Pick of the Week - 09/05/2010

Liz Barclay makes her selection from the last seven days of BBC Radio Full length programme list: Back to the Hellespont - Radio 4 Pistols at Dawn - Radio 4 Midweek - Radio 4 RIP Boy - Radio 4 Blood Ties - Radio Scotland The Name Game - Radio 4 The Other Guantanamo - World Service Cutting The Lifeline - Radio 4 Global Perspectives - World Service Launching the Style Decade Tim Rice's American Pie Morecambe and Wise - The Garage Tapes - Radio 4 Barbershopera! - Radio 4 The Essay - Postcards from Istanbul - Radio 4 Archive on 4 - Satire - The Great British Tradition - Radio 4 Sunday Feature - Theatre on the Frontline - Radio 3 Shortened version programme list: Back to the Hellespont - Radio 4 Pistols at Dawn - Radio 4 RIP Boy - Radio 4 Blood Ties - Radio Scotland The Other Guantanamo - World Service Global Perspectives - World Service Launching the Style Decade Morecambe and Wise - The Garage Tapes - Radio 4 Barbershopera! - Radio 4 The Essay - Postcards from Istanbul - Radio 4 Archive on 4 - Satire - The Great British Tradition - Radio 4 Sunday Feature - Theatre on the Frontline - Radio 3 On Pick of the Week Liz Barclay goes back to the Hellespont for the 200th anniversary of Byron's swim across that stretch of water, and encounters the dilemma of locals reliant on the notorious American navy base in Guantanamo Bay. There's heartrending accounts of the lives and deaths of troubled teenagers, a snip of Barber shop music, and a milk bath. Don't ask! It's all guns blazing on Pick of the Week at 6.15 this evening/tomorrow evening at 6.15/ on Sunday evening at 6.15 PHONE: 0370 010 0400 FAX: 0161 244 4243 Email: [email protected] or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw.