Podcast appearances and mentions of Kate Saunders

Hey Hey!I am delighted to be in conversation with the amazing Kate Saunders this week as part of my 'Women Who Thrive' series.Kate is a Yoga & Ayurvedic health coach. Supporting women to put themselves first. Kate lives with Secondary Breast Cancer and from what she has discovered on her own personal journey, is that looking after yourself benefits everyone around you. It's also key in prevention for ill health & overcoming imbalance in the mind, body and soul. “Freedom is achievable if you allow it”This is a beautiful conversation about facing the realities of life events and choosing to live it and all it offers instead of allowing life events to define us in a way that is less than helpful.If you are affected by anything in this weeks episode, Kate as shared the following resources with me:https://www.instagram.com/secondary.sisters/ - Supporting the Secondary Cancer Communityhttps://futuredreams.org.uk/ - Providing practical, emotional and psychological support for those diagnosed with breast cancer, fund vital secondary breast cancer research, and promote breast health awareness.And if you would like to connect with Kate, you can find her on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/wellnesswarriorskt/I would love to hear what you think of this episode as well as any topics you would like me to cover or guests to have join me.You can connect with me on the socials,  HERE on Instagram, and HERE on Facebook, and not forgetting my VIP WhatsApp community that you are welcome to join HEREEnjoySteph xxMusic licensed from RILISound11th December 2023If you're enjoying the podcast, please share it with someone who might benefit from our talks. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and follow me on social media for more updates and inspiration.Connect with me on Instagram HERE, Facebook HERE, and join my VIP WhatsApp community HERE. For more information on my therapy sessions and to book a chat, visit my website: https://www.stephgrainger.co.uk/get-in-touchEmail: steph@stephgrainger.co.ukUntil next time, take care and be present.Steph xx

Matthew Bannister on Harry Belafonte, the singer and actor who was also a leading civil rights campaigner. Jerry Springer, whose TV talk show was once voted the worst in history – but was watched by millions around the world. Valerie Winn, the runner who became the face of a campaign to allow women to compete in top level middle distance races. Kate Saunders, the novelist, journalist and critic who won the Costa Prize for Children's Literature for her book Five Children on the Western Front. Interviewee: Michael Shnayerson Interviewee: Amanda Craig Interviewee: Wendy Sly Interviewee: Jene Galvin Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies Archive used: Harry Belafonte, Desert Island Discs, BBC Home Service, 06/10/1958; "Sing Your Song": Remembering Harry Belafonte, Who Used His Fame to Help Civil Rights Movement, Democracy Now, YouTube uploaded 26/04/2023; Harry Belafonte interview, Film Night, BBC Archive originally broadcast 15/04/1972; Civil Rights, British Pathe, uploaded YouTube 25/11/2016; Harry Belafonte interview, PBS Newshour, PBC, YouTube uploaded 15/11/2011; Kate Saunders introduction on Have I Got News For You, BBC ONE, 28/09/1990; Jerry Springer , Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 06/11/2009; Jerry Springer resigns from Cincinnati city council in 1974, WCPO, YouTube uploaded 28/04/2016; Jerry's Final Thought Brings Him To Tears, Jerry Springer Show, YouTube uploaded 21/09/2015; When Paxman met Springer, BBC Newsnight, 26/02/2014;

Today we welcome Kate Saunders – owner of The Designers Collab, a resource for busy interior design professionals who are looking to scale their business without increasing their overhead. In this episode Kate shares how her 20 years of experience in design and construction, fueled by curiosity, led her to a place of supporting the […]

Today we welcome Kate Saunders – owner of The Designers Collab, a resource for busy interior design professionals who are looking to scale their business without increasing their overhead. In this episode Kate shares how her 20 years of experience in design and construction, fueled by curiosity, led her to a place of supporting the […]

The Shiny Developer Series spotlight on the 2021 Shiny Contest continues with episode 28! Eric is joined by statistics lecturer Dr. Kate Saunders to share her unique coronaSweeper Shiny application which merges a well-known mini-game in the Windows world with modelling the spread of COVID19. On the surface it might seem straight-forward, but Kate walks us through her extensive design ideas of the algorithms and user experience of the application frontend. This was a very inspiring conversation that demonstrates the ways Shiny can be transformative to teaching real principles in mathematics, statistics, and beyond!Resources mentioned in the episodecoronaSweeper App - katerobsau.shinyapps.io/Corona_SweepercoronaSweeper Code - github.com/katerobsau/coronaSweeperKate's contest submission post: community.rstudio.com/t/coronasweeper-shiny-contest-submission/104767Follow Kate on Twitter - @katerobsauEpisode Timestamps00:00:00 Episode Introduction 00:04:45 Inspiration behind coronaSweeper 00:08:15 Demo of coronaSweeper 00:14:35 Code walkthrough 00:43:10 Shiny for teaching? 00:50:20 Episode wrapup

The Shiny Developer Series spotlight on the 2021 Shiny Contest continues with episode 28! Eric is joined by statistics lecturer Dr. Kate Saunders to share her unique coronaSweeper Shiny application which merges a well-known mini-game in the Windows world with modelling the spread of COVID19. On the surface it might seem straight-forward, but Kate walks us through her extensive design ideas of the algorithms and user experience of the application frontend. This was a very inspiring conversation that demonstrates the ways Shiny can be transformative to teaching real principles in mathematics, statistics, and beyond! Resources mentioned in the episode coronaSweeper App - katerobsau.shinyapps.io/Corona_Sweeper (https://katerobsau.shinyapps.io/Corona_Sweeper) coronaSweeper Code - github.com/katerobsau/coronaSweeper (https://github.com/katerobsau/coronaSweeper) Kate's contest submission post: community.rstudio.com/t/coronasweeper-shiny-contest-submission/104767 (https://community.rstudio.com/t/coronasweeper-shiny-contest-submission/104767) Follow Kate on Twitter - @katerobsau (https://twitter.com/katerobsau) Episode Timestamps 00:00:00 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqLx233W97U&t=0s) Episode Introduction 00:04:45 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqLx233W97U&t=285s) Inspiration behind coronaSweeper 00:08:15 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqLx233W97U&t=495s) Demo of coronaSweeper 00:14:35 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqLx233W97U&t=875s) Code walkthrough 00:43:10 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqLx233W97U&t=2590s) Shiny for teaching? 00:50:20 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqLx233W97U&t=3020s) Episode wrapup

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! We kick off our brand new season of weekly episodes with a dreamy chat about our favourite book crushes. Who did we fancy in books growing up? How do we feel about those crushes now, as adults? Is it okay to fancy Aslan? Why is The Secret Garden so sexy? And how do today's children's books broach the subjects of love and yearning differently to the classics? Two brilliant special guests join us for our season premiere: Caroline O'Donoghue is the host of the podcast Sentimental Garbage and author of the magical YA novel All Our Hidden Gifts. Kate Saunders is the author of Five Children on the Western Front which re-imagines E. Nesbitt's young heroes as older characters facing the spectre of war - and romance. Follow Down the Rabbit Hole on Twitter and Instagram, and check out our website at dtrhradio.com -- This episode was produced by Hannah Love. Our music is Hustle by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com, licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0

For February we chose three books featuring womanThe Pickwick Murders (A Dickens of a Crime #4)by Heather Redmond Published October 26th 2021 by Kensington Publishing CorporationIn a reimagining of Charles Dickens' classic The Pickwick Papers, Heather Redmond's fourth Victorian-era mystery in the Dickens of a Crime series finds a young Charles tossed into Newgate Prison for a murder he didn't commit, and his fiance Kate Hogarth striving to clear his name...London, January 1836: Just weeks before the release of his first book, Charles is intrigued by an invitation to join the exclusive Lightning Club. But his initiation in a basement maze takes a wicked turn when he stumbles upon the corpse of Samuel Pickwick, the club's president. With the victim's blood literally on his hands, Charles is locked away in notorious Newgate Prison.Now it's up to Kate to keep her framed fianc� from the hangman's noose. To solve this labyrinthine mystery, she is forced to puzzle her way through a fiendish series of baffling riddles sent to her in anonymous poison pen letters. With the help of family and friends, she must keep her wits about her to corner the real killer--before time runs out and Charles Dickens meets a dead end...The Wife Upstairsby Freida McFadden Published March 23rd 2020 by Hollywood Upstairs PressVictoria Barnett has it all.A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems.Then she's in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart.Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can't feed or dress herself. She can't even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care.Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria's husband to help care for her. But it turns out Victoria isn't as impaired as Sylvia was led to believe. There's a story Victoria desperately wants to tell... if only she could get out the words.Then Sylvia discovers Victoria's diary hidden away in a drawer.And what's inside is shocking.The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #3)by Kate SaundersPublished December 7th 2021 by Bloomsbury PublishingFrom internationally bestselling author Kate Saunders, a delightful new cozy mystery that finds detective Laetitia Rodd entangled in the shocking world of the Victorian theater.In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theater fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs. Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theater, she cannot turn away the woman in need. She agrees to take the case.But what starts out as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the burnt husk of the old theater. Soon Mrs. Rodd finds herself embroiled in family politics, rivalries that put the Capulets and Montagues to shame, and betrayals on a Shakespearean scale. Mrs. Rodd will need all her investigatory powers, not to mention her famous discretion, to solve the case before tragedy strikes once more.For readers of the Grantchester Mysteries, The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden is the charming third mystery in Kate Saunder's series about Laetitia Rodd, the indomitable lady detective.

Tibetans in exile have a new leader. On Friday, Penpa Tsering was announced the winner of the presidential race in the Central Tibetan Administration general elections that took place in April. Thousands in the diaspora, which includes some 130,000 people around the world, came out to vote for their exile president — or sikyong — and 45 members of parliament. Voter turnout was more than 77%, according to the CTA. Now President-elect Tsering, the former speaker of Tibet's parliament-in-exile, who was favored to win since the initial vote last month, takes the helm at a crucial time for the diaspora, experts say, as China tightens its grip on the region while also refusing to engage with the diaspora’s leaders. Related: China sharply expands mass labor program in TibetJust hours after learning of his triumph, Tsering said that one of his first priorities is to shore up trust with the general public.“[W]e’ll be making our overtures to the Chinese government about carrying forward, or resuming dialogue.”Penpa Tsering, president-elect, Central Tibetan Administration“Because right now, because of the pandemic, it’s hard to move around,” he said. “But at the same time, we’ll be making our overtures to the Chinese government about carrying forward, or resuming dialogue.”This year’s general election was unique for several reasons. Experts say it was particularly divisive and polarizing, all while taking place during the pandemic. Dechem Pemba, 41, in London, said her polling place was outdoors this time around.“It was sort of in a public park and it was all socially distanced and there was hand sanitizer and hand wipes everywhere. And people were wearing masks,” she said. I voted

This year, the Dalai Lama celebrated his 85th Birthday. He is one of the world's most prominent religious leaders and is certainly the most famous Buddhist but talk is now turning to who will replace him. In 1959, His Holiness was forced to leave Tibet and since then he has been living in Dharamsala in northern India. In exile, he has become so much more than just the Tibetan spiritual leader but what do we really know about him and what will his legacy be? Discussing the 14th Dalai Lama with Ernie Rea will be Kate Saunders (a writer and independent specialist on Tibet), Professor Robbie Barnett (Former Director of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University and now a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS). the Venerable Lama Losang Samten (Spiritual Director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Centre of Philadelphia and personal attendant to the Dalai Lama in the 1980s) and Andrew Quintman (Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University who specializes in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet). Producer: Helen Lee Editor: Amanda Hancox

This year, the Dalai Lama celebrated his 85th Birthday. He is one of the world's most prominent religious leaders and is certainly the most famous Buddhist but talk is now turning to who will replace him. In 1959, His Holiness was forced to leave Tibet and since then he has been living in Dharamsala in northern India. In exile, he has become so much more than just the Tibetan spiritual leader but what do we really know about him and what will his legacy be? Discussing the 14th Dalai Lama with Ernie Rea will be Kate Saunders (a writer and independent specialist on Tibet), Professor Robbie Barnett (Former Director of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University and now a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS). the Venerable Lama Losang Samten (Spiritual Director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Centre of Philadelphia and personal attendant to the Dalai Lama in the 1980s) and Andrew Quintman (Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University who specializes in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet). Producer: Helen Lee Editor: Amanda Hancox

"Die Schatten von Freshley Wood" ist ein englischer Krimi, der in der Zeit Queen Victorias spielt, also im 19. Jahrhundert. Und die Ermittlerin ist – eine Frau. Das ist für diese Zeit schon ungewöhnlich. Von Cathrin Brackmann.

Pendant que la planète entière a les yeux rivés sur les ravages causés par la pandémie du Covid-19, la répression subie par des minorités ethniques et religieuses dans de nombreuses régions du monde continue et risque de passer inaperçue. A l’instar du Tibet, cette région autonome chinoise est gouvernée d’une main de fer par Pékin. Des religieux bouddhistes y sont chassés de leurs monastères et forcés de devenir de « bons communistes ». Un bulldozer fait tomber un mur fraîchement érigé sous les yeux de moines…cette vidéo amateur ne dure que sept secondes, mais la personne qui a osé filmer la scène a pris le risque d’être arrêtée voire torturée. Il est rare que de telles images sortent des confins tibétains, affirme Kate Saunders, une observatrice de longue date. Cette vidéo clandestine a été tournée dans un petit monastère isolé, situé à environ 3 000 mètres d’altitude, à Chamdo, dans l’est de la région autonome du Tibet : « Le 1er avril, les autorités sont venues donner l’ordre de stopper la construction de nouveaux dortoirs. Le lendemain, la police a fait raser le bâtiment. L’abbé a été roué de coups, deux moines ont été menacés de prison. Tous ont été expulsés. Cette démolition montre la mainmise de l’État chinois sur même les plus petits monastères, les plus petits centres du bouddhisme tibétain. » La vingtaine de moines expulsés de ce monastère, subiront-ils le même sort que les religieux qui étudiaient le bouddhisme à Yachen Gar et Larung Gar, ces deux grandes cités monastiques dans la partie tibétaine du Sichuan ? Des ONGs estiment que quelques sept mille moines et nonnes ont été chassés depuis 2016 de Larung Gar et plus de 5 000 de Yarchen depuis 2019, leurs habitations détruites. Pourquoi est-ce que Pékin s’en prend aux bouddhistes ? Réponse avec la tibétologue Katia Buffetrille auteur du livre L’âge d’or du Tibet : « Les religieux qui sont à la tête de ces cités monastiques sont extrêmement charismatiques et ont un pouvoir spirituel sur de nombreux Tibétains et aussi Chinois. Ce qui est insupportable pour le parti communiste qui y voit une concurrence. Comme on le sait, il n’est pas admis qu’il y ait un autre pouvoir que le parti communiste. » Au lieu d’étudier les écrits bouddhistes, de prier et de méditer, moines et nonnes sont forcés d’apprendre comment devenir de bons communistes : « Le bouddhisme, comme toute autre religion, doit être sinisé, c’est-à-dire qu’il doit se mettre au service du socialisme aux caractéristiques chinoises. Il est demandé à tous les responsables religieux de devenir des propagandistes du parti ! On a vu des vidéos qui étaient prises dans un camp d’internement où des nonnes chantaient des chants patriotiques ! C’est ça la rééducation, c’est du lavage de cerveau. » Cette vidéo publiée en 2017 par l’ONG Human Rights Watch montre un groupe de femmes aux cheveux rasés. Vêtues de vestes militaires, débout et en rang, elles chantent en chœur à la gloire de la mère patrie. Une rééducation de force loin des regards.et l’épidémie du coronavirus a encore renforcé la répression, estime Kate Saunders : « La Chine considère la religion et l’identité culturelle tibétaine comme un ‘dangereux virus’. Maintenant qu’un vrai virus mortel sévit, l’état chinois impose un contrôle total sur le Tibet. » Le Tibet : un laboratoire idéal pour tester et perfectionner les outils de la surveillance de masse, déployés ensuite dans toute la Chine.

Natalie Haynes explores the enduring appeal of Greek and Roman myth and launches her new novel ‘A Thousand Ships’. (Starts at 1.08)   Jonathan Coe reveals how the characters of ‘The Rotters Club’ have responded to Brexit. (19.45) Red Szell reviews 'Fifty Days That Changed The World'. (36.00) The winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award. (44.10 - Full interview next week)   And the author of ‘The Belfry Witches’ conjures up the books of her life. (47.17)

15/06/2019: A debate with a number of different guests about the shortlist for one of the UK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s book awards. Which are the best and who will win? The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards is now on its 82nd year and The Carnegie features eight books that explore universal ideas of loss and finding your way and purpose in a complicated world. Mary Rose Grieve, Rachel Hamilton, Nick Reynolds and Jamil Abuwardeh discuss The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders, Rebound by Kwame Dadson Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, and Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.

Sophie Anderson opens the door to ‘The House With Chicken Legs' (Starts at 1.50) Elizabeth Acevedo combats teenage angst with slam poetry in ‘The Poet X’. (11.42) Kate Saunders finds relief from grief in ‘The Land of Neverendings’. (29.10) We talk to previous winner Geraldine McCaughrean (40.00)   And return to Sophie Anderson for the books of her life. (48.32)  

In this episode we talk about how we celebrate World Book Night which is on Tuesday the 23rd of April. We then review our books; Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls, The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders, Second best friend by Non Pratt, Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, Kick the moon by Muhammad Khan and A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge. We then let you know our Easter plans! Don't forget to follow us @lounge_learning and don't forget to follow Claire for those Vietnam Photos @MarrisCMarris We will be back on April 25th 2019.

In this episode we discuss our thoughts on the Carnegie shortlist 2019 - Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay, Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, Things a Bright Girl can do by Sally Nicholls, Rebound by Kwame Alexander, House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson and The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders. Then we mention some of our favourites from the longlist that didn't make the cut. Please come and join the conversation by tweeting us @lounge_learning

Today's episode is our contribution to last week's Day of Action - Justice for Roxana. Sam and I offer a brief timeline and explanation of why we think its vital to engage in the discussion about justice for Roxana Hernandez, a trans woman who died in ICE custody at the end of May, and why a fair and just immigration and assylum process is an important LGBTQ issue. After our introduction, we shift to interivews with trans women who attended the vigil. These interviews have english tranlations thanks to Viridiana Hernandz and Kate Saunders who graciously agreed to translate for our english speaking audience. After the interviews, Kate, gives a brief summary of the entire vigil. After this summary we offer you the full Spanish language recording of the vigil and protest tha took place last Wednesday outside of the Phoenix ICE building. We had tried to schedule a lawyer to speak with us about the immigration, assylum, and detention processes, but were unable to schedule this interivew before the air date. We will continue to seek out an interview with a lawyer and will share that when we get it. Thank you for listening and we hope that this week's episode is a useful learning tool for you.  Please follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pg/TransformPod and please subscribe or follow us on your favorite podcasting app. You can contact us at transformpod@gmail.com with questions or anything you would like to share with us - we do ask that you keep all correspondence respectful. Last but not least, a huge thank you to Skylar Kergil for the use of his beautiful song "Tell Me A Story" as the intro and outtro music for our podcast. You can find more information about Skylar and you can support his work at http://www.skylarkergil.com

In this magazine style format podcast, we look at the different views surround the readability, or reading difficulty of a text. Kate Saunders talks to us about her novel, The Land of Neverendings, and Caroline Bradley reviews Robin Stevens' The Guggeneheim Mystery.

In this episode, we’re talking about how to handle it when a kid just plain doesn’t want to do something on your homeschool’s academic to-do list (and, for the billionth time, about how Amy stopped doing math for two years and the world did not explode around her homeschool), what we’re up to on the homefront, and Five Children on the Western Front, Kate Saunders’ tribute to the great E. Nesbit.

The winner of Costa children's books award 2014 talks to site members Noggin and Sailing46 about her sequel to E Nesbit's Five Children and It, set in the first world war

In this podcast Dr Amy Manley talks to Dr Kate Saunders about her study on psychiatric assessment of mood instability using qualitative methods to explore the patient experience of the assessment process.

With John Wilson, A job centre and a local government Health and Safety department are the settings for two new sitcoms. ITVs The Job Lot stars Russell Tovey (Him & Her) and Sarah Hadland (Miranda). Ben Elton has written the BBC's The Wright Way, which stars David Haig. Viv Groskop reviews. Ian Gillan and Ian Paice, long-standing members of the band Deep Purple, discuss their forthcoming album Now What?! The heavy metal pioneers also talk about their Smoke on the Water 70s heyday, multiple lineups, and how the band has evolved over the decades. Krister Henriksson, best-known in Britain as the star of the Swedish TV series Wallander, is making his debut on stage in the UK, in a one-man play, Doktor Glas. Adapted from a classic Swedish novel by Hjalmar Söderberg, it's the tale of a 19th century physician who falls madly in love with the wife of a corrupt clergyman. Will it attract the same enthusiastic audiences who adore Swedish dramas on British television? Author and Wallander fan Kate Saunders gives the critical verdict. The designer Storm Thorgerson, best known for creating the cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, has died. Peter Saville, who designed many memorable record sleeves from the Factory Records era, discusses his influence and music journalist Laura Lee Davies discusses whether there have been any classic albums with disappointing sleeve artwork or music that didn't live up to the promise of its cover. Producer Claire Bartleet.

With Mark Lawson. The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI happens to coincide with the release this week of a new cinema documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, which features the departing Pontiff. Alex Gibney's film charts the claims of sexual abuse made by individuals who were in the care of Catholic priests in the US, and how many similar claims from across the world made their way to the highest level in Rome. Kate Saunders reviews. Writer and director Ray Cooney, who is now 80, talks about creating a film version of his most successful farce, Run for Your Wife, which ran for eight years on the London stage. The film has a host of British stars in cameo roles - including Judi Dench, Cliff Richard and Richard Briers. Marianne Elliott's credits as a director include War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and most recently Simon Stephens' play Port, all for the National Theatre. She reflects on the process of directing, her theatrical family and whether she wants to run the National Theatre in the future. Business is the focus of two TV series starting this evening. The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track goes behind the scenes of the UK's rail network, while businesswoman Alex Polizzi aims to turn around the fortunes of small family-run enterprises. The FT's management columnist Lucy Kellaway reviews both series. Producer Dymphna Flynn.

With Mark Lawson. Mark talks to Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, who star as the demon barber of Fleet Street and his partner in crime Mrs Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd. Having created the hugely successful Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes has turned to the Titanic story for his new ITV mini-series. Writer and critic Kate Saunders gives her verdict. Novelist Russell Banks discusses the issues surrounding his latest work The Lost Memory Of Skin, which follows a convicted sex offender on probation. Producer Ellie Bury.

With Mark Lawson. Novelist A S Byatt discusses a new exhibition Picasso and Modern British Art at Tate Britain, which examines Picasso's relationship with the country and how British artists including Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Henry Moore have responded to his work. As a child, Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo sang for the Sistine Chapel choir, before making his debut at La Scala in Milan at the age of 23. Grigolo explains why he likes to cross over from classical to pop, from Keane's Bed-Shaped to La Donna E Mobile, and why he never talks to his wife before a concert. Kate Saunders reviews a new French film Hadewijch, about a young Christian fanatic who befriends a group of Muslims and finds herself being led down paths which put her life in danger. And with David Guetta's single Titanium doing well in the charts, David Quantick considers how chemical elements and the periodic table have inspired a variety of songwriters. Producer Jerome Weatherald.

With Mark Lawson. Steve Coogan has returned to the character that made him a household name, publishing Alan Partridge's autobiography. He discusses the way Partridge has evolved over the years and whether he's ever considered killing him off. The Comic Strip returns to Channel 4 this week with The Hunt for Tony Blair, in which the former Prime Minister is a 1950s fugitive, on the run for mass murder. Political commentators Quentin Letts and Andrew Rawnsley review. The new Australian film Sleeping Beauty - the debut from writer and director Julia Leigh - tells the story of a university student who signs up for a series of sessions in which her unconscious body is used by men for their erotic fantasies. Author and critic Kate Saunders gives her verdict. Producer Georgia Mann.