

Saturday Live
BBC Radio 4
Join Adrian Chiles for a Saturday morning full of remarkable people with extraordinary stories.
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Dec 4, 2010 • 57min
04/12/2010
The Reverend Richard Coles with studio guest Gloria Hunniford, poet Elvis McGonagall, the man who carried the flag for England at the 1966 World Cup and a woman who discovered her father's bigamous secret; percussionist Evelyn Glennie reveals her Secret Life and Inheritance Tracks from Mary Coughlan.

Nov 27, 2010 • 57min
27/11/2010
Fi Glover with novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, poet Murray Lachlan Young, a man who was in a band with a very young David Bowie, a headteacher who was caught up in the Montserrat volcano eruption and who helped her pupils through the aftermath by encouraging them to write poems and stories, a woman who extols the virtues of keeping pigs as pets, and the Inheritance Tracks of comedian and author Alexei Sayle.

Nov 20, 2010 • 57min
20/11/2010
Fi Glover with educationist and creativity guru Sir Ken Robinson, poet Salena Godden, teen mum Hannah White who has 4 A levels, and a man who has just escaped from Somali pirates. There's a Sound Sculpture of an 8mm movie projector, and the Inheritance Tracks of Sir Ian Botham.

Nov 13, 2010 • 57min
13/11/2010
Fi Glover is joined by TV boss and poetry champion Daisy Goodwin and poet Luke Wright. There are interviews with deaf musician Paul Whittaker and Mo Lea who survived an attack by the Yorkshire Ripper, and a Crowdscape from East Midlands airport. Iconic fashion designer Paul Smith shares Inheritance Tracks.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Oct 30, 2010 • 57min
30/10/2010
The Reverend Richard Coles is joined by satirist John Lloyd and poet Kate Fox.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Oct 23, 2010 • 57min
23/10/2010
Saturday Live's guest presenter is news anchor Mishal Husain. She's joined by physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili, poet Matt Harvey and expert negotiator Stuart Diamond.The producer is Simon Clancy.

Oct 16, 2010 • 57min
16/10/2010
Fi Glover is joined by singer songwriter Edwyn Collins and his wife Grace Maxwell, poet Susan Richardson, Florence Terry who used to beat her husband and now runs anger management courses, and Welshman Clive Nicol who's a household name in Japan and has been named 'sexiest foreigner in jeans'. There's a Sound Sculpture about a coffee grinder and Inheritance Tracks from writer Colm Toibin.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Oct 9, 2010 • 54min
09/10/2010
Fi Glover with studio guest editor of The Lady Rachel Johnson, poet Luke Wright, The Secret Life of Sean Wilson who exchanged the role Martin Platt in Coronation Street for a life of cheesemaking, and the Inheritance Tracks of Carol Vorderman. There's either an interview with a doctor who volunteered his medical services during the war in Kosovo and who ended up fighting for the Kosovo Liberation Army, and the milkman who threw away pictures given to him by one of his customers: LS Lowry.

Oct 2, 2010 • 57min
02/10/2010
Fi Glover is joined in the studio by the first lady of Radio 1 Annie Nightingale MBE, poet Salena Godden and the daughter of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. There's a guerilla report from a woman who has 400 pairs of designer shoes, an interview with the milkman who threw away several paintings by LS Lowry, and former Ryder cup captain Sam Torrance shares his Inheritance Tracks.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Sep 25, 2010 • 57min
25/09/2010
Fi Glover is joined by historian Michael Wood, poet Aoife Mannix, a woman who found 32 skeletons in her back garden, and a man who was jailed in 1960 for being gay.There's a Crowdscape from the North Devon Show and musician Jean Michel Jarre shares his Inheritance Tracks. The producer is Debbie Kilbride.


