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Loose Ends: David Mitchell, Mark Kermode, Walter Mosley, Joanna Bowen, Emma Freud, Mary Coughlan, Lanterns on the Lake

David Mitchell, Mark Kermode, Walter Mosley, Joanna Bowen, Emma Freud, Mary Coughlan, Lanterns on the Lake

19/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, David Mitchell, Mark Kermode, Walter Mosley, Joanna Bowen, Emma Freud, Mary Coughlan, Lanterns on the Lake

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

Clive Anderson is joined by Mark Kermode, Joanna Bowen, Walter Mosely, David Mitchell, Mary Coughlan, Emma Freud and Lanterns on the Lake for conversation, music and comedy.

Clive's at the Peep Show with comedian and actor David Mitchell, who's starring as Keith Davis in comedy drama 'The Ambassadors'. As the newly appointed British Ambassador of Tazbekistan, one of the ex-Soviet 'Stans': newly oil rich and corrupt, ambitious Keith intends to make his mark in the posting. 'Ambassadors' starts on Wednesday 23rd October at 21.00 on BBC Two.

Clive's at the flicks with the UK's leading film critic Mark Kermode, whose new book takes us on a journey across the modern cinematic landscape. Like its predecessor, 'The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex', 'Hatchet Job' blends historical analysis with trenchant opinion, bitter personal prejudices, autobiographical diversions and anecdotes, and laugh-out-loud acerbic humour.

Are you sitting comfortably? Emma Freud's spinning a yarn with Festival curator and actress Joanna Bowen, whose Fireside Storytelling Festival features a wide variety of traditional storytellers, anecdotal stories, some comic, some serious and inspiring. It's taking place in Baldock, Hertfordshire over two weekends from Friday 18th to Sunday 27th October.

Clive's Gone Fishin' with bestselling novelist Walter Mosley, whose new Easy Rawlins mystery 'Little Green' sees private detective and war veteran Easy wake from a coma to find his friend's son is missing. As he wades into the squats and LSD dens of Sunset Boulevard, what Easy discovers will take him on a journey into the dark underbelly of 1960s culture.

With music from Irish jazz and folk musician Mary Coughlan, who performs 'I'd Rather Go Blind' from her album 'The Whole Affair: The Very Best of Mary Coughlan'.

And from Newcastle's Lanterns on the Lake, who perform 'Until The Colours Run' from their album of the same name.

Producer: Sukey Firth.

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