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Join Adrian Chiles for a Saturday morning full of remarkable people with extraordinary stories.
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Episodes
Children's author Lauren Child, Astronomy Photographer Damian Peach and former US cop Frank Serpico 31.10.2011 56:54
Richard Coles with author and illustrator Lauren Child, poet Matt Harvey & Inheritance Tracks from Sue Johnston. Producer: Simon Clancy.
Pat Kane, Mr Gee, Hillsborough Referee, Concorde Stewardess, San Francisco Bell Soundsculpture, Harry Connick Jr 22.10.2011 56:56
Richard Coles with pop star, writer and play advocate Pat Kane, poet Mr Gee, the referee at the Hillsborough disaster & one of the original Concorde cabin crew. There's a soundsculpture of the San Francisco cable car bell, and the Inheritance Tracks of singer, band leader and actor Harry Connick Jr. Producer: JP Devlin.
15/10/2011 15.10.2011 56:50
Richard Coles with advertising creative Rosie Arnold, poet Luke Wright, a couple who took an OAP gap year, and a former Zimbabwean Government official turned filmmaker who was driven from his country. Frank Skinner reveals his Secret Life and singer Tori Amos shares her Inheritance Tracks. Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
08/10/2011 08.10.2011 57:00
Sian Williams with Gyles Brandreth, poet Elvis McGonagall, a woman who was experimented on by the British Eugenics Society, and a man from Oxford who's had a shark sticking out of his roof for the past 25 years. There's a Crowdscape from Broadstairs and Inheritance Tracks from Old Grey Whistle Test legend Bob Harris. Producer Simon Clancy.
01/10/2011 01.10.2011 57:00
Richard Coles with geneticist Professor Steve Jones, poet Kate Fox, a 14 year old boy with a bionic hand, and a former anarchist who describes what it was like to be part of the 1990 poll tax riots. There's an I Was There feature from the Conservative Party Conference of 1963, and to mark the 50th anniversary of Radio 4's In Touch, presenter Peter White shares his Inheritance Tracks.
24/09/2011 24.09.2011 56:47
Richard Coles with violinist Nigel Kennedy, poet Matt Harvey, Red Rum's former stable lad, and an anti-fascist campaigner who used to be a member of the BNP. There's the story of a ballet shoe that used to belong to Rudolph Nureyev and war correspondent Janine di Giovanni shares her Inheritance Tracks. Producer: Simon Clancy.
Sir William Atkinson, Murray Lachlan Young, hurricane girl Pauline Brannigan, Chris Hargreaves, Francis Rossi and Jean Marsh 17.09.2011 57:05
Richard Coles with headmaster Sir William Atkinson and poet Murray Lachlan Young.
Nick Fisher, Salena Godden, Glasgow Crowdscape, Halla Diyab, former traveller Roxy Freeman, Ophelia Dahl's Inheritance Tracks 10.09.2011 56:50
Richard Coles with writer, fisherman and former agony-uncle Nick Fisher, poet Salena Godden, the filmmaker who refused Colonel Gaddafi after going to meet him in the Libyan desert, a woman who grew up on the road in a traveller community, a Crowdscape from Glasgow's Central Station & Inheritance Tracks from Ophelia Dahl. Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Susan Bullock, Mr Gee, HIV+ John Percy, air-guitarist Guy Thompson, Jenni Murray's Daytrip, Adam Ant's Inheritance Tracks. 03.09.2011 56:56
Richard Coles with Last Night of the Proms soprano Susan Bullock, poet Mr Gee, a man who who's been living with HIV for 30 years, and the UK's air-guitar champion. JP Devlin takes a Daytrip to Buxton with Dame Jenni Murray and Adam Ant shares his Inheritance Tracks. Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Stella Duffy; Luke Wright; former Vice Consul Hugh Hunter, May Shigennobu, George Orwell's landlady Irene Stacey, Chris Tarrant 27.08.2011 56:56
Richard Coles with writer and performer Stella Duffy, poet Luke Wright, a man who used to be a Vice Consul in Orlando and Marseilles, and a woman whose mother was a leader of the Japanese Red Army. There's a strange story about George Orwell's beer mug and Chris Tarrant's Inheritance Tracks. Producer: JP Devlin.
Kevin Dutton, Salena Godden, Pat Reid, George Carrigill, Chipping Norton Crowdscape, Pauline Black's Inheritance Tracks 20.08.2011 56:59
Richard Coles with psychologist and persuasion expert Kevin Dutton, poet Salena Godden, a man working with young people to stop them joining street gangs, and one of Britain's oldest bookies. There's a Crowdscape from Chipping Norton and The Selecter's Pauline Black shares her Inheritance Tracks.
Richard Coles with Tom Dyckhoff, Matt Hampson, Toyah Willcox, Kenneth Grange, Steve James and Kate Fox 13.08.2011 56:53
Richard Coles with architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff, poet Kate Fox, former rugby player Matt Hampson whose career was cut short when he was paralysed from the neck down and product designer Kenneth Grange who has shaped the way we see everything from trains and taxis to parking meters and pens. Performer Toyah Willcox shares her Secret Life and documentary-maker Steve James shares his Inheritance...
Richard Coles with Paul Gambaccini, Matt Harvey and Nicholas Evans 06.08.2011 57:01
Richard Coles with broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, poet Matt Harvey, two men whose lives were linked by the discovery of some old photographs, a woman whose challenging childhood made her a lifelong optimist, a Sound Sculpture of jet engines and Inheritance Tracks from author Nicholas Evans.
Anita Anand with Alexei Sayle, Elvis McGonagall and Eoin Colfer 30.07.2011 56:57
Anita Anand hears from creative polymath Alexei Sayle, poet Elvis McGonagall, Richard Williams, who was caught up in the bombing that killed and injured many people in Oklahoma City in 1995, Brian Belle-Fortune who was at Ben Johnson's incredible 1988 Olympic 100 metre win and now has tickets for the 100 metre final in London in 2012 and Janet Barker who sets quiz questions for the big TV quizzes....
Paul Jackson, Aoife Mannix, Martin Pistorius, Steve Hewlett and Tessa Peake-Jones 23.07.2011 56:59
Richard Coles with comedy supremo Paul Jackson, poet Aoife Mannix, Martin Pistorius who was locked into his own body, ventriloquist Steve Hewlett who's brought Archie Andrews back to life, a Thing About You feature telling the story of a very special perfume bottle, and Inheritance Tracks of actress Tessa Peake-Jones.
Dreda Say Mitchell, Mr Gee, Bury St Edmunds, Mandela's friend Paul Goldreich, former model Caroline Christensen, Jacqui Smith 16.07.2011 57:02
Richard Coles with crime novelist Dreda Say Mitchell; poet Mr Gee; a former page 3 model, and a man who grew up with Nelson Mandela. There's a Crowdscape feature from Bury St Edmunds, and Inheritance Tracks from former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Cerys Matthews, Murray Lachlan Young, DeLorean, Paul Theroux, memory loss mum Naomi Jacobs, Picasso's playmate Antony Penrose 09.07.2011 56:57
Richard Coles with singer Cerys Matthews; poet Murray Lachlan Young; a woman who went to bed aged 34 and woke up believing she was 15, and a man who spent his childhood playing with Pablo Picasso. There's an I Was There feature about DeLorean cars, and Inheritance Tracks from travel writer Paul Theroux.
02/07/2011 02.07.2011 56:57
Clare Balding at Wimbledon with jazz legend Al Jarreau; poet Matt Harvey; a former Wimbledon ball-boy, and a man whose life was put on track by poet and musician Gil Scott Heron. There's a Soundsculpture of a dairy parlour and Inheritance Tracks from Blue Peter Editor Biddy Baxter.
25/06/2011 25.06.2011 56:59
Richard Coles with actress Lesley Sharp, poet Kate Fox, a young woman who went to China as a student and came back a pop star, and a lifelong campaigner. There's a Daytrip with Griff Rhys Jones and author William Boyd shares his Inheritance Tracks.
18/06/2011 18.06.2011 56:57
Richard Coles with broadcaster Esther Rantzen, poet Luke Wright, a man who hoaxed the nation in to believing that Jimi Hendrix had recorded the Welsh national anthem, and a woman who discovered after his death that her husband of 46 years has kept his sexuality secret. There's a guerilla report about pamper parties for young girls and opera singer Lesley Garrett shares her Inheritance Tracks.
04/06/2011 04.06.2011 56:58
Richard Coles with actor and director Richard Wilson, poet Susan Richardson, a woman who discovered her outwardly respectable father was in fact a criminal gangster, and a man who kept a lion as a pet. There's an I Was There feature from a man who worked on the world's first international satellite TV broadcast, and writer Jodi Picoult shares her Inheritance Tracks.
28/05/2011 28.05.2011 56:57
Richard Coles with novelist John Connolly, poet Elvis McGonagall, a Rwandan man who took his teenage son back to the scenes of the genocide he'd fled, and a young woman who grew up on the diplomatic circuit. There's a Guerilla report about The Floral Dance and actress Niamh Cusack shares her Inheritance Tracks.
21/05/2011 21.05.2011 57:01
Richard Coles with historian Amanda Foreman, poet Murray Lachlan Young, a man whose father was a high-ranking official in the Ku Klux Klan, and a torch-bearer at the 1948 Olympics. There's a Sound Sculpture about jackals in India and best-selling author Iain Banks shares his Inheritance Tracks.
14/05/2011 14.05.2011 57:03
Richard Coles with cook and writer Elisabeth Luard, poet Mr Gee, a woman who's trying to have a child using a website to match her with a potential donor, and the son of the little bald guy who Benny Hill used to slap round the head to the tune Yackety Sax. We revisit Gloucester Cattle Market with a former auctioneer and a couple of farmers who recall the buzz of what used to be one of the country...
07/05/2011 07.05.2011 56:55
Richard Coles with composer Howard Goodall, poet Salena Godden, mannequin revolutionary Kevin Arpino, and civil servant turned boxing promoter Miranda Carter. There's a Sound Sculpture of an intensive care unit and Country legend Emmylou Harris shares her Inheritance Tracks.
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