Backchat Prog no 49 2022 Brownies

Alistair Miles is back with another space talk - the comet 67P and the Rosetta probe launched in 2014.

Philomena Winn reads 2 poems

We join the cast and crew of St Alban’s Players who have just finished a successful run of Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward.

A feature on Scouting, Girl Guiding and Brownies,

Robin Haward reads an extract from Agnes Grey a debut novel by Anne Bronte 

Producer Anthea Page

backchat prog no 48 2022 bristol blitz

Mike Birkin FOE on seasons and climate change

Julian Plested on the Bristol Blitz

Chris Stephens Bletchley Park

Moira Finney Belfast Blitz

Robin Haward reads an extract from Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott Song of pain and Beauty

by Pamela Bleavins

producer Anthea Page

backchat prog no 47 2022 haystack

Martin Powell on Louisa Lady of the Haystack

Lily Maryon on her role as Hannah More in the recent feature film

Michael Beurk looks back to his early days on BBC Radio Bristol Trinity Library Dublin and the Book of Kells

Janine Bruncher on how she became an actress.

Robin Haward reads an extract from Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott Song of pain and Beauty

by Pamela Bleavins

producer Anthea Page

Backchat prog no 46 2022

Apollo 8 space talk Alistair Miles

Richard Hope Hawkins the battle of Fromelles WW1

Shrouds of the Somme Art Installation by Rob Herd

George Butterworth Soldiers Marching All to Die

Robin haward reads an extract from Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott Song of pain and Beauty

by Pamela Bleavins

producer Anthea Page

backchat prog no 45 2022 China archives
Martin Smith on China and the Opium War
Maria Livesey's  trip to see the Terracotta Army in Xian China.
Robin Haward   walls of the world
Richard Flenley on the River Lune in Lancashire
Robin Haward reads an extract from Guy..the truth about Guy Fawkes by Michael FitzAllen
producer Anthea Page

Backchat prog no 44 2022 Halloween

Adrian Rook druid on Halloween

Arnos Vale Cemetery and the famous people buried there.

Philomena Winn reads 2 poems about witches

Cattle Country Farm Park and rare breeds

Apple Day at Horfield Organic Orchard

Malcolm Grieve reads Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee.

Producer Anthea Page

Backchat prog no 43 3033 portobello archives

Judith Davies fitness programme for the over 50’s

Philomena Winn Speech and Drama examiner working all over the world

Portobello film festival plus Grenfell Tower and gentifrication

Philomena Winn reads an extract from Memoires and Opinions by Sir Arthut Quiller Couch

producer Anthea Page

Backchat prog no 42 2022 Ramsgate tunnels

Alistair Miles’s Space talk and this week Alistair explores the subject of objects from Space crashing onto earth.

Philomena Winn reads Out of The Blue by Simon Armitage and The Winner Takes it All by Abba.

A tour of the Ramsgate tunnels,

A visit to the Dickens House Museum, Broadstairs Kent, on the promenade, a charming Victorian house owned by Miss Mary Pearson Strong, where Dickens and family members spent many holidays.

Robin Haward read an extract from the Pickwick papers by Charles Dickens. producer Anthea Page, 

Backchat prog no 41 2022 British Legion 

Tony Evans Town Crier in Nailsworth talks about the Woollen Cloth Industry.

Tim Godden, chairman  of the local branch of the Royal British Legion on the Gloucestershire Regiment, Museum and Colonel Carne..

A feature on  Chain Farrowing in Gloucestershire 

Philomena winn reads 2 poems

A feature about the camino walk from London to Bristol to bring a film made about the camino Cop 26 last year.

Robin Haward reads an extract from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. 

producer Anthea Page,

Backchat prog no 40 2022 Norway

Martin Smith part 2. Martin tells  us how the pandemic lead to a series of broadcasts which has now been transcribed into a book called Matters of Life and Death, Living With History in a Pandemic.

Philomena Winn reads 2 poems by Leonard Cohen

In Somerset for the annual grape harvest...a visit to the Aldwick estate vineyard in Somerset

Tony Evans, town crier in Nailsworth tells us about his role.

A visit to the Norwegian Church in Cardiff bay. 

Robin Haward reads an extract from Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984), an autobiography written by British writer Roald Dahl. 

Producer s Anthea Page,