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don't worry about the licence fee
it is quite possible that Saturday Live is going to be the first ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ programme to get a kite mark for money saving initiatives by the end of this series.
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27th January
Muriel Gray was today's studio guest and poetry was provided by Matt Harvey.
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Sword Swallower
Sword swallower Hannibal Helmurto tells us what he wishes he had known before a recent sword swallowing incident.
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Afterhell
Your gateway to a nightmare world of the ear and the mind. No one is safe. And everyone is on trial. It's all on the podcast.
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Dickie Davies
Dickie Davies picks this week's Inheritance Tracks.
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Rob the Rubbish
Robin Kevan hates litter so much that, now he is retired, he spends his days picking up the mess that other people leave behind.
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Regaining Sight
Sheila Hocken was born with very little vision, into a family of predominantly blind people. Her sight got progressively worse as she got older and she was given a guide dog, Emma.
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Romantic Email
Joe Dobbie made the news in July 2006 after attending a party and meeting a girl who he fell for and then subsequently sending her a romantic e-mail.
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Matt Harvey
In 1992 began performing poems and is now a veteran of the UK’s festival circuit.
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Muriel Gray
Author, broadcaster and businesswoman. Born in East Kilbride, the daughter of a merchant seaman. Educated at the Glasgow School of Art, Muriel went on to become Assistant Head of Design in the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh. She also followed a secondary career as a member of the rock group The Von Trapp Family and it was this which led to her appearing as a presenter on the Channel 4 television series .
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things that offend
hello people.
now i know that the theme of excrement has come up on the programme more than is necessary under the terms and conditions of the new licence fee.
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Prince Michael of Sealand
Michael Bates is the self-proclaimed prince of an abandoned military platform called Rough Towers, which stands six miles into the North Sea off the coast of Essex. This iron platform represents the tiny kingdom of , which since 1967 has been issuing its own passports, currency, stamps and car registration plates.
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Forensic Botanist
Patricia Wiltshire, 63, is a forensic botanist and ecologist who investigates some of the most high-profile murder and rape cases in the country. She played a key role in convicting Ian Huntley of the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Patricia specialises in locating human remains and linking offenders to the scene of a crime, with the help of soil, vegetation, animal life and weather.
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Hound TV
From (who claim to be the world’s first video podcast for dogs and their owners), Steven Pam talks about the importance of cleaning up dog poo.
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Wheeler Dealer
Pete Genders converted a bottle of beer into a camper van - in just five deals. He shares his philosophy of life with us.
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Humanist
Caroline Black, a humanist officiant, chooses "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" by The Small Faces and "One of These Days" by Neil Young.
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Daisy Goodwin
Daisy Goodwin reveals that she is a fanatical .
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Michele Hanson
Michele Hanson has been writing columns on and off for the Guardian since 1983: for twelve years she wrote one on getting old - detailing life with her elderly mother, who came to live with her aged 89 and died aged 99. Her book of these columns entitled "Living With Mother" is out at the moment.
She was previously a teacher.
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20th January
Fi Glover was joined in the studio by Michele Hanson and poet Murray Lachlan-Young.
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Murray Lachlan-Young
This week’s poet, Murray Lachlan Young, has performed in many diverse situations: Mega festivals (and little ones), TV, film and theatre. From Shakespeare’s Globe to Speakers Corner via the main stage at Glastonbury. He has won over hostile crowds, been threatened with violence and even had to run for his life.
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Crap Surfers of the World Unite!
Well howdy all, and a very Happy New Year. Sue Perkins here, standing in for Fi Glover, who is busy this week finalising details of her $250 million transfer to LA Galaxy.
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13th January
Sue Perkins was joined this week by Len Goodman and poet Elvis MacGonagall.
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Tap Dancing News
For those of you who can't get enough of current affairs, Sandra Lowell brings us all singing all dancing up-to-the-minute news about how global warming, terrorists, super volcanoes and just being alive are going to wipe us out any minute now.
For more tap dancing news go to
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From Miner to Ecologist
Chris Needham went from subterranean misery to a life of ornithology.
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Len Goodman
Len Goodman is an accomplished judge of Latin American and Ballroom professional dance competition, serving as a regular at the World and British Championships. He has been the head judge on all three ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ television series of Strictly Come Dancing.
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Death Row Correspondent
Carrie Reichardt is an artist from West London who started a correspondence with a prisoner awaiting execution on Death Row in Texas.
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Elvis McGonagall
Elvis McGonagall - poet, twit and armchair revolutionary does the rhyming this week. Find out more about him on his .
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Crap Surfers
Mark Butterfield says he has "an unfailing ability to be the worst surfer in the sea at any given time or place".
He belongs to , an organisation dedicated to the UK’s poorest paddlers and most tragic sandeaters.
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Tracey-Ann Oberman
Tracey-Ann Oberman chose "Bless Them All" by Bing Crosby and "In My Life" by Jose Feliciano.
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Penguin Keeper
Tim Savage is a penguin keeper at who believes we should live life like a penguin.
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heated debates
morning all. happy new year to you - i hope it's a corker. this morning's show might get your juices running in several ways and do feel free to vent your spleen if this is the case. we have a piece about gay aversion therapy - prevalent in the 1960's and horrific at any time - it's off the back of the story this week about sheep being given hormones to 'balance out their sexuality'. i'd love to hear your thoughts.
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6th January
Our special guest this week was Jonny Geller and our poet was Jude Simpson.
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Feed Me Bubbe
A Jewish Grandmother divulges some of her recipes including chicken soup in the podcast.
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Smoker
Jenty Burrill is a committed smoker and shares her philosophy of life with us.
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Female Lumberjack
Sue Burbridge is a modern-day lumberjack. Her music choices were 'The Blizzard' by and 'Slipping Through My Fingers' by Abba.
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Helen Lederer
Helen Lederer likes nothing more than to spend her Sunday morning flogging unwanted underwear and rummaging through other people's car boots.
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Human Shield
What makes a 60-year-old woman quit a comfortable life in London to become a human shield?
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Gay Aversion Therapy
is a radio presenter on Merseyside who is openly gay – and proud of it – despite the fact that he was made to undertake what would now be considered a barbaric form of aversion therapy in his teens in an attempt to cure him of his homosexuality.
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Jude Simpson
is a comic poet, slam winner, lyricist, rhymer, entertainer, writer, singer and all-round lover of words.
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Jonny Geller
Jonny Geller is managing director of Curtis Brown books division and agent to about 40 authors including Jake Arnott, Sam Bourne (Jonathan Freedland) Tracy Chevalier, Susanna Clarke,(author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell). Sacha Baron Cohen, Howard Jacobson, Hari Kunzru, David Nicholls, (Starter for Ten), Adele Parks, Vikram Seth, and a host of bestelling new writers.
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