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07 February 2009
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Deano Dunbar - the first blind person to be thrown by the Dangerous Sports Club’s Human Catapult
Extreme sports fan Deano Dunbar has bungee jumped from a helicopter, set a time record around the Isle of Wight in a Thundercat power boat and been thrown by a Human Catapult (pictured). He's also registered blind.

Also this week, we find out what happened in 1952 when the great smog brought London to a standstill, venture into a mobile library and hear the Inheritance Tracks of Gloria Hunniford.

Our studio guest is former professional cricketer Ed Smith and poetry comes from Murray Lachlan Young.
Clare Balding is this week's guest presenter.
Ed SmithEx-England cricketer and current writer and journalist Ed Smith has discovered the meaning of life beyond leather and willow.
East Lothian mobile libraryLouise Gaimar Macmillan from East Ayrshire welcomes us inside her mobile library.
Bernard AsherIn 1952 the great smog brought London to a standstill. Bernard Asher was a student in London at the time. He shares his memories of the toxic fog which enveloped the capital for four days. 
Deano Dunbar setting the world record for the time taken to travel around the Isle of Wight in a Thundercat power boat.Deano Dunbar was inspired by a degenerative eye condition to set off on a world wide adventure of extreme sports.
Gloria HunnifordGloria Hunniford chose "A String Of Pearls" by Glenn Miller and "Have I Told You Lately" by Van Morrison.

Always with You is published by Hodder and Stoughton ISBN 978-0-340-95396-9
Murray Lachlan YoungMurray Lachlan Young makes stand up poetry, spoken word & performance art & he is on Saturday Live poetry detail this week.
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