Saturday Live

Richard Coles with broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, poet Matt Harvey, two men whose lives were linked by the discovery of some old photographs, a woman whose challenging childhood made her a lifelong optimist, a Sound Sculpture of jet engines and Inheritance Tracks from author Nicholas Evans.

Anita Anand hears from creative polymath Alexei Sayle, poet Elvis McGonagall, Richard Williams, who was caught up in the bombing that killed and injured many people in Oklahoma City in 1995, Brian Belle-Fortune who was at Ben Johnson's incredible 1988 Olympic 100 metre win and now has tickets for the 100 metre final in London in 2012 and Janet Barker who sets quiz questions for the big TV quizzes. And there are the inheritance tracks of children's author Eoin Colfer.

Richard Coles with comedy supremo Paul Jackson, poet Aoife Mannix, Martin Pistorius who was locked into his own body, ventriloquist Steve Hewlett who's brought Archie Andrews back to life, a Thing About You feature telling the story of a very special perfume bottle, and Inheritance Tracks of actress Tessa Peake-Jones.

Richard Coles with crime novelist Dreda Say Mitchell; poet Mr Gee; a former page 3 model, and a man who grew up with Nelson Mandela. There's a Crowdscape feature from Bury St Edmunds, and Inheritance Tracks from former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.

Richard Coles with singer Cerys Matthews; poet Murray Lachlan Young; a woman who went to bed aged 34 and woke up believing she was 15, and a man who spent his childhood playing with Pablo Picasso. There's an I Was There feature about DeLorean cars, and Inheritance Tracks from travel writer Paul Theroux.

Clare Balding at Wimbledon with jazz legend Al Jarreau; poet Matt Harvey; a former Wimbledon ball-boy, and a man whose life was put on track by poet and musician Gil Scott Heron. There's a Soundsculpture of a dairy parlour and Inheritance Tracks from Blue Peter Editor Biddy Baxter.

Richard Coles with actress Lesley Sharp, poet Kate Fox, a young woman who went to China as a student and came back a pop star, and a lifelong campaigner. There's a Daytrip with Griff Rhys Jones and author William Boyd shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles with broadcaster Esther Rantzen, poet Luke Wright, a man who hoaxed the nation in to believing that Jimi Hendrix had recorded the Welsh national anthem, and a woman who discovered after his death that her husband of 46 years has kept his sexuality secret. There's a guerilla report about pamper parties for young girls and opera singer Lesley Garrett shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles with actor and director Richard Wilson, poet Susan Richardson, a woman who discovered her outwardly respectable father was in fact a criminal gangster, and a man who kept a lion as a pet. There's an I Was There feature from a man who worked on the world's first international satellite TV broadcast, and writer Jodi Picoult shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles with novelist John Connolly, poet Elvis McGonagall, a Rwandan man who took his teenage son back to the scenes of the genocide he'd fled, and a young woman who grew up on the diplomatic circuit. There's a Guerilla report about The Floral Dance and actress Niamh Cusack shares her Inheritance Tracks.