From Our Home Correspondent 17/06/2018
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country.
Petroc Trelawny celebrates the glittering world of Dingles, a Plymouth department store which weathered two firestorms and introduced him to glamour, magic and red gingham - but tellingly has now been humbled by the mundane; Alison Holt reflects on a thought-provoking conversation with an older woman in a Dorset care home about the growing financial pressures she and the home itself are facing, while Gareth Jones ponders the links between the NHS and the town of Tredegar - whose MP set up the service 70 years ago but who today might wonder at what he found there; Charmaine Cozier dons her best I-don't-care-look and reveals the pleasures of going to gigs alone; and Andrew Green, who is himself a villager in the Chilterns, wonders what the often tense relations between weekend cyclists and locals on country lanes tell us about life today on the open road.
Producer: Simon Coates
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Michelle Hussein. |
| 0:08.0 | Our pieces this time include reflections on the special pleasures of going to gigs all on your own. |
| 0:16.0 | Our social affairs correspondent has been thinking about how the words of one 90 year old she met |
| 0:22.0 | when she reported from a care home in Dorset, keep ringing in her ears. |
| 0:26.6 | We go to the hometown of the founder of the NHS and I are in Bevan and ask what he would think |
| 0:31.9 | about public health there today and what happens |
| 0:36.1 | when weekend cyclists descend upon a village in the Chilterns. But first to the |
| 0:42.2 | high street or at least what remains of it. Yet more closures have |
| 0:46.3 | been announced by retailers across the UK including Marks and Spencer, |
| 0:50.7 | Mother Care, Carpetwright and House of Fraser, |
| 0:54.1 | of Fraser, 31 of its department stores are going. |
| 0:57.5 | What makes them different is that many had an independent local identity |
| 1:02.3 | dating back to before they became part of House of Fraser. |
| 1:06.5 | For Petrovlawnee, one store in the southwest of England casts a special spell. |
| 1:17.0 | I'll never forget the night Dingles caught fire. It was 1988. |
| 1:19.0 | My friends and I were at a Christmas party hosted by our A-Level history teacher, Miss Batty. It was half past 10, time to go home. |
| 1:28.0 | Then for some reason the TV was switched on. The local newsreader told us that a blaze had taken hold of the upper floors of the Plymouth department store. |
| 1:37.0 | It was the next day before there were any pictures. |
| 1:40.0 | The top two stories of the vast modernist building had been destroyed. |
| 1:45.0 | The rest badly damaged by smoke and water. |
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