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Loose Ends: Clive Anderson, Nick Frost, Francesca Martinez, Terry Deary, Heather O'Neill, Nikki Bedi, Lee Fields, The Handsome Family

17/05/2014

Clive Anderson, Nick Frost, Francesca Martinez, Terry Deary, Heather O'Neill, Nikki Bedi, Lee Fields, The Handsome Family

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Clive Anderson, Nick Frost, Francesca Martinez, Terry Deary, Heather O'Neill, Nikki Bedi, Lee Fields, The Handsome Family

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

Clive Anderson is joined by Nick Frost, Francesca Martinez, Heather O'Neill and Terry Deary for conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lee Fields and The Handsome Family.

Clive kicks off with the star of 'Spaced', 'Shaun of the Dead',' Hot Fuzz', and 'The World's End', actor, comedian and screenwriter Nick Frost. Mr Sloane is a touching love story about social misfits, Jeremy Sloane and Robin. Sloane is a recently separated middle-aged man, Robin a twentysomething American girl lost in Watford. While Sloane finds refuge in Gilbert and Sullivan, Robin yearns for the free-loving 70s. As a bonus, the incomparable Olivia Colman plays estranged wife Janet.

Clive chats to author Terry Deary, whose style of gory history has been popular with children since the early 1990s. Terry now brings his unique telling of history to adults with 'Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways'; a concise and witty history of feuds, frauds, robberies, riots and dangerous drivers. 

Nikki Bedi sings Lullabies for Little Criminals with author Heather O'Neill, whose new book 'The Girl who was Saturday Night' tells the story of Nouschka, the TV child star daughter of Quebec's most famous musician. A high school drop-out at sixteen and a Beauty Queen at nineteen, Nouschka's back in night school at twenty, with a documentary crew filming her life. 

Clive joins the wobbly revolution with award-winning comedian Francesca Martinez, whose new book asks 'What The **** is Normal?! Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two, Francesca ponders what you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality and what the **** do you do if you're, gasp... disabled? The wobbly revolution starts here!

With Music from Lee Fields, who performs 'Magnolia' from new album Emma Jean. And from The Handsome Family who perform Far From Any Road, soundtrack to the TV series 'True Detective', from their classic album Singing Bones. 


Producer: Sukey Firth.

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