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Emma Jane Kirby visits a south-west London nursery that's housed in a nursing home as part of an effort to improve interaction between the very young and the very old. She talks to residents and the young children to discover how such ventures enhance the well-being of those at the extremes of the age distribution.
The recent centenary of the Armistice was the climax of four years of commemoration of the Great War. But poignant anniversaries are still being marked, most notably one on the isle of Lewis where, a hundred years ago, soldiers sailed back to Stornoway on New Year's Eve in the vessel, the Iolaire, only to be lost in a squall yards from the shore. Torcuil Crichton returns to his native Western Isles to talk to today's residents about the lasting significance of the tragedy.
Goth is one of the most enduring music and fashion sub-cultures of our times, celebrated with particular gusto in Whitby twice a year. With the dramatic backdrop of the ruined clifftop abbey and its powerful links to Bram Stoker's "Dracula", Emma Levine discovers that the North Yorkshire seaside town has forged special links with the Goth world.
"Strawberry Fields Forever", the Beatles told us more than fifty years ago. But the place their song celebrates did not weather the years well and fell into decline. John Ashton visits what is one of his city's most evocative landmarks - and one he has special connections with - to discover how its restoration and renaissance owe much to music - although from a different tradition.
A road closed by snow is not unusual in a Scottish winter but, as James Naughtie explains, when it happens on the Lecht, which connects the Cairngorm settlements of Cockbridge and Tomintoul, it truly marks the turning of the seasons.

Producer Simon Coates