Saturday Live

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  • Saturday Live

    LIVE at the Hay Festival - Hugh Bonneville, Martha Kearney, Matt Haig, and the Inheritance Tracks of Prue Leith

    2026-05-23 | 56 mins.
    Martha Kearney is a titan of news and political broadcasting who these days takes a more relaxed approach to her work, swapping the campaign trail for a nature trail.
    Matt Haig can do it all, fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books - and we’re all aboard for his latest novel the Midnight Train - but it's Winnie the Pooh that
    Ian Fletcher, Earl Grantham, Mr Brown…are but some of the much loved characters of Hugh Bonneville - he’s now turned his hand to a children’s book where, as we’ll hear, the most unbelievable stories within it are true!
    All that, plus the Inheritance Tracks of Prue Leith.
    Presenter: Adrian Chiles
    Producer: Ben Mitchell
    Assistant Producer: Lowri Morgan
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards and Josie Hardy
    Editor: Andrea Kennedy
  • Saturday Live

    JJ Chalmers, Ruth Rogers, Matthew Carter & Lawrence Price plus the Inheritance Tracks of Jason Watkins

    2026-05-16 | 56 mins.
    Adrian Chiles presents Radio 4's Saturday morning show.
    Our wonderful guests today include JJ Chalmers, who has been a design-technology teacher, Royal Marine and Invictus games medallist. He is now a regular presenter on Television and Radio.
    We also have with us a legend of the food and restaurant world, Ruth Rogers.
    And a couple of podcasting Dads - Matthew Carter and Lawrence Price - who’ve got fellow fathers to come together and share their feelings by offering classes in braiding girls’ hair.
    Plus the Inheritance Tracks of the actor Jason Watkins.
    Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
    Assistant Producer: Ribika Moktan and Lowri Morgan
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Andrea Kennedy
  • Saturday Live

    Steve Backshall, Natalie Queiroz, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and the Inheritance Tracks of Nick Robinson

    2026-05-09 | 56 mins.
    On today's programme, Adrian Chiles is with Steve Backshall. The adventurer and naturalist has captivated all of us with his work, but especially children - millions of them - who he’s led wide-eyed into the natural world.
    Frank Cottrell-Boyce is blessed with a similar gift for capturing the imagination of children, as well as grownups. The esteemed screenwriter is presently the Children’s Laureate. Frank will be appearing on the programme ahead of his appearance at the Children's Laureate Lecture called The Kids Are Not Alright, which is being held on Thursday 14 May at the Royal Institution in London.
    And amazing storytellers though Frank and Steve are, even they might struggle to do justice to the tale of what Natalie Queiroz has been through. Her work campaigning for the victims of crime has earned her a well-deserved MBE.
    Also, we'll hear the Inheritance Tracks of broadcaster and journalist Nick Robinson.
    Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
    Assistant Producer: Ribika Moktan
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Andrea Kennedy
    And if you have been affected by any of the details discussed in today’s programme, you can find information for help and support in the UK at bbc.co.uk/actionline.
  • Saturday Live

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Lucy Shepherd, Jonathan Shalit and the Inheritance Tracks of Liz Earle

    2026-05-02 | 56 mins.
    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall found his calling in the countryside of Gloucestershire and Devon to become a cook on the wild side championing seasonal and sustainable ingredients.
    Lucy Shepherd is our explorer who has navigated her way from the safety of the Suffolk countryside to the amazon and arctic, including the Cardiff studio.
    And Jonathan Shalit, who began writing music reviews at school and ended up managing the talents of some of the biggest names in music and show business.
    Plus the Inheritance Tracks of the beauty entrepreneur and author Liz Earle.
    Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
    Assistant Producers: Ribika Moktan and Lowri Morgan
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Andrea Kennedy
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    Lesley Nicol, Joseph Coelho, Tari Lang and the Inheritance Tracks of Laura Mvula

    2026-04-25 | 56 mins.
    On today's programme, Adrian is joined with a poet, an actor and a woman who has been through a military coup in the 1960s.
    Joseph Coelho the poet was raised in a tower block in Roehampton. He wrote his way into the role of children’s laureate and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
    Lesley Nicol, the actress, grew up in Irlam, Greater Manchester and ended up in Downtown Abbey. Some journey that for Mrs Patmore, the cook who, disappointingly, can’t cook in real life.
    And Tari Lang who grew up in Jakarta and has written a coming of age memoir in the middle of the military coup which saw at least half-a-million people lose their lives in Indonesia. Plus the Inheritance Tracks from the singer-songwriter Laura Mvula.
    Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
    Assistant Producers: Ribika Moktan and Lowri Morgan
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Andrea Kennedy
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