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no! no! no!
the blog is resting for a little while, so please do go to the website and sign up for the newsletter - www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/saturdaylive - a little list of things will drop into your email box every thursday morning alerting you to what is in the programme and how rude top producer poppet JP has been to me this week.
i for one will miss the comments and contributions of Roberto on the blog - will anyone else though...?
love and hugs all round
fi
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Manly Hugs
last week Fi promised that that would be the last blog. there was some truth in what she said. it was the last blog she was going to write. this however is officially the last ever blog. next week ms. glover will launch the all-singing, all-dancing Saturday Live newsletter. so it is left to me to let the blog drift slowly off into the night, like a burning Viking raft sent off to some cyber Valhalla...
Cracking show this week. A lovely "If Only I'd Known" about an over-optimistic FA Cup engraver. We speak to Lauren St John about her idyllic childhood in war-torn Rhodesia and hear about the secret life of a former Dr Who.
All this in the same week I spent a couple of days at a dance club in Blackpool and fly off to India to cook and travel.
I intend be be very much Live on saturday. That's why they call it Saturday Live.
big love and a manly hug,
hardeep (aka Fi Glover-lite)
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19 May 2007
This week our studio guest was novelist Maggie O' Farrell and Lemn Sissay provided our poetic interludes. We heard from an over-enthusiatic FA Cup engraver and discovered the secret life of a former Dr. Who. Lauren St John described what it was like growing up in war-torn Rhodesia in the 1970s and Michelle gave us a glimpse into the heartache of having a husband serving in the forces in a war zone. All this, plus listener Jenny Froude's Inheritance Tracks.
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Jenny Froude
Jenny Froude's son Tom survived meningitus when he was a baby but, as a result, was left profoundly deaf. Jenny wrote to us telling us the two pieces of music she would like immortalised: Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Pachelbel: Canon.
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Army Wife
You鈥檙e a mother of three young kids, eight years married and your husband鈥檚 away a lot on business. It can be taxing at the best of times. But what if your husband鈥檚 business is being in the Armed Forces? And his 鈥渂eing away a lot鈥 amounts to months in a war zone, with limited contact and the ever-present threat to life?
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Peter Davison
You know him as Tristran Farnam, Campion, Dr Stephen Daker, The Last Detective or even Dr. Who. In fact you probably know him as anyone but himself.
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Childhood in Rhodesia
Lauren St John grew up in 1970鈥檚 civil war torn Rhodesia. Her childhood reality was one where she wiped her classmate鈥檚 blood from the floor of her bedroom, slept with a knife under her pillow and watched for landmines as she rode her horse.
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FA Cup Engraver
On the day of the FA Cup Final, we meet Emmet Smith - engraver extraordinaire of such things as the Wimbledon trophies, the Ryder Cup, as well copious amounts of work for the Royal Family.
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Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay, acclaimed poet and playwright, was born to an Ethiopian mother and brought up by a white foster family and in children鈥檚 homes. His poems have been described as 鈥渟ongs of the street鈥.
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Maggie O' Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. Previously a journalist, she is now a full time novelist. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone, was published in 2000 to international acclaim and won a Betty Trask Award.
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no really it is......
The last ever blog. Promise, promise, promise. The boys in Interactive Cyber Enterprises (subtitiled 'We're Busy - Stop Pestering Us') have said that we can make the change to a newsletter next week. This is a shame because i had already written the first ever SL newsletter and it was a real cracker. It was as good as the second book i wrote, which really was groundbreaking. And up there with the third book i wrote which was....oh, you get the picture. The point being you will never know the greatness of the newsletter because it ain't coming to you yet.
Now i have got that off my chest can i tell you that our listening figures have gone up - they are spectacular and we thankyou all for adding to them. As has been said many times on email correspndence to you individually, we can never be the greatneass that was John Peel and Home Truths but we leave happy on a Saturday morning if we have given you something to chew on or chortle over for the rest of the weekend.
So - on the show this week - an anorexic, a second home owner, a Eurovision winner and mum-of-a-teeanger-who had a party that went wrong.
You may have noticed that the highly prized celebrity anecdotes from my past have been spread a little thinly of late but I leave you with two corkers - i saw Rupert Graves in the park on Wednesday and I came perilously close to Jon Snow on a zebra crossing about 9 weeks ago.
They speak in equally hushed tones about their near misses with me.Speak to you on Saturday
Love and hugs as ever
Fi
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12th May 2007
Our studio guest was Hardeep Singh Kohli and our poet was Elvis McGonagall. Mandy Allison told us how her life has been dominated by her anorexia. Monica Fuller described how her house was trashed during her daughter's 15th birthday party.
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Katrina Leskanich
used to be in Katrina and the Waves who won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK in 1997.
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拢26,000 Richer
Adele took a look at her bank statement only to find out she was 拢26,000 better off than she thought she was.
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Second Homes
Graham Green wants to speak up for all the people with .
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Anorexia
Mandy Allison is 33 years old. She has a six year old son and she is a trained therapist and counsellor. But her life has been dominated by her anorexia. She has been sectioned several times, has spent long periods in hospital - often against her wishes 鈥 and her condition has brought her close to death.
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Party Crashers
Monica Fuller thought she would hold a party for her daughter Morven鈥檚 15th birthday.
Monica wasn鈥檛 taking any chances: she hired security, kids were only admitted if they were wearing issued wristbands, no glass was allowed past the front door and everyone was required to leave their valuables in a room at the front of the house, guarded by a couple of Monica鈥檚 friends.
But they made the mistake of having too much lead-up time to the party 鈥 three weeks. During that time, word spread like wildfire on the internet. It became such a hot ticket that some invites to the party were sold.
Monica didn鈥檛 go into the house until about 11:30pm but by then her house had been well and truly trashed.
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Elvis McGonagall
Elvis McGonagall - poet, twit and armchair revolutionary does the rhyming this week.
Find out more about Elvis on his .
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Hardeep Singh Kohli
Glaswegian writer and comedian is back in the hotseat this week.
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the apprentice
thank heavens,eh? at last i have something to write about that will make the blog-men happy. in answer to your thousands of queries on the subject....
1. yes, i did appear in last week's episode of the apprentice.
2. yes, i do intend to try and appear in every episode, usually as one of Margaret's eyebrows - have you seen them? they have a life of their own
3. yes, i was with my beau. he does have a big beard doesn't he?
4. yes.love and hugs
fi
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5th May 2007
This week Fi was joined in the studio by novelist Justin Cartwright, we heard about Paul Gambaccini's passion for comics, Ray Kluun told us of his wife鈥檚 terminal cancer and his own infidelity.
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Justin Cartwright
Novelist Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa, but came to the UK when he was 19.
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Ray Kluun
Ray Kluun lives in Holland. His wife Judith was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in her 30鈥檚 and that is when Ray says that he became hooked on the process of chasing women, attracted to them because they were, in his words, 鈥榳hole鈥 and 鈥榟ealthy鈥. It became his respite from seeing his wife鈥檚 deterioration.
But he maintains that his is a story of true love that goes beyond the fairytale of happy ever afters and in sickness and in health, til death do us part.
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Emma Lawson
Emma Lawson contacted us to share a tune that she inherited from her great aunt 鈥 and the one that she would leave to the next generation.
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Moving back to New Zealand
Elizabeth McNally was born in Aukland, New Zealand but her family moved to the UK when she was young. Elizabeth always had a hankering for her homeland but, when she returned as an adult, she discovered it was impossible to reclaim.
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Matt Harvey
In 1992 Matt Harvey began performing poems and is now a veteran of the UK鈥檚 festival circuit.
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Paul Gambaccini
Radio and television presenter Paul Gambaccini is better known for his love of music, but here he reveals his other great passion - comics.
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Crop Circler
For a while, in the 1980s, crop circles were a staple of the 鈥楢nd Finally鈥 section on any self respecting news station. Young, agile reporters were sent out into the middle of fields to look for alien life 鈥 or the imprints of someone鈥檚 size 8 wellies. No one could really explain crop circles, no one ever owned up to them, no one knew what to say to the irate farmers.
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