Saturday Live

Adrian Chiles presents Radio 4's Saturday morning programme full of remarkable people with extraordinary stories.
Academically we’re in very good shape today.
Dr Kevin Fong has degrees in medicine, astrophysics, aerospace engineering and he’s a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Kevin has spent his working life in high-risk, high-performance teams and he's written a new book called Minute Six which charts his experiences.
Professor Alice Roberts warmed up for her degree in medicine with a BSc in Anatomy and went on to get a PhD in palaeopathology.
And while Alexis Sayle might not be quite so well endowed in the degree department he is considered the godfather of alternative comedy, which is something of which we’re all very much in awe.
Plus we have Inheritance Tracks from the actress Sian Brooke.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant Producers: Catherine Powell and Lowri Morgan
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Adrian Chiles presents Radio 4's Saturday Morning programme:
Alan Cumming has always had a lot going on, in theatre, in Hollywood, as presenter now of one of the biggest shows in television. And yet he stays close to his Perthshire roots as Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s artistic director.
In search of Mel Giedroych’s roots, we travel south to Leatherhead in Surrey where her new novel is set. Like Alan, Mel has an enormous range of work on stage and screen to her name.
And Eric Ngalle Charles is a poet and writer whose life story is something to which no work of fiction could do justice: trafficked from Cameroon to Russia before somehow finding his way to sanctuary in Wales. Eric gets a chance to speak to Liz Mitchell, the original lead singer with Boney M who he had met on stage at a concert during his time in Russia.
We revisit the last programme before we went on our summer break. Back on the programme in July, listener David Cornmell from York was desperately seeking the kind policemen from Greater Manchester Police who came to his rescue when he came a cropper at Manchester Airport last year.
And we have the Inheritance Tracks of the professional dancer, Carlos Gu.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant Producer: Catherine Powell and Imy Harper
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Today we’re in the company of three luminously talented people who’ve survived seriously dark periods to shine brightly in their fields.
More than thirty years after Irvine Welsh’s debut novel caused a sensation, he tell us how Trainspotting The Musical was a natural next step.
Alan Davies’ career has been going strong for more than thirty years too. There's a lot going on in his new memoir - the story of his stand-up comedy told in the context of the trauma he went through as a child, and his cancer treatment in middle age.
And Clemency Burton Hill was an accomplished classical musician, writer and broadcaster when a catastrophic brain haemorrhage almost robbed her of everything.
Also, thanks are given to a couple of coppers who were on hand when a listener’s homecoming from holiday went badly wrong.
And we have the Inheritance Tracks of the actor Adrian Lester.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producer: Lowri Morgan
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Joining Adrian this week on Saturday Live, BBC Radio treasure and bestselling author Sara Cox. She just taken over BBC Radio 2's breakfast show but has found the time to write a brand new novel, 'The Truth of Us' that is published on the 16th July.
We have the Booker Prize Winning Author and poet Ben Okri, he is a giant amongst writers, a master storyteller with a fascinating life story of his own to tell.
And Chris Terill has more than 200 documentaries under his belt, awards galore, and a long career worthy of a documentary in its own right.
Plus, the inheritance tracks of the chef and restaurateur behind Mowgli Street Food restaurants, Nisha Katona.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Lowri Morgan
Assistant Producer: Ribika Moktan
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy

Joining Adrian Chiles on this week's programme is Mark Foster, for a good while the fastest swimmer on the planet.
We have author and psychologist Katriona O’Sullivan, a woman raised in poverty in Coventry, who went on to get a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin.
And the remarkably gifted Ralf Little, who we know as an actor but might equally have been a doctor or a footballer.
Plus the Inheritance Tracks of the singer-songwriter Clare Grogan.
Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies
Assistant Producers: Catherine Powell and Imy Harper
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Andrea Kennedy