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Jon Culshaw, Asmaa Al-allak, Tommy Jessop, Alice Oseman, Molly Lemon...in nature

Jon Culshaw's big break was convincing Tony Blair that HE was William Hague in an infamous phone call that changed his life.

Jon Culshaw's big break came when convincing the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in a prank phone call that HE was the then Conservative leader William Hague - an infamous moment in his life for which he was called an imposter. Since then, he鈥檚 built up a repertoire of 350 celebrity voices, starred in 23 series of Dead Ringers and joins us live from the Edinburgh Festival where he鈥檚 starring in his new show, Imposter Syndrome.

Tommy Jessop is an actor, a campaigner and has just had his first book published, 'A Life Worth Living鈥�. In 2007, he became the first actor with Down Syndrome to star in a primetime 麻豆社 Drama in the film 鈥楥oming Down the Mountain鈥� and has gone onto tour theatres as Hamlet and played Terry Boyle in 'Line of Duty鈥�.

This year鈥檚 Great British Sewing Bee champion Asmaa Al-allak spent her formative years growing up in Iraq. Her grandmother was a seamstress who passed her skills on to Asmaa鈥檚 mother, who in turn taught her and after winning the series, Asmaa said it鈥檚 fair to say 鈥榠t鈥檚 in the blood鈥�. After leaving Iraq at the age of 14, having lived through the Iran-Iraq war, Asmaa and her family moved to Durham where her father was working as a scientist. She went on to study medicine and is now a consultant breast surgeon at a cancer centre in Cardiff.

Also - the first in our '...In Nature' series where we hear from artists and creatives about how they are inspired by the natural world. Today is the turn of printmaker and wood engraver Molly Lemon.

And...the Inheritance Tracks of Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman.

Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Jon Kay
Producer: Ben Mitchell

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57 minutes

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  • Sat 5 Aug 2023 09:00

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