Saxophonist Jess Gillam, war poster artist Abram Games, author Tayari Jones

Published: April 18, 2019, 7:35 p.m.

The saxophonist Jess Gillam was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician award in 2016 and went on to take the Last Night of the Proms by storm last year. She plays live in the studio and talks to Samira about her beginnings in a carnival band in Cumbria and how she wants to expand the repertoire for sax players in classical music.

The influential graphic designer Abram Games, who created The Festival of Britain 1951 poster and the BBC\u2019s first television logo, first came to prominence as the 'Official War Poster Artist' during the Second World War. Over 100 of the posters he created while employed by the War Office are on display at new exhibition at the National Army Museum in London. Curator Emma Mawdsley discusses the significance of the artist and his work.

Tayari Jones\u2019s novel, An American Marriage, tells the story of a young African-American couple whose lives are torn apart when the husband is imprisoned for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. Tayari Jones discusses the inspiration for her the book which has been championed by Oprah and picked by Barack Obama as one of his favourite summer reads of 2018.

Presenter Samira Ahmed\nProducer Harry Parker