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Rob Newman and the Inheritance Tracks of Kate Adie

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein meet writer and comedian Rob Newman, with Inheritance Tracks from Kate Adie.

Writer and comedian Rob Newman joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein to talk about his return to comedy. His latest show - Rob Newman's New Theory of Evolution - looks at the controversies surrounding evolutionary biology and is his first complete show in 7 years.

Also on the programme, forget the 7.39am, we meet two commuters who met and fell in love on the 5.35am from Gillingham, Dorset to London Waterloo. As a memento of the moment when lightning struck they have the train seats they were sitting on ensconced in their front room.

We also speak to a couple of recently arrived economic migrants - one from Bulgaria and one from Romania - about why they decided to move to the UK, the twins who were big in post war entertainment and the teenager trying to singlehandedly revive punk rock. Author Horatio Clare tells us about his year spent as the writer in residence on a cargo ship, with the Inheritance Tracks of journalist Kate Adie.

Producer: Alex Lewis.

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Sat 11 Jan 2014 09:00

Studio Guest: Rob Newman

Studio Guest: Rob Newman

Writer and comedian joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein to talk about his return to comedy. He is currently touring with his 'New Theory of Evolution' which looks at some of the controversies surrounding evolutionary biology. It is his first complete show in 7 years.

Interview: Train Romance

Interview: Train Romance

Jacqueline and Jonathan Roberts met and fell in love on the 5.35am to London Waterloo. As a memento of the moment when lightning struck, they now have the train seats they were sitting on ensconced in their front room.

Feature: JP Meets the Bensaid Twins

Feature: JP Meets the Bensaid Twins

Twins Mollie and Peggie Bensaid recall working with the showbiz legends of a bygone era.

Interview: Economic Migrants

Interview: Economic Migrants

Hristo Yordanov is a fourth generation gardener from Bulgaria and Mihaela Vatavu is a Romanian who dreams of working in the hospitality industry.听 Both came to the UK in the second half of 2013 in search of a new life. We find out what made them up sticks, as well as their thoughts on the British media鈥檚 concern of being overrun.

Travel : Horatio Clare

Travel : Horatio Clare

Nature writer joins Richard and Suzy to talk about travelling the great oceans on two cargo ships as writer in residence.听 Witnessing the extraordinary lives of the ordinary men who live and work on the waters, he shares the fascinating stories of an unseen, unreported and little understood world on which our modern lives depend.

Horatio Clare's new book, Down to the Sea in Ships, is published by Random House.

Inheritance Tracks: Kate Adie

Inheritance Tracks:  Kate Adie

Journalist Kate Adie shares her Inheritance Tracks:

Inherits:听 鈥淗ousewive鈥檚 choice鈥 theme -听 'In Party Mood' by the West End Celebrity Orchestra composed by Jack Strachey.听

And passes on "Five Variants Of Dives And Lazarus"听 by Vaughan Williams

成人快手 School Report: Punk Rock Teen

成人快手 School Report: Punk Rock Teen

For young people of the 1970s, living through gloomy economic times, punk music became a voice of dissent. Fast forward to the teenies and you could be forgiven for thinking punk was all but dead. We hear from Marlon, the teenage punk rocker attempting to revive it, who made a guerilla report for听

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This week鈥檚 collection of thank yous for listeners to whom good deeds were done come from Jenny, Jonathan, and Rosie.

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Role Contributor
Presenter Richard Coles
Presenter Suzy Klein
Interviewed Guest Robert Newman
Interviewed Guest Horatio Clare
Interviewed Guest Kate Adie
Producer Alex Lewis

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