Music to Strip To Radio 4
Twice Removed Podcast
Long ago in the mists of time, I taught French in a big city school and, as a treat, in the run-up to Christmas, we’d sing French songs.
Once it was Edith Piaf and “Je ne regrette rien,” and we’d go through the words, then I’d play Edith on the tape recorder and we’d all trill along til the big school windows rattled. Que d’émotion.
Sometimes, the tape would run on to the next song: “Milord” which kicks off as a rollicking number as sung by a prostitute.
It was a huge hit: “Ah go on, miss,” they’d beg, “Go on, play the stripper song.”
On my last day as a teacher – I learned very quickly that teachers really really really do earn their pay and I quit - we can-canned our way down the classroom to the Strippers’ Song.
And that, dear reader, is apropos of Music to Strip To – when Steve Urquhart caught up with Darlinda Just Darlinda; Aurora Galore; Luna Tik Tok and Nasty Canaste – doesn’t the mind boggle already?
There really is no other show in town. You even get a wonderful run down of what’s coming off with each beat – enough to convince the greatest telly addict that the best pictures come with radio!
The Family History Podcast, Twice Removed, is coming to a close – it was just too big, complicated and too expensive. But it is magical.
The last episode, Ginny, was about how a woman called Christy bought her 93-year-old grandfather a DNA kit for his birthday. He was into tracing the family tree.
Then he was offered the chance to see if he matched anyone on the database.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, it turned out there was a parent/child match.
Two thousand miles away, someone had found a link and at 93 years old, Don Lloyd was about to learn he had another daughter.
She was aged 71, born in January 1944 in Denvir, Colorado during World War II.
Donald has no memory of the event. He was baffled, astounded but chuffed to meet the daughter he did not know he had ... what a story.
