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21/05/2011

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Clive Anderson is joined by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Celia Walden and Louis Theroux.

Clive Anderson is joined by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Celia Walden, Louis Theroux, Emma Freud and Gareth Malone. With music from Sophie Ellis-Bextor and In Fear of Olive.

Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.

Louis Theroux begins his weird weekend on Loose Ends. His latest documentary looks at the lives of staff and inmates of Miami's infamous Mega Jail. Louis spends time in the holding-pen for the unconvicted. The inmates there are awaiting trail which can take years and live under a gladiatorial code - having to fight for food, status and just to pass the time... 

With early appearances on Blue Peter Sophie Ellis-Bextor was clearly always marked for stardom. She has built up a successful pop career over the last decade since her beginnings with the phenomenally successful Groovejet (If This Ain't Love). Sophie performs her latest single, Starlight, and talks to Clive about her new album, Make A Scene.

Celia Walden is a journalist and author of 'Babysitting George', her memoir about spending a summer in the company of George Best, in the year before he died. She recounts a life of passions and addictions as well as a complexity and intelligence often overlooked by the tabloid press.

Emma Freud conducts an interview with the BAFTA award-winning Choirmaster Gareth Malone. He shares his passion of classical music and tries to make us understand and appreciate the genre more in his new book 'Music for the People - The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music'. 

And there's even more music from Doncaster - the roots folk 4 piece In Fear of Olive who perform I'm Sure They'll Fall from their debut EP 'All We Can Do Is Wonder'.

Producer: Cathie Mahoney.

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