Saturday Live

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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's biggest livestock sales and is now a shopping centre; and Duncan Lamont, one of Britain's greatest sax players, shares his Inheritance Tracks.

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.

This week presenter Richard Coles talks to comedian and self-proclaimed libertarian anarchist Mark Thomas and ex-Guantanamo guard Brandon Neely. Madhur Jaffrey insists on an choosing three Inheritance Tracks, and a listener explains why his soul is soothed by the sound of the dishwasher. We also find the answer to the little-asked question: what is the secret life of country singer-songwriter kd lang? Plus poet Luke Wright.