This week Francine Stock is joined by Robert Bicknell, Jill Robinson, Lewis Alsamari and Ujwala Samant.
ROBERT BICKNELL Robert Bicknell is a singing coach, probably best known for teaching the nation how to sing for six months on Channel 4‘s Big Breakfast. He is now involved with Sing London, a massive event across London which will venture to get the people of the city singing. Sing Londonis from 29th June to 8th July.
JILL ROBINSON Jill Robinson is the founder of Animals Asia Foundation which is dedicated to saving bears from the barbaric practice of farming them for their bile (for traditional Chinese medicines) across China and Vietnam. Jill is taking part in the Moon Bear Dinner, a fundraising event for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation at the RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey on Wednesday 27th June.
LEWIS ALSAMARI Lewis Alsamari is now an actor, who most recently starred in the film United 93. When he was 17 he was drafted into the Iraqi Army but eventually managed to escape to Jordan and then to Britain. He then embarked on a plan to rescue his family who were imprisoned by Saddam by fraudulently transfering £37,000 from the accounts of his employer. Out of Iraq is published by Bantam Press.
UJWALA SAMANT Ujwala Samant has just won this year's Asian Women of Achievement Award for her social and humanitarian work with Learning for Life, a charity that helps to educate women in remote and impoverished areas of Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
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