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Saturday Live: Matt Baker and Josh Widdicombe

Matt Baker and Josh Widdicombe

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Jockey Khadijah Mellah, listener Jo Bradshaw and the Inheritance Tracks of Robin Ince.

Presenter Matt Baker; listener and Everest Summiteer Jo Bradshaw; pioneering jockey Khadijah Mellah; comedian Josh Widdicombe; Robin Ince shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Matt Baker joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. Matt's career has taken him from Blue Peter to The One Show and Countryfile. He’s recently returned to live on his family farm and feels growing up with nature helped in all aspects of his life.

Listener Jo Bradshaw is an office worked turned adventurer - who leads expeditions and was attempting to summit Everest during the earthquake of 2015.

Khadijah Mellah became the first British Muslim woman to win a horse race in the UK. Age 18 she won the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood Festival.  Khadijah has now launched a scholarship programme to bring more people from underrepresented communities into the sport.

Robin Ince shares his Inheritance Tracks: Geoffrey Burgon's Theme from Brideshead Revisited and Batyar by The Ukrainians.

Josh Widdicombe is a comedian, writer and co-presenter of the award winning Last Leg. As a child in rural Dartmoor it was watching television, rather than performing, which mattered most to him.

A Year on Our Farm by Matt Baker is out now.
The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince is out on the 7th October.
Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life by Josh Widdicombe is out now. 

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