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11/08/2012

John McCarthy and Richard Coles with Joan Bakewell, a moon rock detective, the last crew member of Enola Gay, the velodrome pace-setter and Virginia Ironside's Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles & John McCarthy with broadcaster Joan Bakewell; listener Kirsteen Steel who turned detective to recover her father's stolen submarine bell; Jeremy Marks who in the 1980s ran a course to help gay people suppress their sexuality; moon rock investigator Joe Gutheinz; Olympic cycling pace setter Peter Deary; JP Devlin talks to the last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; there's a poem from the Edinburgh Festival; and agony aunt and author Virginia Ironside shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.

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1 hour, 28 minutes

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  • Sat 11 Aug 2012 09:00

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