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The Reunion (radio series)

The Reunion is a radio discussion series presented by Kirsty Wark which reunites a group of people involved in a moment of modern history.[3][4] It has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since July 2003, with 163 episodes presented by the first presenter, Sue MacGregor.[5]

The Reunion
GenreFactual
Running time41 minutes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
Hosted byKirsty Wark
Sue MacGregor (former)
Produced byDavid Prest
Original release27 July 2003[1] –
present
Opening themeFranz Liszt - "Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa" from Années de pèlerinage[2]
WebsiteThe Reunion

The series brings together four or five participants, sometimes from opposing sides. The first episode reunited the team behind the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown.[1] Other examples include Robben Island prisoners in Cape Town, South Africa, representatives from Labour and BBC to discuss the Hutton Inquiry,[6] perpetrators and victims of the Brighton hotel bombing, and maids of honour from the 1953 Coronation.[5] The panel discussion is interspersed with archive audio and narration of the event by the presenter.

MacGregor announced that the series of 2019 would be her last.[5] Kirsty Wark was appointed as the new presenter in May 2020, and her first episode, bringing together participants in the Black Wednesday exchange rate crash of 1992, was broadcast on 16 August 2020.[4]

The format for The Reunion was conceived by the series producer David Prest and is owned by Whistledown Productions, who license the programme to BBC Radio 4. The programme won a gold award for the Best Speech Programme at the 2007 Sony Radio Academy Awards[7] and was also voted radio programme of the year at the 2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.[8] In a Radio Times poll in February 2019, The Reunion was voted the 27th greatest radio programme of all time.[9][10]

The Reunion has inspired two feature films. Made in Dagenham (2010) was based on an episode broadcast in September 2003 featuring the women machinists who went on strike at the Ford factory in Dagenham in 1968. The film's producer Stephen Woolley heard the programme, and his company, Number 9 Films, optioned the script from Whistledown Productions, who became consultants to the film and were credited as Associate Producers.[11] Misbehaviour (2020) was similarly inspired by a particularly tense 2010 edition of the programme that brought together the women's liberation protesters who disrupted the 1970 Miss World competition, with former tournament host Michael Aspel, Mecca employee Peter Jolley, and that year's Miss World, Jennifer Hosten.[12]

Programmes

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NoBroadcast date
TitleGuestSourch
127 July 2003First "Test Tube Baby"
[13]
23 August 2003Chariots of Fire
310 August 2003Concorde
417 August 2003Iranian Revolution
524 August 2003Festival of Britain
631 August 2003Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election campaign
712 September 2003Ford Dagenham equal pay strike
819 September 2003Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
98 August 2004Britain's hydrogen bomb tests
[14]
1015 August 2004First women vicars in the Church of England
1122 August 2004Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
1229 August 2004Raising the Mary Rose
135 September 20041975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum
1412 September 2004Terrence Higgins Trust
1526 December 20041960s supermodels
1624 July 20051980 Summer Olympics
1731 July 2005Not the Nine O'Clock News
187 August 2005Abortion Act 1967 campaigners
1914 August 2005Child Internees in Japan
[15]
2021 August 2005Today newspaper
2128 August 2005Siege of Sarajevo
224 September 2005Twyford Down protest
2311 September 2005Edinburgh Festival Fringe
242 April 2006Gulf War
259 April 2006Serious Fraud Office
2616 April 2006The Family
2723 April 2006England at the 1966 FIFA World Cup
2830 April 2006Wedding of Charles and Diana
293 September 2006Privatisation of British Rail
[16]
3010 September 2006Robben Island
3117 September 2006TV-am
3224 September 2006Marchioness disaster
338 April 2007Last Debutantes, 1958
3415 April 2007EastEnders
3522 April 2007Milton Keynes
3629 April 2007British Antarctic Survey
376 May 2007Brighton hotel bombing
3826 August 2007Royal Opera House
392 September 20071976 Race Relations Act
[17]
409 September 2007British veterans of the Korean War
4116 September 2007NME Writers
4223 September 2007Bhagwan Rajnees
436 April 2008Bletchley Park code-breakers.
4413 April 2008National Lottery
4520 April 2008D.C.Thomson comics
4627 April 2008Strangeways Prison riots of 1990
474 May 2008Withnail and I
4824 August 2008Transglobe Expedition
497 September 2008Hitler Diaries
[18]
5014 September 2008Windsor Castle fire 1992
  • Chris Watson, project manager for the restoration of Windsor Castle,
  • John Thorneycroft, former head of English Heritage's Government and Royal Buildings
  • Hayden Phillips, former Permanent secretary of the Department of National Heritage
  • Pamela Lewis, restorationer
  • Dickie Arbiter, former Queen's press secretary
5121 September 2008Construction of the Channel Tunnel
5221 September 2008The Navy Lark
535 April 2009National Theatre
5412 April 2009Hillsborough disaster
5519 April 2009Brit Art
5626 April 2009Thalidomide scandal
573 May 2009Beirut hostages
5823 August 2009Kerry Packer and the World Series Cricket 1977
5930 August 20091983–1985 famine in Ethiopia
[19]
606 September 2009Iranian Embassy Siege
6113 September 2009Nelson Mandela Release
6220 September 2009Stonewall
634 April 2010London Marathon
6411 April 2010Brideshead Revisited
6518 Apr 2010Maze Prison
6625 April 2010Dunblane school massacre
672 May 2010The Tonight Programme
6822 August 2010Millennium Dome
6929 August 2010Hurricane Katrina
[20]
705 September 2010Miss World 1970
7112 September 2010Kindertransport
7219 September 2010Play School
736 March 2011UNHCR Bosnia
7413 March 2011Comic Relief
7520 March 2011Brixton Riots
7627 March 2011British Rock and Rollers
777 August 2011Barings Bank Collapse

Alan Bloom, administrator of Barings

7814 August 2011Courtauld Institute
7926 August 2011Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster
[21]
8028 August 2011Boys from the Blackstuff
814 September 2011Hunting Ban
8211 September 2011Les Miserables
831 April 20121948 Olympic Games
848 April 2012Greenham Common
8515 April 2012HMS Sheffield
8622 April 2012Globe Theatre
8729 April 2012Hong Kong Handover
8819 August 201260s Girl Singers
8926 August 2012Ugandan Asians
[22]
902 September 2012Poll Tax
919 September 2012Dolly the Sheep
9216 September 2012Big Brother
937 April 2013Doctor Who
9414 April 2013King's Cross fire
9521 April 2013Coronation Maids of Honour
9628 April 2013The Centre for Alternative Technology
975 May 2013Hutton Inquiry
9818 August 2013Goodness Gracious Me
9925 August 2013Lib Lab Pact
[23]
1001 September 2013Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1018 September 2013Jersey Occupation
10215 September 2013Spare Rib magazine
10325 December 2013The Fast Show
1046 April 2014UK miners' strike (1984–85)
  • Kim Howells, former research officer for the South Wales NUM
  • Mel Hepworth, labour
  • Barbara Jackson, organiser
  • Ken Clarke, former Health Minister
  • Bill King, Bedfordshire Police
10513 April 2014Four Weddings and a Funeral
10620 April 2014Life on Earth
1074 May 2014Omagh Bombing
10817 August 2014Berlin Airlift
10924 August 2014Sun Newspaper
[24]
11031 August 2014Independence of Zimbabwe in 1980
1117 September 2014James Bond
11219 September 2014New Labour
11325 December 2014Wallace and Gromit
1145 April 2015Spycatcher
11512 April 2015Fastnet Race Disaster
11619 April 2015Hit Factory
11726 April 2015Far East Prisoners of War
1183 May 2015Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream
11916 August 2015Guantanamo Bay
[25]
12023 August 2015Food writers
12130 August 2015Foot-and-Mouth Disease
1226 September 2015Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
12313 September 2015Birmingham Six
1243 April 2016Nuclear Submarines
12510 April 2016Disability Campaigners
12617 April 2016UEFA Euro 1996
12724 April 2016Maastricht Treaty
1286 May 2016Arrest of Augusto Pinochet
12921 August 2016Yorkshire Ripper Investigation
[26]
13028 August 2016Glastonbury Festival
1314 September 2016Launch of Private Eye
13211 September 2016Contaminated Blood
  • David Watters, director of the Haemophilia Society
  • Colette Wintel, hepatitis B and hepatitis C patient
  • Peter Jones, head of the Newcastle Haemophilia Centre;
  • Janette Johnson, relative of the AIDS and hepatitis C patient
13323 September 2016Tate Modern
1342 April 2017Vietnamese Boat People
1359 April 2017Libyan Embassy Siege
13616 April 2017Women of Punk
13723 April 2017Challenger Disaster
13830 April 2017Climbie Inquiry
13913 August 2017First all-female Round the World Yacht Crew
[27]
14020 August 2017Wapping Dispute
14127 August 2017Eighties Fashion Designers
1423 September 2017Solidarity
14310 September 2017Northern Rock crisis
1441 April 2018Battle for Basra
1458 April 2018Enfield Poltergeist
14615 April 2018Kyoto Protocol
14722 April 2018Baader-Meinhof
14829 April 2018The Young Ones
14912 August 2018The Rise and Fall of the SDP
[28]
15019 August 2018Auschwitz Survivors
15126 August 2018Murder of Georgi Markov
1522 September 2018Chickenshed Theatre
1539 September 2018Sierra Leone Civil War
1547 April 2019French Resistance
15514 April 2019Parliamentary Expenses Scandal
  • Heather Brooke, FOI campaigner
  • Andrew Walker, head of House of Commons finances
  • Ann Cryer, former Labour MP for Keighley
15621 April 2019Gulf War Aircrew POWs
15728 April 2019Scottish Parliament
1585 May 2019Pioneering Women Newsreaders
15918 August 2019York Minster fire
[29]
16025 August 2019Death on the Rock
1611 September 2019When Rugby Turned Pro
1628 September 2019Alder Hey Organs Scandal
16315 September 2019Cats - The Musical
16416 August 2020Black Wednesday
16523 August 2020Collapse of British Leyland
16630 August 2020Bid for London 2012
1676 September 2020GM Crops Debate
16813 September 2020Virago Press
16924 December 2020Strictly Come Dancing
[30]
17030 December 2020The COVID-19 ward
1714 April 2021Finding Richard III
17211 April 2021Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
17318 April 2021Litvinenko Poisoning
17425 April 2021The Romanian Orphanages
1752 May 2021Madness
17613 August 2021Same-Sex Marriage
17720 August 2021The Day Today
17827 August 2021Tiananmen Square Protests
1793 September 2021Pioneers of Women's Football
[31]
18010 September 2021Trial of the Mangrove Nine
18124 December 2021Love Actually
1821 April 2022Boxing Day Tsunami
1838 April 2022McLibel Trial
18422 April 2022Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics
18529 April 2022Dale Farm Evictions
1866 May 2022Silver Jubilee
  • Dickie Arbiter, veteran Royal commendator
  • Hugo Vickers, Royal biographer
  • Mary Pearson, daughter of the Martin Charteris who was the Queen's Private Secretary
18719 August 2022Grange Hill
18826 August 2022London Occupy
1892 September 2022Deep Blue v Kasparov
[32]
1904 September 2022Island Records
1911 October 2022Maidan Uprising
1922 April 2023British Runners of the 1980s
1939 April 2023The Good Friday Agreement
19416 April 2023Sharpe
19523 April 2023Abu Ghraib
1965 May 2023Eurovision Song Contest
19718 Aug 2023Jerry Springer: The Opera
19820 Aug 2023Lockerbie Bombing
19927 Aug 2023Final Years of John Major's Government
2003 Sep 2023Spitting Image
20115 Sep 2023BLK Art Group
20229 Dec 2023Band Aid
20312 April 2024That's Life!
[33]
20414 April 20241996 Mount Everest disaster
Lene Gammelgaard, a mountaineer
20521 April 2024Passion of Port Talbot
Michael Sheen, actor
20628 April 2024Bush v Gore 2000

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Reunion:Louise Brown". BBC Genome. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  2. ^ Mahoney, Elizabeth (25 April 2012). "The Reunion: an unmissable radio show that gets better with every listen". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "The Reunion". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Kirsty Wark to host Radio 4's The Reunion". BBC Media Centre. 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "Sue MacGregor stands down as host of Radio 4's The Reunion". BBC Media Centre. 23 October 2019.
  6. ^ Carr, Flora (19 August 2018). "'The space shuttle disaster Reunion was heartbreaking': Radio 4's Sue Macgregor recalls her most memorable The Reunion moments". Radio Times.
  7. ^ "Sony Radio Academy Awards 2007". The Guardian. 1 May 2007.
  8. ^ "The 42nd Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Awards". Broadcasting Press Guild. 12 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  9. ^ O'Hagan, Simon (16 February 2019). "The 30 Greatest Radio Programmes of All Time". Radio Times.
  10. ^ "Commercial radio ignored in Greatest Radio Shows list". RadioToday. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Whistledown Productions". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  12. ^ Moorhead, Joanna (26 February 2020). "'I heard the signal – and threw my flour bombs': why the 1970 Miss World protest is still making waves". The Guardian.
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