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Saturday Live: Paul Nicholas

11/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Paul Nicholas

Actor Paul Nicholas joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.

Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles are joined by actor Paul Nicholas and 'punk potter' Keith Brymer Jones. Corinne Bailey Rae shares her Inheritance Tracks.

The actor Paul Nicholas talks about his recent visit to The Real Marigold Hotel and his early career in the first rock musical Hair. 
'Punk potter' Keith Brymer Jones describes how he made his first item, a pottery owl, when he was 11 years old, but reveals that he actually started out as a ballet dancer. 
Saturday Live listener and retired nurse, Maggie Jones, has an obsession for photography and ... the ordinary. She can be seen snapping doors and alleyways, or checking for initials on bollards... 
Brenna Hassett is a bio-archaeologist who digs up bones for living, but she started her career running a record shop in California. 
Sooty and Sweep have graced our TV screens since the 1950s firstly with Harry Corbett and then with his son Matthew. They're now in the hands of Richard Cadell. Richard, Sooty and Sweep recently came into the Saturday Live studio to meet JP.
And Corinne Bailey Rae shares her Inheritance Tracks - Me and Mrs Jones performed by Billy Paul, and There's More To Life Than This, by Bjork.

The Real Marigold Hotel is on BBC One on Wednesday at 9pm. Earlier episodes are available on iplayer. 
"Built on Bones", by Brenna Hassett, is out now. 
Sooty and Sweep (and Soo) are on tour until June.
The Great British Throw Down is on BBC Two on Thursdays at 8pm.

Producer: Louise Corley
Editor: Eleanor Garland.

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