GrownUpLand

1. Inking Big

How many tattoos are too many? Will they still look good when you're 78? Is tattooing someone at a drunken dinner party a good idea? Join Mae, Bisha, Ned and Steve to untangle these highly complex problems. This week, Mae confesses her biggest tattoo regrets, Bisha's been digging up a 500 year old mummy called Otzi and Ned gets a piercing - and it really suits him. Rapper and poet Roxanne joins the gang to help unpick your dilemmas and Steve Ali will be here to put everything into perspective. Co-created by Deborah Frances-White for The Spontaneity Shop and BBC Radio 4.Producer: Al RiddellMusic by Mark Hodge and Omahrose, produced by Nick Sheldon.Featured in this programme: 
A Mortal Work of Art (13/11/2014)
The Listening Project (01/12/2017)
Saturday Live (31/07/2012)

"Now I’m a grown up… do I have to get married? Do I have to scrimp and save?? Do I have to host a dinner party??? GrownUpLand poses the most frustrating questions. Luckily, Sophie Duker, Heidi Regan and Ned Sedgwick are here to guide you through the bewildering pursuit of adulthood.
 
Through stupid challenges, useful facts and personal stories of rich victory and miserable failure, your guides will ensure you don’t feel alone in your hopeless endeavour to be a legit grown up. Plus, every week a special guest candidly shares their experiences, from failed dates and drunken mistakes to moments of clarity and pet hates. And the very handsome Steve Ali, a refugee from Syria now a writer and silversmith in the UK, helps to put a listener’s dilemma into perspective.
 
Co-created by Deborah Frances-White for The Spontaneity Shop and BBC Radio 4.
 
Produced by Al Riddell."