This week's If Only... stars the one, the only (well, not quite) Sven-Goran Eriksson. The Joan Bakewell is in the studio, we hear from a young man diagnosed with TB, hear the inheritance tracks of a young carer, learn from a man who hunts for new species of plants and听get to glimpse听Shobna Gulati's secret life.
Dr Mark Newman is a Tropical Systematic Botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. In layman鈥檚 terms, he鈥檚 a plant collector or plant hunter. He鈥檚 travelled all over the world looking for new species of plant, especially in his area of speciality, ginger.
Nicky Witts is just 14 but she cares for her mum and younger brother. Her tracks are: Britney Spears, Born to make you Happy and Celion Dion, My Heart Will Go On
Shobna Gulati is an actress. You may know her from Dinner ladies and also for playing Sunita in Coronation Street. But when she has a spare moment you'll find her hanging upside down...from a trapeze
Joan Bakewell has been a presence on Britain鈥檚 television since the 1960s when she co-presented the nightly 成人快手 2 show Late Night Line Up.
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She was described by Frank Muir as the thinking man鈥檚 crumpet. However, she describes herself as 鈥渕iddle-maintenance鈥 and 鈥渁 little bit careless鈥.
In 1992 Matt Harvey began performing poems and is now a veteran of the UK鈥檚 festival circuit 鈥 Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Dartington, Edinburgh, Glastonbury.
Carl Liebel is听a fit and healthy young man in his 20鈥檚 who works at a highly prestigious law firm in the City of London and goes to the gym four times a week. You can imagine his shock when听he was diagnosed with TB