THE REUNION
Sunday, Radio 4, 11.15am
Can it be only 21 years since Colin Welland yelled: “The British are coming” as the movie he wrote, Chariots of Fire, scooped four Oscars? Well, yes it can, and here Sue McGregor brings together the leading lights of the British film revival that wasn’t.
WHEN MADMEN SAILED THE WORLD
Monday, Radio 4, 8pm
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Of course the seas remain full of nutters to this day, but this is the story of one particular bit of lunacy, the 1968 race to become the first to circumnavigate the globe, single-handed and non-stop.
IT’S MY STORY: THE WITNESS
Thursday, Radio 4, 8pm
Ever since her evidence at the Damilola Taylor murder trial was dismissed as “fantasy”, the girl who said she saw him die, and how, has been silent and in hiding. Now she talks to John Waite.