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    Bear Grylls, Music Composition, Flaming Feasts, and the Inheritance Tracks of Lesley Joseph

    04/04/2026 | 56 mins.
    Today an adventurer, a chef and a composer.
    From special forces to chief scout Bear Grylls likes a challenge, his latest being nothing less than a successful re-write of the story of Jesus.
    Our chef is Chris Roberts, aka Flamebaster, whose key ingredients are food, fire and frightening levels of enthusiasm.
    And our composer is Liz Lane, the sometime child prodigy, who found her gift for composition suited the sound of brass bands down to the ground.
    All that, plus the rescue dog from Kampala who needed rescuing a second time by a man in a white van on a roundabout in Saffron Walden - and the Inheritance Tracks of Lesley Joseph.
    Presenter: Adrian Chiles
    Producer: Ben Mitchell
    Assistant Producer: Catherine Powell
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Glyn Powell
  • Saturday Live

    Dilly Carter, Football, Swearing and the Inheritance Tracks Lisa Kudrow

    03/28/2026 | 56 mins.
    Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.
  • Saturday Live

    John Lloyd, Sailing, Punk Rock, and the Inheritance Tracks of Dr Sian Williams

    03/21/2026 | 56 mins.
    Adrian spends the hour in the company of renowned TV producer John Lloyd, the modest genius mind behind such national institutions as Spitting Image, QI and Blackadder.
    Also on the porgramme, Kala Subbuswamy who saw no reason why a middle-aged woman couldn't start a punk band, so did just that.
    And Jazz Turner didn't let her disability stop her sailing solo around the British Isles, and now she plans to take on the world.
    And the Inheritance Tracks of former presenter of BBC Breakfast and Saturday Live, now a consulting psychologist, and still broadcasting, most notably with the Radio 4 series Life Changing, Dr Sian Williams.
    Presenter: Adrian Chiles
    Producer: Lowri Morgan
    Assistant Producer: Catherine Powell & Alice McKee
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Glyn Tansley
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    Nigel Kennedy, Grief, Red Nose Day and the Inheritance Tracks of Adam Fleming

    03/14/2026 | 55 mins.
    On Saturday Live this week, a virtuoso violinist, a singer with a powerful story of motherhood, love and grief, and the woman who made her fortune working out how we shop.
    Adrian spends the hour in great company with Nigel Kennedy, Jess Mills and the hugely influential Edwina Dunn OBE.
    Also today, we'll be hearing from a somewhat out of breath Greg James, pedalling his way from Weymouth to Edinburgh for Comic Relief.
    And we are treated to a special performance by Nigel and his band - Alec Dankworth on double bass and Peter Adams on the cello.
    This week's Inheritance Tracks comes from Adam Fleming.
    Presenter: Adrian Chiles
    Producer: Lowri Morgan
    Assistant Producer: Alice McKee
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Glyn Tansley
    (The live performance in this programme has been shortened for music rights reasons).
  • Saturday Live

    Steve Rosenberg, Cut Flowers, Cancer Care, and the Inheritance Tracks of Mike Wozniak

    03/07/2026 | 56 mins.
    We’re in the company of an eminent foreign correspondent, a no less eminent expert in the field of flowers, and the woman who’s built the most beautiful spaces for cancer care.
    Our journalist is our man in Moscow - our last man in Moscow, really - Steve Rosenberg.
    Bringing colour, fragrance and joy to our studio is the queen of cut flowers, Sarah Raven.
    And we’ll all be scattering rose petals at the feet of Dame Laura Lee for all her work leading the cancer support charity Maggies.
    All that, plus the Inheritance Tracks of the comedian Mike Wozniak.
    Presenter: Adrian Chiles
    Producer: Ben Mitchell
    Assistant Producers: Lowri Morgan and Alice McKee
    Researcher: Jesse Edwards
    Editor: Ed Prendeville

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