PENNY SMITH

4.30PM, SCALA RADIO

★★★★ James Purefoy had to learn how to haul ropes and heave nets around for the film Fisherman’s Friends. He also, and this was a lot more fun, had to spend his evenings in Cornish pubs learning to sing shanties. James joins Penny to talk about the sequel, Fisherman’s Friends: One And All and his role as Jim, leader of a group of singing Cornishmen (above). Keep Hauling and The Coast Of High Barbary are on the hearty shanty list.