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Jun 14
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Kwame Kwei-Armah, George Egg, Mohammad B...

Bbc Radio 4
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Actor, director and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah on the big decisions he’s faced from changing his name to the Herculean task of writing a super-hero musical.

Mohammed Belal... Who became England's first paralysed surgeon after a cycling accident. He faced years of rehabilitation to return to work.

George Egg who mixes comedy and cooking and says good nosh doesn’t have to be posh and how cooking helped him after the death of his father.

Inheritance Tracks are picked by DJ-turned-novelist Fearne Cotton...

Presenters: Kiri Pritchard-MCLean and Jon Kay Producer: Catherine Powell

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