Category: Family

What Grandad Did in the Dark

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 A pile of flaking 78 rpm discs recorded by famous spiritualist Noah Zerdin have lain undisturbed in a south London garage for 70 years. Remarkably they contain the voices of people who claim to have died before the recordings were made. Noah’s three granddaughters decide to investigate his Great Experiment to prove life after death. (1 x 28′)

First broadcast  January 2002 BBC Radio 4

Producer Chris Eldon Lee

A truly odd, moving, wonderfully spooky story – Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph

Radio choice: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times

Radio 4 Pick of the Week

Who’s Fit to be a Parent?

 

IMukti Jain Campions parenting a private matter or has it become too complex and too important a job to leave to parents alone? Mukti Jain Campion (author of Who’s Fit to be a Parent? Routledge 1995) examines the arguments for more state intervention in how parents raise the next generation of citizens. (1 x 39′)

First broadcast August 1995 BBC Radio 4

 

The programme discusses with subtlety and depth the many ways in which most people are unprepared for parenthood -Polly Toynbee, Radio Times

 

Contributors include: Christopher Clulow, Director of the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute; Gerison Lansdown, Director of the UK Children’s Rights Development Unit; Albert Solnit, Paediatrician, psychiatrist and former director of the Yale Child Studies Centre; Jill Hodges, Consultant Child Psychotherapist, Great Ormond Street;  Hugh LaFollette, Professor of Philosophy East Tennessee State University and author of Licensing Parents; David Townsend, Director of Social Services

Producers Mukti Jain Campion and Rachel Yorke

A co-production with Track Record