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Saturday Live: Sanjeev Bhaskar and Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson's Inheritance Tracks

Sanjeev Bhaskar and Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson's Inheritance Tracks

22/12/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson's Inheritance Tracks

Sian Williams and Richard Coles with a Saturday Live selection box.

Sian Williams and Richard Coles talk to Sanjeev Bhaskar, and William Sieghart offers balm for listeners in the form of poetry suggestions on the subject of solitude.

Sian Williams and Richard Coles talk to actor and writer Sanjeev Bhaskar who's appearing in a Christmas TV special of 'Outnumbered', hold a poetry prescription surgery to solicit listeners requests for poems about solitude with William Seighart the founder of National Poetry Day, hear from Derek Amato who hit his head in a swimming accident, lost part of his memory and awoke able to play the piano brilliantly, dig the furious sound of the 'fuzz box' in our regular feature 'soundsculpture', listen to the thoughts of soldiers at Headley Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Unit who are recovering from injuries sustained on active duty, listen to Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson's Inheritance Tracks, thrill to the atmosphere of Hawksmoor Churches in East London, with John McCarthy and writer Iain Sinclair, and jump with joy to John Sessions' imagining Al Pacino at Christmas.

Producer: Chris Wilson.

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