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Saturday Live: Mark Gatiss

21/07/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Mark Gatiss

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss, and Francoise Malby-Anthony on rescuing elephants and rhinos

Mark Gatiss talks about the League of Gentlemen and John Minton. Plus conservationist Francoise Malby-Anthony and Batman writer Gregg Hurwitz.

Mark Gatiss talks about return of The League of Gentlemen, his passion for painting, and why he's drawn to the artist John Minton. Joining him are history teacher and performance poet Jaspreet Kaur, Francoise Malby-Anthony, who runs a game reserve which she set up with her late husband 'Elephant Whisperer' Laurence Anthony; and thriller and Batman writer Gregg Hurwitz.

Robert Winston is Chairman of the Genesis Research Trust, which campaigns to improve IVF and increase funding for research into infertility and baby loss. He shares his Inheritance Tracks ahead of the 40th anniversary of the first IVF baby. He has chosen the second movement from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Edouard van Remoortel and the opening of J S Bach's Christmas Oratorio, recorded by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Stephen Layton. 

Reporter JP Devlin has been out to speak to the people of Hadfield, the filming location for The League of Gentlemen.

Mark Gatiss' documentary John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art will be on BBC Four in mid August. The League of Gentlemen Tour has 50 dates all over the UK and starts on August 6 in Barnstaple.

Francoise Malby-Anthony's book An Elephant In My Kitchen is published on 26 July.


Presenters Aasmah Mir and Rev. Richard Coles 
Producer Claire Bartleet.

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