Saturday Live

Saturday Live episodes:

• 05.04.2024

  Val McDermid, Lauren Price, Nicola Nuttall, Jamie Laing

  The Titan of Tartan Noir, crime writer Val McDermid, who grew up playing in the ruins of Macduff's castle, shines a new light on Lady Macbeth in her new book, and tells us show she became addicted to video games....

  
• 04.27.2024

  Steven Knight, Ruth Goodman, Catherine Coldstream, Vernon Kay

  Birmingham’s unofficial global ambassador, Steven Knight, who did as much for flat caps as he did for Brum by creating Peaky Blinders and he’s now taking us back to the West Midlands of the 1980’s with his latest TV series...

  
• 04.20.2024

  Nic Hamilton, Josh Elwell and Eliot Gibbins, Victoria McCloud, Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris

  Racing driver Nic Hamilton is the first disabled athlete to compete in the British Touring Car Championship. Born with cerebral palsy and told he would always need to use a wheelchair, he certainly embodies his self-given title of ‘limit defier’...

  
• 04.13.2024

  Adele Roberts, Ben Elton, David Duke, Angela Hartnett

  The broadcaster, marathon runner, and proud parent to her life saving stoma Audrey, Adele Roberts reveals how she overcame cancer wrote a book and danced on ice. Writer and comedian Ben Elton whose new stand-up tour highlights his trademark incisive...

  
• 04.06.2024

  Kate Silverton, Tom Shakespeare, Rebecca Ginger, John Robins

  The irrepressible Tom Shakespeare shares how the boy nicknamed 'The Blob' at school went on to become a bioethicist, disability rights advocate, and now a debut novelist. Kate Silverton has swapped the newsroom for the therapists couch having...

  
• 03.30.2024

  Gaynor Faye, Tommy Blaize, Christian Lewis, Liz Bonnin

  One of Yorkshire’s finest, the actor famous for Fat Friends, Coronation Street and Emmerdale, Gaynor Faye. She’s making her directorial debut with the stage adaptation of The Syndicate, written by her mother; the late, great Kay Mellor. Tommy Blaize...

  
• 03.23.2024

  Rear Admiral Jude Terry, Ashley Blaker, Sara Cox, Lauren Laverne

  Rear Admiral Jude Terry, the first woman to hold flag rank in The Royal Navy, keeps us ship shape and shares how a rebellious teenager became the highest ranking female member of the Navy. Ready to send us to...

  
• 03.23.2024

  Julian Clary, Christopher Samuel, Zak Addae-Kodua and Jules Rowan, Natalie Cassidy

  Entertainer, actor, comedian, author and very clever man, Julian Clary joins us, he makes disdain and innuendo hilarious and he’s back onstage playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar. When Christopher Samuel picked up a biro and drew a picture of...

  
• 03.23.2024

  Adam Richman, Christie Watson, Dereck Gow, Karen Hauer

  Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

  
• 03.16.2024

  Julian Clary, Christopher Samuel, Zak Addae-Kodua & Jules Rowan & Natalie Cassidy

  Entertainer, actor, comedian, author and very clever man, Julian Clary joins us, he makes disdain and innuendo hilarious and he’s back onstage playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar. When Christopher Samuel picked up a biro and drew a picture of...

  
• 03.09.2024

  Adam Richman, Christie Watson, Derek Gow, Karen Hauer

  Adam Richman, presenter of 'Man V Food' tells us about his new challenge, eating his way through Great Britain and where his love of food began. Former nurse Christie Waston on her new life as a best-selling author....

  
• 03.02.2024

  Jennie Gow, Sarah Marsh, Ken Fowler, Alex Horne

  Jennie Gow, the journalist and BBC motor racing presenter who is navigating her post-stroke life and plans to be back on air for the Formula 1 this season. Sarah Marsh, the deaf author who has written a debut novel...

  
• 02.24.2024

  Daisy Goodwin, Chris Anderson, Jane Cholmeley, Tommy Tiernan

  Chris Anderson, an entrepreneur with a unique background as the son of missionaries and now the head of the TED organization, advocates for the power of Infectious Generosity as the ultimate idea worth spreading. Jane Cholmeley, once a feminist bookseller...

  
• 02.17.2024

  Marianna Spring, James Timpson, Callum Scott Howells, Adam Hills

  Today - our guests inhabit very different worlds... One exists in kindness, James Timpson, the businessman and philanthropist - whose new book The Happy Index - puts happiness at the top of his business plans. Marianna Spring on the other...

  
• 02.10.2024

  Joe Lycett, Alison Lapper, Russell T Davies, Richard Hammond

  National sweetheart, and very silly boy, Joe Lycett adds some pizazz to proceedings...as he talks art, Queen's Heath and his special brand of public service vigilantism as he sets his sights on the water companies. The writer, producer and creator...

  
• 02.03.2024

  Tim Key, Samantha Moore, Andrew Cotter, Jonathan Agnew

  Bringing his trademark droll humour and a bit of poetry to proceedings…the actor and comedian Tim Key discusses his new collection and reveals the story behind one of the most remarkable acts kindness he received from a stranger. He loves...

  
• 01.27.2024

  Tom Odell, Zoë Colville, Nathan Heaney, Iain Stirling

  Tom Odell, the Ivor Novello Award winning musician discusses his new album 'Black Friday' and reveals why freshly baked cakes helped with his piano lessons. Zoë Colville, aka The Chief Shepherdess, went from the madness of hairdressing in a trendy...

  
• 01.20.2024

  Sathnam Sanghera, Libby Jackson, Darren Edwards, Keith Brymer Jones

  Extending our knowledge of Imperial frontiers - journalist, author and Empire educator Sathnam Sanghera’s reveals why tea is the best medium to discuss the British Empire. Crossing the final frontier with Libby Jackson - she boldly explores where none...

  
• 01.13.2024

  Michael Mosley, Julie Felix, Gabriella Cugno, Owain Wyn Evans

  Bestselling writer, self-experimenter and host of Just One Thing, Michael Mosley is a man so keen on giving the nation ‘just one thing’ to do to improve our lives, that we’re soon going to run out of hours in the...

  
• 01.08.2024

  Ed Byrne, Rhianna Pratchett, Rod Dimbleby, James May

  Ed Byrne, the stand-up comedian, describes how he turned to comedy as a way of coping with the loss of his younger brother in 2023.

  
• 12.30.2023

  Gareth Reid, Rogue Jones, Wynne Evans

  With 2024 just around the corner, we’re celebrating the lovely achievements of our guests from the year past and some of yours too... Artist Gareth Reid has painted King Charles, Graham Norton, and recently won Portrait Artist of the...

  
• 12.23.2023

  Mark Gatiss, Coinneach MacLeod, Lucy Claire Dunbar, Sandi Toksvig

  The creative polymath Mark Gatiss; actor, writer, director, producer, funny man and excellent purveyor of Christmas ghost stories - shares his love for the macabre. By car, train, bus and...canoe - .The Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod, reveals the festive traditions...

  
• 12.16.2023

  Steven Moffat, Robin Shaw, Kelda Wood, Kelvin Fletcher

  Steven Moffat, the BAFTA and Emmy award winning TV writer and producer, famous for Doctor Who and Sherlock has made his debut as a playwright with The Unfriend returning to London’s West End. Kelda Wood is the former GB Para-Canoeist,...

  
• 12.09.2023

  David Gandy, Sam Heughan, Catrin Finch, Lucy Worsley

  From an animal loving Billericay boy to international supermodel turned designer - David Gandy has been the face of some of the worlds biggest brands. The Scottish actor Sam Heughan is internationally famous for playing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser...

  
• 12.02.2023

  Katherine Rundell, Atinuke, Steve Greenwood, Romesh Ranganathan

  Author Katherine Rundell, winner of Waterstones’ Book of the Year 2023 for her fantastical and mythical ‘Impossible Creatures’, had a childhood filled with travel; from Kent, to Zimbabwe and Belgium - to an adult life filled with playfulness. Steve Greenwood,...

  
• 11.25.2023

  Dan Snow, Marchelle Farrell, Rob Bugden, Adam Henson

  Dan Snow, history conduit, broadcaster, podcaster and bestselling author grew up with two posters on his bedroom wall...one was of Kylie Minogue - the other was of the Duke of Wellington defeating Napoleon at Waterloo. Corporal Rob Bugden...

  
• 11.18.2023

  Aldo Zilli, Philippa Langley, Levy Rozman, Miles Jupp

  Italian chef, restaurateur, writer and buongustaio Aldo Zilli, learned to cook at his mother’s knee and started dreaming of his own Italian restaurants in 1970’s Soho, under the watchful eyes of the mafia, and at a time when you could...

  
• 11.11.2023

  Hannah Fry, Sam McKnight, Oenone Forbat, Derren Brown

  Professor Hannah Fry, whose job involves demystifying data and exploring how science and tech will shape our futures, personally though, she’s realised that ‘Life isn’t a problem to be solved, it’s an experience to be had’. From body-building online star...

  
• 11.04.2023

  Ross Kemp, Jennifer Grant, Hari Budha Magar, Tim Peake

  Ross Kemp who, after leaving EastEnders, found his métier making BAFTA award winning documentaries and writing bestselling books…and he’s just written a memoir... From Grant Mitchell to Cary Grant - Hollywood’s ultimate leading man - his daughter and producer...

  
• 10.28.2023

  Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Russell Watson, Philippa Gregory, Rev Kate Bottley

  If you’re feeling adventurous this weekend, we have just the guest to inspire you. The world’s greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes joins us – but who inspires him? Multi-award-winning author of The Other Boleyn Girl -...

  
• 10.25.2023

  Kate Humble, Adam Rutherford, Peeps Nicol, Tom Kerridge

  Dr Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, a broadcaster and science populariser and his latest book, aimed at young people, examines evolution, what race really is, and what makes us human. Broadcaster and author Kate Humble will be sharing the inspiration...

  
• 10.21.2023

  Rory Bremner, Sue Kent, Giuseppe Dell'Anno, Simon Farnaby

  Rory Bremner stand-up chameleon, actor and impressionist, who’s currently on tour as Chris Tarrant in the play Quiz, about the Millionaire cougher-case. He also reveals the shared passion for comedy he and his dad had, especially with the late Mike...

  
• 10.14.2023

  Julia Bradbury, Mark Watson, Laurent Ballesta, Helen Skelton

  She wanders, rambles, saunters and strolls…and has made a career out of walking in the great outdoors…broadcaster and writer Julia Bradbury’s new book Walk Yourself Happy discusses the power of nature in the light of her cancer battle. Fresh from...

  
• 09.30.2023

  Danny Cipriani, Paige Lewin, Allison Angell, Alan Fletcher

  The England rugby star Danny Cipriani, who became just as famous off the pitch as on it, is regularly described as one of the most talented rugby players of his generation. He shares an insight in to his life on...

  
• 09.23.2023

  Colin Jackson, Suk Pannu, Mavis Patterson, Mawaan Rizwan

  Colin Jackson has spent his life hurdling one thing or another, be it breaking world records, or down barriers, the Olympian turned broadcaster continues to inspire the next generation of athletes. He’s written for The Kumars at No. 42,...

  
• 09.16.2023

  Clive Myrie, Ken Loach, Adele Thomas, Geoff Norcott

  He’s started but nowhere near finished, the master mind of BBC News presenter, Italian road-tripper and writer Clive Myrie. Having just released his memoir 'Everything is Everything', Clive reveals the paper round that inspired him to become a journalist and...

  
• 09.09.2023

  Johannes Radebe, Jason Byrne, Louise Boyce, Richard Osman

  The sparkling, South African, ‘Strictly’ star-dancer Johannes Radebe, one half of the history-making same sex male couple to dance on the show, reveals a life of bullying and how his Auntie is responsible for his carrer in new memoir 'Jojo:...

  
• 09.02.2023

  Andy McNab, Briony May Williams, Denisa Gannon, Johnny Flynn, James Hart Dyke...in nature

  From the day he was found in a Harrods bag as a baby on the steps of Guy's Hospital in London, author Andy McNab has carpe'd the diem out of life. As a member of the SAS he was at...

  
• 08.26.2023

  Rory Cellan-Jones, Amanda Hone, Sam Talo (aka El Sam), Rose Matafeo, Bethany Handley...in nature

  Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

  
• 08.19.2023

  Angela Barnes, Hanan Issa, Richard Essien (aka Magical Bones), Lou Sanders, Jason Williams...in nature

  Angela Barnes was brought up on comedy. She and her dad Derek would go to stand-up shows together and when they listened to comedians on the radio he would say “Why don’t you have a go at that?, Angela. Why...

  
• 08.12.2023

  Suzi Quatro, Henry Firth and Ian Theasby (aka BOSH!), Amy McCulloch, Ros Atkins, Nicky Dorrington...in nature

  Suzi Quatro grew up in Detroit in a very musical family. It was, at the age of six, after seeing Elvis perform on television that made Suzi decide music was to be her life. She’s also an actor, poet, has...

  
• 08.05.2023

  Jon Culshaw, Asmaa Al-allak, Tommy Jessop, Alice Oseman, Molly Lemon...in nature

  Jon Culshaw's big break came when convincing the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in a prank phone call that HE was the then Conservative leader William Hague - an infamous moment in his life for which he was called an...

  
• 07.29.2023

  Peggy Seeger, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ruth Birch, Dave Mustaine

  Peggy Seeger is often described as the godmother of folk. She was married to Ewan McColl who led the British Folk Revival in the late 50s and 60’s and wrote The First Time Ever I Saw your Face, for her....

  
• 07.25.2023

  Carrie & David Grant, Nabil Abdulrashid, Turi King, Rob Rinder

  Carrie and David Grant are best known as the expert vocal coaches from Fame Academy to Carrie and David's Pop Shop. But, they’re new book 'A Very Modern Family' charts their parenting experiences in the hope that it will help...

  
• 07.15.2023

  Anita Rani, Max Dickins, Nadeem Perera, Minnie Driver

  Countryfile, Woman’s Hour, and dazzling audiences on the Strictly Dancefloor – Anita Rani is a hugely popular and award-winning presenter whose Indian ancestry means a lot to her - and it was her experience on Who Do You Think You...

  
• 07.08.2023

  Dawn O'Porter, Robert Kasanga, Nick Hounsfield, Annie Mac

  Dawn O’Porter reigned supreme in the area of TV that wanted the presenter ‘immersed’ in the subject; exploring the dangerous size-zero aesthetic, attitudes to nudity, mail order brides, geisha traditions and most personally perhaps, breast cancer, the disease to which...

  
• 07.01.2023

  Martin Roberts, Jimi Famurewa, Nadine Cooper, Sophie Ellis-Bextor

  Today we welcome the writer, broadcaster and journalist Jimi Famurewa. Martin Roberts, the broadcaster, property expert and host of BBC Television series Homes Under the Hammer. And the founder of the Tuneless Choir, Nadine Cooper. Plus, we’ll hear the...

  
• 06.24.2023

  Charlotte Church, Reverend Eve Pitts, Clare Mackintosh, Guz Khan

  Today we welcome singer-songwriter, television presenter and sound healing practitioner, Charlotte Church. Reverend Eve Pitts, one of the first Black Caribbean Vicars in the Church of England and a campaigner for racial justice. Former police officer turned best-selling author...

  
• 06.17.2023

  Kiri Te Kanawa, Joe Jaquest Oteng, Tanya Moodie

  Today we say 'kia ora' to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, opera legend and Patron of the BBC Cardiff Singer of The World - which is in it's 40th anniversary year. With a story of ‘hidden roots’, singer Joe Jaquest...

  
• 06.10.2023

  Sheila Hancock, Vogue Williams, Fran Scott, Ben Bailey Smith

  The actor, memoirist and ‘woman relishing Old Rage’ Dame Sheila Hancock looks back on her storied career having worked at the top of the game for seven decades. The multi-hyphenate Vogue Williams, model, podcaster, media star, business woman and mother...