Chris Rea, Rosa Hoskins, Chris Dobrowolski, Graham Satchwell

Midweek

Libby Purves meets singer and songwriter Chris Rea; artist Chris Dobrowolski; former railway detective Graham Satchwell and actor Rosa Hoskins, daughter of Bob.

Chris Dobrowolski is an artist and sculptor who spent three and a half months in Antarctica as artist in residence for the British Antarctic Survey. Chris lived and worked alongside scientists, medical professionals, researchers and crew members. Armed with boxes of Antarctic-themed toy figures, including plastic penguins, he set out across the polar ice to capture the essence of this southern wilderness. In his show Antarctica, he tells of his adventures. Antarctica is on tour.

Chris Rea is a singer and songwriter and blues guitarist. Born in Middlesborough to an Anglo-Italian family who ran an ice-cream business, he didn't take up the guitar until he was 21. His hits include Fool If You Think It's Over, The Road To Hell and Josephine. He has released a new edition of La Passione, a film and soundtrack based loosely on his dreams as a young boy growing up in the industrial North East and his love of Formula 1. La Passione - Artist's Edition box-set is released on Jazzee Blue.

Actor and writer Rosa Hoskins is the daughter of the actor Bob Hoskins, star of The Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa. In her memoir, It's All Going' Wonderfully Well, she recalls some of the life lessons her father taught her such as laugh, be yourself, get angry and love with all your heart. It's All Going Wonderfully Well - Growing Up with Bob Hoskins is published by Hutchinson.

Graham Satchwell is a former detective superintendent with the British Transport Police. In his memoir, An Inspector Recalls, he writes about his early days in the police force in the Sixties and Seventies and some of the prevailing attitudes he brushed up against. He describes investigating the Southall Rail crash in 1997 and a highly charged encounter with John McVicar, one time convicted armed robber. An Inspector Recalls - Memoirs of a Railway Detective is published by The History Press.

Producer: Paula McGinley.