Jeffrey Boakye

This week, we have an ear over some of the playlist Motherland's Anna Maxwell Martin experienced on her continental childhood coach trip; if there was a service station stop or two on the way, would it have been an enjoyable experience or one to forget? The Food Programme is looking at grabbing a bite on the go from our motorway service stations. There’s books galore as well: from a labour movement simmering in the heatwave of 1976, to Douglas Stuart’s intimate portrait of masculinity in his novel John of John. Plus, poet Bradley Taylor tells the entire Ancient Greek pantheon to shove it.

Presenter: Jeffrey Boakye
Producer: Anthony McKee
Editor: Steven Hobson
Production Coordinators: Caoilfhinn McFadden, Findlay Adams and Sylvie Conway

A BBC Audio Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4.

Programmes featured in this episode include:

In Our Time: Machado de Assis
Desert Island Discs: Anna Maxwell Martin, actor
The Food Programme: Food on the Move
'Round Midnight, 15/06: Nduduzo Makhathini's 4/4
The Official UK Afrobeats Chart Show with Eddie Kadi, 14/06: With special guest Patoranking
Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 by John L Williams - May - Costa del Trico
Take Four Books: Douglas Stuart
Woman's Hour, 17/06: Sine Plambech's Global Sex
Mary Bourke: Who Cares? Episode 1: Being thrown into the system
The History Podcast: Sixty Years of Hurt - England v Penalties
The Verb, 14/06: Myths to nourish your life: poetry with Ian McMillan and Angie Hobbs, Rishi Dastidar, Bradley Taylor, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch