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Pick of the Week: Sheila McClennon

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27/05/2018

Sheila McClennon

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Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights.

This week Lou Reed causes havoc in a bizarrely themed Swedish restaurant where model boats deliver the food. Surely a recipe for disaster. 
There's an impassioned plea about how climate change is affecting the birds seen in the UK whilst Hugh Sykes gets his garden birds mixed up - do you think any Radio 4 listeners will notice? 
We've a quick guide to the Uilleann Pipes - they're the Irish bagpipes you play sitting down. 
Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities is reimagined set against the war in Syria and it works brilliantly, and another two cities - London and Manchester both remember the traumatic events of last year with the Arena attack and the start of the Grenfell Inquiry. 


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