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Tim Firth, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Operation Mincemeat, Lois, Stuart Maconie

Stuart Maconie and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.

The award winning writer of Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots Tim Firth on his latest stage production - The Ladies Football Club. Its based on the true story of women working in a Sheffield munitions factory during World War I who start to kick a football in breaktimes and end up part of a South Yorkshire women's league that drew thousands of fans.

Taskmaster and Mr Bigstuff star Fatiha El-Ghorri says she's ironing her swaggest hijab to head out on her debut stand up tour - Cockney Stacking Doll. She'll also have the story of her journey out of the heartbreak of divorce and back on the dating scene in her new Radio 4 comedy - A Match Made Inshallah.

Music from the cast of the hit musical Operation Mincemeat which tells the story of a second world war spy deception and from BBC Introducing "one to watch" Lois who is heading on tour.

Presenter: Stuart Maconie
Producer: Olive Clancy

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42 minutes

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  • Sat 14 Feb 202618:15
  • Thu 19 Feb 202621:00

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