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Saturday Live: Joanna Trollope

29/02/2020

Joanna Trollope

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Joanna Trollope, Jason Watkins and the Inheritance Tracks of Clara Amfo

The Crown actor Jason Watkins and the Inheritance Tracks of Clara Amfo

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Joanna Trollope CBE, who has 22 novels to her name.  A keen observer of our life and times, she is also the fifth-generation niece of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, has chaired awards, judged literature prizes and updated Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.  

We also have Jason Watkins, the BAFTA winning actor who played Harold Wilson in The Crown, also starred in Nativity!, W1A, Line of Duty, Being Human and now McDonald & Dodds, two feature length detective police dramas.  He is also a patron for Child Bereavement UK, following the death of his 2 year old daughter from Sepsis.  

At the age of 35, Saturday Live listener Raphaël Kopel wanted to play football, but never having played before he found he was shunned on the pitch and struggled to improve.  So, he decided to learn how to play, and then trained as a coach for other people, like him, who never learned as a child.  He joins us.

Claire Nelson never imagined one of those terrifying stranded-in-the-desert ordeals could happen to her. Then, hiking in Joshua Tree national park, she fell from a boulder and shattered her hip, finding herself immobile and alone in a sun-baked wilderness.  She's in the studio.

We have the inheritance tracks of Radio 1 presenter Clara Amfo who chooses Run to the Sun by NERD and Everything is Everything by Lauren Hill, and your thank yous. 

Producer: Corinna Jones
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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