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1. Inking Big

How many tattoos are too many? Will they still look good when you're 78?

How many tattoos are too many? Will they still look good when you're 78? Is tattooing someone at a drunken dinner party a good idea?

Join Mae, Bisha, Ned and Steve to untangle these highly complex problems. This week, Mae confesses her biggest tattoo regrets, Bisha's been digging up a 500 year old mummy called Otzi and Ned gets a piercing - and it really suits him. Rapper and poet Roxanne joins the gang to help unpick your dilemmas and Steve Ali will be here to put everything into perspective.

Co-created by Deborah Frances-White for The Spontaneity Shop and 大象传媒 Radio 4.

Producer: Al Riddell

Music by Mark Hodge and Omahrose, produced by Nick Sheldon.

Featured in this programme:
A Mortal Work of Art (13/11/2014)
The Listening Project (01/12/2017)
Saturday Live (31/07/2012)

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