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Saturday Live: Sophie Ellis Bextor

27/02/2021

Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Rapper Guvna B and Stuart MacBride's Inheritance Tracks.

Singer songwriter Sophie Ellis Bextor, endurance swimmer Beth French, rapper Guvna B and the inheritance tracks of crime writer Stuart MacBride.

Niki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Sophie Ellis Bextor.  Having started in the music business aged 16 in indie band theaudience, she went on to have a hugely successful solo dance pop career with hits like Groovejet and Murder on the Dancefloor. Most recently seen singing in her kitchen every fortnight in her online Kitchen Disco.

After taking calls from lonely farmers as a volunteer for the Samaritans, listener Heather Heber Percy founded a rural dating agency to connect single people in the countryside.   She joins us.

Beth French is an endurance swimmer with a history of ME, who became the first person to swim from Cornwall to the Isle of Scilly. She juggles her training with being a single mother to her autistic son Dylan. 

And Guvna B is an award winning rap artist,  who found that his father's sudden death in 2017 challenged his faith, and ideas of masculinity and identity.

We have the Inheritance Tracks of crime writer Stuart MacBride who chooses The Bear Necessities performed by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen and My Chemical Romance:  Welcome to the Black Parade.

And your thank you.

Producer: Corinna Jones

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