Written for and broadcast on Radio 3 in the 1980s
Some episodes are missing. Fills are requested
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s1e1 - Confessions Of A Primary Terrestrial Mental Receiver And Communicator
With Alec Guiness as Edward Charles Lilly.
s1e3 - Yesterday's News
With Peggy Aschroft.
s1e5 - The Theory and Practice of Belly-Dancing - Hobbies become obsessions, take over lives - or are they elaborate defenses people need to survive?
Six Travelling Hip Rolls, four Figure Eights, four Camel Walks and repeat... Alison was just a ghost washing clothes till she took up belly-dancing. Mention belly-dancing and they all think of Greek restaurants, swirling skirts and pop-eyed Sultans. But all over the country women're signing up for belly-dancing classes in Y.M.C.A.'s recreation halls, Women's Guilds and Church social groups. She's thirty-four years old and has had two pregnancies and her stomach used to bulge like a football. Bellying got it back into shape, improved her posture, made her hips supple, tummy firm - no flab - and her circulation's one hundred per cent.
Socially she's better too. When someone asks, 'What have you been doing?' Instead of mumbling 'Kids, house, same old thing,' she says, 'I've been belly-dancing.' Their mouths drop. People look at her with new interest. And it doesn't stop there as she can follow up with remarks about Middle Eastern culture and the rest. She's known women who went into belly-dancing for exercise and ended up experts on Etruscan tomb sculpture and Turkish cooking... Four Figure Eights, three Hip Circles - she mustn't forget to make the Hip Circles large, come down on the right leg, up with the left hip into an up-and-down Figure Eight Snake... But belly-dancing's more than just exercise, it's an art. A marvellous physical and emotional experience. It frees her from everyday. her mind wanders across the world when she's dancing and the pavements disappear......
With Dilys Laye [Alison]
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday 27th September 1981
Time: 15 min. 28 sec. (Stereo)
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