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Saturday Live: Clare Balding

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Actor Daniel Mays, writer Laura Dockrill and 75 year-old ballet dancer Bernard Bibby.

Presenter, author and 'Dogcaster' Clare Balding is joined by the actor Daniel Mays, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill and 75 year-old ballet dancer Bernard Bibby.

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Clare Balding who found success as a racing correspondent and since then has presented the Olympics 6 times as well as numerous other chat shows, documentaries and programmes about biking and walking. She has now added dogs to her list of interests and has launched her own “Dogcast”.

The actor Daniel Mays has won widespread critical acclaim for roles in a diverse range of films, television and theatre productions, from Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or nominated All or Nothing and Vera Drake to the hit police drama Line of Duty, Mother’s Day in which he portrayed Colin Parry, whose son Tim was murdered by the IRA in Warrington. His latest role is in the new Sky buddy-cop comedy Code 404, with Stephen Graham. 

Laura Dockrill is an author, illustrator and performance poet whose first adult book What Have I Done? is a memoir of her experience of postnatal psychosis.

And Bernard Bibby  who has recently earned the extraordinary achievement of passing his Grade 1 ballet exam at the age of 75. 

We have the Inheritance Tracks of Jules Buckley who chooses Sweet Soul Music by Arthur Conley and Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich.

Producer: Laura Northedge
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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