This week Libby Purves is joined by Fran Crowe, Simon Doonan, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Rory McGrath.
FRAN CROWE Fran Crowe is an artist. After reading that a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report in 2006 estimated that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic pieces per square mile of ocean worldwide, she set herself the challenge of collecting 46,000 pieces of litter whilst walking on local Suffolk beaches in order to 'save' one square mile of sea.
SIMON DOONAN Simon Doonan has been Creative Director of Barney's New York for the last twenty years. He has created some of the most talked-about, must-see window displays and has a regular column in the New York Observer. In his book Beautiful People he tells of his childhood growing up in a working class family in small-town Reading in the 1950s but how he always dreamt of escaping to the bright lights of the big city. Beautiful People is published by Collins.
SAKYONG MIPHAM RINPOCHE Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche one of the world's leading Tibetan Lamas and head of Shambhala International, a worldwide network of urban Buddhist meditation centres, retreats and monasteries founded by his father, the Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
RORY MCGRATH Rory McGrath is one of the best-known faces in British comedy, appearing in programmes such as They Think It’s All Over, QI and Three Men in a Boat. In his book Bearded Tit: confessions of a birdwatcher he tells his story of life amongst birds, from a Cornish childhood to becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher. Bearded Tit: confessions of a birdwatcher is published by Ebury Press.
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