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Dec 2017
1h 24m

James Blunt

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Hit singer songwriter James Blunt joins Aasmah Mir and Shaun Keaveny to talk hits, the army and acerbic tweets.

Actor Abubakar Salim is the new lead in Assassin's Creed, a video game. We ask him why he wanted to act in a game, how it compares to other roles and how his martial arts study helped the role.

We have explosive ordinance disposal expert turned reality TV Love Islander Camilla Thurlow.

Listener Clare Rixon has run a marathon every month in 2017, set up a virtual running challenge and runs for her psychological well being.

And ahead of the Strictly final we have the Inheritance Tracks of last year's winner, Ore Oduba who chooses Pride by U2 and One Last Time by Ariana Grande.

James Blunt's lastest album is The Afterlove

Producer: Corinna Jones Editor: Eleanor Garland.

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