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Saturday Live: Michael Mosley

12/09/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Michael Mosley

Michael Mosley with Suzy Klein and Kate Silverton, and Marin Alsop's Inheritance Tracks.

The Fast Diet author and self-experimenter Michael Mosley; Shelby Holmes on swapping life with the fair for Oxford University; Adam Mars-Jones on complex father-son relationships.

Science journalist and self-experimenter Michael Mosley joins Kate Silverton and Suzy Klein. Michael's varied career started in banking and then he qualified as a doctor before joining the BBC. He talks about the Fast Diet, reveals the most terrifying experiment he's undertaken, and why he's now investigating life before birth.

In the week that the Queen becomes Britain's longest-serving monarch, listener Steve Evans talks about his experiences as this month he becomes the longest serving Paramedic in the North West.

Shelby Holmes' family run a travelling family fair. Despite missing a lot of school when she was growing up she has just graduated from Oxford University. Shelby discusses her experiences and future plans.

Ann Davidson a retired nurse living near Bodrum in Turkey talks about helping Syrian refugees.

JP Devlin ventures to the bottom of author Cressida Cowell's garden to see if there are dragons in her shed.

Marin Alsop, the conductor for this year's Last Night of the Proms, shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Critic and author Adam Mars-Jones talks about the relationship with his father Sir William Mars-Jones, a free thinking, maverick high court judge, who was involved in some of the most famous criminal cases of the 20th century.

Michael Mosley's Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You is a three part series which begins on Monday, 14th September, at 9pm on BBC 2.

Cressida Cowell's How to Fight a Dragon's Fury is out now.

Marin Alsop's tracks are Piano Quartet by Robert Schumann and Victory Stride by James P. Johnson.

Kid Gloves, a Voyage Around My Father by Adam Mars-Jones is out now.

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