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Midweek: 04/05/2011

04/05/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Midweek, 04/05/2011

Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Baroness Jenkin.

Libby Purves is joined by Baroness Jenkin, Walter Schwarz, Doreen Mantle and Gary Cockerill.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Baroness Jenkin, Walter Schwarz, Doreen Mantle and Gary Cockerill.

Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington is a PR consultant. She was made a member of the House of Lords in recognition of her charitable and political work for the Conservative Party. She is taking part in a fundraising and awareness campaign, 'Live Below the Line', for the charity 'Restless Development'. The campaign is challenging people to live below the poverty line, by spending just one pound a day on food and drink for five days. 

Walter Schwarz was The Guardian newspaper's foreign correspondent from 1964 to the 1990s. He reported from Nigeria, Israel, France and as a War Correspondent in India/Pakistan during the 1972 conflict. In his memoir 'The Ideal Occupation' he tells of his many adventures and misadventures including his deportation from Nigeria and time spent in prison in Biafra during the Civil War. 

Actor Doreen Mantle is probably best known for her role as Mrs Warboys in the BBC's 'One Foot in the Grave'. She has also worked extensively in television and on the stage in productions of My Fair Lady, Keep It in the Family, The Seagull and Hamlet and toured Britain in Billy Liar. She also starred in the 1983 film 'Yentl' alongside Barbra Streisand and last October she joined the cast of Coronation Street. Her latest role is in a production of Ibsen's Little Eyolf at the Jermyn Street Theatre. 

Gary Cockerill is a celebrity make-up artist who has worked on television programmes including 'Ten Years Younger' and 'This Morning'. He grew up in South Yorkshire and after a brief time as a child actor, worked as a miner, before pursuing his make-up career. His autobiography 'From Coal Dust to Stardust' is published by Harper Collins.

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