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The Bard of Barking joins us to talk about writing from the heart, songs as therapy and sings live in the studio.

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Billy’s new album, Tooth and Nail, is released on March 18.Ìý More details at

Following the London Riots Actress Bernadette decided that she should spread some goodwill.Ìý She decided to do a year of random acts of kindess to strangers, and record the results.Ìý She joins Sian and Richard to tell us about her project.

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Film and TV composer Ìýwrote the soundtracks for Wilde, Tom and Viv, and Judge John Deed, but she secretly enjoys a bit of snooker.Ìý JP joins her to have a game.

John McCarthy hears about the Arirang or Mass Games in North Korea’s capital Pongyang;Ìý a dazzling display by thousands of marching, dancing, skipping, gymnastics and… flip charts. He talks to visitors to the games photographer Jeremy Hunter, former diplomat James Hoare and tourist Tony Pletts.

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Photographer lost his legs and one arm in Afghanistan after stepping on an IED two years ago.Ìý Today he joins Sian and Richard to talk about his recent trip to finish the job he’d started in February 2011.

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Ìýis on Channel 4 on 21 Feb at 10pm.

Journalist, author and television presenter Dawn O'Porter chooses Speed of the Sound of Loneliness by Nanci Griffith and Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.

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Her first novel is out on 2nd May.

Last week we asked for your stories about items you have that should be in a Museum.Ìý Listener Tracey Lloyd contacted us about an extraordinary find - Chicken Spectacles.Ìý She tells Sian and Richard about her discovery and where they have ended up.

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