Dawn O'Porter, Robert Kasanga, Nick Hounsfield, Annie Mac

Published: July 8, 2023, 11:14 a.m.

b'Dawn O\\u2019Porter reigned supreme in the area of TV that wanted the presenter \\u2018immersed\\u2019 in the subject; exploring the dangerous size-zero aesthetic, attitudes to nudity, mail order brides, geisha traditions and most personally perhaps, breast cancer, the disease to which she lost her mother. But since 2006 she\\u2019s refocused her attention to the written word having penned eight books, with two more on the way, her latest is Cat Lady.\\n\\nBelieve it or not the new football season is just three weeks away. But Robert Kasanga is worlds away from the big money world of Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp. Having turned his life around from a world of inner-city gangs to founding Hackney Wick FC \\u2013 a club that gives young people involved in gangs a way out through football.\\n\\nNick Hounsfield began his career as an osteopath, following in the footsteps of his father, and set up his own practice alongside his wife. A passionate surfer since he was knee high to a grasshopper, Nick has since founded The Wave, a pioneering artificial surfing park which opened its first site near Bristol in 2019. But less than a year later, at the age of 46, Nick suffered a series of strokes, and his infant business was forced to close because of the pandeminc.\\n\\nAnd we\\u2019ll hear the Inheritance Tracks of DJ turned author and podcaster Annie Mac.\\n\\nPresenters: Nikki Bedi and Jason Mohammad\\nProducer: Ben Mitchell\\n\\nDetails of support for bereavement and victims of crime is available at BBC Action Line: www.bbc.co.uk/actionline'