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Saturday Live: Patrick Grant and Mark Anthony Turnage

09/02/2019

Patrick Grant and Mark Anthony Turnage

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Patrick Grant and Mark Anthony Turnage

Ex doctor and comedy writer Adam Kay and champion tree climber Jess Herbert

Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant; comedian Adam Kay; tree climber Jess Herbert; alopecia app creator Nichola McAvoy and composer Mark Anthony Turnage

Aasmah and Richard are joined by: Patrick Grant - he bought and revived a failing tailors in Savile Row in 2005, since then he’s been awarded Menswear designer at the British Fashion Awards, become a judge on The Great British Sewing Bee and promotes sustainable fashion.  Adam Kay used to be a junior doctor, and left to become a writer and comedian.  His book This is Going to Hurt was based on diaries written as a junior doctor, exposed the highs and lows of the job and became a bestseller.   Nichola McAvoy lost her hair age 11 and will tell us how finding a friend who also had alopecia was invaluable to her.  Jess Herbert left her job as a trilingual assistant and retrained as an aborist - she's since won tree climbing competitions.  We'll have your thank you and the Inheritance tracks of composer Mark Anthony Turnage who chooses Stravinsky's ‘The Fairy’s kiss’ conducted by Oliver Knussen with the Cleveland orchestra, and Miles Davis' ‘Blue in Green’.

Producer: Corinna Jones
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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