From Stephen Gill:
SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 16:30 (G.M.T.), repeated SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 23:30 (G.M.T.)
B.B.C. RADIO 4, `THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DISASTER ZONE'
Listen live here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_fourfm
or listen during the week at your own convenient time on the i-player here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio.
Go to the A-Z strip and see if the programme is there under N for `Narrow' (or type
`Narrow Road' in the search box at top right). The 28-minute feature should be
available on that site for listening for at least one week; maybe more.
The programme is about a recent visit to Tochigi, Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures
in the north of Japan, tracing part of haiku poet Basho's Oku no Hosomichi route as
much as possible, but presenting a contemporary, hopefully somewhat poetic, account
of the present situation there.
The BBC describe the programme thus... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d26qk .
If you wish to donate money to a group that will use it well, might I suggest It's
Not Just Mud: http://itsnotjustmud.com/cant-volunteer-donate/
with whom Julian and I squeezed in a day of work.
You can see some photos of the trip on my Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.244391975643866.58666.100002191964463&type=3
.