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Saturday Live: Ed Byrne and Stephen Morris from New Order

Ed Byrne and Stephen Morris from New Order

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Ed Byrne and Stephen Morris from New Order

Wheelchair-using writer and poet Penny Pepper and Anna Friel's Inheritance Tracks.

Comedian Ed Byrne, writer and poet Penny Pepper, New Order drummer Stephen Morris, listener Carol Godsmark and Anna Friel's Inheritance Tracks.

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Comedian Ed Byrne.  He went from youthful horticultural dreams to stand up star and has toured every other year since the late 90s – so what’s he done in lockdown?  Some walking, some woodwork and a cookery show... he join us.

We also have writer and poet Penny Pepper who is also a wheelchair-user who defied doctors' diagnoses and got inspired by the Sex Pistols and her English teacher to go into writing, leading to her book First in the World Somewhere.

Stephen Morris was the drummer for Joy Division and New Order who introduced new technology into the band to create Blue Monday and other era defining music. 

Saturday Live listener Carol Godsmark contacted us with memories of her childhood growing up in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. As the daughter of a Canadian diplomat, her family were being tracked by the authorities. But a game of hide and seek uncovered a surprise in a hotel’s linen closet.

Actor Anna Friel gives her Inheritance Tracks, choosing Weird Fishes/Arpeggi by Radiohead Heart on Ice by Desi Friel (her dad).

And your thank you!

Producer: Corinna Jones

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