Yahoo Lifestyle Singer Cheryl Baker guest edits BBC radio show
Singer Cheryl Baker was the guest editor on BBC Radio Kent on Friday.
The 70-year-old star, who shot to fame in the '80s with the group Bucks Fizz, spoke about how winning Eurovision and their subsequent chart success changed her life dramatically.
Still touring with the latest incarnation of the band she co-founded, she also talked about plans to record a new album with Mike Stock of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, the trio who famously kickstarted Kylie Minogue's music career.
Ms Baker discussed how she hosts dinner parties at her home to raise money for good causes such as stillbirth charity Abigail's Footsteps and Demelza, a children's hospice charity at whose shop she regularly volunteers.
Having appeared on the TV show Escape to the Country with her husband Steve over Christmas, she also speoke about their plan to downsize while trying to remain in the area of Tonbridge and Malling which they love.
The singer is the latest in a series of guest editors who have done a stint on the Kent airwaves, as well as sitting in on shows on BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey.
Other well-known names so far have included Call the Midwife and EastEnders's actor Cliff Parisi, Paralympian Will Bayley, children's author Jacqueline Wilson, writer Dorothy Koomson and former Olympic athlete Sally Gunnell.
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