This week Libby Purves is joined by Tracy Dawson, Michael Pennington, Hugh Masekela and Lucia Van der Post.
TRACY DAWSON Tracy Dawson is the widow of the comedian Les Dawson who died in 1993. Les left behind his personal notebooks containing hand written gags, routines sketches and scripts and from these Tracy has selected unseen and unpublished material for a new book, Les Dawson's Secret Notebooks, published by JR Books.
MICHAEL PENNINGTON
Michael Pennington is an actor who has had a lifelong love affair with Shakespeare, which began when he was 11 years old and his parents took him to see Macbeth for the first time. He is bringing his one-man show on Shakespeare, Sweet William, to the Arcola Theatre from 23rd November.
HUGH MASEKELA
Hugh Masekela is the legendary jazz flugelhorn player and singer. As a boy growing up in the impoverished townships of South Africa he was inspired to learn the trumpet after seeing Kirk Douglas play Bix Beiderbecke in ‘Young Man With A Horn’. Hugh soon made a name for himself in South Africa but as the racial tensions intensified during the fifties he left his homeland to get a better music education in America. He finally returned to South Africa some thirty years later. Hugh is performing with the London Symphony Orchestra, in a unique collaboration, on Wednesday 28th November at 7.30pm at the Barbican.
LUCIA VAN DER POST
Lucia Van der Post has a weekly style advice column, 'Ask Lucia' in The Times. In her new book Things I wish My Mother Had Told Me she offers essential, fun and stylish advice for women of all ages. Things I wish My Mother Had Told Me is published by John Murray.
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