Saturday Live show

Saturday Live

Summary: Real life but not as you know it. Radio 4's Saturday morning show is full of the stuff that matters, extraordinary stories, inheritance tracks, guerrilla reports, secret lives, poetry and more.

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Podcasts:

 SatLive: 26 Nov 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:53

Richard Coles with crime writer Patricia Cornwell, poet Elvis McGonagall, a woman who accompanied her terminally-ill husband to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, the Hebridean man who's explored the shipwreck which inspired Whisky Galore, and the club DJ who found a rare recording of Cassius Clay singing Stand By Me. Plus, Ulrika Jonsson shares her Inheritance Tracks.

 Saturday Live: 19th November 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:11

Richard Coles with film maker Sir Alan Parker, poet Kate Fox, a man whose life was saved by a magic trick and a woman who had to tell her children she was being sent to jail. JP Devlin shuffles through Kirsty Young's MP3 player to reveal her music choices and textile designer and David Hockney muse Celia Birtwell shares her Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 12 Nov 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:56

Richard Coles with performer Michael Ball, poet Mr G, Mini-Miss Worldwide Bethany Jade and her mum Debbie, Peter Phillips who was Robert Maxwell's official receiver, an I Was There feature from Jim'll Fix It & the Inheritance Tracks of film and theatre director John Crowley.

 SatLive: 05 Nov 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:00

The Reverend Richard Coles talks to cook Allegra McEvedy, hears about comedian Omid Djalili's secret life, shares Randy Newman's inheritance tracks, explores one woman's plan to end her funeral atop a firework and examines the money saving world of the freegan.

 SatLive: 29 Oct 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:54

The Reverend Richard Coles and guests explore fascinating stories from all corners of the World.

 SatLive:22 Oct 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:56

Richard Coles with pop star, writer and play advocate Pat Kane, poet Mr Gee, the referee at the Hillsborough disaster & one of the original Concorde cabincrew. There's a soundsculpture of the San Francisco cable car bell, and the Inheritance Tracks of singer, band leader and actor Harry Connick Jr.

 SatLive: 15 October 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:50

Richard Coles with advertising creative Rosie Arnold, poet Luke Wright, a couple from Gloucestershire who took an 'grey gap year', and a former Zimbabwean Government official now living in Bristol who was driven into exile by Robert Mugabe. Frank Skinner reveals his Secret Life and singer Tori Amos shares her Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 8 Oct 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:00

Sian Williams with Gyles Brandreth, poet Elvis McGonagall, a woman who was experimented on by the British Eugenics Society, and a man from Oxford who's had a shark sticking out of his roof for the past 25 years. There's a Crowdscape from Broadstairs and Inheritance Tracks from Old Grey Whistle Test legend Bob Harris.

 SatLive: 1 October 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:00

Richard Coles with geneticist Professor Steve Jones, poet Kate Fox, a 14 year old boy with a bionic hand, and a former anarchist who describes what it was like to be part of the 1990 poll tax riots. There's an I Was There feature from the Conservative Party Conference of 1963, Radio 4's Peter White shares his Inheritance Tracks. .

 SatLive: 24 Sept 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:47

Richard Coles with violinist Nigel Kennedy, poet Matt Harvey, Red Rum's former stable lad, and an anti-fascist campaigner who used to be a member of the BNP. There's the story of a ballet shoe that used to belong to Rudolf Nureyev and war correspondent Janine di Giovanni shares her Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 17 Sept 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:05

Richard Coles talks to Sir William Atkinson about his life in education, hears poetry from Murray Lachlan Young,eavesdrops on JP Devlin going back to school with Status Quo's Francis Rossi, finds out about life in the lower football leagues and hears the Inheritance Tracks of actress Jean Marsh.

 SatLive: 10 September 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:50

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.

 SatLive: 3rd Sept 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:56

Richard Coles talks to soprano Susan Bullock, hears poetry from regular poet Mr Gee, enjoys a trip round Buxton with Jenni Murray, listens to Adam Ant's Inheritance Tracks and finds out about living long term with HIV.

 SatLive: 27 August 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:56

Rev 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 story about George Orwell's beer mug and Chris Tarrant's Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 20 Aug 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:59

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.

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