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Saturday Live: Ross Noble

23/10/2021

Ross Noble

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Ross Noble

Paralympian Libby Clegg and the Inheritance Tracks of John Barnes.

Comedian Ross Noble, Paralympian Libby Clegg, tenor Nicky Spence, an inherited civil war fan and John Barnes.

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by award winning comedian and lover of all things random, Ross Noble, who has 16 nationwide comedy tours under his belt, is a regular panellist on comedy shows and currently to be seen on iplayer on The Apprentice Australia.  

Paralympian sprinter Libby Clegg has won nine major gold medals, including two at the at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio for the 100m and 200m and she is the first blind contestant on Dancing On Ice.   She joins us.

Listener Georgia Naish got in touch about the significance of an object she inherited, a Spanish fan that her grandad brought back from his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. 

Scottish tenor Nicky Spence won a prestigious record deal aged 22, but he recognised that it wasn’t quite the path he wanted for himself, and he returned to his training, going on to become an inaugural Harwood Young Artist at English National Opera.  

We have the Inheritance tracks of John Barnes who chooses You’ll never walk alone performed by Shirley Jones and Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness.
And your Thank you.

Producer: Corinna Jones

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