Loose Ends - 20/11/2010

Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Loose Ends is all glitz and glamour this week as Clive is joined by one of Hollywood's biggest stars Bette Midler. She's won three Grammy's, she's an Award Winning Actress and she's about to release a new album 'Memories of You' - a collection of her favourite songs from the Great American Songbook. And Denise Van Outen is singing on stage in the smash hit 'Legally Blonde The Musical'. Whilst Roy Hudd, the actor, comedy entertainer and the man behind the long running Radio 2 favourite The News Huddlines, treads the boards in When We Were Married. Sean Hughes talks to the comedian and author, who now stars in the film version of his book, Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks. In 1996 a group of Mali's finest musicians were due to fly to Havana for a speculative collaboration with some of Cuba's most brilliant singers and instrumentalists. The Malians never arrived and a very different album was recorded 'The Buena Vista Social Club'. Fourteen years later, it's happened - the great world music album that never was has finally been realised in the form of AfroCubism. The legendary Eliades Ochoa (singer with The Buena Vista Social Club) performs Al Vaiven De Mi Carreta alongside a stellar line-up of Malian musicians from their album AfroCubism. And there's jazz with a splash of hip hop from the Mercury nominated, Soweto Kinch. Producer: Cathie Mahoney.