Saturday Live tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive/56 2007-05-31T11:39:07Z Listen to, read about and post comments on Radio 4's Saturday Live blog Movable Type 3.2 no! no! no! tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.14012 2007-05-31T11:36:30Z 2007-05-31T11:39:07Z the blog is resting for a little while, so please do go to the website and sign up for the newsletter - www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/saturdaylive - a little list of things will drop into your email box every thursday morning alerting you... Fi Glover the blog is resting for a little while, so please do go to the website and sign up for the newsletter - www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/saturdaylive - a little list of things will drop into your email box every thursday morning alerting you to what is in the programme and how rude top producer poppet JP has been to me this week.
i for one will miss the comments and contributions of Roberto on the blog - will anyone else though...?
love and hugs all round
fi

]]> Manly Hugs tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13528 2007-05-19T11:42:06Z 2007-05-19T11:42:43Z last week Fi promised that that would be the last blog. there was some truth in what she said. it was the last blog she was going to write. this however is officially the last ever blog. next week ms.... Hardeep Singh Kohli last week Fi promised that that would be the last blog. there was some truth in what she said. it was the last blog she was going to write. this however is officially the last ever blog. next week ms. glover will launch the all-singing, all-dancing Saturday Live newsletter. so it is left to me to let the blog drift slowly off into the night, like a burning Viking raft sent off to some cyber Valhalla...

Cracking show this week. A lovely "If Only I'd Known" about an over-optimistic FA Cup engraver. We speak to Lauren St John about her idyllic childhood in war-torn Rhodesia and hear about the secret life of a former Dr Who.

All this in the same week I spent a couple of days at a dance club in Blackpool and fly off to India to cook and travel.

I intend be be very much Live on saturday. That's why they call it Saturday Live.

big love and a manly hug,

hardeep (aka Fi Glover-lite)

]]> 19 May 2007 tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13547 2007-05-19T07:58:30Z 2007-05-19T11:45:03Z This week our studio guest was novelist Maggie O' Farrell and Lemn Sissay provided our poetic interludes. We heard from an over-enthusiatic FA Cup engraver and discovered the secret life of a former Dr. Who. Lauren St John described what... JP This week our studio guest was novelist Maggie O' Farrell and Lemn Sissay provided our poetic interludes. We heard from an over-enthusiatic FA Cup engraver and discovered the secret life of a former Dr. Who. Lauren St John described what it was like growing up in war-torn Rhodesia in the 1970s and Michelle gave us a glimpse into the heartache of having a husband serving in the forces in a war zone. All this, plus listener Jenny Froude's Inheritance Tracks.

]]> Jenny Froude tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13526 2007-05-18T17:25:10Z 2007-05-19T07:23:41Z Jenny Froude's son Tom survived meningitus when he was a baby but, as a result, was left profoundly deaf. Jenny wrote to us telling us the two pieces of music she would like immortalised: Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of... JP Jenny Froude's son Tom survived meningitus when he was a baby but, as a result, was left profoundly deaf. Jenny wrote to us telling us the two pieces of music she would like immortalised: Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Pachelbel: Canon.

]]> Army Wife tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13525 2007-05-18T17:22:07Z 2007-05-19T07:15:05Z You’re a mother of three young kids, eight years married and your husband’s away a lot on business. It can be taxing at the best of times. But what if your husband’s business is being in the Armed Forces? And... JP You’re a mother of three young kids, eight years married and your husband’s away a lot on business. It can be taxing at the best of times. But what if your husband’s business is being in the Armed Forces? And his “being away a lot” amounts to months in a war zone, with limited contact and the ever-present threat to life?

]]> That’s Michelle’s story; her husband is currently serving in Afghanistan, having spent a tour of duty in Iraq. In a week when there was a right royal hullabaloo about whether a prince could and should fight for his nation, we found out how ordinary subjects deal with the pressure.

Michelle recommends a website for the families of army personnel: Army Wags

]]> Peter Davison tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13524 2007-05-18T17:06:13Z 2007-05-19T07:10:54Z You know him as Tristran Farnam, Campion, Dr Stephen Daker, The Last Detective or even Dr. Who. In fact you probably know him as anyone but himself.... JP You know him as Tristran Farnam, Campion, Dr Stephen Daker, The Last Detective or even Dr. Who. In fact you probably know him as anyone but himself.

]]> For an actor as ubiquitous as Peter Davison it’s astonishing to reveal that he has a secret life. His secret can be summed up in the following verse:

“We’ve been to Button Moon, we followed Mr Spoon, Button Moon, Button Moon, Button Moon, Be Back Soon…”


Peter Davison as Dr Who

]]> Childhood in Rhodesia tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13521 2007-05-18T16:51:49Z 2007-05-19T11:06:07Z Lauren St John grew up in 1970’s civil war torn Rhodesia. Her childhood reality was one where she wiped her classmate’s blood from the floor of her bedroom, slept with a knife under her pillow and watched for landmines as... JP Lauren St John grew up in 1970’s civil war torn Rhodesia. Her childhood reality was one where she wiped her classmate’s blood from the floor of her bedroom, slept with a knife under her pillow and watched for landmines as she rode her horse.

]]> Lauren’s oxymoronic world saw her white family return to Rhodesia to fight the war, pushing upstream against the waves of white Rhodesians deserting the country. While growing up on their thousand acre idyll she was surrounded by impala, wildebeest and a pet Giraffe called Jenny while a brutal and bloody war raged between black and white Rhodesia.

Lauren St John

]]> FA Cup Engraver tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13519 2007-05-18T16:46:37Z 2007-05-19T07:31:11Z On the day of the FA Cup Final, we meet Emmet Smith - engraver extraordinaire of such things as the Wimbledon trophies, the Ryder Cup, as well copious amounts of work for the Royal Family.... JP On the day of the FA Cup Final, we meet Emmet Smith - engraver extraordinaire of such things as the Wimbledon trophies, the Ryder Cup, as well copious amounts of work for the Royal Family.

]]> Find out what happened when, in 2001, Emmet found himself at the FA Cup final in Cardiff, chisel poised to inscribe the name of the winner prior to the handing over of the famous old trophy…

The FA Cup

]]> Lemn Sissay tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13517 2007-05-18T16:44:20Z 2007-05-19T10:37:13Z Lemn Sissay, acclaimed poet and playwright, was born to an Ethiopian mother and brought up by a white foster family and in children’s homes. His poems have been described as “songs of the street”.... JP Lemn Sissay, acclaimed poet and playwright, was born to an Ethiopian mother and brought up by a white foster family and in children’s homes. His poems have been described as “songs of the street”.

]]> Lemn writes a regular column for Poetry Review, and is the writer in residence for 2007 at The Royal Festival Hall.

Lemn Sissay

]]> Maggie O' Farrell tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13516 2007-05-18T16:29:04Z 2007-05-19T10:40:11Z Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. Previously a journalist, she is now a full time novelist. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone, was published in 2000 to international acclaim and... JP Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. Previously a journalist, she is now a full time novelist. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone, was published in 2000 to international acclaim and won a Betty Trask Award.

Maggie O' Farrell

]]> Her second novel, My Lover's Lover, was published in 2002 and was also very well received. Her third novel, The Distance Between Us, was published in 2004 and won her the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award. Her latest novel, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox is just out in paperback. She lives in Edinburgh.

]]> no really it is...... tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13165 2007-05-12T10:52:26Z 2007-05-12T10:54:31Z The last ever blog. Promise, promise, promise. The boys in Interactive Cyber Enterprises (subtitiled 'We're Busy - Stop Pestering Us') have said that we can make the change to a newsletter next week. This is a shame because i had... Fi Glover The last ever blog. Promise, promise, promise. The boys in Interactive Cyber Enterprises (subtitiled 'We're Busy - Stop Pestering Us') have said that we can make the change to a newsletter next week. This is a shame because i had already written the first ever SL newsletter and it was a real cracker. It was as good as the second book i wrote, which really was groundbreaking. And up there with the third book i wrote which was....oh, you get the picture. The point being you will never know the greatness of the newsletter because it ain't coming to you yet.

Now i have got that off my chest can i tell you that our listening figures have gone up - they are spectacular and we thankyou all for adding to them. As has been said many times on email correspndence to you individually, we can never be the greatneass that was John Peel and Home Truths but we leave happy on a Saturday morning if we have given you something to chew on or chortle over for the rest of the weekend.

So - on the show this week - an anorexic, a second home owner, a Eurovision winner and mum-of-a-teeanger-who had a party that went wrong.

You may have noticed that the highly prized celebrity anecdotes from my past have been spread a little thinly of late but I leave you with two corkers - i saw Rupert Graves in the park on Wednesday and I came perilously close to Jon Snow on a zebra crossing about 9 weeks ago.
They speak in equally hushed tones about their near misses with me.

Speak to you on Saturday
Love and hugs as ever
Fi

]]> 12th May 2007 tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13239 2007-05-12T10:40:25Z 2007-05-12T11:00:12Z Our studio guest was Hardeep Singh Kohli and our poet was Elvis McGonagall. Mandy Allison told us how her life has been dominated by her anorexia. Monica Fuller described how her house was trashed during her daughter's 15th birthday party.... JP Our studio guest was Hardeep Singh Kohli and our poet was Elvis McGonagall. Mandy Allison told us how her life has been dominated by her anorexia. Monica Fuller described how her house was trashed during her daughter's 15th birthday party.

]]> Adele told us what she wished she had known after finding £26,000 in her bank account. Graham Green spoke up for second home owners and Katrina Leskanich revealed her Inheritance Tracks.

Listen again to this programme (12th May 2007)

]]> Katrina Leskanich tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13232 2007-05-11T17:35:40Z 2007-05-12T07:26:09Z Katrina Leskanich used to be in Katrina and the Waves who won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK in 1997.... JP Katrina Leskanich used to be in Katrina and the Waves who won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK in 1997.

]]> Katrina chose 'It's Getting Better' by Mama Cass Elliot and 'Christmas Time Is Here' by Vince Guaraldi.

]]> £26,000 Richer tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13230 2007-05-11T17:31:43Z 2007-05-12T07:24:15Z Adele took a look at her bank statement only to find out she was £26,000 better off than she thought she was.... JP Adele took a look at her bank statement only to find out she was £26,000 better off than she thought she was.

]]> Second Homes tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2007:/blogs/saturdaylive//56.13228 2007-05-11T17:27:39Z 2007-05-12T07:28:22Z Graham Green wants to speak up for all the people with second homes.... JP Graham Green wants to speak up for all the people with second homes.

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