SatLive: 9 August 2014




Saturday Live show

Summary: Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the writer and comedian Katy Brand,Harry Bucknall who followed the Via Francigena Pilgrims walk, actor Daniel Laurie who's become the first student with Downs Syndrome to be accepted to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Theatre School Summer Course. Author and former news correspondent Gerald Seymour recalls his meeting with Maurice Bailey who, in 1973, with his wife Maralyn survived for 117 days on a rubber raft in the Pacific Ocean, and Maurice tells his side of the story. Alice Morrison has recently run the toughest footrace on earth - the Marathon Des Sables and Sir Neville Marriner shares his Inheritance Tracks.