Saturday Live

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 Wilcox shares her Secret Life and documentary-maker Steve James shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles talks to Paul Gambaccini about radio, music, memory and Your Desert Island Discs, hears poetry from regular poet Matt Harvey, explores the discovery of a set of lost family photographs and the impact they had when rediscovered, speaks to an Irish novelist about her childhood caring for her Mother and Grandmother, enjoys the inheritance tracks of writer Nicholas Evans and thrills to the sound of jet engines in a sound sculpture featuring the sonic boom.

Anita Anand meets Alexei Sayle, hears from a man who was caught up in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, talks to a woman who sets some of the big TV quiz questions, meets a man who saw Ben Johnson's win in the 100 metre race at the 1988 Olympics and listens to the inheritance tracks of children's author Eoin Colfer.

Richard Coles talks to a stalwart of comedy production, Paul Jackson; a man who spent 14 years locked in his body; a ventriloquist who has brought Archie Andrews back to life. Also, the piquant aroma of a perfume bottle and actress Tessa Peake-Jones's Inheritance Tracks. Plus poetry from Aoife Mannix.

Rev 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.

Richard Coles with singer Cerys Matthews; poet Murray Lachlan Young; a woman who went to bed aged 34 and woke up believing she was 15, and a man who spent his childhood playing with Pablo Picasso. There's an I Was There feature about DeLorean cars, and Inheritance Tracks from travel writer Paul Theroux

Clare Balding at Wimbledon with jazz legend Al Jarreau, poet Matt Harvey, former Wimbledon ball-boy Brian Ball, and Malik Al Nasir, whose life was put on track by a chance meeting with poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron. There's a Soundsculpture from Rebecca Pow of her parents' milking parlour and Inheritance Tracks from former Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter.

Richard Coles with actress Lesley Sharp and poet Kate Fox. Mary-Jess Leaverland went to China as a student and came back a pop star. Pat Arrowsmith has spent a lifetime as a peace campaigner. There's a Daytrip with Griff Rhys Jones and author William Boyd shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles with broadcaster Esther Rantzen, poet Luke Wright, a man who hoaxed the nation in to believing that Jimi Hendrix had recorded the Welsh National Anthem, and a woman who discovered after his death that her husband of 46 years has kept his sexuality secret. There's a guerilla report about pamper parties for young girls and opera singer Lesley Garrett shares her Inheritance Tracks.

The Reverend Richard Coles meets actor and director Richard Wilson, talks to a woman whose outwardly respectable father turned out to be a criminal, finds out more about Christian the Lion- bought from Harrods in the 1960's- hears from a man who witnessed the first satellite pictures to cross the Atlantic, relaxes to novelist Jodi Picoult's inheritance tracks and enjoys poetry from regular Susan Richardson.

Richard Coles with novelist John Connolly, poet Elvis McGonagall, a Rwandan man who took his teenage son back to the scenes of the genocide he'd fled, and a young woman who grew up on the diplomatic circuit. There's a Guerilla report about The Floral Dance and actress Niamh Cusack shares her Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles hears the inheritance tracks of novelist Iain Banks, revels in the poetry of Murray Lachlan Young, talks to historian Amanda Foreman and to one of the 1948 UK Olympic torch bearers, shudders to a sound sculpture of howling jackals and meets the son of a Southern USA Klu Klux Klansman.

Richard Coles with cook and writer Elisabeth Luard, poet Mr Gee, a woman who's trying to have a child using a website to match her with a potential donor, and the son of the little bald guy who Benny Hill used to slap round the head to the tune Yackety Sax. We revisit the former Gloucester Cattle Market plus Duncan Lamont, one of Britain's greatest sax players, shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles with composer Howard Goodall. Country legend Emmylou Harris shares her Inheritance Tracks, poetry from Salena Godden, a Sound Sculpture of an intensive care unit, mannequin revolutionary Kevin Arpino, and civil servant turned boxing promoter Miranda Carter.

Rev Richard Coles with comedian and activist Mark Thomas. Ex-Guantanamo guard Brandon Neely tells us why he wanted to tell the world about life in the camp. The secret life of k d lang. A listener's fondness for the sound of his diswasher. Madhur Jaffrey chooses her Inheritance Tracks. Plus poet Luke Wright.