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Saturday Live: Skin, George RR Martin

17/08/2019

Skin, George RR Martin

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Skin, George RR Martin

Skin from Skunk Anansie, Lisa Faulkner, Joel Golby, Dean Burnett and George RR Martin

Shaun Keaveny and Aasmah Mir meet Skin from Skunk Anansie, actor Lisa Faulkner, writer Joel Golby and neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett. With Inheritance Tracks from George RR Martin.

Skin from Skunk Anansie made headlines this summer when it was pointed out that she was the first black British artist to headline the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, not Stormzy. That was in 1999 and Skunk Anansie were five years into an incredible run of chart hits such as “Weak”, “Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)” and “Charity”.  Skin discusses her childhood, her career and what it was like being the only black, gay woman in the 1990’s music scene. 

Lisa Faulkner was scouted as a model at 16 before becoming an actor at the age of 20.  She was well known for roles in Dangerfield, Brookside and Holby City before famously meeting a grisly end in Spooks. In 2010 she won Celebrity Masterchef, has since become a food writer and now co-presents John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen with her fiancé John Torode. She has published the memoir Meant To Be: My Journey to Motherhood which describes the death of her mother when Lisa was just 16 and her years navigating infertility, IVF and adoption.  

Joel Golby’s book Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant: Modern Life as Interpreted by Someone Who is Reasonably Bad at Living It describes how the journalist, whose father died when he was 15, became an adult orphan at the age of 25 when his mother died. He talks about the impact of the sudden and unwelcome intrusion of adult responsibility into his otherwise hedonistic life.

Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist, author and stand-up comedian. He wrote the international best -sellers The Idiot Brain and The Happy Brain. His new book for teenagers is called Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up The Wall and What To Do About It.

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Producer: Laura Northedge
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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