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Saturday Live: Boris Becker

27/06/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Boris Becker

Boris Becker joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. With Benedict Allen's Inheritance Tracks.

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles with Boris Becker, who talks about his life and career, and crossword-compiling heart surgeon Samer Nashef. Plus Benedict Allen's Inheritance Tracks.

With Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

Boris Becker is the only person to have won two Wimbledon titles by the time he was 18. He talks about tennis, his love of Wimbledon, a place he now calls home, and life away from the courts.

Lorna Luft discusses her life and relationship with her mother, Judy Garland. Whilst Lorna loves entertaining audiences onstage she reveals there's one song she won't be singing.

The Katanas are 19-year-old identical twins called Millie and Hope. At 14 they played twins in the BBC drama Waterloo Road. They're currently putting an album together.

Explorer Benedict Allen shares his Inheritance Tracks: the theme tune to the 1964 TV series The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Four Strong Winds sung by Neil Young.

Samer Nashef is a heart surgeon who is also a pioneer in developing ways to measure the risk of operations. Samer's other passion is crosswords and he's compiled a quiz for Saturday Live, with thanks to Arachne and Rufus for some of the "classic" clues".

Boris Becker's Wimbledon is out now.
The Naked Surgeon by Samer Nashef is out now.
Lorna Luft is currently in the UK performing The Songbook of Judy Garland

Producer: Claire Bartleet
Editor: Karen Dalziel.

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