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Saturday Live: Graeme Garden

18/07/2020

Graeme Garden

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Graeme Garden

The best-selling novelist Jojo Moyes and the Inheritance Tracks of Fern Britton.

Graeme Garden, former Goodie and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue regular; best-selling novelist Jojo Moyes and Inheritance Tracks from Fern Britton.

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Graeme Garden - one third of the Goodies along with Bill Oddie and the late Tim Brooke-Taylor.  In the classic  BBC television show  the trio played agents for hire and would do "anything, anywhere, anytime".  Astride their trusty ‘Trandem’ – a three-seater bicycle – they tackled a giant kitten, parodied westerns with a Cornish version called “Bunfight at the OK Tea Rooms” and were chased by a giant Dougal from Magic Roundabout. Graeme also created I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the long-running Radio 4 show on which he is still a panellist and, with producer Jon Naismith, devised the Unbelievable Truth on Radio 4.

Jojo Moyes is a novelist and journalist. Her books include the bestsellers Me Before You, After You and Still Me and The Girl You Left Behind.  Me Before You has now sold over 14 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a major film starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke.  JoJo’s latest novel, The Giver of Stars, is based on a mobile library service launched by Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s.  The Pack Horse Library Project was an initiative in which female volunteers on horseback delivered paperbacks to families in rural Kentucky who did not have access to books. 

Giles Clark is a conservationist who is taking on the illegal wildlife trade and helping to build a pioneering new bear sanctuary in Laos, Southeast Asia.  He'll be talking about rescuing sun and moon bears and the perils of having bears about the house. 

And Garry Crothers, who lost an arm in a motorbike accident, joins us to talk about his epic journey - a 4,000 mile solo voyage from the Caribbean to his home in Northern Ireland. 

Presenter and author Fern Britton chooses her Inheritance Tracks - Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer by Nat King Cole and (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman by Carole King.

Plus a listener says thank you to a stranger who helped her at a difficult time.

Producer: Paula McGinley
Editor: Richard Hooper

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