The Children's Hospital in Entebbe

Archive on 4 charting the impact of the 1992 rave at Castlemorton Common, and how it led to the 1994 Criminal Justice Act. Presented and produced by Tom Barton. Sound by Barney Philbrick and Joel Cox. Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0017f1b

The UK’s 1977 entry to the Eurovision Song Contest was called Rock Bottom, making fun of the grim political and economic realities of the time.

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On stage, an orchestra conductor was dressed as a city businessman, with a pinstripe suit and a bowler hat.

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Singers Mike Moran and Lynsey De Paul sat at two grand pianos reading newspapers with headlines about Britain's economic mess, before breaking into song. The entry placed second.

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Britain's economic crisis had come to a head a few months earlier, on 28 September 1976. News broke of a run on the pound. Currency markets were in turmoil. International creditors would no longer lend to the UK.

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The country was out of time, and running out of money.

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In this Archive on 4, historian and journalist James Sladden takes us back to that febrile, tumultuous time – and explores why the 1976 IMF crisis still matters today, half a century later.

Producer and presenter: James Sladden
Producer: David Howard
Archive research: Jac Phillimore
Mix engineer: Joel Cox
Executive producer: Carys Wall

With grateful thanks to: Dr Duncan Needham, Professor Kathleen Burk, Mike Moran, Whistledown London studios, and the BBC Radio Archivists team.

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A Bespoken Media Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

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How do you tell the story of your life when you have no memory of the events that shaped you?

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At 15, Stephen McAll was a promising musician with a head full of songs. He was booked into a studio to record an album. Then, one night walking home from his girlfriend’s house in East Kilbride, he was attacked and beaten. The assault left him with serious head injuries and diagnoses of psychosis, excruciating cluster headaches, and PTSD.

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It also erased almost all of his memories. He says he could recognise faces and names of loved ones, but had lost every experience, event, or occasion in his life up to that point. He couldn't lay down new memories or hold onto information. He could read words on a page, but could not retain their meaning.

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Now in his early 40s, Stephen McAll is a successful music artist, and founder of critically-acclaimed folk band Constant Follower. This episode of Illuminated charts Stephen's decades-long journey from devastating injury and memory loss, back to hope and happiness.

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Producers: Katie Revell and Dave Howard
Sound design: Jonathan Webb
Executive producer: Dave Howard
Music: Stephen McAll
Excerpt of 'The Root of It' by Norman MacCaig, taken from album The Way I Say It, copyright Claddagh Records
Excerpt of 'Tourist and Landlord' by Norman MacCaig, from a film made for the Scottish Poetry Library called 'Norman MacCaig reads 2 Poems'
Thanks to Shaun Milne

A Bespoken Media Scotland production for BBC Radio 4

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The swine flu vaccine that appears to have triggered a narcolepsy sleep disorder. Maddy Savage reports for BBC Witness History: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3bxp