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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea RADIO 2, 1.30PM

 This moving and evocative first-time dramatisation of Michael Morpurgo’s beautiful novel about forced child migration, Alone on a Wide

Wide Sea, is a very special way to spend the next four days, broadcast across four parts every lunchtime from today until Thursday, during Jeremy Vine’s show. Introduced by Morpurgo himself, with beautiful folk music and atmospheric seascape sounds, the drama stars Toby Jones and Jason Donovan in a story tracing the lives of children sent alone from Britain to the other side of the world.

Welcome to Wakaliwood RADIO 4FM, 4.00PM

 Documentary maker Isis Thompson has a knack for radio programmes off the beaten track, and her latest piece is no exception. She travels to film studios in Uganda, where cult kung-fu films are made on extremely low budgets with DIY effects and a great sense of community, creativity and fun recalling the early, improvised days of Hollywood productions. Thompson speaks to the production crew and watches the actors create scenes in the studios situated in the slums of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala.