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Saturday Live: Akram Khan

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Property guru Sarah Beeny, explorer Dwayne Fields and Sophie Kinsella.

Dancer Akram Khan MBE, explorer Dwayne Fields, property expert Sarah Beeny and the Inheritance Tracks of author Sophie Kinsella.

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Akram Khan.  Winning a disco dance competition as a child encouraged Akram to pursue what he saw as his one talent: dance.  Today he is one of the UK’s leading choreographers, has an MBE for services to dance, and tells stories through dance on stages as varied as Sadlers Wells to the 2012 London Olympics stadium.  
Sarah Beeny has graced our TV screens for the past 20 years as one of the nation’s most loved property experts. She estimates that she’s now been in more than 1,000 homes offering advice on all things remodeling, interior design and extensions. Now, the cameras follow her and her family as they build a house from scratch in Somerset.  
When Dwayne Fields moved to London from Jamaica aged 6 he wondered where all the trees were.  He escaped the city after discovering Epping forest and adventures in nature, becoming the first black Briton to reach the North Pole in 2010. The Scout ambassador and Countryfile contributor is now planning to take 20 disadvantaged youngsters to the Antarctic and has his sights on reaching the South Pole within the next two years. 
Saturday Live listener Bill Murray's father was the bodyguard and painting companion of Winston Churchill - he contacted us to talk about his memories.  
Writer Sophie Kinsella chooses her inheritance tracks,  Five Hundred Miles by The Seekers and F. Couperin "Les Baricades Mysterieuses" played by Angela Hewitt on Hyperion Records and your "thank you".
Producer: Corinna Jones

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