Saturday Live

BBC Radio 4
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Feb 12, 2011 • 57min

12/02/2011

Fi Glover with Eden Project founder Tim Smit and poet Salena Godden; interviews with a man who lived with a stammer for 20 years before learning to control it, and a tube driver whose life became involved with that of the person who killed themselves under his train. There's a Guerilla Report on mix tapes and Stephen Fry shares his Inheritance Tracks.
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Feb 5, 2011 • 57min

05/02/2011

Fi Glover with presenter and paralympian Ade Adepitan and poet Matt Harvey; interviews with a young man who went to Ecuador in search of adventure and found it, and with a woman whose parents swapped partners with the couple next door. There's a Daytrip with singer-songwriter Beth Orton and Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries shares his Inheritance Tracks.
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Jan 29, 2011 • 57min

29/01/2011

Fi Glover with showbiz icon Lionel Blair, poet Aoife Mannix, a man who survived the Moscow theatre siege of 2002 and a woman who rents her house out as a filming location; top-selling artist Jack Vettriano reveals his Secret Life and actress Tamsin Greig shares her Inheritance Tracks.
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Jan 22, 2011 • 57min

22/01/2011

Fi Glover with Dragon's Den business guru Deborah Meaden and poet Elvis McGonagall, a man who set up his own airline while he was homeless and later sold it for £30 million, and a convert to Islam. There's a piano-tuning Soundsculpture from the great-great-grandson of Chopin's piano tuner and Rick Astley shares his Inheritance Tracks.
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Jan 15, 2011 • 57min

15/01/2011

Fi Glover with guest Mary Portas and poet Murray Lachlan Young; interviews with the last footman in England and a survivor of the New Cross Fire, a Crowdscape from Nottingham Market and the Inheritance Tracks of Rolf Harris.
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Jan 8, 2011 • 57min

08/01/2011

Fi Glover with cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and poet Kate Fox; interviews with a gay former US Marine and a man who is King of a small island of the West Coast of Ireland, a guerilla report about having no sense of smell and Archers stalwart June Spencer - aka Peggy Woolley - shares her Inheritance Tracks.
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Jan 1, 2011 • 57min

01/01/2011

Fi Glover looks forward to the year ahead with comedian Jon Holmes and poet Luke Wright. We hear from a Lanarkshire couple whose baby arrived unexpectedly in the early hours of the new millennium, and a woman who helped make the wedding cake for the Queen and Prince Philip. Crime writer Patricia Cornwell reveals her Secret Life, and singer Annie Lennox OBE shares her Inheritance Tracks.
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Dec 25, 2010 • 1h 57min

25/12/2010

Fi Glover with guests Gary Kemp and Dame Joan Bakewell. Murray Lachlan Young brings poems and the Rev Richard Coles delivers e-mails. There are interviews with Alan and Irene Brogan who met in a children's home in Newcastle and met again years later and got married; they appeared on Saturday Live and as a result of being on the programme a book was written about them. Also Kate Shipton and her son Matthew tell the story of how he donated a kidney to save her life, and Margaret Pellegrini describes how she came to be one of the original munchkins in the Wizard of Oz, and how that experience has shaped her life. There's an I Was There with Professor Colin Pillinger on his involvement in the Apollo 8 which was in space during Christmas 1968, a Crowdscape from Leeds Christmas Market, a Day Trip with John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig at Denis Severs' House in Spitalfields and a Sound Sculpture from Santa Claus. Inheritance Tracks from entertainer Bette Midler and actor and Pantomime Dame par excellence Clive Rowe.
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Dec 18, 2010 • 57min

18/12/2010

Fi Glover with author Michael Morpurgo, poet Matt Harvey, a professor of crowd dynamics and a pagan policeman; a sound sculpture of a windharp and the Inheritance Tracks of actress Lesley Manville.
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Dec 11, 2010 • 57min

11/12/2010

The Reverend Richard Coles with actor Tom Hollander and poet Aoife Mannix, a student protestor from the 1970's and a woman who gathered top secret information at Bletchley Park during the war and was married to a spy. There's an I Was There from the Russian Revolution and Inheritance Tracks from author Jilly Cooper.

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