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Saturday Live: Evanna Lynch

13/11/2021

Evanna Lynch

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Rob Pope who ran the Forrest Gump run and the Inheritance tracks of Lady Anne Glenconner

Harry Potter actress Evanna Lynch, wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin, Forrest Gump runner Rob Pope, basketball hijab campaigner Asma Elbedawi and Lady Anne Glenconner.

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Evanna Lynch who was a Harry Potter superfan who developed anorexia aged 11.  Whilst having treatment, her beloved Harry Potter books provided an escape, particularly the dreamy, independent character of Luna Lovegood in the fifth book.  When the film came around amazingly she won the role, and Evanna played Luna for the remaining four films.  She joins us. 

A few years ago, Hamza Yassin went on holiday to a remote Scottish peninsula. He never left. He is now an acclaimed wildlife cameraman who loves to spread his enthusiasm for the natural world with a series on CBeebies and a new series on More4.   

Asma Elbadawi led a four-year campaign to overturn a ban on hijabs in women’s basketball.  Now a performance poet, she joins us.

In 2016, vet Rob Pope decided to to copy Forrest Gump and run across America.  During his journey Pope became the living embodiment of the Tom Hanks character: long scraggly beard, Bubba Gump’s baseball hat and all. By the time he finished, 422 days later, he’d crossed the United States more than four times, covering a distance in excess of 25,000km – the equivalent of 600 marathons – and become the first person to trace the whole Gump route.

Lady Anne Glenconner chooses her Inheritance Tracks: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, The Platters and Nimrod, Edward Elgar,  and we have your Thank you.

Producer: Corinna Jones

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