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Steve Backshall, Murray Lachlan Young, gorilla surrogate mum, famine relief, transatlantic rowers, macaque attack, Julian Lennon

Sian Williams with adventurer Steve Backshall, poet Murray Lachlan Young, a surrogate mum to a baby gorilla, a Band Aid famine relief pilot, and Julian Lennon's Inheritance Tracks.

Sian Williams with adventurer Steve Backshall, poet Murray Lachlan Young, a zookeeper who acted as a surrogate mother to a sick baby gorilla, a man who flew the only relief flight into Ethiopia on Christmas Day 1984 with 'Do They Know It's Christmas' playing over the airplane PA, a group of women who are rowing across the Atlantic, a man who was attacked by his neighbour's macaque monkey and the Inheritance Tracks of musician and Beatle son Julian Lennon.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.

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  • Christmas Eve 2011 09:00

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