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Last broadcast on Sat, 19 Dec 2009, 18:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
He is joined by eighties pop sensation Boy George, the actor Michael Fassbender and the playwright Mark Ravenhill.
Allegra McEvedy talks to almanac compiler Ben Schott.
With comedy from performance poet John Hegley, and music fit for the festive season from Thea Gilmore.
Boy George
Peter Curran is joined by former Culture Club frontman Boy George, who along with his single, ‘White Xmas’ plays a ten night residency. ‘Boy George in Concert Up Close and Personal’ is at the Leicester Square Theatre, London from Sunday 20 December.
Michael Fassbender
Having starred to great acclaim in ‘Fishtank’ and in Steve McQueens ‘Hunger’, Michael Fassbender talks about his role as the suave bilingual Brit in Quentin Tarantino’s World War 2 epic 'Inglourious Basterds' out now on DVD. 'Fish Tank' is released on DVD on Monday 25 January.
Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill talks about his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett as he's adapted the Discworld authors novel 'Nation' for the National Theatre, London.
Ben Schott
And it wouldn’t be Christmas without a compilation of the year’s trivia in tables and informative titbits… Ben Schott is happy to oblige as he talks to Allegra McEvedy about 'Schott's Almanac 2010' published by Bloomsbury
John Hegley
More festive cheer comes from the ever-popular performance poet John Hegley. He's at the London’s Battersea Arts Centres ‘Christmas at the Batterseaside’ from Monday 21 to Wednesday 23 December. And his Bloomsbury Theatre show‘ 'Moniseur Robinet at the Bloomsbury’, is on Saturday 9 January 2010.
Thea Gilmore
And fresh from her UK tour there’s music from singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore, playing her current single 'That'll Be Christmas' and 'The St Stephens Day Murders' from her album ‘Strange Communion’. She finishes her tour at Fareham on Saturday 19 and Chester on Monday 21 December.
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Loose Ends Session
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Thea Gilmore
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Thea Gilmore — The St Stephens Day Murders
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Broadcast
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Sat 19 Dec 200918:15
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