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Saturday Live: Reggie Yates

04/11/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Reggie Yates

Reggie Yates joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.

Morning magazine show with the 10.00 News. Reggie Yates, snooker's John Virgo, former RAF pilot Mandy Hickson and swan expert Julia Newth join Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles.

Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles are joined by broadcaster and actor Reggie Yates. From Desmonds to Top of the Pops, he's been on camera nearly all of his life, but it's as a documentary filmmaker that he's now familiar, investigating everything from religion in South Africa, race and homophobia in Russia to gun crime in Chicago. 
John Virgo has spent the last forty years playing snooker as a player and commentator. Famous for his impersonations of fellow players from Ray Reardon to Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins and and his jazzy waistcoats, he'll be telling us how he went from a childhood in Salford, through smoky snooker dens, to winning the UK Snooker Championship.
Mandy Hickson is a former Royal Air Force fast jet pilot - only the second woman to fly a Tornado GR4 aircraft - who served on the front line defending the no fly zone in the Gulf.
Julia Newth is a Bewick swan specialist at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, who is awaiting the arrival of the Bewick swans to the UK this weekend from their summer billets in Russia's Arctic north.
The musician, Benny Andersson, formerly of the seventies group Abba reveals his Inheritance Tracks - Rattvikarnas Ganglat by Dalarnas Spelmansforbund Mon oeur S'ouvre A Ta Voix (Samson Et Dalila) by Maria Callas.

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Unseen by Reggie Yates is published by BBC Books. 
Say Goodnight JV - John Virgo - My Autobiography is published by John Blake.

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