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17 January 2009
This week we meet the first mixed-race couple in Long Eaton.
Plus what New Order's drummer keeps in his shed and what it's like to spend six months of the year living inside a steel tube.
PRESENTER
Rev Richard Coles
is chaplain to the
Royal Academy of Music
and is this week's guest presenter.
STUDIO GUEST
Andrew Roberts
is a historian, biographer and commentator who writes and broadcasts regularly on history, politics and royalty.
EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
Andrew McKendrick
commands HMS Vengeance
which contains in its safe the authorisation for launching Trident.
TOPICAL STORIES
George and Dorothy Leigh
were the first mixed-race couple in Long Eaton. We celebrate their Diamond Wedding anniversary.
SECRET LIVES
Joy Division and New Order drummer
Stephen Morris
is passionate about an unusual Army Surplus collectable.
INHERITANCE TRACKS
Samantha Bond
chose "Do I Love You" by Ella Fitzgerald and "The Very Thought Of You" by Nat King Cole.
MEET THE POET
Elvis McGonagall
- stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary & recumbent rocker struts his poetic stuff this week.
Read his poems here
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George and Dorothy Leigh were the first mixed-race couple in Long Eaton. We celebrate their Diamond Wedding anniversary.
Joy Division and New Order drummer 
Samantha Bond chose "Do I Love You" by Ella Fitzgerald and "The Very Thought Of You" by Nat King Cole.
