Backchat prog no 39 2022 Matters of Life and Death

Martin Smith talks about his new book Matters of Life and Death, a transcript of his Backchat Radio broadcasts during the Covid Pandemic.

Philomena Winn introduces and reads 2 poems September by Ted Hughes and In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman.

Awalk along the river bank, in the town of Tewkesbury.

John Fry historian describes the interesting features along the banks of the river at Tewkesbury

From the archives Tim Mars and Stephen Jewel discuss the achievements of the Mayor of Birmingham Joseph Chamberlain, who many believed should have been made Prime Minister. 

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

Producer Anthea Page