BACKCHAT PROG no 4 2023 SS GREAT BRITAIN

 Martin Smith Director of many television documentaries will be talking about his book, Matters of Life and Death living with History in a Pandemic, a book written during the height of the Covid Pandemic and broadcast her on Backchat radio.

Philomena Winn reads a poem by John Masefield,

A visit to the SS Great Britain Museum in Bristol Docks to meet 2 of the volunteers and David Punter, a poet who was hosting his book launch Ship’s Log, a book of poetry based on the passenger’s logs who were on board the SS Great Britain 

A book launch about Greek women in Mythology called Electra.by author Jennifer Saint

An interview with Sam owner of Max Minerva’s a bookshop in Bristol.

Robin Haward reads an extract from the Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
First published in 1956, this is one of the greatest true stories of escape 

producer Anthea Page, 

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