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Saturday Live: Viv Groskop and Paul Sinton-Hewitt

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10/01/2015

Viv Groskop and Paul Sinton-Hewitt

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Viv Groskop and Paul Sinton-Hewitt

Viv Groskop and Paul Sinton-Hewitt CBE join Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein.

Viv Groskop and Paul Sinton-Hewitt join Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein. Nick Hornby on his Inheritance Tracks. And how keeping chickens makes life worth living for a group of pensioners.

Artistic Director and acclaimed comedian, Viv Groskop joins Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein to talk about the 'caw' of stand-up comedy and what it's like making tea for famous authors at the Bath Literature Festival.

Ten years ago Paul Sinton-Hewitt was fired and then had a bad fall when training for a half marathon which ruptured his stomach. Not knowing what to do with himself and determined not to give up running, he set up a club with the aim of running 5k at 9 o'clock on a Saturday morning. 13 people joined him on his first run. Today, more than 1 million people across the world are part of the phenomenon Paul created that day - it's called Parkrun and it's happening as we speak, in more than 500 parks across the world.

Seventy seven year-old Jill Stidever has been teaching children with disabilities to swim for over 50 years. Three of her swimmers have gone on to be paralympians - including her daughter Jane who won five gold medals. In December Jill won the 2014 BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero award at the Sports Personality of the Year for her work in changing the perception of disabled sport.

Interaction designer & aspiring astronaut Nelly Ben Hayoun works to bring the wonder of outer space into the comfort of the living room & creates chaos out of order.

JP Devlin meets a group of pensioners in Gateshead who find that keeping hens helps stave off loneliness.

Novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter Nick Hornby picks his Inheritance Tracks

Producer: Maire Devine
Editor: Karen Dalziel

I Laughed, I Cried: How One Woman Took on Stand-Up and (Almost) Ruined Her Life Paperback - Jun 2013 by Viv Groskop. Published by Orion

Inheritance Tracks:
Ring of Fire written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore sung by Johnny Cash, 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash.
(Do the) Mashed Potatoes recorded by James Brown with his band in 1959.

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