This week Libby Purves is joined by Katy Emck, Miriam Karlin, Hayley Westenra and Michael Reiss.
DR KATY EMCK Dr Katy Emck is Executive Director of the charity Fine Cell Work. They run projects in twenty-two prisons around the country, teaching professional needlework skills to prisoners and sell their work on their behalf. Fine Cell Work will be holding a sale and exhibition at The Sage Gateshead on 3rd December.
MIRIAM KARLIN
In an acting career spanning sixty years, Miriam Karlin has been a West End regular and RSC company actor, a pioneering performer on live television, half of a radio double-act with Peter Sellers, and a stand-up comic. Probably her most famous role was that of whistle-blowing shop steward Paddy in the 1960s TV sitcom The Rag Trade, with her catchphrase ‘Everybody Out!’. Her autobiography, Some Sort of Life is published by Oberon Books.
HAYLEY WESTENRA Hayley Westenra is the twenty year old New Zealand soprano. Having started out as a busker, she is now the fastest-selling debut classical artist in British chart history and the biggest-selling artist of all time in her native New Zealand. Her autobiography In Her Own Voice is published by Virgin Books.
MICHAEL REISS
Michael Reiss is Professor of Science Education and Head of the School of Mathematics, Science and Technology at the Institute of Education. He is also a practising priest. For the last two years he has been involved in the re-opening of Launchpad at the Science Museum, an interactive exhibition which communicates the fundamentals of physics to children. Launchpad goes live on 24 November.
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