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Past Episodes: July 2010 Archives

Altered states and inner voices (repeat)

A poet can't switch off the voices in his head so he turns them into a work of art. Two teenagers with schizophrenia share an illness and decide to help each other out. A singer with strange visions meets the surgeon who took out the brain tumour that was causing them. "The Voices of Vern Nash"; a talented jazz musician is also a man who shouts in the street; Vern has music in his soul and demons in his head.

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Lost and found (repeat)

"Lost and found". A curious person finds garbage bags full of unclaimed photographs and can't resist trying to contact the photographers. A boy "loses" his soccer ball and blames the kids next door. A girl loses her sight and struggles to find her way to a new vision of herself. And "Planes of memory": a world war two bomber is shot down and ends up at the bottom of a deep Norwegian lake, abandoned, forgotten for half a century. But was the plane truly lost? No. Four men find the plane and bring it back from the deep and to a museum in Canada.

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Rats, cats, and other animals (repeat)

A short bedroom battle with a dark furry intruder, a long duel with the wily old "Templeton rat", a boy who collects animals, but only dead ones, Al Oeming and his once famous game farm, "Buzz" the cat who moves in to help people when they're in trouble and when they're OK, moves on to the next needy human! There's the girl who was afraid of snakes and who grew up to be a "snake scientist", plus the remarkable story of "Rick and Polly"; a horse helps a man recover from a serious stroke.

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