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Saturday Live: Bananarama

28/08/2021

Bananarama

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Bananarama

Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward of Bananarama and the Inheritance Tracks of Lynda La Plante

Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward of Bananarama, gyrocopter pilot James Ketchell, listener Mary Monro and BMX world champion cyclist Shanaze Reade.

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Bananarama – Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward - who tell us about surviving forty years in the music industry with hits including Venus, Robert De Niro’s Waiting and Cool Summer.

James Ketchell has circum-navigated the world by gyrocopter, as well as single-handedly rowing the Atlantic, climbing Everest, and cycling across the world.

Listener Mary Monro on retracing her father’s footsteps across China and the route he took after escaping from a Japanese prisoner of war camp in 1941. 

Shanaze Reade is a five-time world champion cyclist in BMX and the team sprint - and a two time Olympian.  She is taking part in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins on Channel 4 in which 12 recruits are tested to the limit on a remote Scottish island.

And the Inheritance Tracks of author Lynda La Plante, who chooses The Great Pretender by The Platters and Nessun Dorma sung by Luciano Pavarotti.  

Producer: Annette Wells

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