Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?

What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are?

I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti. I saw a footprint and that really gave me gusmas.

Or people who knew me. Emme, I remember every secret, every lie. I'm the only one who knows the truth.

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Our Great Life this week is a man whose life was full of contradictions. His First World War composition,

keep the home fires burning, encouraged the British during some of our darkest hours.

But during the Second World War he found himself briefly jailed for the misuse of petrol coupons.

He was a talented musician and composer appearing on stage in

his musical numbers but he never sang. He was a housewife's favourite wooing women

on screen and at the box office in their thousands,

while living with his long-term male partner in an age when homosexuality was illegal.

The film star and writer Ivor Novello is our great life this week.

He was also a talented composer and wrote dozens of musicals, many of them hits in the 30s and 40s in the West End.

Novello is the choice of our guest Russell Grant.

You'll know Russell Grant. You might know him from his days on the BBC breakfast

sofa as the regular astrologer, or from his memorable appearance on strictly come dancing two years ago,

or from his many performances in theatre and musicals over the years.

But once encountered, never forgotten. Russell, why Iver Novello?

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