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Saturday Live: Michael Arditti, Judith Kerr

Michael Arditti, Judith Kerr

07/12/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Michael Arditti, Judith Kerr

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with writer Michael Arditti and children's writer Judith Kerr

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with novelist Michael Arditti and the Inheritance Tracks of children's writer and illustrator Judith Kerr.

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein meet novelist Michael Arditti who talks about faith and the novel, nearly dying after eating goats cheese and his travels around the Philippines researching a book, enjoy the Inheritance Tracks of Judith Kerr who wrote and illustrated, amongst other things, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, talk to Melvyn Evans who fought in Aden in the 1960's and realised, 40 years later, that he was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and hear from Joe Glackin, a former priest who worked in Liberia with child soldiers and street children. There's more travel with Professor Cathy Warwick CBE, General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, who organises midwifery tours of South Africa, a celebration of Martin Wright, the inventor of the peak flow meter, and JP Devlin travels to the recently announced City of Culture 2017, Hull, where he meets some of the locals.

Producer: Chris Wilson.

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