Saturday Live

Fi Glover with guests Gary Kemp and Dame Joan Bakewell. Murray Lachlan Young brings poems and the Rev Richard Coles delivers e-mails. There are interviews with Alan and Irene Brogan who met in a children's home in Newcastle and met again years later and got married; they appeared on Saturday Live and as a result of being on the programme a book was written about them. Also Kate Shipton and her son Matthew tell the story of how he donated a kidney to save her life, and Margaret Pellegrini describes how she came to be one of the original munchkins in the Wizard of Oz, and how that experience has shaped her life. There's an I Was There with Professor Colin Pillinger on his involvement in the Apollo 8 which was in space during Christmas 1968, a Crowdscape from Leeds Christmas Market, a Day Trip with John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig at Denis Severs' House in Spitalfields and a Sound Sculpture from Santa Claus. Inheritance Tracks from entertainer Bette Midler and actor and Pantomime Dame par excellence Clive Rowe.

Fi Glover with author Michael Morpurgo, poet Matt Harvey, a professor of crowd dynamics and a pagan policeman; a sound sculpture of a windharp and the Inheritance Tracks of actress Lesley Manville.

The Reverend Richard Coles with actor Tom Hollander and poet Aoife Mannix, a student protestor from the 1970's and a woman who gathered top secret information at Bletchley Park during the war and was married to a spy. There's an I Was There from the Russian Revolution and Inheritance Tracks from author Jilly Cooper.

The Reverend Richard Coles with studio guest Gloria Hunniford, poet Elvis McGonagall, the man who carried the flag for England at the 1966 World Cup and a woman who discovered her father's bigamous secret; percussionist Evelyn Glennie reveals her Secret Life and Inheritance Tracks from Mary Coughlan.

Fi Glover with novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, poet Murray Lachlan Young, a man who was in a band with a very young David Bowie, a headteacher who was caught up in the Montserrat volcano eruption and who helped her pupils through the aftermath by encouraging them to write poems and stories, a woman who extols the virtues of keeping pigs as pets, and the Inheritance Tracks of comedian and author Alexei Sayle.

Fi Glover with educationist and creativity guru Sir Ken Robinson, poet Salena Godden, teen mum Hannah White who has 4 A levels, and a man who has just escaped from Somali pirates. There's a Sound Sculpture of an 8mm movie projector, and the Inheritance Tracks of Sir Ian Botham.

Fi Glover is joined by TV boss and poetry champion Daisy Goodwin and poet Luke Wright. There are interviews with deaf musician Paul Whittaker and Mo Lea who survived an attack by the Yorkshire Ripper, and a Crowdscape from East Midlands airport. Iconic fashion designer Paul Smith shares Inheritance Tracks.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

The Reverend Richard Coles is joined by satirist John Lloyd and poet Kate Fox.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Saturday Live's guest presenter is news anchor Mishal Husain. She's joined by physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili, poet Matt Harvey and expert negotiator Stuart Diamond.The producer is Simon Clancy.

Fi Glover is joined by singer songwriter Edwyn Collins and his wife Grace Maxwell, poet Susan Richardson, Florence Terry who used to beat her husband and now runs anger management courses, and Welshman Clive Nicol who's a household name in Japan and has been named 'sexiest foreigner in jeans'. There's a Sound Sculpture about a coffee grinder and Inheritance Tracks from writer Colm Toibin.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Fi Glover with studio guest editor of The Lady Rachel Johnson, poet Luke Wright, The Secret Life of Sean Wilson who exchanged the role Martin Platt in Coronation Street for a life of cheesemaking, and the Inheritance Tracks of Carol Vorderman. There's either an interview with a doctor who volunteered his medical services during the war in Kosovo and who ended up fighting for the Kosovo Liberation Army, and the milkman who threw away pictures given to him by one of his customers: LS Lowry.

Fi Glover is joined in the studio by the first lady of Radio 1 Annie Nightingale MBE, poet Salena Godden and the daughter of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. There's a guerilla report from a woman who has 400 pairs of designer shoes, an interview with the milkman who threw away several paintings by LS Lowry, and former Ryder cup captain Sam Torrance shares his Inheritance Tracks.The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Fi Glover is joined by historian Michael Wood, poet Aoife Mannix, a woman who found 32 skeletons in her back garden, and a man who was jailed in 1960 for being gay.There's a Crowdscape from the North Devon Show and musician Jean Michel Jarre shares his Inheritance Tracks. The producer is Debbie Kilbride.

Fi Glover with studio guest Noel Sharkey, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and poet Matt Harvey. There's an interview with His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, and with the designer who brought us - among other things - the Popemobile. Author Joanne Harris describes her Secret Life and out-going R4 Controller Mark Damazer shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Richard Coles with author Charlie Higson, poet Kate Fox, a diplomat held hostage by al-Qaeda, a Romani journalist, a man who eschews shoes and Evelyn Glennie's Inheritance Tracks.

Fi Glover is joined by TV personality Fiona Phillips, and poet Murray Lachlan Young. There's an interview with Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan, a Sound Sculpture about geese, JP meets rock star record producer Dale Griffin who's now developed Alzheimer's, and singer songwriter Tracey Thorn shares her Inheritance Tracks.