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Midweek: Chris Boardman, Bella Merlin, Rex Pickett, Natalie Nicole James.

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08/06/2016

Chris Boardman, Bella Merlin, Rex Pickett, Natalie Nicole James.

BBC Radio 4 - Midweek, Chris Boardman, Bella Merlin, Rex Pickett, Natalie Nicole James.

Libby Purves meets Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman and writer Rex Pickett.

Lively conversation with Libby Purves and guests. Libby meets Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman, writer Rex Pickett, writer and academic Bella Merlin and performer Natalie James.

Libby Purves meets Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman; writer Rex Pickett; writer and academic Bella Merlin and performer Natalie James.

Bella Merlin is an actor, writer, and professor of acting and directing at the University of California, Riverside. In her book, Facing the Fear, she draws on her own and other actors' personal experiences to address the issue of stage fright and how the complex relationship between the actor and the audience affects the condition. Drawing on neurological research, she also offers practical tips from physical wellbeing to performance strategies. Facing the Fear An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright is published by Nick Hern Books.

Natalie Nicole James is dancer and circus performer. She plays Mowgli in Metta Theatre's new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. The story of a child raised by wolves has been transposed to a contemporary urban jungle featuring street dancing monkeys, a beat-boxing bin man Baloo and graffiti artist Bagheera. The Jungle Book is at Cork's Midsummer Festival and at London Wonderground Festival, Southbank.

Chris Boardman MBE won an Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics β the first British cyclist to win for 75 years. He went on to become the first British rider since Tommy Simpson in 1967 to wear the race leader's yellow jersey in the Tour de France. Now a commentator and presenter, his endeavours both on and off the bike have made him the founding father of the current gold generation of British cyclists. His memoir, Triumphs and Turbulence My Autobiography, is published by Ebury Press.

Rex Pickett is a writer and the author of the novel Sideways which became an award-winning film directed by Alexander Payne. Now a play, adapted by the author, Sideways is the story of Miles and Jack, best friends facing their own personal crises who head off to Santa Barbara for a week of wine tastings. Sideways is at the St James Theatre, London.

Producer: Paula McGinley.

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