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Roy Hattersley, Alison Moyet, Ralf Little, Ian Stone, Jon Holmes, Junip

Clive Anderson is joined, amongst others, by Roy Hattersley, Alison Moyet, Ralf Little and Ian Stone for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Junip.

Clive discovers the dynasty of the Devonshires with Labour politician and author Roy Hattersley. 'The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation' delves into the history of a family of scientists, soldiers, patrons, politicians, philanderers and powerful women. The huge personalities in the Devonshire story make for an illuminating path into the political, social and cultural changes we've undergone.

Jon Holmes scores a goal with stand up comedian Ian Stone, who's been known to Mock The Week and now presents Absolute Radio's Rock and Roll Football Show. Ian's long believed the best form of Government would be a benign dictatorship with him in charge; his latest show attempts to find solutions to some of the more intractable world problems. 'The Stone Agenda' is at E4 Udderbelly Festival, London on Thursday16th May.

Clive's All Cried Out with singer songwriter Alison Moyet, who shot to fame providing the bluesy vocals to eighties synthpop duo Yazoo. They had several smash hits such as 'Only You' and 'Don't Go' and Alison's enjoyed solo success for over thirty years. She talks to Clive about her new album 'the minutes', which she's touring later this year and performs 'Filligree'.

Clive has Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps with actor Ralf Little. Following his big break playing Antony in the Royle Family, Ralf's starred in a number of films and sitcoms. He now stars in Peter Nichols's black comedy 'A Day in the Death of Joe Egg', which portrays the love, pain, anger and strain of a young couple raising a disabled child. It's at Rose Theatre, Kingston until Saturday 18th May.

With psychedelia infused music from Jose Gonzalez's Swedish indie-rock outfit Junip, who perform 'Your Life, Your Call' from album 'Junip'.

Producer: Sukey Firth.

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Roy Hattersley

Roy Hattersley
‘The Devonshires: The story of a family and a nation’ is published by Chatto & Windus and available now.

Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet

'the minutes' is out now on Cooking Vinyl.

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Alison is touring the UK later this year. Check her website for details.Ìý

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Ian Stone

Ian Stone

‘Ian Stone: The Stone Agenda’ is at E4 Udderbelly Festival at London’s Southbank Centre on Thursday 16th May. Check Ian’s website for further tour dates.

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Ralf Little

Ralf Little

'A Day in the Death of Joe Egg’ is at Rose Theatre, Kingston until Saturday 18th May.

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Junip

Junip

'Junip' is available now on City Slang.

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The band are playing at The Haunt, Brighton on Saturday 11th, Band On The Wall, Manchester on Sunday 12th and Village Underground, London on Monday 13th May.

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  • Sat 11 May 2013 18:15
  • Mon 13 May 2013 11:15
  • Mon 13 May 2013 21:15
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