Diverse conversation with Libby Purves and her four guests. The focus of Midweek is personal experience, the story behind the story. A mix of the famous, the infamous, and first time broadcasters. Forty-five minutes of lively conversation to start the day.
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Wed, 12 Jun 13
Duration:
42 mins
Mariella Frostrup meets mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, comedian and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax, writer Wendy Law-Yone and Ian Martin of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Wed, 5 Jun 13
Duration:
42 mins
Libby Purves meets singer/songwriter Cerys Matthews; Eve Branson, mum of Sir Richard; Margaret and Barry Mizen - the parents of Jimmy Mizen who was killed 5 years ago; and actor and writer Emma Decent.
Wed, 29 May 13
Duration:
42 mins
Libby Purves meets ex tennis champion Jimmy Connors who has just pubished his autobiography The Outsider;journalist Damian Barr who writes in his autobiograpy Maggie and Me about growing up in Thatcher's Britain; director, doctor and comedian Jonathan Miller and Masterchef winner Natalie Coleman.
Wed, 22 May 13
Duration:
42 mins
Libby Purves meets journalist turned novelist Liz Trenow who has written a book The Last Telegram based on her family's silk factory;comedian Hugh Dennis who has written a book called Britty Britty Bang Bang which explores the changing image of Britain and Britishness; Carol Highton MBE who has campaigned against loan sharks as spiralling debt led to her son taking his own life and she set up the Brian Shield's Trust to help others in a similar position and David Watson who was one of three solo choristers who sang at the Queen's Coronation in 1953. He features in the documentary Choristers of the Coronation on BBC Radio 4.
Wed, 15 May 13
Duration:
43 mins
Libby Purves meets cook and entrepreneur Levi Roots, writer and artist Edwin Apps, Lydia Corbett - a muse of Picasso and co-founder of the Comedy Store, Don Ward.
Wed, 8 May 13
Duration:
43 mins
Libby Purves is joined by Professor Brendan Walker who is an aeronautical engineer and tv presenter; Alan Johnson MP who is talking about his autobiography This Boy - A Memoir of a Childhood; blues singer and harmonica player Johnny Mars who also plays live.Finally we have actress and daughter of Dorothy Tutin Amanda Waring who is a campaigner for dignity and compassion in care and is appearing in her one woman show for the Love of Chocolate.
Wed, 1 May 13
Duration:
43 mins
Libby Purves is joined by actor Brian Cox, adventurer Jason Lewis, artist Adela Jusic and singer June Tabor.
Wed, 24 Apr 13
Duration:
42 mins
Libby Purves meets shoe designer Marc Hare, filmmaker Leslie Woodhead, choreographer Kate Prince and Howard Raymond, son of Paul, the King of Soho.
Wed, 17 Apr 13
Duration:
42 mins
Libby Purves meets sailor Matt Rutherford; Matthew Du Aime, son of the late author William Wharton; Charlie & Louise Mortimer, on letters from their father Roger; and cartoonist Bill Stott.
Wed, 27 Mar 13
Duration:
39 mins
Libby Purves meets writer Richard Mabey who has written a book entitled Turned Out Nice Again; Sugar Girls Gladys Hudgell and Eva Rodwell who worked at the Tate and Lyle factory in the early fifties; Ellen Ullman who worked as a soft ware engineer but is now a novelist and Mexican artist Pedro Reyes who is having his first UK solo show entitled Disarm. In this exhibition he turns guns into fully workable musical instruments.
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