Jess Gillam: Saxophonist and BBC Young Musician Finalist

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Jess Gillam made history as the first ever saxophonist to win the Woodwind Final of BBC Young Musician 2016. Although she didn't win overall competition she wowed the judges, audience and critics with her talent. She's part of WHYdentity the BBC Concert Orchestra Young Programmers Takeover at the Royal Festival Hall next week. She'll be treating us to a live performance and talking to Jenni about life after the competition. Jo Morris goes to meet Cathie Lewis who left her job running a local newspaper twenty years ago and decided to turn her house in rural Warwickshire into a foster home. Over the years, with her husband Stephen, she has turned it into a home for more than 70 children. We discuss the life of trade unionist, feminist and Irish nationalist Eva Gore-Booth as part of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising centenary commemorations. And, a look ahead to the SNP's Conference in Glasgow Presented by Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell.