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: 23 April 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:00

Sian Williams with writer and director Mike Leigh, poet Matt Harvey and the Inheritance Tracks of human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Jo Galloway who was adopted and then gave up her own child for adoption. Plus we head into the crowd at Sheffield's Peace Gardens and listener Dawn Evans recalls the sound of fire engines.

 SatLive: 16 April 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:59

Richard Coles with writer, broadcaster and poker ace Victoria Coren, poet Aoife Mannix, one man who faces some big fences in his chase to become a jockey, and another who does not feel pain. Style guru Peter York reveals his Secret Life and actor Anne Marie Duff shares her Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 9 April 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:57

The Reverend Richard Coles with best-selling author Joanna Trollope, poet Kate Fox, one man who discovered a crock of gold and another who lived through the upheaval in the Congo as it became independent in 1960; an I Was There feature about the 1997 Grand National which postponed by an IRA bomb scare, and Benjamin Zephaniah shares his Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 2 April 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:51

Rev Richard Coles with author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, poet Murray Lachlan Young, and a former evacuee who was eventually adopted by the family who took him in. There's a Sound Sculpture of washing china tea sets, an I Was There from the Chief Officer of The Canberra when she was requisitioned for the Falklands War, plus the Inheritance Tracks of rock 'n' roll's first lady Wanda Jackson.

 SatLive: 26 March 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:58

Suzy Klein with pop star Rick Astley and poet Elvis McGonagall; interviews with a woman who found out at the age of 18 that her father was not the man who'd raised her but a famous novelist instead. There's a Crowdscape from Letchworth, Britain's first Garden City and home of the country's first roundabout, and Inheritance Tracks from Clarence B Jones, the man who helped Martin Luther King write his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

 SatLive: 19 March 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:06

Fi Glover with best selling crime writer crime writer Sara Paretsky and poet Aoife Mannix; interviews with a man who found in his garage a robot that he'd built nearly 50 years ago, and a Japanese woman living in the UK who's dealing at a distance with the catastrophes in her homeland. There's a Sound Sculpture about the sound of windscreen wipers on a Humber, the Secret Life of Loyd Grossman and actor Larry Lamb shares his Inheritance Tracks

 SatLive: | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:58

Fi Glover with creativity guru Sir Ken Robinson and poet Salena Godden; an interview with a man who grew up in a squatter camp in Northern Ireland, a Sound Sculpture which inspired a career in science fiction, the Secret Life of former Liverpool FC manager Rafael Benitez, and the Inheritance Tracks of actress and writer Jo Scanlan.

 SatLive: 5 March 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:58

Fi Glover with broadcaster Angela Rippon and poet Matt Harvey; an interview with a woman who lived through the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a man who was technical director on British Oscar sensation Chariots of Fire, a Day Trip to Stevenage with author and comedienne Emma Kennedy, and Inheritance Tracks from Joy Division and New Order bass player Peter Hook.

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

Richard Coles with actress Alison Steadman and the Inheritance Tracks of novelist Andrea Levy. We speak to a British soldier who survived the Dresden bombings and also a man who predicts food trends.

 SatLive: 19 Feb 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:00

Fi Glover with dancing queen Arlene Phillips and poet Kate Fox; an interview with twins separated at birth who found each other again quite by chance, an I Was There feature with a man who lived in the flat below Freddie Mercury, a Sound Sculpture about freewheeling and actor Om Puri shares his Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 12 February 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:00

Fi Glover with Eden Project founder Tim Smit and poet Salena Godden; interviews with a man who conquered his stammer after 20 years, 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.

 SatLive: 5 Feb 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:05

Fi Glover with presenter and paralympian Ade Adepitan and poet Matt Harvey. Interviews with a 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 a day trip with singer/songwriter Beth Orton and Barry Humphries shares his Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 29 Jan 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:58

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, artist Jack Vettriano reveals his Secret Life and actress Tamsin Greig shares her Inheritance Tracks.

 SatLive: 22 January 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:01

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.

 SatLive: 15 January 2011 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:52

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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