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Clive Anderson is joined by Andy Kershaw, Gok Wan, Leaf Fielding, Emma Freud & Wild Beasts

Conversation, music and comedy. Clive Anderson is joined by Andy Kershaw, Gok Wan, Leaf Fielding and Emma Freud. Music from Wild Beasts.

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

Fashion guru Gok Wan casts a critical eye over Clive's attire and brings some glitz and glamour to the Loose Ends studio. He talks about how he battled with weight, race and sexuality during his Leicester upbringing to becoming Channel 4's darling fashionista.

Globe-trotting radio presenter Andy Kershaw really does have No Off Switch. Starting out as Billy Bragg's roadie one year and presenting Live Aid to 400 million the next, Andy has introduced roots and world music to millions of Radio 1 and Radio 3 listeners. He's visited over 97 countries, not just to satisfy his curiosity for music, but as a foreign correspondent. He talks to Clive about his career, his highly publicised breakdown and his return to broadcasting last year with Radio 3's Music Planet.

Operation Julie. 1976. The biggest drugs bust in British History, hauling six million 'tabs' of LSD with a street value of £100 million, a hundred people arrested and news programmes extended to cover the event. It even inspired a Clash song 'Julie's been working for the Drug's Squad'. And Leaf Fielding was in the middle of it all as one of the ringleaders. Reformed and reflective, Leaf tells Clive how he went from hippie idealism to incarceration. 

Music from Wild Beasts. Last time they were in the Loose Ends studio, they had just been nominated for the 2010 Mercury Prize. Will it happen again this year with the release of their critically acclaimed new album 'Smother'? They perform Loop the Loop and Albatross. 

Producer: Cathie Mahoney.

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