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Saturday Live: Ardal O'Hanlon

Ardal O'Hanlon

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Encounters with the Queen and Dame Sheila Hancock's Inheritance Tracks.

Businessman Mark Constantine, finalist in the Platinum Jubilee pudding competition Shabnam Russo and Penny and Paul Harrison's encounter with the Queen.

Nikki Bedi and Adil Ray are joined by actor and comedian Ardal O'Hanlon. After finding fame playing dimwitted Father Dougal in Father Ted, Ardal went on to star in many more successful series including My Hero and Death in Paradise. Meanwhile he found time to write a critically acclaimed novel while continuing to tour his stand up comedy. Now he has written a new novel, Brouhaha, set in a small border town in Ireland.

With the Jubilee weekend celebrations well underway, Shabnam Russo talks to Nikki and Adil about her creation for the pudding competition, a rose falooda cake, which made it through to the finals. 

Penny Harrison's husband was struggling to find a flight back home for the birth of his son Paul, until none other than the Queen offered him a lift on her private flight. He made it back in time, and many years later Paul had a chance to thank the Queen in person. Penny and Paul join us in the studio.

And Mark Constantine tells us about his extraordinary journey from homelessness aged 16 to founding cosmetics company Lush.

Actor Dame Sheila Hancock chooses her Inheritance Tracks - Dame Vera Lynn's White Cliffs of Dover and Nina Simone's Feeling Good - plus we have a thank you from one of our listeners.

(Photo credit: Mark Nixon)

Producer: Tim Bano

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