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Saturday Live: Gary Lineker

04/04/2020

Gary Lineker

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Gary Lineker

Fine Young Cannibals singer Roland Gift and author Clare Pooley.

Television presenter and former footballer Gary Lineker, author Clare Pooley, psychology graduate and teenage parent Rachael Campey and Fine Young Cannibals singer Roland Gift.

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by former professional footballer turned sports broadcaster Gary Lineker. During his playing career he played for Leicester, Everton, Barcelona, Tottenham and Japanese side Nagoya Grampus Eight and was famously never booked. He has presented the BBC flagship show Match of the Day since 1999 and now has a 5Live Match of the Day (MOTD) podcast with fellow pundits Ian Wright and Alan Shearer, who meet up in Gary's kitchen for weekly debates about football.

Roland Gift was the lead singer of 80’s chart-topping band Fine Young Cannibals and, following his debut role in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, he went on to have a successful acting career.  Roland has now written and is starring in Return To Vegas, a musical drama for BBC Radio 4. 

Clare Pooley is an author and the blogger behind Mummy was a Secret Drinker. Five years ago, despite appearing to be a glossy PR manager who had it all, she realised she was an alcoholic. But how do you tell the truth about your life? Clare started writing a blog charting her alcoholism and new sober life. Sharing the most difficult part of her story became the inspiration for her new novel, The Authenticity Project.

Rachael Campey was experiencing bullying and mental health problems when she became pregnant as a teenager. Now 21, she has graduated from university and has been nominated for the Inspirational Individual gong in the Yorkshire Choice 2020 Awards for her work in mental health support.  

And actor Michelle Collins shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Producer: Laura Northedge
Editor: Eleanor Garland.

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