Saturday Live

Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

Adrian spends the hour in the company of renowned TV producer John Lloyd, the modest genius mind behind such national institutions as Spitting Image, QI and Blackadder.
Also on the porgramme, Kala Subbuswamy who saw no reason why a middle-aged woman couldn't start a punk band, so did just that.
And Jazz Turner didn't let her disability stop her sailing solo around the British Isles, and now she plans to take on the world.
And the Inheritance Tracks of former presenter of BBC Breakfast and Saturday Live, now a consulting psychologist, and still broadcasting, most notably with the Radio 4 series Life Changing, Dr Sian Williams.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Lowri Morgan
Assistant Producer: Catherine Powell & Alice McKee
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Glyn Tansley

On Saturday Live this week, a virtuoso violinist, a singer with a powerful story of motherhood, love and grief, and the woman who made her fortune working out how we shop.
Adrian spends the hour in great company with Nigel Kennedy, Jess Mills and the hugely influential Edwina Dunn OBE.
Also today, we'll be hearing from a somewhat out of breath Greg James, pedalling his way from Weymouth to Edinburgh for Comic Relief.
And we are treated to a special performance by Nigel and his band - Alec Dankworth on double bass and Peter Adams on the cello.
This week's Inheritance Tracks comes from Adam Fleming.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Lowri Morgan
Assistant Producer: Alice McKee
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Glyn Tansley
(The live performance in this programme has been shortened for music rights reasons).

We’re in the company of an eminent foreign correspondent, a no less eminent expert in the field of flowers, and the woman who’s built the most beautiful spaces for cancer care.
Our journalist is our man in Moscow - our last man in Moscow, really - Steve Rosenberg.
Bringing colour, fragrance and joy to our studio is the queen of cut flowers, Sarah Raven.
And we’ll all be scattering rose petals at the feet of Dame Laura Lee for all her work leading the cancer support charity Maggies.
All that, plus the Inheritance Tracks of the comedian Mike Wozniak.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producers: Lowri Morgan and Alice McKee
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Ed Prendeville

On Saturday Live this week we’ll be looking up, down and all over the place.

Dame Maggie Aderin, space scientist, will have us looking to the skies in wonder before David Mearns, shipwreck hunter, takes us down into the ocean deep as we marvel at his life’s work - and a man never short of a sense of wonder is writer, actor, comedian, sailor and lover of alpacas...Griff Rhys Jones.
Also today, we’ll rise from the depths to the surface for some sea shantying from The Longest Johns - and we’ll be getting the Inheritance Tracks of Andy Zaltzman.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producers: Lowri Morgan and Alice McKee
Researcher: Angharad Butler
Editor: Glyn Tansley
(The live music performed in this programme has been shortened for music rights reasons)