Joe McFadden

Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 11:03 a.m.

b'Joe McFadden joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. He started out in the detective series Taggart and went on to star in Take The High Road, The Crow Road, Heartbeat and Holby City. In 2017 he won Strictly, and he describes why he is donning sparkles again - to appear as Tick/Mitzi in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.\\nGelong Thubten grew up in London and found himself in New York making a career as an actor. He explains how he ended up as a monk and a spiritual teacher, teaching meditation to clients including: the United Nations, Google, Her Majesty\\u2019s Prison Service, and the actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton. \\nVictoria Nixon was spotted in Bond Street in London by the photographer Helmut Newton. She reminisces about working as an international model while grieving the loss of her entire family by the age of 24 \\u2013 two by suicide. \\nColleen Blair became the first person to swim the Minch, the challenging stretch of water between the Inner Hebrides and the Scottish mainland. She also swam the English Channel when she was 20 and Loch Ness. She comes live from The Scottish National Open Water Championships at Loch Venachar.\\nProfessor Hugh Montgomery is a distinguished physician, known for his pioneering genetic research. He\\u2019s also climbed mountains, run ultra-marathons, and he holds the world record for playing a piano underwater. He reveals how he came to write a novel after a late night drinking session with Lynda La Plante.\\nSusan Hill shares her Inheritance Tracks: The Sea Interludes from Benjamin Britten\\u2019s Peter Grimes, and Mozart\\u2019s Oboe concerto 3rd movement played by Nicholas Daniel. \\n\\nProducer: Louise Corley\\nEditor: Eleanor Garland'