirty years on.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8142893.stm
BBC Radio 2 11th July 2009 10pm
Producer Jo Meek
Researcher Wayne Wright
After seven years locked up four Uyghur men were transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the wealthy paradise of Bermuda. We told their story for BBC World Service
- The story begins with them leaving their homeland in China before the 9/11 attacks.Salahidin Abdulahad, Ablikim Turahun, Khalil Manut, and Abdulla Abdulqadir ended up in a small, rundown settlement in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains.
After September 11th, 2001 and the US bombing of Afghanistan, they fled to Pakistan.
It was here they were arrested and eventually taken to Guantanamo.
Despite being cleared of being 'enemy combatants' by the Bush administration, the US military and courts, they continued to be held.
No country was willing to take them apart from China, where the four men feared they would be tortured.
They were in no-man’s land but Bermuda opened its arms and welcomed them to a new home and a new life.
In this documentary, Nick Davis travels to their seaside cottage to meet them and to ask them what their hopes are for the future.
After solitary confinement and innumerable interrogations, they are free, but how will they cope?
He asks the men about their journey, why and how they ended up in Guantanamo and about what their hopes are for the future in Paradise.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8147317.stm
BBC World Service 13th July 2009
Presenter: Nick Davis
Producer: Jo Meek
The Silent Killer
Radio 4/World Service
In the period between Christmas and New Year when most of us were subjecting our bodies to the vast amounts of over-consumption that accompanies the festive season, Justin Webb was experiencing first-hand the callousness of the American health system.
Justin’s son, Sam, was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes. Since there is neither prevention nor cure for juvenile diabetes Sam will have to spend the rest of his life injecting himself with insulin four times a day, have an increased chance of suffering from heart disease, blindness, and the loss of the use of his limbs.
Type 1 diabetes currently affects 3 million people in the United States, 250,000 people in the UK and globally 20 million, and incidences are rising. More than 80 years have elapsed since the lifesaving discovery of insulin, a hormone that has made a once lethal disease into a manageable condition, and yet there is still no cure. In fact, there is debate over what even causes diabetes, and many think a cure is years off.
For Radio 4 and The World Service Justin Webb goes on a personal journey of discovery to find out what the future holds for Sam and millions of other children like him.
As a parent struggling to understand the impact that diabetes will have on his son’s life immediately, and in the long term, Justin explores what options are available to Sam, whether sufficient funding is going into research, where the best research is being conducted and whether a cure is on the horizon.
At the same time as searching for the elusive cure we hear how Sam’s getting on with the daily struggle of diabetes.
BBC World Service 15th June 2009
BBC Radio 4 Sunday 21st June 2009 1:30pm
Presenter: Justin Webb
Producer: Gemma Newby
Read an article by Justin about the programme here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/14/diabetes-type-1-health1
Pop Svengalis
GMG Radio
Harvey Goldsmith has been promoting concerts for over 43 years. He has worked with everyone from Pavarotti to Wham and Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones.
Having produced live events including Live Aid, Live 8 and numerous productions for The Princes Trust, he is the premier figurehead in his field.Over the course of 6 weeks, Harvey will trace the careers of 18 of the most powerful and influential Pop Svengalis in history. Each week he’ll delve into the musical backgrounds of 3 impresarios who have earned their place in the Pop Svengalis series through management, producing and the labels they launched.
Pop Svengalis gives an insiders glance at the careers of the likes of Brian Epstein, Berry Gordy, Andrew Loog Oldham, Malcolm McLaren, Pete Waterman and Simon Cowell, to name just a handful, finding out how they have shaped some of the biggest pop acts of all time.
Featuring interviews from some of the Svengalis themselves, Andrew Loog Oldham, Malcolm McLaren, Pete Waterman, Simon Napier Bell, Tom Watkins and Robert Stigwood, as well as the people they signed and worked with, among them, Barry and Robin Gibb, Claudette Rogers Robinson, Roberta Flack, Otis Williams, Glen Matlock, Terry Reid, Angie Bowie and Jason Donovan.
Each 1 hour episode is sprinkled with Harvey’s personal experiences of working with the Pop Svengalis in focus, along with a generous helping of the biggest hits from the time as well.
Episode 1
In the first Episode of Pop Svengalis Harvey Goldsmith traces the management careers of 3 Svengalis who steered a trio of the most popular music acts of all time, Brian Epstein, Colonel Tom Parker and Peter Grant.
Contributors include…Tony Bramwell, John Robb, Jerry Schilling, Steve Binder, Terry Reid and Chris Welch
Episode 2
In the second part of Pop Svengalis Harvey takes a look at 3 impresarios who achieved success through the record labels they launched and ran. Berry Gordy who founded Motown Records, Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, and Tony Wilson renowned for Factory Records in Manchester.
Contributors include…Frank Wilson, Claudette Rogers Robinson, Otis Williams, Phillip Rauls, Roberta Flack, Peter Saville, Mike Pickering and Clint Boon
Episode 3
In the third offering of the Pop Svengalis Harvey focuses on 3 of the biggest players during the swinging sixties, discovering how they shaped some of the greatest artists of all time. Tony Defries, Stamp and Lambert and Andrew Loog Oldham
Contributors include…Dave Thompson, Angie Bowie, Andrew Motion, Andrew Loog Oldham, Tony Calder, Peter Frampton and Kenny Jones.
Episode 4
During the fourth episode of Pop Svengalis Harvey Goldsmith investigates 3 of the more colorful mangers in pop history, Don Arden, Allen Klein and Malcolm McLaren, finding out the role they played in developing the artists they managed.
Contributors include…Bev Bevan, Simon Spence, Mick Rock, Barry Miles, Malcolm McLaren, Leigh Gorman and Glen Matlock.
Episode 5
In the penultimate episode of Pop Svengalis Harvey takes a look at 3 impresarios who made their biggest impact during the 1980’s, Pete Waterman, Simon Napier Bell and Tom Watkins.
Contributors include…Pete Waterman, Sonia, Jason Donovan, Simon Napier Bell, Harry Cowell, Chris Dreja and Tom Watkins
Episode 6
In the final episode of Pop Svengalis Harvey Goldsmith delves into the backgrounds of 3 of the biggest international entertainment impresarios the business has ever seen, Robert Stigwood, Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell
Producer Clare Neal
Researcher Wayne Wright
GMG Radio Network from Sunday 1st June 2009 1pm for 6 weeks
To check which station on the GMG Network you can hear the series on log on to www,gmgradio.co.uk
Ted Hughes - Eco Warrior
Former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes was an eco warrior, campaigning about many of the environmental issues long before it was fashionable. Simon Armitage met Hughes during this period and presented 'Ted Hughes - Eco Warrior' for Radio 4
Ted Hughes' private life is as well documented as his literary output, as were his famous nature poems, but his active campaigning for the environment was largely unknown.
He was a passionate fisherman which gave him an unrivaled view of the damage that pollution was doing to the rivers he loved and their animal populations.
He took up the cause with a vengeance, using his position as Poet Laureate to petition politicians including the Prime Minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher and Michael Heseltine .
Simon visited Devon to speak with fellow campaigners about the rivers trust that Hughes helped to form, and also about the day he brought down the house as chief witness at a public inquiry. It reveals a new side to a man that so many people thought they already knew.
BBC Radio 4
Friday 15th May 11am
Producer: Geoff Bird
Presenter: Simon Armitage
Read more here in an article Simon wrote for The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/may/12/ted-hughes-eco-warrier-environment
The Landfill Designers
The phrase 'Planned Obsolescence' may not mean much, but for decades everyone of us has bought into it, at massive cost to the planet, but as we investigated, its time, may be limited
We are running out of space to stack up our waste, we are constantly told we have to recycle to save the planet
But we are the victims of a culture of manufacturing where goods were designed to fail and to be thrown away and replaced
Planned Obsolescence has its roots in nineteenth century America, and for Radio 4 we investigated the backlash against its philosophy that goods should be built with a limited lifespan so we would throw them away and buys a new one
As design journalist John Thackera found out if we weren't spending money on new goods then we wouldn't have had such massive growth over the past 60 years
The Landfill Designers
BBC Radio 4
Thursday 14th May 9pm
Producer Jo Meek
Researchers: Gavin Rutter and Nick Kettles
Presenter John Thackera
The Wonder Cure?
BBC Radio 4
Since it was released on to the market in 2006, Champix has been prescribed to thousands of people wanting to stop smoking. Since then it has helped many people kick their habit but it has also been linked to depression, violent psychotic episodes and suicide
Along with BBC Health Correspondent Matthew Hill All Out traveled to New York, where it is known as Chantix, to hear concerns about the drug from doctors and the people who have used it
The Wonder Cure?
BBC Radio 4
27th April 2009
Presenter Matthew Hill
Producer: Richard McIlroy
Researchers: Gavin Rutter and Lorna Skingley
Trident - Still Deadly
BBC Radio Scotland
In a quiet corner of Scotland reside four submarines and 200 thermonuclear warheads ready to defend Britain and her people in the event of an attack.
We investigated whether the renewal of Trident a throwback to a cold war threat that no longer exists, as well as a colossal waste of money during a worldwide recession?
Ken McDonald joined us for The Investigation on BBC Radio Scotland to find out whether it is time to renew the submarines that carry these killer missiles or pension them off.
He met with Helensborough residents, many of whom work at the country’s largest single employer site in Faslane, and finds out how their lives would be affected if Trident was scrapped. He also spoke to both sides of the debate on whether the renewal of Trident is right for the people of Scotland and necessary for the defence of the nation.
And,The Investigation uncovered evidence of nuclear leaks into the Clyde from the Naval Base.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8019406.stm
BBC Radio Scotland 27th April 2009
Producer Gemma Newby
Researcher: Gavin Rutter
Presenter Ken McDonald
Wish You Were There
Radio 2
We all have the bands we wish we could have seen and gigs we dream of being at, they have taken their place in folklore, chewed over repeatedly by those who were there, mythologised by those who weren't.
In Wish You Were There for BBC Radio 2 4 modern day rock greats go back in time to hear what it was like at the great gigs they wish they had been at
In part one former Catatonia front woman Cerys Matthews hears how Otis Redding sent the crown wild in the 1967 Stax Revue in London
In programme 2, Sheffield songwriter Richard Hawley takes a moving journey back in time to the Sheffield of his father and and uncle, both great musicians and he takes in the spine tingling music of blues legend Little Walter.
Damon Gough wished he was at the gig put on by his hero Bruce Springsteen in 1975, which launched The Boss's career in the UK.
And in the final part Canadian folk singer Martha Wainwright travels to Hyde Park to meet just a few of the 200,000 fans who were in the crowd for Queens free concert in September 1976.
Wish You Were There gives some of the great live acts of today a chance to experience what it was like to be at the concert which shaped their musical lives
Wish You Were There
BBC Radio 2 Monday February 16th to March the 9th
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/documentaries/wishyouwerethere.shtml
Producer Gemma Newby
40 Years Since Folsom
BBC Radio 4 26th August 2008
Presenter Matthew Bannister
Producer Jo Meek
Newly unearthed recordings from before and during Johnny Cash's concert at Folsom Prison will be broadcast for the first time, on BBC Radio 4 in '40 Years From Folsom'.
The Betrayal of Blackpool
BBC Radio 4 1st September 2008
Presented by Martin Wainwright
Produced By Gemma Newby
For decades entire northern mill towns decamped for the seaside towns along the east and west coasts of England. The Guardian Northern Editor Martin Wainwright headed to Blackpool for Radio 4 to assess the state of Blackpool The town pinned all its hope on the super casino but when the name of Manchester was announced it had nowhere to go, Martin visits the site where the casino was due to be built, instead of the glittering, excitement of a casino its still a bleak, windswept car park. In reaching his conclusion about who has betrayed Blackpool, Martin meets the leader of the council, a leading hotelier and the Crane family who have travelled en masse to Blackpool for years for their holidays. He also side steps the tottering and swaying groups who have made Blackpool the Mecca for stags and hens and visits the beautiful and ornate Winter Gardens where he cut his journalistic teeth reporting from party conferences, but deserted by the Labour Party in perhaps the most significant betrayal >
Apartheid in Reverse
BBC 1 Xtra July 9th 2008
Producer: Jo Meek
Presenter: Alison Mitchell
To mark the South African tour of England Alison Mitchell investigated the controversial policy in South African cricket of transformation, which aims to right the wrongs of Apartheid. The policy has been criticised though as it means that 4 black cricketers have to be picked in the national team even if they are taking the place of white players who are better players. We also looked at why there are not more black and Asian cricketers in the English team and whether quotas here would be the answer.
Hear Manchester Podcasts
July 2008
Producer: Geoff Bird
Presenter: John Robb
Working with Manchester digital design company Star Dot Star we have produced 10 podcasts to showcase the diverse history and culture of the Ashton Canal, which runs through Manchester City Centre. John walked the towpath to meeting historians, artists, naturalists, business people and everyday people who helped him tell the story of Manchester and its rich heritage
The Homecoming
BBC Radio 4 26th May 2008
Producer: Gemma Newby
Presenter: Nick Thorpe
In this one-off programme for Radio 4 we accompanied Fehmi Islami, a refugee who fled Kosovo for England in 1999, on his journey back home. Fehmi had not seen his family, fiancée, or homeland, in ten years and we were there with him to record those first moments in a newly independent Kosovo.
A Taste of Honey
BBC Radio 4, Thursday 22nd May 2008
Producer: Gail Champion
Presenter: Kay Mellor
Screenwriter Kay Mellor explores the legacy of Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey, fifty years after it first shocked and enthralled audiences. The play brought social taboos and working-class reality to the London stage as never before. Interviews with the original cast and archive material shed new light on the play's importance for the evolution of British theatre.
The Terrible Truth
BBC Radio 4, Saturday 10th May 2008
Producer: Jo Meek
Presenter: Tom Robinson
Researcher: Rich Preston
Tom Robinson takes a nostalgic look back at the public service educational publications of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80's.
Record companies and health educators issued a steady stream of documentary albums, radio programmes and films to educate parents and warn the young about the perils of drugs, alcohol and even the opposite sex. Some were broadcast on TV, others sold in record stores, shown in the cinema or projected to giggling children in school assembly.
Tom reflects that while the tone and style may have changed, the messages are still relevant and contemporary today.
The Bard of Salford
BBC Radio 4, Thursday 8th May 2008
Producer: Elizabeth Alker
Presenter: Paul Morley
Paul Morley traces the life and works of Manchester punk poet John Cooper Clarke.
With his acerbic, witty and punchy style, Clarke combined poetry with the harsh reality of growing up in a poverty-stricken industrial northern town. He made it accessible within the framework of the rebellious artistic movement of the 1970s.
The Single Life
BBC Radio 4, 14 - 18th April 2008
Producer: Jo Meek
This 5 part series explores the lives of the thousands of ordinary people in the UK today who live the single life.
Marriage is at its lowest level since 1862 and women, particularly between the ages of 25 and 29, are less likely to be in a relationship at all.
This series reveals a wide range of surprising stories from both sexes about the reality of being single. Is a world of freedom and fun or of crushing loneliness? And how is the issue of security, both emotional and financial, affected by being alone?
From the women and men in their 20’s and 30’s searching in desperation to find a partner, all the time with the biological clock ticking, to the divorcees suddenly single and part of the dating game, both trying to comprehend it’s complicated rules.
It’s Not Just About The Music
BBC Radio 4 10th April 2008
Producer: Richard McIlroy
Presenter: Joe Queenan
As part of Radio 4 1968 season, we travelled to America to tell the story of Rolling Stone magazine. Founded by Jann Wenner in a San Francisco it now sits in the heart of New York’s media establishment on 6th Avenue. We met some of those who have graduated from its pages to become the most famous writers in the world today such as Joe Klein. And we ask how a 40-year-old music magazine has also become one of the influential political voices in the US
Justice For Jane
BBC Radio Five Live, 23 March 2008
Producer: Lissa Cook
Presenter: Mike Tomlinson
Mike Tomlinson investigates drug licensing on the NHS. Terminally ill with cancer, Jane Tomlinson raised more than £1.5 million for cancer charities by running, swimming and cycling on some of the toughest athletic challenges. Yet when it came to the life-prolonging treatment she needed, like hundreds of other patients, she was denied the drugs she needed. In a special 5 live Report, her husband, Mike Tomlinson investigates why some patients with cancer and other life-threatening and debilitating conditions like multiple sclerosis get the treatment they need whilst others have to settle for second best. He asks: How can the cost of a drug be weighed up against the price of a life?
Science of Attraction
BBC Radio 1, Thursday 14th February 2008
Producer: Jo Meek / Elizabeth Alker
Presenters: Keith Murray and Chris Cain from We Are Scientists
Need a crash course at the school of seduction? Want to ooze allure from every pore?
American indie rocksters and part-time sexperts, We Are Scientists, investigate the smells, sounds and sensations that get pulses racing. Find out how you can train yourself hotter...
Ken Colyer – He Knew
BBC Radio 2 5th February 2008
Producers: Elizabeth Alker and Richard McIlroy
Presenter: Billy Bragg<
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All Out's Radio 4 doc 'Football Freedom Fighters' and 'Doon The Watta' were both on Radio 4's 'Pick of the Week'. And on radio lovers blog, Speechification.
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