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Michael Rosen

Writer and poet, Michael Rosen; incurable romantic, William Cash; Christmas tree eater, Julia Georgallis; and Frank Skinner's Inheritance Tracks.

The writer and poet Michael Rosen joins Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein. He shares his discoveries of a lost family found, the importance of play, and tells us how to eat a bagel.
Back by popular demand: the cook Julia Georgallis, gives advice on 鈥楬ow to eat your Christmas tree鈥�.
Incurable romantic, William Cash, explains why he has a treasure trove of more than a thousand love letters, archived in a pig shed, and how restoring his family home helped him deal with heartbreak.
Inspired by her experience of suddenly losing her mother, who 鈥榯ook her precious memories with her鈥�, Bryher Scudamore set up an online template 鈥� autodotbiography. She describes how inheriting a wallet containing letters written by her great-grandfather, led to discovering surprising stories of his life just after the American Civil War.
And Frank Skinner shares his Inheritance Tracks - Winter Wonderland, performed by Dean Martin and George Formby singing Why Women Don鈥檛 Like Me.

Producer: Louise Corley
Editor: Eleanor Garland

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1 hour, 27 minutes

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Sat 28 Dec 2019 09:00

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  • Sat 28 Dec 2019 09:00

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