Saturday Live

BBC Radio 4
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Nov 16, 2013 • 1h 25min

Owen Sheers, Molly Crabapple, Rose and Douglas Hadfield, Mat Horne

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with poet Owen Sheers, Guantanamo artist Molly Crabapple, South Seas travellers Rosemary and Douglas Hadfield, 17 year old Lauren who found herself without a home, Elisa Berry who found herself looking after JFK's nieces on the day he was assassinated, and actor Mat Horne's Inheritance Tracks.Producer: Dixi Stewart.
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Nov 9, 2013 • 1h 25min

Baroness Greenfield, Gary Barlow

Richard Coles and Anita Anand with neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield talking about her life and work, Julie Bailey who campaigned for reform after her Mother died at Stafford Hospital and who has been hounded from her Stafford home and business, 'Lorna' who lives in Belfast, was in care from around 14 years of age and now volunteers with a Children in Need project that helps others in care, and Diccon Bewes who has followed in the diary footsteps of Miss Jemima Morrell from Selby in Yorkshire, who took an 1863 tour of Switzerland organised by Thomas Cook. JP Devlin visits the village of Herbrandston in Wales which is a doubly 'Thankful Village'- all the village soldiers returned from both World Wars. Back in the studio, Medwyn Parry talks about his motorbike ride to 51 Thankful Villages in the UK- and tells of two new ones discovered recently. And Gary Barlow shares his Inheritance Tracks.Producer: Chris Wilson.
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Nov 2, 2013 • 1h 25min

Linda Nolan

Richard Coles and Anita Anand meet singer Linda Nolan who talks about how she turned to the Samaritans at low points in her life. They hear the Inheritance Tracks of Richard Eyre and the meditative sound of singing bowls. A refugee from Afghanistan explains how he got to Britain and a father and son tell of their adventures all over Britain. A daughter reveals her parent's surprising secret and we get a glimpse behind the scenes at a peace camp.Producer: Harry Parker.
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Oct 26, 2013 • 1h 25min

Terry Deary, Khaled Hosseini, Mr Mitchell

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with Horrible Histories author Terry Deary whose new adult history book is about the Roman Empire and whose play, Barmy Britain Part Two!, is on at the Garrick Theatre in London.They also talk to Jonny Mitchell, Head Teacher at the Thornhill Academy in Dewsbury and the subject of Channel 4's series 'Educating Yorkshire', Henry and Ingrid Wuga, Kindertransport refugees in 1939 who met and married in Glasgow and still live there together aged 89 and Barnaby Rogerson who runs Eland Publishing which specialises in keeping classic travel books in print. They hear from local people in Sunderland as part of a JP Devlin crowdscape, find out about ten-year old Fynnjan who has Aspergers, and his Mum, who are trying to get the song and music he's written to Christmas No1 in the charts whilst raising money for charity and listen to writer Khaled Hosseini's Inheritance Tracks.Producer: Chris Wilson.
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Oct 19, 2013 • 1h 25min

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein meet space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a female trainee astronaut from the early 1960s, Jerri Truhill, and amateur rocketeer John Jacomb. Matt Eagles explains what is like to have had Parkinson's disease since the age of eight, Matthew Baylis tells the story of the cult religions of Vanuatu and June Lady Chichester enthuses about camels. MOBO founder Kanya King picks her Inheritance Tracks.
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Oct 12, 2013 • 1h 25min

Neil Gaiman

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with writer Neil Gaiman, Matilda Tristram who discovered she had cancer when she was 17 weeks pregnant and decided to tell her story in a comic strip, Jazz Summers who spent 10 years trying to get out of the army, and John Levene who played the Yeti in the newly rediscovered episodes of Doctor Who. Musician Tori Amos reveals her Secret Life, The Comic Strip's Lana Pillay shares Inheritance Tracks, and John McCarthy goes to Cornwall to meet the Germans on the trail of Rosamund Pilcher.Producer: Dixi Stewart.
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Oct 5, 2013 • 1h 25min

05/10/2013

Richard Coles and Anita Anand with guest Richard Osman, John McCarthy taking a trip on the sleeper train to Cornwall, writer and quiz lover Stevyn Colgan on his time as a member of Scotland Yard's 'Problem Solving Unit', Ian Tibbets on pioneering surgery that saved his sight and enabled him to see his two sons for the first time, sisters June Smith and April Scott on the Devon dialect, Neville Hume who still uses his Grandfather's 130 year old gardening tools and The Inheritance Tracks of actress Rula Lenska.
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Sep 28, 2013 • 1h 25min

Nicholas Parsons; the inheritance tracks of Steve Earle

Richard Coles and Anita Anand's guest's have a wide age range with one aged 89 and another aged 12 . They meet panel game chairman extraordinaire Nicholas Parsons and take a look at some lesser known aspects of his life. We hear the Inheritance Tracks of country singer Steve Earle, trace the fate of a GI bride, explore off-limits cityscapes with an urban explorer and discover what it's like to be a young woman in an old man's industry. Plus there's a glimpse of into how a young boy came to play an old panel game.
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Sep 21, 2013 • 1h 25min

Andi Peters; Aggie MacKenzie's Inheritance Tracks

Anita Anand and JP Devlin talk to Andi Peters, television presenter, voice actor and media executive, puppeteer Nigel Plaskitt who has worked on Spitting Image, Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet and is the man behind the PG Tips Monkey, Robin Mackness, one of the first people to import, in significant numbers, duvets to the UK, thus helping to change the bedroom habits of millions, John Ironmonger whose travels have deepened a love of leeches and rhinos, revel in the Inheritance Tracks of Aggie McKenzie, former M16 operative turned presenter of 'How Clean is Your House' and 'Storage Hoarders' and spend the day with the Brownlee Brothers who talk about their relationship, Yorkshire and the desire to win.
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Sep 14, 2013 • 1h 25min

Bettany Hughes; former SAS soldier Chris Ryan

Richard Coles and Anita Anand are joined by historian and broadcaster, Bettany Hughes who talks about her love of history, cricket and Istanbul, Dr Robert Poole who explains what happened on September 14th 1752 when Britain changed from a Julian calendar to a Gregorian calendar and Jess Herman who tells us about her work with Nicaraguan street children. They also hear a 'Sound Sculpture' of a Spitfire's Merlin engine described by Britain's only female Spitfire pilot Carolyn Grace, explore Andrew Johnston's attic in 'The Thing About Me' where he discovers pictorial maps by his Uncle MacDonald 'Max' Gill, listen to the 'Inheritance Tracks' of former SAS soldier Chris Ryan and travel to Durham with John McCarthy to see the Lindisfarne Gospels in a major exhibition at Durham University's Palace Green Library.Producer: Chris Wilson.

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