This week Libby Purves is joined by Mark Eccleston, Maria Ewing, Graeme Clark and John Lenahan.
MARK ECCLESTON Mark Eccleston is a tennis coach and motivational speaker. At the age of 16, he was looking forward to a career playing rugby league, when an accident left him paralysed. Refusing to give up, he started playing wheelchair table tennis, quickly progressing to wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis, in which he won a silver medal at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens. His book Pushing the Limits - Succeeding Against the Odds (with Andrew Quirke) is published Psychology News Press.
MARIA EWING
Maria Ewing is the world renowned soprano. She will be making her first appearance in a full-length opera in London for the first time in over fifteen years when she performs 'The Fairy Queen' in the Carl Rosa Opera company's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. Iolanthe is at the Geilgud Theatre, London from 11th-16th February.
GRAEME CLARK
Graeme is part of the Emmaus community in Brighton where forty people who have been homeless, live and work together in a real community. He spent time sleeping rough after he became bankrupt, and ended up selling the Big Issue, until he heard about Emmaus.
27th January-3rd February is Poverty and Homelessness Action Week.
JOHN LENAHAN John Lenahan is a magician and comedian. He was the first magician in eight-five years to be excommunicated from the Magic Circle and is currently performing in his new one man show Lenahan Up Close in which he performs to a small audience. He also has a Blog called Gratuitious Socks. Lenahan Up Close at the Etcetera theatre in Camden until April.
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