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Saturday Live: Martina Cole

28/09/2019

Martina Cole

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Martina Cole

Justin Hawkins from The Darkness, writer Thomas Harding and doctor and chef Emily Chung.

Crime writer Martina Cole, author Thomas Harding, doctor and chef Emily Chung and singer Justin Hawkins from The Darkness.  Also the Inheritance Tracks of author Armistead Maupin.

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the British crime writer Martina Cole, known to her fans as the Queen of Crime, with twenty-four novels to her name, fifteen of which have been No.1 bestsellers and translated into twenty-nine languages.  
Thomas Harding ran a local newspaper in West Virginia before returning to the UK to research his family history, which in one direction took him to his uncle Hanns, a Nazi hunter who tracked down the Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Hoess. Now he has turned his attention to the other half of his family, who created the famous Lyons Corner Houses.
Emily Chung co-founded, with her sister Amy, the pop-up Rangoon Sisters Burmese Supper Club between their shifts as doctors in the NHS. 
Justin Hawkins was a jingle writer and jobbing musician before forming rock band The Darkness. They had chart success with hits including I Believe in a Thing Called Love and Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) before the band disbanded in 2006.  Five years later they reunited and have just released a new album Easter is Cancelled.
Author and LGBT activist Armistead Maupin shares his Inheritance Tracks - Every Time We Say Goodbye by Cole Porter and sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys.

Producer: Annette Wells

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