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Ruby Wax and Jonathan Harvey join John

John Bishop talks to Ruby Wax and Jonathan Harvey, introduces a Greatest Record Never Played from Don McLean and asks a well-known name about their Perfect Weekend.

For the next five weeks John Bishop will be hosting Saturday mornings.

Each week John will introduce the Greatest Record Never Played - a fantastic song, from a favourite band or artist, but rarely heard on the radio. For his first show he has chosen his own hidden gem from Don McLean.

In My Perfect Weekend a well known name will be telling us how they would spend their ideal, money's no object, Saturday and Sunday - where they would go, who they would take with them, what they would eat and what they might listen to and watch.

John's first guests are:

Ruby Wax, who tells John about her new one-woman show, which is heading for Edinburgh. It's based on her number 1 bestselling book Sane New World: Taming the Mind. Described as a manual on how to survive the 21st century, using the knowledge from her recent Masters Degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy at Oxford University, spiked with comedy.

Ruby will also be talking about highlights from her long and varied career to date.

Also this week, fellow Liverpudlian Jonathan Harvey, the multi-award-winning writer of the play and film Beautiful Thing, the creator and writer of the Bafta-nominated sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme, and Beautiful People. He is one of the main writers of Coronation Street, and his other TV work includes Rev, Shameless, At ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ With The Braithwaites, Lilies, The Catherine Tate Show, Panto (starring one John Bishop) and Murder Most Horrid. He also wrote the 2001 stage musical Closer To Heaven with the Pet Shop Boys. Perhaps most significantly of all, he also won the Spacehopper Championships at Butlins Pwhelli in 1976.

He will be talking to John about his third novel The Girl Who Just Appeared and his plans for the summer.

2 hours, 57 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Jul 2014 10:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    The Sun Always Shines on TV

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • The Beatles

    Here Comes The Sun

    • 1967-1970.
    • Apple.
    • 7.

  • Blue Γ–yster Cult

    (Don't Fear) The Reaper

    • Chart Show Ultimate Rock - Various.
    • Hit.

  • Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Eric Clapton

    Call Me The Breeze

    • The Breeze.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Accidents Will Happen

    • Elvis Costello & Attractions- The Man.
    • Imp Records.
    • 4.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Let's Groove

    • 15th Anniversary Music Celebration (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Aretha Franklin

    I Say A Little Prayer

    • Aretha Franklin - Queen Of Soul.
    • Atlantic.

  • Hit The North

    SadMan

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • Dare!.
    • Virgin.

  • Don McLean

    Castles In The Air

    • Don McLean-American Pie/Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • George Michael

    Fastlove

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • MKTO

    Classic

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Van Morrison

    Crazy Love

    • Moondance.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Dolly Parton

    Try

    • Blue Smoke.
    • Sony Music.

  • La Roux

    Uptight Downtown

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Scala & Kolacny Brothers

    Creep (choral version)

    • Use Somebody.
    • Wall Of Sound.
    • 3.

  • Sam Smith

    Money On My Mind

    • Now! That's What I Call Music 87.
    • Universal.
    • 6.

  • Sniff ’n’ the Tears

    Driver's Seat

    • Various Artists - Top Gear 2.
    • Columbia.

  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

  • Talk Talk

    It's My Life

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Ward Thomas

    Push for the Stride

    • (CD Single).
    • WTW.
    • 1.

  • Ben Watt

    Forget

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline International.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Jul 2014 10:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2