Saturday Live

Marcus Wareing joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The award-winning chef, food writer, restauranteur and judge on MasterChef: The Professionals is now learning new skills as he produces food on his small holding in East Sussex.Ellie Pacey is a former British Tractor Pulling champion who has recently taken part in BBC 3’s The Fast and the Farmer-ish. She’s also a Formula 1 apprentice test technician and has been a Miss England finalist.Tulsi Vagjiani survived a plane crash which killed her parents and younger brother in 1990. She underwent more than 50 operations to repair facial burns. Going through this extraordinary ordeal would eventually set her on a path to becoming a campaigner for those with visible differences. She’s now a motivational speaker, never happier than when she is giving talks in schools.Trisha Goddard shares her Inheritance Tracks: I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 and Say Ladeo by Bobby McFerrin.Andy McCluskey founded Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark with a school friend. The band have sold over 25 million singles and 15 million albums. But Andy’s first love was art. He explains why he’s a devoted collector of Maurice Wade, and why sharing his work is important.Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden continues Monday to Friday on BBC 2 at 6.30pm. And you can watch any episodes you’ve missed via the iPlayer. Trisha Goddard presents You Are What You Eat, the full series is available on My5 and there’s also a companion book. Maurice Wade, Silent Landscapes - The Andy McCluskey Collection opens Friday 25th March at Trent Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme.Producer: Claire Bartleet Editor: Richard Hooper

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Anoushka Shankar who started playing the Sitar when she was 9, secured a recording contract aged sixteen and has been nominated for 7 Grammy awards. She is the musical successor to her father the world renowned musician Ravi Shankar, and is celebrating his life and achievements. Harry Parker's life changed overnight when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. He talks rebuilding his life, identity and the impact of technology. Maddy Lucy Dann is a junior doctor who turned to social media platform, TikTok to cheer herself up during the pandemic. Her self-deprecating manner, quick wit and resemblance to the comic character Miranda earned her legions of followers and has led to a fledgling parallel career as a stand-up. Giles Kristian is now a writer but during the 90s he auditioned and won the role of lead singer of pop group Upside Down, achieving four top twenty hit records, performing on Top of the Pops as well as at the Royal Albert Hall, N.E.C. and Wembley Arena, and playing concerts on the same bill as such artists as The Spice Girls, Take That, The Backstreet Boys and Eric Clapton. We also have the inheritance tracks from actor Paterson Joseph who chooses In Loving You Junior English and Better Get it in Your Soul by Charles Mingus and your thank you.Producer: Corinna Jones

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Rose Matafeo, comedian and star of BBC Three’s romantic comedy, Starstruck, who grew up in New Zealand and did her first stand up gig as a teenager. Magnus Hanson-Heine will be telling us what it was like growing up in a house with a model shark on its roof in Oxford. Nathaniel Hall kept a secret from his family for fifteen years – that he was HIV positive, after his first sexual experience. And boxer Nicola Barke, aka The Burmese Python, on overcoming a sleeping disorder to become a world Taekwondo champion and kickboxer. Plus the Inheritance Tracks of the DJ Annie Nightingale CBE, who chooses Many A New Day from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma and Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and The Wailers. And your thank you.Producer: Annette Wells

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles start your weekend with: DJ and producer Naughty Boy whose Deal or No Deal win funded his music career, and now he numbers Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande among his collaborators. Photographer and meat-free living advocate Mary McCartney who found fame as a baby when she appeared on the cover of her dad Paul McCartney's first solo album, and since then has become an acclaimed photographer as well as the co-founder of Meat Free Mondays. Elise Christie, world champion speed skater and Olympic athlete. In a new memoir she recounts her successes, and the incredibly tough moments in her life that led her to retire aged 31. Anthea Allen, the critical care nurse who asked for biscuits and started a movement. At the height of lockdown in May 2020 while working at St George's Hospital she emailed her neighbours asking for sweet treats to keep her colleagues going. She was inundated with replies and soon her weekly newsletter, full of stories from the frontline, became essential reading and an organisation was set up to support NHS staff. Newsreader and Mastermind host picks his Inheritance Tracks.If you have been affected by any of the issues in the programme you can find information and support on BBC Action Line www.bbc.co.uk/actionline.Producer: Tim Bano

Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Keith Brymer Jones, master potter, judge on the Throw Down, who used to be in a band called the Wigs, gets emotional about ceramics and has helped to revive the profile of clay. Cleo Sylvestre was the first black actor in a leading role at the National Theatre but not before she had had the Rolling Stones backing her on a track. She joins us. Kevin Quinn was a marathon runner before he realised that he had four holes in his heart. He had an operation and was running 12 weeks later and has since came first in a virtual marathon during Lockdown. Laura Galloway moved from New York to spend six years in a small town of 100 people in the Arctic Tundra after finding out in a DNA test that she had Sami ancestry. and Music journalist Clemency Burton-Hill chooses Ella Fitzgerald performing Willow Weep for Me and Max Richter reworking of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Spring 3 And your Thank you.Producer Corinna Jones

Claire Sweeney joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The actress, singer, dancer and TV presenter Claire Sweeney made her professional singing debut age 14 and her varied career includes playing Lindsey Corkhill in Brookside and performing alongside Patrick Swayze in the West End. Rory O’Grady turned detective to document the final journey of his older brother and the passengers who died alongside him in a mid-air collision over Italy in 1958. Rory talks about the significance of finding family members.Rajinder Singh came to prominence as the Skipping Sikh during lockdown. He was awarded an MBE last year and has inspired his daughter Minreet Kaur to live a healthier life.Neil Morrissey shares his Inheritance Tracks: Ray Stevens, The Streak and Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire.Laura Willoughby MBE decided to give up drinking almost 10 years ago. She explains how it transformed her life and career. Claire Sweeney is playing Violet Newstead in the UK tour of Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical until 5th March 2022. The Flight of the Arctic Fox by Rory O’Grady is out now. The fourth series of The Good Karma Hospital starring Neil Morrissey continues on Sunday at 8pm on ITV. Club Soda's alcohol free off-licence in central London is open until 27th February.Producer: Claire Bartleet Editor: Richard Hooper

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Vicky McClure, star of Line of Duty and This Is England. Her latest role is in a new drama on bomb disposal, keeping us on the edge of our sofas. We also have Helen Naylor who grew up believing that her mother had a chronic health condition that made her so exhausted she had to spend most of her time in bed. After her mother's death she found her diaries which told a different story. Listener Liz Ashworth emailed us about her mission to keeping traditional Scottish food alive: she wrote cook books for bairns and joins us ahead of Burns night on Tuesday! We also have Osman Yousefzada, the son of Pakistani-Afghan migrants who settled in Birmingham. As a child, he was able to inhabit his mother’s world where women gathered behind a curtain to sew and talk, separated from the men. Osman has became an artist himself, designing clothes for Beyonce and Lady Gaga. Sir Kenneth Branagh gives us his inheritance tracks - he chooses Cyprus Avenue by Van Morrison and Rio by Michael Nesmith. and we have your Thank you.Producer: Corinna Jones

Author and podcaster Giovanna Fletcher trained as an actor, but with several bestselling novels under her belt and her hit podcast Happy Mum Happy Baby featuring guests stars such as the Duchess of Cambridge, she has had little time to take to the stage in recent years. Now she stars in the West End in Danny Robins's terrifying new play 2.22 A Ghost Story at London's Gielgud Theatre.During lockdown, Femi Fadugba's debut novel, which combines his expertise in quantum physics with a thrilling time travel story set in Peckham, became a bestseller and was quickly snapped up by Netflix for a film adaptation. Ben Norris combines his skills as a poet, actor and playwright in The Choir of Man, a new feelgood show in the West End, which uses hits by the likes of Sia and and Guns'n'Roses to celebrate the power of community.After an incredible story from listener Helen Kirkham on last week's show about the devastating accident that almost took her life, we reunite Helen with someone very special.Darling Buds of May, Matilda and Call the Midwife actor Pam Ferris chooses her Inheritance Tracks: You Are My Heart's Delight by Richard Tauber and Bonde by Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder.And we have a Thank You from Topsy Kennedy.Producer: Tim Bano

Nikki Bedi and Rev Richard Coles are joined by actor Ralf Little who first appeared on our screens as the awkward Antony in the Royle Family, went on to star in Two Pints and a packet of crisps, and now Death in Paradise. Legendary football manager Brian Clough took our guest Craig Bromfield under his wing as a troubled youngster but their relationship ended when Craig betrayed Brian and never saw him again. Craig has written about his experience to make sense of what he did and why he did it. Helen Kirkham is a Saturday Live listener who had a road accident as a teen and later trained to be a nurse. She attended a lecture by the doctor who saved her life. Sports reporter Emma John who is a cricket fan, a bluegrass fiddler and singledom advocate. Andy Summers, guitarist with The Police, chooses his Inheritance Tracks: Manha de Carnaval from the film Black Orpheus by Luiz Bonfa and West Coast Blues by Wes Montgomery and your thank you.Producer: Corinna Jones

Sarah Parish joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. Best known for her work in Mistresses, W1A , Broadchurch and Bancroft, Sarah talks about her career, including her latest project which is a crime thriller, and the charity she co-founded with her husband in memory of their first daughter.Supriya Nagarajan explains why she gave up a successful banking career to become a musician.Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton talks about being homeless as a teenager and how it inspired her career, she's the chief fire officer at West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service.Matt Goss shares his Inheritance Tracks: Your Song by Elton John and Piano Man by Billy Joel.Aldo Kane has been inside an active volcano more than once and met his wife in one too. The former Royal Marines sniper talks about his life and experiences.Sarah Parish can be seen in Stay Close, which is available on Netflix from the 31st December. Supriya Nagarajan: Mapping the Music is at The Hepworth Wakefield on 19th February. The Heat of The Moment by Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is out now. The Beautiful Unknown by Matt Goss is out in spring 2022. Lessons From the Edge by Aldo Kane is out now.Producer: Claire Bartleet Editor: Richard Hooper