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Saturday Live: Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney

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Yachtswoman Jeanne Socrates, chef Ravinder Bhogal and author and author Melissa Rice.

Musician Nitin Sawhney joins record-breaking yachtswoman Jeanne Socrates, chef and restaurateur Ravinder Bhogal and Melissa Rice who has written about her recovery from addiction.

Composer, musician and producer Nitin Sawhney has just released his 11th studio album ‘Immigrants’ and has scored over 50 films and televisions programmes. He joins Suzy Klein and Nikki Bedi to discuss his life, his multi-award-winning music and how he manages to work across the worlds of music, film, video games, dance and theatre.  

Jeanne Socrates is a retired maths lecturer who battled through cyclones, broken bones and the loss of her husband to become the oldest person to sail non-stop and unassisted around the world in 2019. She’s recently completed a solo campervan tour of Australia and is looking to continue her sailing adventures once the pandemic ends.  

Ravinder Bhogal is a former beauty journalist who swapped eyeshadow palettes for pots and pans as an award-winning restaurateur and food writer. She crosses multiple cultures through her recipes and her second cookbook Jikoni was shortlisted for the André Simon prize.  

Melissa Rice was a well-presented schoolteacher in her twenties who was privately suffering from mental health problems, Crohn’s disease and alcoholism. After entering recovery from alcohol abuse, Melissa went on to co-host Hooked, a BBC podcast about addiction, and has written Sobering: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way on Drinking, Thinking and Quitting.

We also hear the Inheritance Tracks of television presenter Philip Schofield.

Producer: Laura Northedge
Editor: Richard Hooper
Presenter: Nikki Bedi
Presenter: Suzy Klein

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