Doon Mackichan

Published: July 30, 2022, 10:28 a.m.

b'Doon Mackichan joins Nikki Bedi and Rev Richard Coles. The actor, writer and comedian \\u2013 and double Emmy winner - talks about her latest comedy role set in a suburban street in Glasgow, how she did impressions to avoid the school bullies and her love of wild swimming.\\n\\nLoree Draude is one of the first women to fly combat jets in the U.S. Navy. She switched to start-ups in Silicon Valley, rediscovered her love of theatre and now has a one-woman show.\\n\\nMatt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in South Wales, then lost his faith in his late teens and began his search for salvation elsewhere, turning to books and then to alcohol and drugs.\\n\\nCarol Kirkwood shares her Inheritance Tracks \\u2013 Surfin\\u2019 USA by The Beach Boys and Love Will Keep Us Alive by The Eagles.\\n\\nMike Gayle was the first man to win Romantic Fiction\\u2019s top award and was an Agony Uncle for girls\\u2019 teen magazine Bliss before becoming a novelist.\\n\\nTwo Doors Down is BBC Two on Tuesday nights at 10pm, and all five series are available to watch on the BBC iplayer.\\nLoree Draude\\u2019s show, I Feel the Need runs from 4th to 27th August at the Assembly Rooms - Powder Room in Edinburgh. \\nMatt Rowland Hill\\u2019s memoir, Original Sins is published by Chatto & Windus.\\nMike Gayle\\u2019s book, The Museum of Ordinary People is published by Hodder & Stoughton.\\u202f\\n\\nProducer: Annette Wells\\nEditor: Richard Hooper'