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Pick of the Week: Sheila McClennon

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09/10/2016

Sheila McClennon

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Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights.

Families in various forms this week - as novelist Hisham Matar searches for his father who's been missing in Libya for twenty five years. Deborah Frances White is searching for her father too but using very different methods and Lemn Sissay wonders if his life in foster care has any parallels with literature's most famous orphan- Harry Potter.
We're shifting through the accumulation of a life with the emotional toll of clearing out your parents' home and on National Poetry Day, the words that comforted a grieving mother when nothing else could reach her. And don't miss Brian Blessed recalling some unwanted audience participation during a performance of Hamlet.
Sheila's iPlayer pick is Obscure Elements from the BBC world Service.
Producer: Stephen Garner
with production support from Rachel Gill.

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