Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

SU: 99 Words

11 December 2011
Presented by Liz Gray
Produced by Alan Hall

Producer, Alan Hall When Liz Gray found herself limited, forced into a strange period of enforced retreat by a whiplash injury the following question came to her mind: if you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?

She began asking friends, colleagues, artists and political figures she admired, in this pair of programmes we hear a selection of these responses, featuring the voices of:

Diana Athill
Walter Murch
Sally Potter
Margaret Busby
Peadar Ó Riada
Robert Wyatt
Scilla Elworthy
Ken Worpole
Garet Newell
Keith Critchlow
Helen Bamber
Ariel Dorfman
Camila Batmanghelidjh.

To find out more about Liz Gray's 99 Words project you can visit the website here: www.99words.co.uk