Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971225] | Water, Views and Kitchen Tables BBC producer Piers Plowright sets some voices free. Producer Lore Windemuth | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971225] | Producer: Piers Plowright | |
| Mr B | 19971226 | Piers Plowright introduces the second of two documentaries looking at ENGLISH life from outside and inside. James Bellamy has been a schoolmaster since the 1940s and can imagine no other life. This documentary follows him through a day of reading, writing and arithmetic in a North LONDON boys' school. |
| Mr Fletcher, The Poet | 19971225 | Piers Plowright introduces a documentary he made in 1984 about Jeff Fletcher, a Leicestershire man who came from a family of miners but became a builder and a published poet. |
| No Son Of Ours Will Be An Usherette | 19971229 | Piers Plowright introduces a documentary made in 1990 in which cinema-lover and rescuer Stephen Wichhusen rides to the defence of the Rotherham Empire with a little help from British Rail, Gus the pianist and writer Carole Rosen. |
| Nobody Stays In This House Long | 19971230 | Piers Plowright introduces a documentary which won the Prix Italia for Radio Documentaries in 1983. It is the story of a house and the family who lived in it - in spite of an estate agent's warning - for more than 50 years. |
| Playground | 19971226 | Piers Plowright introduces the first of two documentaries looking at ENGLISH life from outside and inside. A journey around the estate with twelve gardeners and a visitor. Painter Jeremy Jessel peers from a train window, and poet Sylvia Colley trims the hedges. |
| Water, Views And Kitchen Tables | 19971225 | An introduction to a series of programmes celebrating the work of award-winning BBC producer Piers Plowright |