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Saturday Live: Russell Tovey

15/05/2021

Russell Tovey

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Russell Tovey

Antiques expert Raj Bisram, Love Island’s Alex George, and nurse Monica Korpal.

Actor and art collector Russell Tovey; bank manager turned nurse Monica Korpal; Love Islander Dr Alex George; auctioneer Raj Bisram and Jonathan Dimbleby's Inheritance Tracks.

Russell Tovey joins Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny. The actor shares how his childhood passion for cartoons and collecting developed into a life changing love of art. Monica Korpal talks about why she retrained to become a nurse. Having been a hospital patient since childhood, due to a rare blood condition, she now works for the Haematology Unit where she was a patient. Alex George entertained millions on Love Island in 2018 but he's also an A&E doctor and personal experiences now make him focused on improving mental health and well-being. Jonathan Dimbleby shares his Inheritance Tracks:  Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, the final movement.  Celebrity auctioneer and antiques dealer Raj Bisram has appeared on television programmes including Channel 4’s Four Rooms and the BBC’s Antiques Road Trip, Flog It! and Bargain Hunt.  But before he followed that path, he served in the army, as a ski racer and instructor and loves performing magic.

Talk Art by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament is out now. And you can listen to the Talk Art podcast. Russell is also appearing in Constellations with Omari Douglas (30 July - 11 September) at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. Russell is curating Breakfast Under The Tree at the Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate in June, Prismatic Minds at The Flowers Gallery in London in July and a Hugh Steers exhibition in August. Finally, Russell is a 2021 Turner Prize Judge.

Live Well Every Day by Dr Alex George is out now.

Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost The War by Jonathan Dimbleby is out now.

Producer: Claire Bartleet
Editor: Richard Hooper

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