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Saturday Live

Boris Becker

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

With Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

Boris Becker is the only person to have won two Wimbledon titles by the time he was 18. He talks about tennis, his love of Wimbledon, a place he now calls home, and life away from the courts.

Lorna Luft discusses her life and relationship with her mother, Judy Garland. Whilst Lorna loves entertaining audiences onstage she reveals there's one song she won't be singing.

The Katanas are 19-year-old identical twins called Millie and Hope. At 14 they played twins in the BBC drama Waterloo Road. They're currently putting an album together.

Explorer Benedict Allen shares his Inheritance Tracks: the theme tune to the 1964 TV series The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Four Strong Winds sung by Neil Young.

Samer Nashef is a heart surgeon who is also a pioneer in developing ways to measure the risk of operations. Samer's other passion is crosswords and he's compiled a quiz for Saturday Live, with thanks to Arachne and Rufus for some of the "classic" clues".

Boris Becker's Wimbledon is out now.
The Naked Surgeon by Samer Nashef is out now.
Lorna Luft is currently in the UK performing The Songbook of Judy Garland

Producer: Claire Bartleet
Editor: Karen Dalziel. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Interviewed Guest:
Boris Becker
Interviewed Guest:
Lorna Luft
Interviewed Guest:
Millie Katana
Interviewed Guest:
Hope Katana
Interviewed Guest:
Benedict Allen
Interviewed Guest:
Samer Nashef

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