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Saturday Live: Edith Bowman

09/05/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein. With Inheritance Tracks from Mary Portas.

Presenters Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by Edith Bowman. With Inheritance Tracks from Mary Portas.

Presented by Richard Coles and Suzy Klein.

DJ and veteran festival-goer Edith Bowman on her love for the sonic boom of Green Man and Glastonbury. For the past twenty years Edith's taken in two or three festivals a year - and after attending more than 80 of them, seeing 1,500 bands and having two children she explains why her passion is as great as ever.

Grammy award winning jazz singer Gregory Porter describes how his mother inspired his move of careers, and the music that stirs his soul.

Camping fan Phoebe Smith reveals what defines a truly wild night out - and why she decided to set herself the Extreme Sleeps Challenge - from Ben Nevis to the "Middle of Nowhere." And travelling to The National Quiet Zone - photographer Emile Holba on what a world without mobile phones really sounds like.

JP Devlin meets Dr. Sandy Saunders one of the last survivors of Archibald McIndoe's Guinea Pig Club.

And 'Queen of Shops', Mary Portas shares her Inheritance Tracks: Into the Mystic by Van Morrison and Crazy on the Weekend by Sunhouse.

Great British Musical Festivals by Edith Bowman is published by Blink.

Wild Nights - Camping Britain's Extremes by Phoebe Smith, published by Summersdale.

Sandy Saunders and the survivors of the Guinea Pig Club were given a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Soldiering on Through Life Trust.

Welcome to the Quiet Zone - a five part series starting on Radio 4 on Monday 18 May.

A deluxe edition of Liquid Spirit includes an additional 4 tracks of collaborations and covers and a brand new remix, featuring Jamie Cullum, Ben L'Oncle Soul and Laura Mvula.

Shop Girl A Memoir by Mary Portas, is published by Doubleday.

Producer: Louise Corley
Editor: Karen Dalziel.

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