October

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Ilse's Story
Ilse Ryder was evacuated from Prague as part of the kinder transport in January 1939. She recognised the little boy in the photo with Nicholas Winter in last weeks story, and now wonders if he might have been responsible for helping her too..

Pictures in Sound
Franz Stevens is blind. When he met his wife Maggie they decided to keep tapes - a sort of audio photograph album of their life together. As he told Adam Fowler, when Maggie died earlier this year, his tape recordings took on an added poignancy...

From You
Ginger beer plants, crispy loo roll and the Barbican Mission to the Jews

Friendly Bullock
When Joyce Barge and her husband David bought a farm near Rochdale in the late seventies, they had teething problems with the fencing. Their not-so-cutesy little lambs were prone to sneaking out the farm and into the garden..

For Greer
Greer Lawrance was twenty when her obsessed boyfriend murdered her. Her sister Aimee remembers her and the effect of her death...

Foundling
Tracey Yerkess had always known that she was adopted. When she was first married, aged twenty, she decided to look for her birth certificate. Her parents then sat her down and told her what they knew...

From You
Bible cake, more Barbican Mission, and more on crispy loo roll..

Touching God
Not many of us have touched part of a living God. Prof. Mike Lean has...

From You
Judy Garland as we know and love him and Junk Mail

Lost Daughter
Kageha's spent her whole life explaining why she is black with a white family. But after meeting her birth father in Kenya, Kageha's confidence is blossoming...

Printing the Family
Artist Anita Klein's intimate portrait of domestic life with her partner Nige and their children..

The Hayman Whistle
In the age of the mobile phone, Jilly Bradshaw - nee Hayman - and her family employ an altogether more low-tech form of portable communication:the whistle...

Friends in Adversity
Sara and Beatriz met in the detention centre in Santiago in 1973, and became life-long friends. Both now live in Britain. Philippa Budgen caught up with them over tapas…...

Free Ticket
Peter emailed the programme to tell us about a ‘memorable’ trip to the USA on a free Hoover ticket. He was offered a 2 week holiday in the sun with an attractive single woman, an offer too good to refuse, or so he thought..

Trans Cultural Kid
Jan emailed us having heard Kageha on being trans-racially adopted. Jan’s adolescent years were spent at school in Kenya too. She is white and her parents are white but she at times feels more Kenyan than British. She is a Trans Cultural or Third Culture Kid..

From You - Family Whistles
Jilly Bradshaw's family whistle has inspired a chorus...