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Saturday Live: Kate Silverton, Tom Shakespeare, Rebecca Ginger, John Robins

Kate Silverton, Tom Shakespeare, Rebecca Ginger, John Robins

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Kate Silverton, Tom Shakespeare, Rebecca Ginger, John Robins

Kate Silverton has swapped the newsroom for the therapists couch.

Kate Silverton has swapped the newsroom for the therapists couch having retrained as a child counsellor and now bestselling author.

The irrepressible Tom Shakespeare shares how the boy nicknamed 'The Blob' at school went on to become a bioethicist, disability rights advocate, and now a debut novelist.  

Kate Silverton has swapped the newsroom for the therapists couch having retrained as a child counsellor. She has also become a bestselling author and her latest book maintains that there's still no such thing as being naughty.

Did you struggle at maths with school? Having been diagnosed with dyslexia and dyscalculia as a child Rebecca Ginger did too. She has recently given up a successful career in the tv industry to create her own method of making learning maths fun after seeing her daughter struggle with the subject herself.

All that, plus we have the Inheritance Tracks of comedian, presenter and latest Taskmaster contestant, John Robins.

Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephens
Producer: Ben Mitchell

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