
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, 15 Jul 09
Duration:
43 mins
This week Libby Purves is joined by Anna Sam, the French Checkout Blogger who's blog has 1 million hits to date; the artist Patrick Maguire, the youngest member of the Maguire Seven who were wrongly convicted of bomb-making in the 1970s; Peter Mitchell, an exhumation specialist, whose unusual profession has seen him exhume 30,000 bodies and rebury them in new graves; and chef and restauranteur Rick Stein whose new series Far Eastern Odyssey is on BBC Two.
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