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Midweek: 16/02/2011

16/02/2011

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Sian Williams with Sean Foggett, Andrew Barrow, Magsie Hamilton-Little and David Morrissey

Sian Williams is joined by Sean Foggett, Andrew Barrow, Magsie Hamilton-Little and David Morrissey.

This week Sian Williams is joined by Sean Foggett, Andrew Barrow, Magsie Hamilton-Little and David Morrissey. 

Shaun Foggett is the UK's answer to 'Crocodile Dundee'. His passion is crocodiles; and he's been keeping twenty-seven of them in the back garden of his semi-detached house in Oxfordshire. Shaun's efforts to open the UK's first Crocodile Education and Conservation Centre are the subject of the TV documentary Croc Man, which is on the Discovery Channel. 

Andrew Barrow is a writer and journalist. At the age of twenty-two his younger brother Jonathan was killed in a car crash. He left behind the manuscript of a novel, 'The Queue', in which he prophesised his own death. Jonathan and his book form the framework of Andrew's new book which tells the story of his eccentric family. 'Animal Magic - A Brother's Story' is published by Jonathan Cape.

On July 7th 2005, Magsie Hamilton-Little was a student at the School of Oriental and African Studies when she witnessed the carnage caused by a suicide bomber on a London bus. Feeling helpless that she couldn't help the injured and at a loss to reconcile the hatred behind the attacks with the Islamic world she had been studying, she went in a search for understanding. She bought a ticket and flew to Kabul and in the course of her journey encountered the warmth and humanity of the Afghan people in their struggle to survive. Dancing with Darkness - Life, Death and Hope in Afghanistan is published by Max Press.

Actor David Morrissey has appeared in numerous television and film productions including The Deal, Five Days, Blackpool, State Of Play and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. His latest work is in Andrew Davies' new three-part drama serial 'South Riding' for BBC One. He plays landowner Robert Carne, a man on the brink of financial disaster, in an adaptation of the novel by Winifred Holtby, which tells of the lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town.

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