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Saturday Live

Carrie Grant

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by vocal coach, singer and television presenter, Carrie Grant.
Best known for her role as the vocal coach on the hit talent show, Fame Academy, she has also worked on Pop Idol and The One Show, where she conducted 500 viewers in the life-affirming "virtual choir".

Rebecca Root explains how she helps transsexual and transgendered people, like herself, to discover their voice.

The first photographer to capture on film the incomparable Kate Bush - we hear from her brother John Carder Bush on how he rescued the negatives from a skip to make a collection of photographs.

JP Devlin visits a tattoo convention in Bournemouth.

Jockie Reid reveals why he has taken up motorcycling at the age of eighty one.

The palaeobiologist, Dr. Victoria Herridge, on her passion for Ice Age mammals and the trip of a lifetime - to take part in an autopsy of a 40,000 year old woolly mammoth.

And the writer, Jung Chang, chooses her Inheritance Tracks: God Bless the Child, by Billie Holliday and The Sweetest Embrace by Barry Adamson.

**Please send us your questions for wildlife presenter and recent Strictly contestant Steve Backshall for next week's programme via: saturdaylive@bbc.co.uk**

Cathy, by John Carder Bush.

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang.

Woolly Mammoth: The Autopsy - on Channel 4 on Sunday 23 November at 8pm. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Interviewed Guest:
Carrie Grant
Interviewed Guest:
Rebecca Root
Interviewed Guest:
John Carder Bush
Interviewed Guest:
JP Devlin
Interviewed Guest:
Jockie Reid
Interviewed Guest:
Victoria Herridge
Interviewed Guest:
Jung Chang

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