
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, 4 Nov 09
Duration:
42 mins
This week Libby Purves is joined by Phill Jupitus who is currently starring as Edna Turnblad in the musical Hairspray; Professor Mary Beard is a Cambridge don who now has her own blog on Times Online and has published writings from it in her book It's a Don's Life; presenter and broadcaster Emma Freud has written a foreward to her late father's book, A Feast of Freud: A Collection of the Wittiest Writings of Clement Freud; and former England and Wasps rugby player Lawrence Dallaglio on his book Rugby Tales - Legendary Stories of Blood, Sweat and Beers.
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