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In the early 1980s Simon Parkes was a young music fan living in London. By day he studied law and accountancy, and by night he was immersing himself in the city's music scene. When a friend told him about a disused dilapidated cinema for sale in Brixton in south London he was immediately interested - Simon had always toyed with the idea of putting on events. When he saw the building, he knew it had potential and struck a deal with the brewery which owned it. Simon negotiated buying it for just £1 by promising the brewery sales in beer. He renamed the building the Brixton Academy. Over the next decade Simon turned it into one of London's foremost music venues, booking the biggest artists of the time like The Clash, Diana Ross, Grace Jones and Snoop Dogg. A play about Simon's time at the Brixton Academy is called Brixton Calling.

Anika Orrock is an illustrator and cartoonist – interests she inherited from her beloved grandfather Ray Orrock, a cartoonist and well-known writer in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. On the wall of her grandparents' house hung a personalised Peanuts comic strip, addressed to Ray and signed by the legendary cartoonist and Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz. Anika loved and studied the comic strip throughout her childhood, but when Ray became sick, he decided to auction it to pay for his hospice care. He sold it cheaply to someone online who said it would be a lifelong dream to own it. But years later after Ray had died, Anika discovered it had been a scam. Anika was furious, went hunting for it, without luck - and was forced to let it go. Then, after a chance conversation a few years later, she ended up being reunited with it.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer: May Cameron, Zoe Gelber and Maryam Maruf

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(Photo: Simon Parkes. Credit: Just Kick It Anywhere)