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Saturday Live

Griff Rhys Jones and Beverley Knight

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Griff Rhys Jones joins the Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir, to share tales about his long association with historic buildings, hosting quizzes in museums, his great Welsh adventures and dressing as a Dame. JP Devlin meets Paul Hendy and his family to find out about their passion for making bespoke pantomimes. Saturday Live listener Polly Wright describes finding a stash of letters between her grandmother and an Italian prisoner of war who worked on the family farm in Wales during WWII, and how she has used them to trace his family. Tracey Ford discusses the loss of her son, Andre, and the foundation she launched in his memory. The singer Beverley Knight talks about the influence of gospel and Memphis on her song writing, and her latest transition into Grizabella in CATS. And the Inheritance Tracks of Kellie Maloney. She chooses New York, New York by Frank Sinatra and Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed.

Landmark - A History of Britain in 50 Buildings by Anna Keay and Caroline Stanford - Foreword by Griff Rhys Jones, is published by Frances Lincoln.
CATS the musical is at The London Palladium.
The Quizeum is on BBC Four on Mondays at 8.30pm.
Frankly Kellie: Becoming a Woman in a Man's World is out now, published by Blink

Produced by Louise Corley
Edited by Karen Dalziel. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Interviewed Guest:
Griff Rhys Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Beverley Knight
Interviewed Guest:
Tracy Ford
Interviewed Guest:
Polly Wright
Interviewed Guest:
JP Devlin
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Hendy
Interviewed Guest:
Kellie Maloney
Producer:
Louise Corley

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