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BBC Radio 4
Join Adrian Chiles for a Saturday morning full of remarkable people with extraordinary stories.
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Sep 17, 2011 • 57min
Sir William Atkinson, Murray Lachlan Young, hurricane girl Pauline Brannigan, Chris Hargreaves, Francis Rossi and Jean Marsh
Richard Coles with headmaster Sir William Atkinson and poet Murray Lachlan Young.

Sep 10, 2011 • 57min
Nick Fisher, Salena Godden, Glasgow Crowdscape, Halla Diyab, former traveller Roxy Freeman, Ophelia Dahl's Inheritance Tracks
Richard Coles with writer, fisherman and former agony-uncle Nick Fisher, poet Salena Godden, the filmmaker who refused Colonel Gaddafi after going to meet him in the Libyan desert, a woman who grew up on the road in a traveller community, a Crowdscape from Glasgow's Central Station & Inheritance Tracks from Ophelia Dahl. Producer: Debbie Kilbride.

Sep 3, 2011 • 57min
Susan Bullock, Mr Gee, HIV+ John Percy, air-guitarist Guy Thompson, Jenni Murray's Daytrip, Adam Ant's Inheritance Tracks.
Richard Coles with Last Night of the Proms soprano Susan Bullock, poet Mr Gee, a man who who's been living with HIV for 30 years, and the UK's air-guitar champion. JP Devlin takes a Daytrip to Buxton with Dame Jenni Murray and Adam Ant shares his Inheritance Tracks.Producer: Debbie Kilbride.

Aug 27, 2011 • 57min
Stella Duffy; Luke Wright; former Vice Consul Hugh Hunter, May Shigennobu, George Orwell's landlady Irene Stacey, Chris Tarrant
Richard Coles with writer and performer Stella Duffy, poet Luke Wright, a man who used to be a Vice Consul in Orlando and Marseilles, and a woman whose mother was a leader of the Japanese Red Army. There's a strange story about George Orwell's beer mug and Chris Tarrant's Inheritance Tracks.
Producer: JP Devlin.

Aug 20, 2011 • 57min
Kevin Dutton, Salena Godden, Pat Reid, George Carrigill, Chipping Norton Crowdscape, Pauline Black's Inheritance Tracks
Richard Coles with psychologist and persuasion expert Kevin Dutton, poet Salena Godden, a man working with young people to stop them joining street gangs, and one of Britain's oldest bookies. There's a Crowdscape from Chipping Norton and The Selecter's Pauline Black shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Aug 13, 2011 • 57min
Richard Coles with Tom Dyckhoff, Matt Hampson, Toyah Willcox, Kenneth Grange, Steve James and Kate Fox
Richard Coles with architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff, poet Kate Fox, former rugby player Matt Hampson whose career was cut short when he was paralysed from the neck down and product designer Kenneth Grange who has shaped the way we see everything from trains and taxis to parking meters and pens. Performer Toyah Willcox shares her Secret Life and documentary-maker Steve James shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Aug 6, 2011 • 57min
Richard Coles with Paul Gambaccini, Matt Harvey and Nicholas Evans
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.

Jul 30, 2011 • 57min
Anita Anand with Alexei Sayle, Elvis McGonagall and Eoin Colfer
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.

Jul 23, 2011 • 57min
Paul Jackson, Aoife Mannix, Martin Pistorius, Steve Hewlett and Tessa Peake-Jones
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.

Jul 16, 2011 • 57min
Dreda Say Mitchell, Mr Gee, Bury St Edmunds, Mandela's friend Paul Goldreich, former model Caroline Christensen, Jacqui Smith
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.


