

Saturday Live
BBC Radio 4
Join Adrian Chiles for a Saturday morning full of remarkable people with extraordinary stories.
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May 21, 2011 • 57min
21/05/2011
Richard Coles with historian Amanda Foreman, poet Murray Lachlan Young, a man whose father was a high-ranking official in the Ku Klux Klan, and a torch-bearer at the 1948 Olympics. There's a Sound Sculpture about jackals in India and best-selling author Iain Banks shares his Inheritance Tracks.

May 14, 2011 • 57min
14/05/2011
Richard Coles with cook and writer Elisabeth Luard, poet Mr Gee, a woman who's trying to have a child using a website to match her with a potential donor, and the son of the little bald guy who Benny Hill used to slap round the head to the tune Yackety Sax. We revisit Gloucester Cattle Market with a former auctioneer and a couple of farmers who recall the buzz of what used to be one of the country's biggest livestock sales and is now a shopping centre; and Duncan Lamont, one of Britain's greatest sax players, shares his Inheritance Tracks.

May 7, 2011 • 57min
07/05/2011
Richard Coles with composer Howard Goodall, poet Salena Godden, mannequin revolutionary Kevin Arpino, and civil servant turned boxing promoter Miranda Carter. There's a Sound Sculpture of an intensive care unit and Country legend Emmylou Harris shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Apr 30, 2011 • 57min
30/04/2011
This week presenter Richard Coles talks to comedian and self-proclaimed libertarian anarchist Mark Thomas and ex-Guantanamo guard Brandon Neely. Madhur Jaffrey insists on an choosing three Inheritance Tracks, and a listener explains why his soul is soothed by the sound of the dishwasher. We also find the answer to the little-asked question: what is the secret life of country singer-songwriter kd lang? Plus poet Luke Wright.
Producer: JP Devlin.

Apr 23, 2011 • 57min
23/04/2011
Sian Williams with writer and director Mike Leigh and poet Matt Harvey.

Apr 16, 2011 • 57min
16/04/2011
The Reverend Richard Coles with writer, broadcaster and poker ace Victoria Coren, poet Aoife Mannix, one man who faces some big fences in his chase to become a jockey, and another who does not feel pain. Style guru Peter York takes us on a Daytrip and actress Anne Marie Duff shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Apr 9, 2011 • 57min
09/04/2011
The Reverend Richard Coles with best-selling author Joanna Trollope, poet Kate Fox, one man who discovered a crock of gold and another who lived through the upheaval in the Congo as it became independent in 1960; an I Was There feature about the 1997 Grand National which postponed by an IRA bomb scare, and Benjamin Zephaniah shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Apr 2, 2011 • 57min
02/04/2011
The Reverend Richard Coles with author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, poet Murray Lachlan Young, and a former evacuee who was eventually adopted by the family who took him in. There's a Sound Sculpture of washing china tea sets, an I Was There from the Chief Officer of The Canberra when she requisitioned for the Falklands War, and the Inheritance Tracks of rock 'n' roll's first lady Wanda Jackson.

Mar 26, 2011 • 57min
26/03/2011
Suzy Klein with pop star Rick Astley and poet Elvis McGonagall; interviews with a woman who found out at the age of 18 that her father was not the man who'd raised but a famous novelist instead. There's a Crowdscape from Letchworth, Britain's first Garden City and home of the country's first roundabout, and Inheritance Tracks from Clarence B Jones, the man who helped Martin Luther King write his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

Mar 19, 2011 • 57min
19/03/2011
Fi Glover with best-selling crime writer crime writer Sara Paretsky and poet Aoife Mannix; interviews with a man who's just brought back to life the robot he built nearly 50 years ago, and a Japanese woman who's dealing at a distance with the catastrophes in her homeland. There's a Sound Sculpture about the windscreen wipers on a Humber, and actor Larry Lamb shares his Inheritance Tracks.


