Loose Ends - 09/10/2010

Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Clive Anderson is joined by the best-selling author Barbara Taylor-Bradford whose latest novel is called Playing The Game. It's her 26th novel, she has sold over eighty-two million copies worldwide, she's one of the world's richest living authors, received an OBE and was the first living female author to feature on a postage stamp! Hugh Bonneville talks about playing Robert, Earl of Grantham in Julian Fellowe's period drama Downton Abbey, bringing the upstairs downstairs intrigue of Lords, Ladies and their servants to autumnal Sunday nights on ITV. He may be the BBC's fashion commentator at Royal Ascot but did he make a faux-pas when he wore his top hat at a rakish angle? Fashion writer, curator and broadcaster James Sherwood is about to publish an enormous book about Savile Row and British bespoke tailoring. Emma Freud talks to the Grammy Award-nominated 80's pop sensation and lead singer of the Go-Go's, with hits including We Got the Beat, Heaven is a Place on Earth and (We Want) the Same Thing, Belinda Carlisle. And from his critically acclaimed Radio 2 series The Blaggers Guide... David Quantick presents his Blaggers Guide to Jazz live in the studio with a lot of help from his musician friends The Pete Long Quintet. Plus there's more music from London folk rock group Erland & The Carnival performing Trouble in Mind from their self titled debut album. Producer: Cathie Mahoney.