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Saturday Live: Foxton Locks Festival; Lee Hall; Thomasina Miers

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17/06/2017

Foxton Locks Festival; Lee Hall; Thomasina Miers

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Foxton Locks Festival; Lee Hall; Thomasina Miers

Rev Richard Coles at Foxton Locks; Aasmah Mir is joined by Lee Hall and Thomasina Miers.

Aasmah Mir is joined by award-winning playwright Lee Hall and cookery writer Thomasina Miers. Meanwhile, the Rev Richard Coles is at Foxton Locks for the festival.

A Canal Themed Programme with the Rev. Richard Coles on location from Foxton Locks in Leicestershire for the festival. He is joined by the Canal Laureate, Luke Kennard; Lynne Berry of the Canal and River Trust and volunteer and canal enthusiast, Derek Harris, performs from his one man show. 

Aasmah Mir presents in London where her guests include: the playwright Lee Hall, who recounts his canal adventure and reveals the growing collection that is over-running his basement; and the cookery writer and former winner of Masterchef, Thomasina Miers, who gives her top tips for cooking on canal boats and discusses her passion chillies and street food. 

JP visits Braunston Marina in Northamptonshire to meet Pete and Karen Flockhart, to hear how they first met on a narrowboat, and now make fenders and other ropework in their workshop overlooking the junction of the Grand Union and Oxford canals. 

Leicester born singer Englebert Humperdinck shares his Inheritance Tracks, with a rather fitting tribute to his dad for Father's Day this weekend.

The Foxton Locks Festival at Foxton in Leicestershire -17 - 18 June 2017 - 10.00am - 5.00pm.

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is at The Duke of York's Theatre in London.

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