Baroness Greenfield, Gary Barlow
Richard Coles and Anita Anand with scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield, the Inheritance Tracks of Gary Barlow and the Thankful Villages of Britain.
Richard Coles and Anita Anand with neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield talking about her life and work, Julie Bailey who campaigned for reform after her Mother died at Stafford Hospital and who has been hounded from her Stafford home and business, 'Lorna' who lives in Belfast, was in care from around 14 years of age and now volunteers with a Children in Need project that helps others in care, and Diccon Bewes who has followed in the diary footsteps of Miss Jemima Morrell from Selby in Yorkshire, who took an 1863 tour of Switzerland organised by Thomas Cook. JP Devlin visits the village of Herbrandston in Wales which is a doubly 'Thankful Village'- all the village soldiers returned from both World Wars. Back in the studio, Medwyn Parry talks about his motorbike ride to 51 Thankful Villages in the UK- and tells of two new ones discovered recently. And Gary Barlow shares his Inheritance Tracks.
Producer: Chris Wilson.
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Baroness Susan Greenfield
Stafford Hospital: Julie Bailey's story
The level of neglect and abuse found at Stafford Hospital during the mid-2000’s was one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS. Julie Bailey has campaigned for more openness at the hospital ever since her Mother died there in 2007. Her campaigning has been hugely successful but the personal cost has been great. She talks to us about the aftermath of that campaign.
Thankful Villages: Herbrandston crowdscape and Medwyn Parry's tour
Thankful Villages are villages in Britain from where all the men who went away to the First World War returned home alive. Some villages are ‘doubly’ thankful with all of the men returning alive from both World Wars. JP Devlin visits one such doubly thankful village, Herbrandston in Wales.
Plus Medwyn Parry tells us about his motorbike trip around all the Thankful Villages in Britain in aid of The British Legion.
Travel: Victorian travel to exotic Switzerland
Diccon Bewes book Slow Train to Switzerland charts his travels.
Inheritance Tracks: Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow shares his Inheritance Tracks. He inherits Elton John's Your Song and Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush.
Gary Barlow's new single Let Me Go is out on Sunday 17 November and the album Since I Saw you Last on Monday 25 November.
He is behind the Children in Need Rocks concerts on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 November 2013.
Children in Need: Lorna's story
'Lorna’ who was in care from age 14 is now a young volunteer with Northern Ireland Project VOYPIC: Voices of Young People in Care.
It’s a Children in Need sponsored project and Lorna talks about her life in care and how she wants to help others.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Richard Coles |
| Presenter | Anita Anand |
| Interviewed Guest | Susan Greenfield |
| Producer | Chris Wilson |
Broadcast
- Sat 9 Nov 201309:00BBC Radio 4
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