Year end round-up

The production team discusses how we first came up with the idea for the programme and how we would like to develop it in the future.

The high points have been those times when a new area of research has been pinpointed - such as the awareness of same-sex relationships amongst people entering retirement homes and what provisions are made for them - or to what extent staff may be aware of  the family lives of residents.

We include clips from a selection of broadcasts from this year - ending with several very heartening sound bites from survivors of domestic abuse.
As well as a few appropriate songs, we include the two songs sung live by Simma in the November edition of No Excuse. Simma plays regularly in various venues around Newcastle and Gateshead - to see what he's up to go to http://www.simmaworld.com/

Amongst the subjects we plan to cover in 2012 are Teenage Runaways, Homelessness, Eating Disorders, Safe Sex and Online Gambling.

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