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Pick of the Week: 02/09/2012

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02/09/2012

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Selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio, presented by Gerry Northam.

Gerry Northam learns which singer Elton John regards as the greatest ever recorded. There's also the melody which inmates sang to keep sane in Japanese prisoner of war camps. And the life of one of Mississippi's original bluesmen.
We hear how the satire of two thousand years ago finds echoes in current stand-up comedy.
Maxine Peake returns to Radio 4.
And the bleak pen of Cormac McCarthy portrays the despair of a 1950s British holiday camp.

Today - Radio 4
Soul Music - Radio 4
Poetic Justice - Radio 4
Away with Words - BBC Radio Leeds
Before They Were Famous - Radio 4
Great Lives - Radio 4
Book of the Week - Leonardo and the Last Supper - Radio 4
15 Minute Drama: Craven - Radio 4
Hoboing wih Honeyboy - Radio 2
Brian Gulliver's Travels - Radio 4
All Lit Up: A Century of Illumination in Blackpool - Radio 4
Bernie TAupin - A Conversation with the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Radio 2
The Elton John Show - Radio 2

Producer: Bernadette McConnell.

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