Jarvis
Cocker, Elvis McGonagall, Garreth Smyth, Zuhal Sultan, Salvador Dali, Roger
Lloyd Pack
Duration: 58
minutes
First
broadcast: Saturday 31 March 2012
Richard Coles
with Jarvis Cocker, poet Elvis McGonagall, Zuhal Sultan who taught herself to
play the piano and set up the Iraqi Youth Orchestra, Garret Smyth who's
planning to cryogenically preserve his brain at the point of death in the hope
of the being brought back to life, Anne Pattullo who hitched a ride with
Salvador Dali, Piers Plowright's I Was There from a ski jumping competition in
the middle of London in the 1950s, and the Inheritance Tracks of actor Roger
Lloyd Pack.
Producer: JP
Devlin.
STUDIO GUEST
:: JARVIS COCKER
Pulp frontman
Jarvis Cocker joins Richard in the studio.
Jarvis Cocker
FROZEN BRAIN
:: GARRET SMYTH
Garret Smith
has arranged to have his brain frozen when he dies.
IRAQI YOUTH
ORCHESTRA :: ZUHAL SULTAN
Zuhal Sultan
is a pianist and activist who grew up in Iraq and set up the National Youth
Orchestra of Iraq which she’s hoping to bring to Edinburgh this Summer.
National
Youth Orchestra of Iraq
I WAS THERE
:: SKI JUMP IN LONDON
Piers
Plowright recalls 25th March 1950 when Hampstead Heath in London played host to
a surprising sight: ski-jumpers soaring through the sky from a specially built
ramp covered in real snow from Norway.
On This Day
A LIFT FROM
SALVADOR DALI
When Anne
Pattullo went hitchhiking in Spain some years ago, the last person she expected
to offer her a lift was Salvador Dali.
INHERITANCE
TRACKS :: ROGER LLOYD PACK
Actor Roger
Lloyd Pack chooses 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' by Mozart and 'Forever Young' by
Bob Dylan.
POET ::ELVIS
MCGONAGALL
Elvis
McGonagall is in the building. Don’t step on his blue suede verse.
Elvis
McGonagall
The Written
World
The Written
World is a poetry project by BBC Radio Scotland to broadcast a poem from each
of London 2012’s competing nations. If you're from Aruba, North Korea or The
Cook Islands the organisers would love to hear from you.
The Written
World
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