Lynda Bellingham, chimp circus, cameraphone inventor, Claire Grogan, anaesthetic awareness, Robert Cray's Inheritance Tracks
Suzy Klein and Richard Coles with studio guest Lynda Bellingham, plus the man who invented the camera phone, a one-handed pianist and a woman who woke up on the operating table.
Suzy Klein and Richard Coles with studio guest Lynda Bellingham. This weekend in 1939 more than 400,000 pets were killed at the outbreak of World Ward Two. We talk to Dr Hilda Kean who's researched this forgotten piece of history. Fifteen years ago Philippe Kahn invented the camera phone which has revolutionised the way we view the world and communicate. Nicholas McCarthy, who has only one hand, talks about his life as a concert pianist, Sally Pearson shares her experience of waking up on the operating table, Singer Clare Grogan takes a daytrip around North London with JP Devlin, and the Inheritance Tracks of blues guitarist Robert Cray.
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson.
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Dr Wang on the psychology of ‘waking up’ during operations.
Duration: 02:34
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‘It felt like torture’
Duration: 02:36
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- Sat 1 Sep 2012 09:0091Èȱ¬ Radio 4
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