Saturday Live

Adrian Chiles presents Radio 4's Saturday morning programme. On today's programme:
Paul Merton’s been at the top of his game for BBC One's Have I Got News for You and a familiar voice here on BBC Radio 4’s Just A Minute. He is about to take his Improv show with his wife Suki Webster to the Edinburgh Fringe this August. They’ll also be taking the show back to The Comedy Store in London from November through to December.

Professor Lady Sue Black - Baroness of Black Strome – is a world‑renowned forensic anthropologist, celebrated for her pioneering work in forensics and human identification.
David James is a football pundit and a former England international. His career as a goalkeeper has taken him from grassroots sport in Welwyn Garden City to the international stage and World Cup tournaments.
Plus we'll have the Inheritance Tracks of the best selling crime author Mark Billingham.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant Producer: Imy Harper
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Joining Adrian Chiles on this week's programme is Professor of social history, a writer with a first class degree from Cambridge and a TV legend with a masters from Oxford.
Ruby Wax is as well known now for her work in mental health, but she’s been looking back at some of her biggest interviews to see what she can learn about herself as well as her subjects.
Professor Carl Chinn is a social historian, proud son of Birmingham and great grandson of a Peaky Blinder.
Sathnam Sanghera’s written novels, an acclaimed memoir, acclaimed histories of the British Empire. Now he’s exploring the meaning of one of his heroes - George Michael.
Plus the Inheritance Tracks of the broadcaster Lorraine Kelly.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant Producers: Catherine Powell and Imy Harper
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy
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Three great guests on the show, as per normal. One of them’s all about the paranormal, one is a legendary entrepreneur, and a lifelong journalist whose greatest story turned up in her own family.
Danny Robins is a man with an uncanny ability to explore the supernatural in a way which delights sceptics and believers alike.
Sharon Ring worked on Fleet Street in newspapers and magazines for more than three decades before finding the full story of her mother and uncle’s childhood in Nazi Germany.
And Simon Woodroofe had a great career in music and television behind him before he got round to keeping the promise he made to himself to make his million - Yo Sushi being the business which made his name. He's just released his memoir: Yo! Man: Rock n’Roll, Robots and Reinventing British Dining.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant producer: Catherine Powell & Ribika Moktan
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Adrian Chiles is joined by three hugely successful guests - all shining stars in their fields.
Victoria Pendleton won it all as a track cyclist, a quite astounding athlete who dug so deep, physically and mentally, in her career, and also in navigating her life after cycling.
Cressida Cowell is the writer and illustrator behind - amongst other things - the incredibly successful How to Train your Dragon series.
So we have a sports star, and a star author, and in Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell we have someone whose work enabled the discovery of a new kind of star, a discovery which changed astronomy forever.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant Producer: Imy Harper & Ribika Moktan
Productions co-ordinator: Josie Hardy
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Adrian Chiles with a pop star, a comedian and a writer, but there’s a lot more to each of them than that.
Tom Fletcher was starring on the West End stage at the age of 10. 30 years later he’s been back there writing the music for Paddington - The Musical. In between he’s squeezed in popstardom with the hugely successful band McFly.
Bethany Handley grew up loving life in the great outdoors of Monmouthshire and she has written a memoir, My Body is a Meadow: Finding Freedom in the Outdoors.
And with Russell Kane there’s an awful lot going on. Terrifyingly clever, award-winning comedian, writer, children's book author and now Shakespearean actor.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant Producers: Ribika Moktan and Sofia Popova
Production co-ordinator: Josie Hardy
Editor: Andrea Kennedy