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Last broadcast on Sat, 13 Mar 2010, 18:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
Clive is joined by author and historian Sir Max Hastings, songwriter Mike Batt and the man behind the Merde books, novellist Stephen Clarke.
Arthur Smith talks to Guy Browning to find out the small rules that help with life's little problems.
With comedy from Keith Farnan and music from Beach House and Alberta Cross.
Max Hastings
Historian, journalist and author of Radio 4’s Book of The Week ‘Did You Really Shoot the Television?’ Sir Max Hastings joins Clive Anderson in the Loose Ends studio. ‘Did You Really Shoot the Television? A Family Fable’ is published by Harper Press. Readings from the book for Book of the Week are available on the BBC iPlayer.
Stephen Clarke
Author Stephen Clarke is an Englishman abroad, who from his Paris home has written the bestselling ‘Merde’ series (‘A Year in the Merde’, ‘Dial M for Merde’). His latest attempt to maintain the Entente Cordiale is his own history of Anglo-French relations, ‘100 Years of Annoying the French’, published by Bantam Press on Sunday 25 March.
Mike Batt
Songwriter, arranger, conductor and producer Mike Batt celebrates forty years in the music industry with a 16 disc boxset, cataloguing everything from the acclaimed ‘Zero Zero’ and ‘Hunting the Snark’ albums to Phantom of the Opera, Watership Down and inevitably, The Wombles. The Mike Batt Music Cube' is out now.
Arthur Smith talks to Guy Browning
Ever been befuddled about what to do with your arm when you’ve failed to hail a cab? Or how to share a romantic bath whilst avoiding the taps? Here to prevent little social embarrassments is the writer of The Guardians ‘How To’ column Guy Browning who talks to Arthur Smith about his latest book. ‘Never Push it when it says Pull, Small Rules for Little Problems’, published by Atlantic books.
Keith Farnan
Stand up comedy from Irish comedian and former solicitor Keith Farnan, who brings his show exploring Racism, Religion-ism and Immigrationism, ‘No Blacks. No Jews. No Dogs. No Irish. All Welcome’, to London’s Soho Theatre from Wednesday 17 to Saturday 20 March.
Alberta Cross
Music from New York based soul-drenched rockers Alberta Cross performing their single, ‘Old man Chicago’, out on Monday 15 March, from their latest album 'Broken Side Of Time'. The band performs at London’s Dingwalls on Monday 15 March.
Beach House
And Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House perform ‘Norway’ from their album ‘Teen Dream’, out now. They perform with Grizzly Bear at London’s Roundhouse on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 March.
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Loose Ends Session
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Alberta Cross
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Beach House
— Norway
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Broadcast
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Sat 13 Mar 201018:15
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