Pick of the Week - 12/09/2010

Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio All manner of characters will be parading through the programme this week with a Singing Postman, verbose Trade Union leaders stunning their audience into a collective stupor, and a man building a tree house in a rain forest being attacked by several thousand bees. There's moving testimony from Jewish survivors of the Kindertransport generation who as children in the 1930's were forced to flee from Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia as the Nazis turned many parts of Europe into a sinister detention centre; and The Blitz is also recalled by way of the part Birmingham factory workers played when Britain increased arms production to combat the expansion of The Third Reich... And to lighten the mood Sue Perkins will amaze when she articulately gabbles away on the glory that is her...vegetable patch. Listen Against - Radio 4 Alexei at the Seaside with the Unions - Radio 4 Juggling Chainsaws with Archaos - Radio 4 Just A Minute - Radio 4 What The Bishops Knew - Radio 4 Words and Music - Radio 3 The Reunion - Radio 4 Storyteller - The Life of Roald Dahl - Radio 4 James and the Giant Tree House - Radio 4 Come to the Cabaret - Radio 2 The Blitz - Radio 4 Tracking The Aryans - Radio 3 In Search of the Singing Postman - Radio 4 Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs - Radio 2 Soul Music - Radio 4 PHONE: 0370 010 0400 FAX: 0161 244 4243 Email: [email protected] or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw Producer: Jane Worsley.