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Saturday Live: 18/02/2012

18/02/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 18/02/2012

Richard Coles with TV presenter and tabloid favourite Anthea Turner, and poet Mr Gee.

Richard Coles with guest Anthea Turner. Also, the man mentored by Barack Obama, another who had surgery to make him taller, and JP Devlin meets Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee.

On this week's Saturday Live, Richard Coles' guest is a television presenter and media personality whose private life has intrigued the tabloids - Anthea Turner. The sometime 'perfect housewife', Anthea will be fronting the 'Get Britain Crafting' campaign later in the year. 

This week's poet is Mr Gee, from humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mr Gee has honed his spoken word skills to become one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. 

We meet Jesse Ruiz, who, as a 27-year-old law student looking for intern work in Chicago, was mentored by a young lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School - Barack Obama. 

Richard also talks to Thomas Keeper, an estate agent, who recently spent £35,000 on a surgical procedure to extend his legs pushing his height from 5ft 6in to 5ft 10in. 

As an homage to Valentines day earlier this week, JP Devlin travels to Henley on Thames for a stroll with Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee to learn about the joys of romance. 

And we experience James Naughtie's Inheritance Tracks. 

Producer: Sukey Firth.

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