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Saturday Live: From the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Special Programme from Glasgow

26/07/2014

From the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, From the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Your extraordinary stories from across the Commonwealth. Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are in Glasgow with the Queen's baton bearer Mark Beaumont to celebrate the Commonwealth Games.

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles with a programme from Glasgow to celebrate the Commonwealth Games. They are joined by record-breaking long-distance Scottish cyclist, adventurer, broadcaster and Queens Baton bearer Mark Beaumont.

Sir Professor Geoff Palmer came to Britain from Jamaica aged 14. Described as educationally sub-normal is he now an expert in cereals and Professor Emeritus of brewing at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He was the first black Professor in Scotland and is a prominent anti-racism campaigner.

We meet the former class mates who campaigned for a fairer deal for asylum seekers in the city.

And live music from Dave and the Turtles, three school friends who have just won the Big Big Sing Commonwealth songwriting competition. They perform 'Life's a game' for us.

Louise Martin is the chair of sportscotland and credited with bringing the Games to Glasgow and shares her Inheritance Tracks with us. She has chosen 500 miles by The Proclaimers and the theme of the Glasgow bid The Road to Home by Amy Macdonald

David Watson has spent the last 10 years mapping the Masai Marra Game Reserve after getting lost there in 1999. And more of your one way ticket stories. We meet Hamish Khayat and friends who booked a one way ticket to Australia. They are currently en route on their way back....in a rowing boat mid-Indian Ocean.

Author and journalist Damian Barr gives thanks to his anonymous benefactor for the impact they've had on his career. Damian Barr's book 'Maggie And Me' is out now.

Plus poetry from Sierra Leone, Gibraltar and Nauru.

Produced by Alex Lewis.

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