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Saturday Live: Patti Boulaye

20/04/2019

Patti Boulaye

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Patti Boulaye

Christopher Somerville on Cathedrals, Sara Cox shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Singer Patti Boulaye, Hip Hop champion Yami 'Rowdy' Lofvenberg,  Gold Medal winning landscape designer Adam Frost and Christopher Somerville on his favourite cathedrals.

Patti Boulaye is a British-Nigerian singer, actress and artist.   She recalls coming to London aged 16, and appearing on the west end stage in shows from HAIR to Carmen Jones, and talks about her new one woman show Aretha and Me.

Creative movement director and choreographer Yami ‘Rowdy’ Lofvenberg  won the UK Hip Hop Championships in 2010, and worked on the London 2012 opening ceremony.  She was adopted from Colombia and grew up in Sweden, and she describes the difficulties growing up and returning to her birthplace.

Landscape designer Adam Frost started his career with an apprenticeship with North Devon Parks Department.  He has won seven Gold Medals at the Chelsea Flower Show and he explains how to build a garden from scratch.  

Christopher Somerville has written about his favourite cathedrals. He describes how his fascination with these great structures started while visiting Wells Cathedral at the age of six.

Presented by Aasmah Mir and Luke Jones.

Producer: Louise Corley
Editor:  Beverley Purcell

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