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Saturday Live: Soweto Kinch; Jonathan Van Ness

26/10/2019

Soweto Kinch; Jonathan Van Ness

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Soweto Kinch; Jonathan Van Ness

BBC Dynasties cameraman Lindsay McCrae and writer Keggie Carew.

Saxophonist and composer Soweto Kinch, writer Keggie Carew, wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae, downhill skier Helen Rennie and Ron Singh of Bhangra/Rock fusion band Kissmet.

Saxophonist, MC and composer, Soweto Kinch fuzzes jazz with hip hop beats. He premieres his new album, The Black Peril at the EFG London Jazz Festival, which highlights the episodes of racial tension 100 years ago in coastal cities from Liverpool to Cardiff and South Shields.  
Artist and biographer Keggie Carew's account of her extraordinary father’s life, Dadland, won the Costa biography Prize and became a best seller.  Her new book, Quicksand Tales, features stories from her own adventurous - and occasionally misadaventurous life.
Retired geography teacher Helen Rennie has skied every month of the year for the last 10 years in the Cairngorms.
Listener Ron Singh formed the band Kissmet, fusing Bhangra with Led Zeppelin, with his brothers, after being inspired by childhood visits to the family's Indian cinema in Peterborough.
Cameraman Lindsay McCrae spent eleven months in the Antarctic filming Emperor penguins for the David Attenborough series Dynasties, which won him a BAFTA, but in doing so, missed the birth of his first child.  He publishes the book, My Penguin Year.
Jonathan Van Ness of Queer Eye and YouTube series Gay of Thrones,  shares his Inheritance Tracks - You Gotta Be by Des'ree and Big Dream by Jazmine Sullivan.

Producer: Annette Wells
Editor: Beverley Purcell

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