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you are a trollope
This week I am delighted to be able to tell you that we have Joanna Trollope in the studio as our special guest star. She really is a publishing phenomenon. In case the fact that she has sold 6 million books doesn't alert you to this fact I 'd like to remind you that she created a whole new genre with her bestselling books - the Aga Saga.
I once heard a very good row on the Today programme chaired by James Naughtie, between an Aga lover and someone who was left cold by the charms of a range that is permanenlty on, has no thermostat and takes up half of your house. My powers of recollection are sometimes a little faint but I think that it ended with the Aga supporter saying 'But you can keep new born piglets warm in the bottom right hand oven you know'
Ashes to ashes, Piglets to bacon. Just how fresh do you want your lardons to be?
Apologies to vegetarians.
Speak to you on Saturday
Fi
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24th February
This week's studio guest was Joanna Trollope and the poet was Elvis McGonagall.
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Warren Lakin
Warren Lakin was partner for 23 years.
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Twins
Doreen Knight from Salisbury wishes she had known that you are more likely to have twins when you get older.
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Hertfordshire Chorus Podcast
A Podcast from , one of the country's leading large choirs.
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World Carrot Museum
An online museum devoted to the humble carrot - take a look around
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Adoption
Nicky Turner decided she wanted to adopt a child about five years ago. She was in her late 30s, single but wanted to be a mum and adoption seemed to be the solution.
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Football Hooliganism
was one of the most notorious hooligans in the dark history of English football violence. A Barnado’s boy, he was fighting at an early age and when he was taken, as a fan, to West Ham and saw the trouble on the terraces, far from run from it, he embraced it.
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Elvis McGonagall
Elvis McGonagall - poet, twit and armchair revolutionary does the rhyming this week.
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Joanna Trollope
Novelist was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. She worked at the Foreign Office and was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980.
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things you wish you had known....
Apparently we have a chef on the programme this week who is so rude about Valentine's Day diners we have had to introduce him anonymously just in case of reprimands and retributions. It seems odd as the world of chefdom appears to be full of four letter words, general foul mouthery and bad behaviour.
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17th February
Comedian Janey Godley was today's special guest and Lemn Sissay was the poet.
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Janey Godley
is a stand-up comedian, bestselling author, online blogger and journalist. She was born in 1961 and brought up in Shettleston, in the East End of Glasgow. Aged nineteen, she married into a Glasgow gangster family. For fourteen years, she and her husband ran a pub in the Calton area of Glasgow where she staged the first performances by comedian and magician Jerry Sadowitz. She later became a full-time stand-up comic herself, ran comedy clubs in Glasgow and regularly compered at clubs in Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool.
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Hungerford Survivor
Alison Chapman was sixteen when the Hungerford Massacre took place in 1987.
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Valentine's Day Chef
A chef reveals what he wishes he'd known about Valentine's Day.
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Lemn Sissay
has just returned from a week's tour of India.
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Limmy's World of Glasgow
The 'Limmy's World of Glasgow' is a fictional podcast which takes a look at some of the colourful characters who make up that wonderful city. This podcast is contains far too many rude words to be linked to from a respectable site such as ours, so if you're really interested in hearing more, you'll have to go hunt on Google...
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Live Aid nurse
Do you remember the image of a young British nurse surrounded by 85,000 starving people in Michael Buerk’s ´óÏó´«Ã½ report on the famine in Ethiopia that inspired the Live Aid movement? That woman was . She shared her inheritance tracks with us.
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Pen pals
Eric Kaye and Loretta Logan were pen pals who started writing to each other through a school’s programme in 1951. Eric lived in Yorkshire and his letters winged their way to Loretta – who lived in Bucksport in Maine.
Theirs was a correspondence which spanned decades. They both married other people, but when Loretta’s marriage ended and after Eric beloved first wife died they finally met, fell in love, and married.
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Dave Gorman
Comedian has a passion for balancing pebbles. If you're wondering what balancing pebbles entails, have a look at his fine collection .
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saturday live on ice
Many thanks to the thousands of you who responded to last week's query about how to shape the future of the programme. Namely Revd Patrick Okechi who chose 'Saturday Live On Ice'. So that is what we'll head towards.
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10th February
Writer Marian Keyes was our special guest and Matt Harvey was the poet.
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Public Toilets
Val Swanick wants to see the public loos in Tenbury Wells reopened.
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Sleepwalker
Karen Thomas used to go sleepwalking, naked, until she realised it might be a good idea to always go to bed wearing a nighty.
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John Humphrys
Today programme presenter John Humphrys has defined political interviewing for the last three decades.
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Living with a Bear
For 26 years Maggie Robin and her wrestler husband , were proud to share their house with .
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War Surgeon
Jonathan Kaplan is a war surgeon who has worked in some of the most violent conflicts of the last three decades including Mozambique, Angola, Eritrea and and in both the first and the ongoing Iraq wars.
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Matt Harvey
In 1992 began performing poems and is now a veteran of the UK festival circuit.
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Marian Keyes
Writer was born in the West of Ireland in 1963. Her first novel, Watermelon, was published in Ireland in 1995. Since then she has published seven further novels and two collections of non-fiction, and has sold 15 million copies of her books in 30 languages.
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friday thoughts
hope you are all well.
saturday live is coming up for its four and a half month anniversary and we are thinking of ways to develop the show. which of these appeal to you most?
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Kuljit Bhamra
is an influential British Asian musician, having won many musical awards and recorded over two thousand songs to date. A self taught composer, producer and tabla player, he is credited with spearheading the Bhangra movement in this country.
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3rd February
Fi Glover was joined in the studio by Kuljit Bhamra and resident poet Elvis.
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Eating to Survive
Olie Lewington has , a common life-threatening hereditary disease. He has to continually eat in order to survive.
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Shipwrecked
Douglas Robertson - aged eighteen, his mother and father, twelve year old twin siblings and a nautical hitchhiker were aboard a yacht in the Pacific in 1972 when it was attacked by killer whales. Within minutes the fifty foot yacht capsized and the family scrambled onto a life raft. Despite having just four days worth of supplies, they sailed on the raft - and then when that sank, a small dinghy - for thirty-eight days.
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Audio Lightbulb
Forget the dentist - go straight to dentures. One of Andrew Rosen's unique ideas for improving life.
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Town Crier
explains what he wishes he'd known about being a Town Crier.
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Kath Breen
Kath Breen's music choices are "String of Pearls" by Glen Miller and "Goodbye" by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
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Rosie Millard
Rosie Millard is a very keen .
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Elvis McGonagall
Elvis McGonagall - poet, twit and armchair revolutionary does the rhyming this week. Find out more about him on his .
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