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Saturday Live: Ant Middleton

18/01/2020

Ant Middleton

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Ant Middleton

Former boxer Jane Couch and artistic director of the Young Vic Kwame Kwei-Armah.

Ant Middleton, star of Channel 4's SAS Who Dares Wins, former boxer Jane Couch, pianist Andrew Garrido and listener Ellie Somme.

Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein are joined by former Special Forces sniper, Ant Middleton, now star of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, where ex-Special Forces soldiers put civilian recruits through their paces, SAS style.  
Andrew Garrido was desperate to play the piano. He couldn't afford lessons, but undeterred, he made a keyboard out of paper and taught himself and is now studying at the Guildhall School of Music.
Jane Couch took part in unregulated boxing matches for years – sometimes against men - before taking the British Boxing Board of Control to court in 1998 and winning, becoming the first British licensed female boxer.
Listener Ellie Somme grew up with stories of her father’s work in the Norwegian resistance during the Second World War, but it wasn’t until he died that she discovered an archive of secret papers and realised the extent of his historical importance to the resistance movement. 
The inheritance tracks of Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, who chooses Sugar Bum Bum by Lord Kitchener and What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye.
And a listener thanks someone they were unable to thank at the time.

Producer: Annette Wells
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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