This week on The Lonely Arts Club, we're joined by Mickey Starke.

Best known for playing the role of Sinbad on Liverpool soap opera, Brookside, Mickey is star of both stage and screen.

Martin McQuillan finds out where Mickey's love of entertaining comes from, all the different paths that his career in acting has taken him and what it was like working on a filmset with Samuel L Jackson.

These are just a few of the things Mickey talks about during this episode as he recounts tails of his journey so far.

This podcast is brought to you by the Institute for Creative Enterprise at Edge Hill University.

Making connections through culture.

The podcast is edited by Roz DiCaprio who is the producer alongside Karen Appleton and Carl Hunter.

Audio production is by Sam Auguste of Onomatopoeia Studios in Liverpool.

Music is by Joseph McDade.

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