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Saturday Live: Ricky Wilson

30/05/2020

Ricky Wilson

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Ricky Wilson

With food writer and presenter Jack Monroe and the Inheritance Tracks of Mark Ravenhill.

Kaiser Chiefs front-man Ricky Wilson joins food writer Jack Monroe, designer Sandra Palmer and Richard Keenan who discovered the surprising history of his biological family.

This week Richard Coles and Kate Silverton are joined by Ricky Wilson, the lead singer of Kaiser Chiefs.  The band’s hits include I Predict A Riot and Ruby and last year they released their seventh album, Duck. Ricky was a judge on The Voice and now presents the Pop Detectives podcast with Tony Blackburn.

Jack Monroe was an unemployed single parent living in poverty when she started a blog called A Girl Called Jack which described cooking nutritious meals for her family on a tiny budget.  She is now a well-known cookery writer and campaigner, whose ability to knock up delicious food with limited ingredients has come into its own during the lockdown.

Sandra Palmer dreamed of being a fashion designer as a child.  Her father Fritz had been a tailor in Jamaica before moving to Birmingham where he worked as a lorry driver. He would sew the dancing costumes Sandra designed as child and after Fritz died in 1999, Sandra decided to keep his legacy alive.

Richard Keenan was told that he was adopted when he was nine.  After training as both a priest and a police offer, he waited until he was 40 to find his birth parents.  Using his police skills to track them down, Richard discovered his birth family and the surprising story of his biological parents’ relationship. 

And Inheritance Tracks this week from playwright Mark Ravenhill.

Producer: Laura Northedge
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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