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Radio 4,18 Apr 2026,56 mins

John Robins, Chelsea Flower Show, Exotic Animals, and the Inheritance Tracks of James McAvoy

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John Robins is a critically-acclaimed comic with awards a-plenty, and now a blistering memoir "Thirst; worked around Twelve Drinks That Changed My Life. Arit Anderson of Gardeners鈥� World is on her way to the centre of the gardening world, the Chelsea Flower Show, where she鈥檚 creating a special space for those with Parkinson's. Starting with a distressed raccoon she found in a bloke鈥檚 garage, Lindsey McKenna鈥檚 spent the last 15 years saving two hundred exotic animals. We'll be thanking six burly men who, 27 years ago, lifted up and carried a car containing a heavily pregnant listener of ours, off the hard shoulder of the M25. Two brothers are pleased as punch to be reunited, after forty years, with their late father鈥檚 Austin 35 racing green, racing car. And we鈥檒l get the Inheritance Tracks of the actor turned director James McAvoy. Presenter: Adrian Chiles Producer: Ben Mitchell Assistant Producer: Catherine Powell Researcher: Jesse Edwards Editor: Colin Patterson

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