Time Flies

WEDNESDAY, 11AM, BBC RADIO 4

From the outside the red brick house looks fairly normal — apart from a notice saying Cuckooland. Once inside the door though, the full impact of the name strikes home. There are cuckoo clocks everywhere, crammed onto windowsills, reaching up to the ceilings and filling the place with whirring and cuckooing. As the clocks cuckoo away, we hear from Manchester brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski, who have devoted their lives to finding and repairing them — their collection of over 700 is believed to be the largest in the world — but now fear their museum is winding down.