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07/12/2010

Rhod Sharp with world stories. Including the girl with Eleanor Roosevelt for a pen pal, and Jamie Cullum on Dave Brubeck. Plus in Outriders, the man who sets his voicemail to music.

Rhod Sharp brings you world stories through the night.

An orphaned young girl from Guernsey was allocated Eleanor Roosevelt as a 'foster parent' during the Second World War. Paulette Le Mescam, now nearly 80 years old, tells in hour one how the wife of the US President sent her letters and parcels.

Jazz legend Dave Brubeck is celebrating his ninetieth birthday. In the second hour, one of his biggest fans, Jamie Cullum, talks about the documentary he's made about his hero.

In Outriders in the third hour, Jamillah Knowles finds out more about the cartoon characters that accompany operating systems, and meets a man who sets his voicemail messages to music. Plus, who needs graphics anyway? Jason Scott explains the origins of text based gaming.

And US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has repeated US demands for North Korea to cease its "provocative behaviour". Donald Kirk, correspondent for Christian Science Monitor, asesses tensions in the Far East, in the final hour.

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Tue 7 Dec 2010 01:00

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