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Saturday Live: Doon Mackichan

30/07/2022

Doon Mackichan

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Doon Mackichan

Novelist Mike Gayle, and the Inheritance Tracks of Carol Kirkwood.

Actor, writer and comedian Doon Mackichan, former jet pilot Loree Draude, Matt Rowland Hill who replaced his faith with drugs and alcohol, and novelist Mike Gayle.

Doon Mackichan joins Nikki Bedi and Rev Richard Coles. The actor, writer and comedian – and double Emmy winner - talks about her latest comedy role set in a suburban street in Glasgow, how she did impressions to avoid the school bullies and her love of wild swimming.

Loree Draude is one of the first women to fly combat jets in the U.S. Navy. She switched to start-ups in Silicon Valley, rediscovered her love of theatre and now has a one-woman show.

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in South Wales, then lost his faith in his late teens and began his search for salvation elsewhere, turning to books and then to alcohol and drugs.

Carol Kirkwood shares her Inheritance Tracks – Surfin’ USA by The Beach Boys and Love Will Keep Us Alive by The Eagles.

Mike Gayle was the first man to win Romantic Fiction’s top award and was an Agony Uncle for girls’ teen magazine Bliss before becoming a novelist.

Two Doors Down is BBC Two on Tuesday nights at 10pm, and all five series are available to watch on the BBC iplayer.
Loree Draude’s show, I Feel the Need runs from 4th to 27th August at the Assembly Rooms - Powder Room in Edinburgh. 
Matt Rowland Hill’s memoir, Original Sins is published by Chatto & Windus.
Mike Gayle’s book, The Museum of Ordinary People is published by Hodder & Stoughton. 

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