Podcasts by Saturday Live

David Gandy, Sam Heughan, Catrin Finch, Lucy Worsley from 2023-12-09T11:18

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 in...

Katherine Rundell, Atinuke, Steve Greenwood, Romesh Ranganathan from 2023-12-02T11:15

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 Bel...

Dan Snow, Marchelle Farrell, Rob Bugden, Adam Henson from 2023-11-25T11:24

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 defeati...

Aldo Zilli, Philippa Langley, Levy Rozman, Miles Jupp from 2023-11-18T11:59

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...

Hannah Fry, Sam McKnight, Oenone Forbat, Derren Brown from 2023-11-11T10:52

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, i...

Ross Kemp, Jennifer Grant, Hari Budha Magar, Tim Peake from 2023-11-04T11:31

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 C...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Russell Watson, Philippa Gregory, Rev Kate Bottley from 2023-10-28T10:23

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...

Kate Humble, Adam Rutherford, Peeps Nicol, Tom Kerridge from 2023-10-25T12:16

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.

Broa...

Rory Bremner, Sue Kent, Giuseppe Dell'Anno, Simon Farnaby from 2023-10-21T10:05

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 co...

Julia Bradbury, Mark Watson, Laurent Ballesta, Helen Skelton from 2023-10-14T10:02

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 ...

Danny Cipriani, Paige Lewin, Allison Angell, Alan Fletcher from 2023-09-30T10:41

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 ...

Colin Jackson, Suk Pannu, Mavis Patterson, Mawaan Rizwan from 2023-09-23T10:45

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 athlet...

Clive Myrie, Ken Loach, Adele Thomas, Geoff Norcott from 2023-09-16T11:05

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 reve...

Johannes Radebe, Jason Byrne, Louise Boyce, Richard Osman from 2023-09-09T10:55

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 r...

Andy McNab, Briony May Williams, Denisa Gannon, Johnny Flynn, James Hart Dyke...in nature from 2023-09-02T10:15

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 the centre of ...

Rory Cellan-Jones, Amanda Hone, Sam Talo (aka El Sam), Rose Matafeo, Bethany Handley...in nature from 2023-08-26T10:01

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

Angela Barnes, Hanan Issa, Richard Essien (aka Magical Bones), Lou Sanders, Jason Williams...in nature from 2023-08-19T10:45

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?,...

Suzi Quatro, Henry Firth and Ian Theasby (aka BOSH!), Amy McCulloch, Ros Atkins, Nicky Dorrington...in nature from 2023-08-12T10:51

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, ...

Jon Culshaw, Asmaa Al-allak, Tommy Jessop, Alice Oseman, Molly Lemon...in nature from 2023-08-05T10:33

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 fo...

Peggy Seeger, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ruth Birch, Dave Mustaine from 2023-07-29T10:27

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, ...

Carrie&David Grant, Nabil Abdulrashid, Turi King, Rob Rinder from 2023-07-25T14:14

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 experience...

Anita Rani, Max Dickins, Nadeem Perera, Minnie Driver from 2023-07-15T11:44

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 he...

Dawn O'Porter, Robert Kasanga, Nick Hounsfield, Annie Mac from 2023-07-08T11:14

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 t...

Martin Roberts, Jimi Famurewa, Nadine Cooper, Sophie Ellis-Bextor from 2023-07-01T10:19

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 ...

Charlotte Church, Reverend Eve Pitts, Clare Mackintosh, Guz Khan from 2023-06-24T10:03

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 Eng...

Kiri Te Kanawa, Joe Jaquest Oteng, Tanya Moodie from 2023-06-17T10:01

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’, sin...

Sheila Hancock, Vogue Williams, Fran Scott, Ben Bailey Smith from 2023-06-10T11:11

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 W...

Eoin Colfer, Jennifer and Robert Beckford, Alan Bateson, Gaz Coombes from 2023-06-03T10:29

Eoin Colfer, the international bestselling Artemis Fowl author reveals why he’s tackling climate change via a graphic novel and how you write subjects like this for children.

Taking on the...

Hay Festival - Lisa Snowdon, Fats Timbo, Horatio Clare, Sadiq Khan from 2023-05-27T12:29

Live from the Hay Festival Nikki and Huw are joined by the model, presenter and writer Lisa Snowdon whose book 'Just Getting Started' urges women, especially those who’re menopausing, to seize t...

Billy Billingham, Louise Minchin, Shaun Escoffery and George Asprey, Dr Alex George from 2023-05-20T10:12

We’re all standing to attention, as the paragon of discipline, former SAS member Billy Billingham and chief instructor on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins talks about how he's gone from a life of...

Steve Jones, Rekha Mistry, Freya Bromley, Mathew Baynton from 2023-05-13T11:05

Multi-hyphenate Steve Jones, TV presenter, podcaster, novelist and librocubicularist, discusses his debut novel Call Time.

Not one for lying in bed reading, Gardener's World gardener Rekha...

AJ Pearce, Ian Holloway, Magdalena Osinska, Douglas Stuart from 2023-05-06T11:30

Bestselling novelist AJ Pearce, whose work has been inspired by a personal collection of women’s magazines and journals dating back to 1761! Her new book, "Mrs Porter Calling", is the third in h...

Chris van Tulleken, Frieda Hughes, Gary Andrews, Alex Jones from 2023-04-29T10:32

Dr Chris Van Tulleken's new book, Ultra-Processed People: Why do we all eat stuff that isn’t food, untangles our relationship with fast food, bad food and maybe even your breakfast.

The ...

Katy Wix, Janina Ramirez, Solomiya Znak, Sir Tony Robinson from 2023-04-22T11:42

Ghosts, Steth Lets Flats and Ted Lasso star, Katy Wix, talks about her life through the medium of...cake. Her memoir Delicacy uses the sweet treat to frame the biggest moments of her life.

Cath Kidston, Stig Abell, Kylie Grimes, Rufus Wainwright from 2023-04-15T09:45

The designer and business-woman Cath Kidston reveals the person beyond the patterns - and explains how she's moved away from drawing flowers to drawing on the natural properties of them for her ...

Anna Ryder Richardson, Peter Brathwaite, Lee Skeet, Sophie Raworth from 2023-04-08T10:22

Designer and broadcaster, Anna Ryder Richardson, reveals why she gave up her celebrity life and go full "Matt Damon" when she bought a zoo and moved her family to rural Wales.

During the f...

Harlan Coben from 2023-04-01T18:11

Harlan Coben joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The multiple award-winning thriller writer has sold over 80 million books, many of which have been adapted for TV. The Netflix adaption of Fool M...

Alice Roberts, Chris Howard, The Ayoub Sisters, Elizabeth Day from 2023-04-01T10:42

Broadcaster and biological anthropologist Alice Roberts reveals the secret behind the UK's fascination with castles.

Chris Howard, one of the creators of David Attenborough's Wild Isles, d...

Spencer Matthews and Rachel Parris from 2023-03-18T12:11

Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Spencer Matthews, who gained fame in the reality tv series Made In Chelsea. Now an entrepreneur and broadcaster, Spencer has made a documentary which s...

Prue Leith and Lily James from 2023-03-11T16:30

Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Prue Leith, GBBO judge, restaurateur, novelist and now with a one woman show.

Sarah Raven on her journey from inauspicious school career to train...

Lang Lang from 2023-03-11T12:15

Lang Lang joins Nikki Bedi and Danny Wallace. The internationally renowned pianist has sold millions of albums and performed around the world. He started playing the piano age three and to follo...

Jojo Moyes from 2023-02-25T11:34

Jojo Moyes joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The bestselling author has sold over 50 million novels and Me Before You was adapted into a film starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke. Jojo talks...

Johnny Vaughan from 2023-02-18T13:37

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined in the studio by broadcaster Johnny Vaughan. Best known for his presenting stints on The Big Breakfast and radio shows on pretty much every network, Johnn...

Danny Robins from 2023-02-11T11:53

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by writer, podcaster and ghost-botherer Danny Robins, behind the hit podcast The Battersea Poltergeist and smash West End play 2.22 A Ghost Story.

...

Sara Davies from 2022-04-30T11:08

Sara Davies MBE joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. The Dragons' Den investor started her multi-million pound business as a student and topped the leaderboard during her time on Strictly Come Danci...

Will Young from 2022-04-23T11:05

Will Young joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The singer, writer and podcaster shot to fame 20 years ago after winning the first series of Pop Idol. Seven albums, four Number One’s, 10 million re...

Paul Sinha from 2022-04-16T10:22

Paul Sinha joins Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephens. The former doctor turned stand-up comedian is also a star quizzer on The Chase. He talks about his life, career and recent Parkinson’s diagnosis. Lis...

Al Murray from 2022-04-09T14:25

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Al Murray, best known as The Pub Landlord, he’s also a history buff with a super successful World War II podcast, and he plays the drums. Alexandra Hem...

Patrick Kielty from 2022-04-02T12:22

Patrick Kielty joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The award winning stand-up and broadcaster talks about growing up in Northern Ireland, his path to comedy and making his screen acting debut. Bes...

Les Dennis from 2022-03-26T12:10

Suzy Klein and Huw Stephens are joined by actor, comedian and entertainer Les Dennis as he hosts a tribute to his friend Barry Cryer. Kat Farmer left a lucrative city job after she had kids and was...

Siobhán McSweeney from 2022-03-19T11:15

Siobhán McSweeney joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The actor talks Derry Girls, the significance of going back to West Cork for her latest role and manifesting her Great British Pottery Throwdow...

Marcus Wareing from 2022-03-05T13:09

Marcus Wareing joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The award-winning chef, food writer, restauranteur and judge on MasterChef: The Professionals is now learning new skills as he produces food on h...

Anoushka Shankar from 2022-02-26T12:11

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Anoushka Shankar who started playing the Sitar when she was 9, secured a recording contract aged sixteen and has been nominated for 7 Grammy awards. She i...

Rose Matafeo from 2022-02-19T11:51

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Rose Matafeo, comedian and star of BBC Three’s romantic comedy, Starstruck, who grew up in New Zealand and did her first stand up gig as a teenager. Ma...

Naughty Boy from 2022-02-12T12:48

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles start your weekend with: DJ and producer Naughty Boy whose Deal or No Deal win funded his music career, and now he numbers Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande among h...

Keith Brymer Jones from 2022-02-05T11:18

Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Keith Brymer Jones, master potter, judge on the Throw Down, who used to be in a band called the Wigs, gets emotional about ceramics and has helped to revi...

Claire Sweeney from 2022-01-29T14:42

Claire Sweeney joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The actress, singer, dancer and TV presenter Claire Sweeney made her professional singing debut age 14 and her varied career includes playing Lind...

Vicky McClure from 2022-01-22T11:16

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Vicky McClure, star of Line of Duty and This Is England. Her latest role is in a new drama on bomb disposal, keeping us on the edge of our sofas. We al...

Giovanna Fletcher from 2022-01-15T12:08

Author and podcaster Giovanna Fletcher trained as an actor, but with several bestselling novels under her belt and her hit podcast Happy Mum Happy Baby featuring guests stars such as the Duchess of...

Sarah Parish from 2022-01-01T10:30

Sarah Parish joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. Best known for her work in Mistresses, W1A , Broadchurch and Bancroft, Sarah talks about her career, including her latest project which is a crime t...

Mark Strong from 2021-12-25T11:00

In this festive edition of Saturday Live, Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by the actor Mark Strong, who has made a name playing villains in some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, includi...

Julian Clary from 2021-12-18T11:14

Comedian, writer and entertainer Julian Clary joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles to talk about the lure of the pantomime and how his love of dogs has changed his life. Maria Sodahl, who received a...

Brian May from 2021-12-11T12:09

Nikki Bedi and Mobeen Azhar are joined by Brian May, musician and astrophysicist, who played guitar on Buckingham Palace, and with the rock band Queen and is fascinated by stereoscopy AKA 3D. Al...

Joanna Lumley from 2021-12-04T11:13

Joanna Lumley talks to Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny about her career highlights and why her latest work is celebrating the Queen. Comedian Slim spent 15 years as a bus driver before being encourage...

Monica Galetti from 2021-11-27T11:42

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Monica Galetti: chef, judge on Masterchef and chef proprietor of her own restaurant, judge on the BBC programme MasterChef: The Professionals since 2009 a...

Guy Garvey and Paul Whitehouse from 2021-11-20T12:59

Guy Garvey joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. The singer and 6 Music presenter has been making music with elbow for over three decades. He talks about the band’s achievements and the inspiration b...

Evanna Lynch from 2021-11-13T12:32

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Evanna Lynch who was a Harry Potter superfan who developed anorexia aged 11. Whilst having treatment, her beloved Harry Potter books provided an escape, ...

Jimmy Carr from 2021-11-06T11:53

Jimmy Carr joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. After deciding to pursue a comedy career in his mid-twenties Jimmy has now toured the world as a stand up and is a household name thanks to programmes...

Daisy May Cooper from 2021-10-30T11:44

Daisy May Cooper, the comedy actor and writer joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles to talk about how her life growing up in rural Gloucestershire inspired the BBC Three mockumentary-style, This Count...

Ross Noble from 2021-10-23T10:48

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by award winning comedian and lover of all things random, Ross Noble, who has 16 nationwide comedy tours under his belt, is a regular panellist on comedy sho...

Tom Daley from 2021-10-16T13:29

Tom Daley joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. Tom fulfilled his Olympic dream this year, becoming the most decorated British diver of all time. He talks about the challenges he’s faced, the lessons...

Lenny Henry from 2021-10-09T10:45

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Sir Lenny Henry: comedian, actor, writer, fund raiser, he’s graced our stage and screen for almost 50 years and now he’s put his talents to writing for th...

Matt Baker and Josh Widdicombe from 2021-10-02T12:34

Matt Baker joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. Matt's career has taken him from Blue Peter to The One Show and Countryfile. He’s recently returned to live on his family farm and feels growing up wi...

Henry Holland from 2021-09-25T11:01

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Henry Holland - who started his career in teen magazines but became a fashion hit in 2008 after his slogan T shirts were worn by designers Giles Deacon a...

Paul Merson from 2021-09-18T11:17

Paul Merson was one of English football’s brightest stars in the 1990s. He was capped for England 21 times and scored 99 goals for Arsenal before transferring to Middlesborough for the then highest...

Annie Nightingale from 2021-09-11T12:16

Annie Nightingale joins Nikki Bedi and Suzy Klein to talk about her 50 years in broadcasting, including being the first female DJ on Radio 1 and how her love of new music has led to her being the s...

Mo Gilligan from 2021-09-04T11:33

Mo Gilligan, host of his own Bafta winning Friday night TV show, judge on the Masked singer, a comedian with sell out tours behind him, but only 5 years ago he was working the shop floor in retail...

Bananarama from 2021-08-28T11:07

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Bananarama – Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward - who tell us about surviving forty years in the music industry with hits including Venus, Robert De Niro’s Wa...

Celia Imrie from 2021-08-21T12:45

Actress and author Celia Imrie joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles to discuss her debut non-fiction novel, set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic. Celia explains her family connectio...

Harry Enfield and Nina Conti from 2021-08-14T11:30

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Harry Enfield, who’ll be telling us how he went from part-time milkman to BAFTA award-winning comedian, actor, writer and director, creating characters su...

Tim Vine from 2021-08-07T10:22

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Tim Vine, a comedian who eschewes the observational / confessional style, and celebrates joke telling and puns, his latest tour combines his love of music...

Ellie Taylor from 2021-07-31T10:57

Ellie Taylor joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The comedian, writer and The Mash Report newsreader talks about her path to stand-up, real life inspiration, and ruining her life in the best way po...

Christian O'Connell from 2021-07-24T13:18

Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Christian O’Connell, presenter of the Breakfast Show on Gold FM in Melbourne, Australia. He tells us why he left his number one show on Absolute Radio, ...

Jack Savoretti from 2021-07-17T10:52

Jack Savoretti joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles to talk about his heritage, how his mum inspired him to get into music, and why for his seventh studio album, Europiana, Jack has reached back into...

Matt Haig from 2021-07-10T10:53

Matt Haig is an award-winning author of fiction for both adults and children and his memoir of depression and anxiety Reasons to Stay Alive became a runaway bestseller. He joins Richard Coles and N...

Craig Revel Horwood and Jessie Cave from 2021-07-03T11:08

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Craig Revel Horwood, He is the one to impress on the Strictly Judging panel, a critical eye honed by his long history in performance and choreography inc...

Felicity Kendal and Ore Oduba from 2021-06-26T11:16

Felicity Kendal made her stage debut as a baby. Over 70 years later she’s preparing to appear in her first musical, Anything Goes. She talks to Nikki Bedi and Suzy Klein about her career, including...

Johnny Flynn and James O'Brien from 2021-06-19T10:41

Johnny Flynn is in the rare position and being both an acclaimed musician and a successful actor who is breaking into the A-list both here and in America. He recently starred as David Bowie in the ...

Angelique Kidjo from 2021-06-12T10:59

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by iconic Beninese singer songwriter Angelique Kidjo. Whilst known for her energetic world music style she has also collaborated with Philip Glass, covered ...

Big Zuu from 2021-06-05T13:39

Big Zuu joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The rapper started teaching himself to cook when he was 9 and is now combining a career in music with his passion for food. Listener Shobha Edgell is a f...

Sara Cox from 2021-05-29T10:35

Sara Cox has been entertaining the nation for 25 years, first through Channel 4 and MTV, then as host of Breakfast on BBC Radio 1 and now drive time on Radio 2. She joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Col...

Omid Djalili from 2021-05-22T12:07

Award winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili joins us to talk about his route to fame, taking part in Splash, quiz show catchphrases, performing in Persian for the first time recently and getting ...

Russell Tovey from 2021-05-15T12:12

Russell Tovey joins Nikki Bedi and Shaun Keaveny. The actor shares how his childhood passion for cartoons and collecting developed into a life changing love of art. Monica Korpal talks about why sh...

Andi Oliver from 2021-05-01T11:14

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Andi Oliver whose first career was as vocalist and performer in the band Rip Rig + Panic with her brother Sean and Neneh Cherry, amongst others. She then...

Tim Burgess from 2021-04-24T12:26

Tim Burgess joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. The Charlatans frontman talks music, meditation and how his lockdown Twitter listening parties have become more successful than he could have imagine...

Ben Fogle from 2021-04-17T11:34

Ben Fogle became famous over twenty years ago when he spent a year living on a Scottish Island for early reality TV programme Castaway. It was the springboard for remarkable career involving televi...

Mel Giedroyc and Alice Cooper from 2021-04-10T11:02

Nikki Bedi and Rev Richard Coles are joined by Mel Giedroyc, one half of Mel and Sue who shot to fame hosting Light Lunch, and then warmed our hearts and made us drool with the comforting TV cookin...

Liz Pichon from 2021-04-03T11:12

Liz Pichon talks to Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi about celebrating 10 years since her first Tom Gates book came out, ways she coped with undiagnosed dyslexia, doodling, and why, when she was growin...

Nitin Sawhney from 2021-03-27T12:30

Composer, musician and producer Nitin Sawhney has just released his 11th studio album ‘Immigrants’ and has scored over 50 films and televisions programmes. He joins Suzy Klein and Nikki Bedi to dis...

Louise Redknapp from 2021-03-13T13:28

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by singer Louise Redknapp who found fame in Eternal after being spotted in a nightclub aged 15. She went on to have a successful career as a solo artist, wi...

Gareth Thomas from 2021-03-06T11:43

Gareth Thomas was 20 when he made his international rugby union debut for Wales in 1995. He went on to win 100 international caps for Wales, captaining them as well as the British and Irish Lions. ...

Sophie Ellis Bextor from 2021-02-27T12:07

Niki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Sophie Ellis Bextor. Having started in the music business aged 16 in indie band theaudience, she went on to have a hugely successful solo dance pop career...

Jess Gillam from 2021-02-20T12:42

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Classic BRIT award winner Jess Gillam. At 22 Jess has released 2 albums, performed at the Last Night of the Proms and became the youngest ever presenter f...

Chi-chi Nwanoku from 2021-02-13T12:05

Chi-chi?Nwanoku?is a double bass player and founder of Europe's first professional majority black and minority ethnic orchestra,?Chineke!.?Chi-chi?is the eldest of five children, born to a Nigerian...

Russell Kane from 2021-02-06T14:06

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by award winning comedian, presenter and writer Russell Kane. He's been the host of three series of Live At The Electric, appearanced on Live At Apollo, Unz...

Professor Tanya Byron from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Clinical psychologist and broadcaster Professor Tanya Byron joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir to talk tales of the clinic, how a family tragedy sparked her interest in psychology and destigmatisin...

Conchita from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In the studio with Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles this week is Conchita Wurst winner of Eurovision 2014. Conchita hails from Columbia and is the alter ego of Tom Neuwirth who was born in Austria. Whe...

Paul Merton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The comedian, writer and presenter Paul Merton joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. A regular fixture on our radios and TVs - from Just a Minute to Have I Got News For You? But it's pure improvisat...

Zandra Rhodes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dame Zandra Rhodes is one of Britain's best-known fashion designers, putting London at the forefront of the international fashion scene in the 1970s. Her extensive list of clients has included Prin...

Diarmuid Gavin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On the biggest gardening weekend of the year garden designer and tv presenter Diarmuid Gavin joins Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein to spill the beans on the highs and lows of taking part in the Chelsea F...

Mary Portas and Adrian Dunbar from 2021-01-30T12:39

Queen of Shops Mary Portas has carved out a role as a retail fixer, style guru and successful broadcaster. She joins Richard and Nikki to discuss her extraordinary career and a new season of On Sty...

Ed Byrne and Stephen Morris from New Order from 2021-01-23T12:23

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Comedian Ed Byrne. He went from youthful horticultural dreams to stand up star and has toured every other year since the late 90s – so what’s he done in ...

Joan Bakewell from 2021-01-16T11:26

Labour peer Baroness Joan Bakewell has been a television presenter for over fifty years, most recently fronting Landscape Artist of the Year which returned to our screen this week. She joins Richar...

Simon Armitage from 2021-01-09T12:24

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. Writing for three decades, his first published poem was in 1987 whilst he was working in his day job as a probation officer...

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall from 2021-01-05T13:08

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by celebrity chef and food campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, who talks about changes we can make to our diet to eat and live better. Thriller writer CJ...

Adam Buxton from 2020-12-26T10:45

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by writer and comedian Adam Buxton, who talks about his partnership with schoolfriend Joe Cornish, family relationships and performs a song. Anne Glenconner’...

Michel Roux Jr from 2020-12-19T11:57

Nikki Bedi and Rev Richard Coles are joined by Michel Roux Jr. whose father and uncle were the first in the UK to achieve three Michelin stars for their London restaurant Le Gavroche, where he part...

Katherine Grainger and Kelly Jones from 2020-12-12T11:24

Dame Katherine Grainger won five medals for rowing in five consecutive Olympic Games from 2000 to 2016, including gold in London 2012. She also has a PhD in criminal law and is chair of UK Sport. S...

Ian Rankin from 2020-12-05T13:00

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by award winning crime writer Ian Rankin who talks about taking John Rebus out of Edinburgh in his latest novel. Listener Joy France reveals how she became k...

Mica Paris from 2020-11-28T12:38

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Mica Paris. Hauled up onstage by Prince, fish 'n' chips with Stevie Wonder and footsie with Whitney Houston, and now EastEnders and a Gospel album. John ...

Tom Kerridge from 2020-11-21T12:27

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by pub-loving celebrity chef Tom Kerridge who has been awarded two Michelin stars since opening The Hand and Flowers in Marlow. The pub celebrates its 15th a...

Gabriel Byrne from 2020-11-14T13:41

Gabriel Byrne joins Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi. The Award-winning actor made his acting debut as a shepherd in a Nativity play and since then has made over 80 films, won a Golden Globe for In Tre...

Akram Khan from 2020-11-07T12:36

Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Akram Khan. Winning a disco dance competition as a child encouraged Akram to pursue what he saw as his one talent: dance. Today he is one of the UK’s le...

David Jason from 2020-10-31T11:55

Sir David Jason turned 80 this year and spent lockdown writing his new book A Del of a Life: Lessons I’ve Learned which describes how, despite beginning his career as an electrician, he went on to ...

Phillip Schofield from 2020-10-24T12:32

Richard Coles and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Phillip Schofield who shares his highlights from spending nearly 40 years in television, and talks about coming out as gay- both publicly and privately...

Rupert Everett from 2020-10-17T11:51

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Rupert Everett, star of stage and screen with titles such as My Best Friend’s Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of being Earnest, Shakespeare in L...

Michael Portillo from 2020-10-10T10:33

Broadcaster and former MP Michael Portillo joins Suzy Klein and Richard Coles to discuss his new book which celebrates ten years of Great British Railway Journeys. Actor Jude Akuwudike was born i...

Shirley Ballas from 2020-10-07T09:25

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by multi-award-winning dancer and Strictly Head Judge Shirley Ballas. Liam Meredith is a former offender who has turned his life around to become a dairy con...

Cressida Cowell and Rob Halford from Judas Priest from 2020-09-26T11:35

Richard Coles and Marverine Cole are joined by writer and illustrator Cressida Cowell, whose How to Train Your Dragon series has sold 11 million books worldwide in 38 languages and is a major Dream...

Alan Davies from 2020-09-19T10:53

Alan Davies joins Richard Coles and Marverine Cole. Having spent nearly 20 years on the QI panel, performing sell-out comedy tours and appearing in television sitcoms and dramas, Alan has branched ...

Charles Spencer from 2020-09-12T12:26

Richard Coles and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Charles Spencer. Charles has a few hats – as Earl Spencer he is the custodian of Althorp house in Northamptonshire; he is the brother of Diana, Prince...

Richard Osman from 2020-09-05T12:07

Richard Coles and Angela Scanlon are joined by TV presenter Richard Osman who has written his first detective novel set in a retirement village. Ian Ridley is a sports writer who has written abou...

Nicola Benedetti from 2020-08-29T13:30

Richard Coles and Angela Scanlon are joined by Nicola Benedetti. The violinist started the year winning her first Grammy and during lockdown she’s been inspiring thousands of people virtually, as w...

Joanne Harris from 2020-08-22T09:30

Richard Coles and Michelle Ackerley are joined by writer Joanne Harris; broadcaster Peter Snow; wildlife journalist and wasp expert Ben Aldiss and chef Joshna Maharaj. Born in Barnsley, writer Joa...

Bob Harris from 2020-08-15T11:25

Richard Coles and Michelle Ackerley are joined by Bob Harris. He has been whispering on our airwaves for 50 years: starting at Radio 1 and going to TV’s Whistle Test, Radio Luxembourg, Radio 2, BB...

Jackie Kay from 2020-08-08T10:17

Jackie Kay is the national poet of Scotland and has taken her Makar duties seriously. She has written a weekly poem during lockdown, brought art into people’s homes with the broadcast Makar to Maka...

Danielle de Niese and Loyd Grossman from 2020-08-01T10:11

Richard Coles and Bridgitte Tetteh are joined by Danielle de Niese who became the youngest ever winner of the Australian TV programme Young Talent Time at the age of 9. Her family relocated to Los ...

Richard Hammond from 2020-07-25T10:46

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by TV presenter Richard Hammond, who has driven all kinds of vehicles all over the world. He discusses his passion for cars and motorbikes and how he dealt w...

Graeme Garden from 2020-07-18T10:49

Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are joined by Graeme Garden - one third of the Goodies along with Bill Oddie and the late Tim Brooke-Taylor. In the classic BBC television show the trio played agent...

Caroline Hirons from 2020-07-11T11:12

Richard Coles and Viv Groskop are joined by aesthetician and skin expert Caroline Hirons. She went from counter girl to being dubbed the most powerful woman in the beauty industry, her blog has cl...

John Barnes from 2020-07-04T10:20

Richard Coles and Viv Groskop talk to England football legend John Barnes who earned 79 caps over 12 years. His talent was spotted as a teenager and he began his career at Watford, going on to have...

Ellie Simmonds from 2020-06-27T11:48

Nikki Bedi and the Reverend Richard Coles are joined by Ellie Simmonds. Ellie Simmonds was the face of the 2008 Bejing Paralympics, winning two gold medals in the pool at the age of only thirteen. ...

Simon Le Bon from 2020-06-20T11:01

Nemone Metaxas and the Reverend Richard Coles are joined by Simon Le Bon. As lead singer of Duran Duran: a band that has sold over 100 million records, had 18 American hit singles and 21 UK Top 2...

Dawn French from 2020-06-13T10:55

Dawn French has been one of Britain’s best-loved comedians since the mid-1980’s when her double act with Jennifer Saunders became a prime time television hit. She became even more famous as the sta...

Gabby Logan from 2020-06-06T11:29

Richard Coles and Kate Silverton are joined by Gabby Logan who has covered most of the major sporting events in football, rugby and athletics and been a trailblazer for women in sport. Her own spor...

Ricky Wilson from 2020-05-30T10:40

This week Richard Coles and Kate Silverton are joined by Ricky Wilson, the lead singer of Kaiser Chiefs. The band’s hits include I Predict A Riot and Ruby and last year they released their seventh...

Kirstie Allsopp and Paul O'Grady from 2020-05-23T11:30

Richard Coles and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Kirstie Allsopp - she has been in our living rooms, stepping into other people’s living rooms, and generally exploring their houses, for 20 years via T...

Kathy Burke from 2020-05-16T10:50

Richard Coles and Shaun Keaveny are joined by Kathy Burke who became a household name in the 1990’s for her comedy roles in Harry Enfield and Chums, Absolutely Fabulous and Gimme Gimme Gimme. She ...

Sarah Millican from 2020-05-09T15:43

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by Sarah Millican, one of the most successful women working in comedy in the UK, Sarah Dodd, a medic in the NHS who in her freetime has completed over 1675 ...

Marian Keyes and Tori Amos from 2020-05-02T10:26

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by writer Marian Keyes, who has just published her 14th novel and has over 30 million of her books sold to date in 36 languages. Also with us is Tori Amos,...

Alexandra Shulman from 2020-04-18T13:44

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Alexandra Shulman, former editor of Vogue, who produced the magazine for 25 years and has now published a book about her life at the top, the pressures sh...

Claudia Winkleman and Robert Webb from 2020-04-11T12:04

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Claudia Winkleman, one of our best known TV and radio presenters, known for her sharp wit and self deprecating humour not to say her thick black fringe, p...

Gary Lineker from 2020-04-04T10:26

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by former professional footballer turned sports broadcaster Gary Lineker. During his playing career he played for Leicester, Everton, Barcelona, Tottenham an...

Sir Chris Hoy from 2020-03-28T11:31

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by six time Olympic Champion, Sir Chris Hoy, who discusses the inspiration behind his career, retirement and writing children’s books. Ruth Linton is a gran...

Bob Geldof from 2020-03-21T12:30

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined on the line by Sir Bob Geldof, of The Boomtown Rats, who left Dun Laoghaire for London, became known for punchy hits and outspoken interviews, then creating ...

Neil Morrissey from 2020-03-14T11:34

Neil Morrissey became a household name in the 1990’s playing Tony in sitcom Men Behaving Badly. As the voice of Bob the Builder he had two number one singles in the UK Charts and now combines actin...

Jo Whiley from 2020-03-07T12:14

Jo Whiley joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles. Jo presents on Radio 2 and from Glastonbury, as well as pursing her passion for gardening. A competitive swimmer in her youth, she is about...

Joanna Trollope from 2020-02-29T12:49

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Joanna Trollope CBE, who has 22 novels to her name. A keen observer of our life and times, she is also the fifth-generation niece of Victorian novelist A...

Zawe Ashton from 2020-02-22T11:21

Actor, writer and director Zawe Ashton’s career began at the age of six and, having appeared on stage and in films ever since, it was the TV role of Vod in Fresh Meat that made her famous. She has ...

Don Letts from 2020-02-15T12:37

Aasmah Mir and Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the film director, DJ and musician Don Letts. He talks about being the son of Windrush, scion of dub and midwife of punk-reggae. Molly Case is a nu...

Tracey Thorn from 2020-02-08T11:51

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Tracey Thorn, who escaped from suburbia, went to Hull University and emerged as one half of pop group Everything but the Girl. Her latest book details the...

Frances Barber from 2020-02-01T11:26

Frances Barber first played rock star, screen goddess and drug addict Billie Trix 18 years ago and, along with Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys, she is set to reprise the role in cabaret Musik...

Kay Mellor from 2020-01-25T11:29

Kay Mellor was a married mother at 16, and by her twenties had found her way to Bretton Hall College to study drama. An actor, director and screenwriter, she started on Coronation Street, before w...

Ant Middleton from 2020-01-18T13:11

Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein are joined by former Special Forces sniper, Ant Middleton, now star of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, where ex-Special Forces soldiers put civilian recruits through thei...

Fay Ripley and Dr Zoe Williams from 2020-01-17T11:37

Rev Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Fay Ripley. Most famous for playing Jenny, her northern counterpart, in TV’s Cold Feet, the series started 24 years ago and continues next week. The...

Kathy Reichs from 2020-01-04T11:23

Crime novelist Kathy Reich’s famous heroine is Temperance Brennan, an academic anthropologist turned forensic anthropologist, much like Kathy herself. Her latest novel, A Conspiracy of Bones, is pu...

Michael Rosen from 2019-12-28T15:37

The writer and poet Michael Rosen joins Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein. He shares his discoveries of a lost family found, the importance of play, and tells us how to eat a bagel. Back by popular demand:...

Ruth Jones from 2019-12-21T11:33

Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein are joined by Ruth Jones, who co-wrote and starred in one of our most loved TV comedies: Gavin and Stacey, which seemingly ended after 3 successful series, almost ten year...

Jason Manford from 2019-12-14T11:29

Jason Manford began his stand up career at the age of 17 and was nominated for the Perrier Award in Edinburgh in 2005 at just 24. As he embarks on a starring role in the West End run of Curtains, ...

Ben Miller from 2019-12-07T11:54

Actor and comedian Ben Miller joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein to talk about why he chose comedy over physics and about his new children's book, The Boy Who Made The World A Disappear, in which ...

Barbara Taylor Bradford from 2019-11-30T13:10

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Barbara Taylor Bradford who has just published her 37th book. Age 15 she started in the typing pool for a newspaper and was in Fleet Street as a reporter...

Jamie Cullum; Mark Bright from 2019-11-23T12:00

Jazz/pop singer/songwriter Jamie Cullum joins Aasmah Mir and Mobeen Azhar. He talks about his music, and the personal stories that inspired his latest album Taller, his family and what's been pass...

Lorraine Kelly from 2019-11-16T11:41

This year marks Lorraine Kelly's 35th year as a broadcaster and her 60th birthday. Born in the Gorbals to teenage parents, Lorraine took a job at her local newspaper instead of a place at universi...

Greg James and Jojo Moyes from 2019-11-09T12:01

Aasmah Mir and Mobeen Azhar are joined by Greg James, who started recording shows in his bedroom, did hospital radio, student radio, podcasts, and his passion has paid off as last year he became ho...

Hairy Biker Dave Myers from 2019-11-02T12:50

Dave Myers - one half of the Hairy Bikers – cooks and rides motorbikes, but he also studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, worked as a furnace-man in a steelworks and as a make-up artist, specialising in ...

Soweto Kinch; Jonathan Van Ness from 2019-10-26T11:29

Saxophonist, MC and composer, Soweto Kinch fuzzes jazz with hip hop beats. He premieres his new album, The Black Peril at the EFG London Jazz Festival, which highlights the episodes of racial tensi...

David Suchet from 2019-10-19T10:12

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by the actor David Suchet who has been taking photographs since he was eight when his Fleet Street photographer grandfather passed on his knowledge. His new ...

Simon Reeve from 2019-10-12T10:32

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by travel documentary maker Simon Reeve who has come a long way since leaving school with no qualifications; he wrote a book on international terrorism and h...

Harry Connick Jr, Andrew Ridgeley from 2019-10-05T10:40

Harry Connick Jr, was brought up by lawyers in New Orleans, but it was the music of the city that inspired him. A child prodigy playing a Beethoven concerto at nine, a disaster singing to Sinatra a...

Martina Cole from 2019-09-28T10:56

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the British crime writer Martina Cole, known to her fans as the Queen of Crime, with twenty-four novels to her name, fifteen of which have been No.1 bests...

Gerald Scarfe from 2019-09-21T10:32

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Gerald Scarfe, one of our best known artists, caricaturing those in power, and also a production designer for theatre, ballet and opera and designer of an...

Andy McNab, Axel Scheffler, Veronica 'Fancy Chance' Thompson and Roisin Conaty from 2019-09-20T16:35

Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles talk to former SAS soldier Andy McNab. He was captured in Iraq while leading the Bravo Two Zero mission in 1991. His book on his ordeal became a bestseller - his fi...

Richard Ayoade from 2019-09-07T10:20

Richard Ayoade became famous for playing Moss in the IT Crowd and went on to present Gadget Man, Travel Man and The Crystal Maze. He was nominated for a BAFTA for directing his first feature film S...

Timothy Spall, George Alagiah from 2019-08-31T10:57

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by the actor Timothy Spall whose latest role is as LS Lowry. He describes his own passion for painting, the relationship between Lowry and his mother, and ...

PP Arnold, John Eliot Gardiner from 2019-08-24T10:38

Kate Silverton and Luke Jones meet singer P.P. Arnold; artist Mackenzie Thorpe; poet Charly Cox and the Reverend Peter Allen. With Inheritance Tracks from conductor John Eliot Gardiner. Soul sing...

Skin, George RR Martin from 2019-08-17T10:19

Skin from Skunk Anansie made headlines this summer when it was pointed out that she was the first black British artist to headline the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, not Stormzy. That was in 1999 an...

Joe McFadden from 2019-08-10T11:03

Joe McFadden joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. He started out in the detective series Taggart and went on to star in Take The High Road, The Crow Road, Heartbeat and Holby City. In 201...

Stephen Hough, Stephen Poliakoff from 2019-08-03T10:33

Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles are joined by the concert pianist and composer Stephen Hough. As an international performer he spends much of his life at airports, on planes and in hotel...

Simon Callow from 2019-07-27T11:48

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the actor, writer and director Simon Callow. He discusses his stage and screen career and how he’ll be performing at the WAWA Weekender to celebr...

Ainsley Harriott from 2019-07-20T09:51

Ainsley Harriott found fame as a chef on Ready Steady Cook, which he went on to present for ten years. He has since presented cookery programmes both here and in America and has sold over two milli...

Graeme Swann, Michael Sheen from 2019-07-13T12:17

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the former England cricketer and legendary spin bowler Graeme Swann. He discusses his sporting career, waltzing on Strictly and his upcoming tour...

Emeli Sandé from 2019-07-06T11:53

Fresh from a neuroscience degree, she burst into our consciousness almost ten years ago with her club anthem track Heaven, and then Read all About it with Professor Green. She was the only artist ...

Tony Blackburn from 2019-06-29T12:22

Tony Blackburn talks to Aasmah Mir and Rev. Richard Coles about spending over 50 years as a DJ. He is still working for 4 radio stations, plus touring his Sounds Of The 60s show. Starting at Radio ...

Gurinder Chadha, Sir Michael Caine from 2019-06-22T11:30

The filmmaker Gurinder Chadha – of Bend it Like Beckham fame - joins Rev. Richard Coles and Luke Jones. She continues her exploration of Britain and India’s intertwined story, this time in late 18...

Benjamin Zephaniah from 2019-06-15T12:48

Benjamin Zephaniah talks to Aasmah Mir and Rev. Richard Coles about the origins of his passion for rhyme, music and country living. Marian Newman went from being a forensic scientist to a nail exp...

Jo Brand from 2019-06-08T10:51

Richard and Aasmah are joined by: Jo Brand, in comedy for over 30 years, trailblazing the way with her edgy humour at a time when there were very few women in standup. She came to comedy from psyc...

Anneka Rice, Dustin Lance Black, Paul Young from 2019-06-01T11:27

Guest presenters Shaun Keaveny and Kate Silverton are joined by Anneka Rice. She reveals the story of Clemmie Hart, her fictional agent. Matthew Barley, the internationally renowned cellist, desc...

Arlene Phillips from 2019-05-25T11:10

Arlene Phillips talks to presenters Aasmah Mir and Luke Jones about her life and career, which includes choreographing Elton John and founding dance troupe Hot Gossip. Björn Again's founder and Agn...

Kwame Kwei-Armah from 2019-05-18T10:32

Richard and Aasmah are joined by Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE, who began pursuing a pop career but drama took over with TV and theatre roles. As a writer, his first play won an award and his second transfe...

David Harewood from 2019-05-11T12:58

David Harewood – actor, snowboarder, Brummie, goalie – joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. Best known for roles in Homeland, Blood Diamond, The Night Manager and currently Supergirl, he...

Gok Wan from 2019-05-04T13:24

Gok Wan talks to Aasmah Mir and Rev. Richard Coles about his latest show Say Yes to the Dress Lancashire, DJ’ing, cooking and his lifelong passion for fashion. Listener Hilary Wynter talks about h...

Dame Stephanie Shirley and Duff McKagan from 2019-04-27T10:43

Richard and Aasmah are joined by Dame Stephanie Shirley who arrived in the UK aged 5 as a refugee on the Kindertransport. She became a ground breaking IT entrepreneur who has since become a philan...

Patti Boulaye from 2019-04-20T11:01

Patti Boulaye is a British-Nigerian singer, actress and artist. She recalls coming to London aged 16, and appearing on the west end stage in shows from HAIR to Carmen Jones, and talks about her n...

Rankin, Danny Wallace from 2019-04-13T11:45

Photographer, publisher and film director Rankin joins Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. He talks about swapping accountancy for photography, his career which includes photographing the Queen in 5...

Ben Elton, Andy Bell from 2019-04-06T13:23

Ben Elton is co-writer of The Young Ones and Blackadder, a bestselling novelist, playwright, director and writer of Upstart Crow. He talks about his new and timely novel about identity, politics, ...

Keisha Buchanan from 2019-03-30T13:24

Singer-songwriter and Great British Menu guest judge Keisha Buchanan talks to Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir about finding success as a teenager in Sugababes, a band which had six number one sin...

Stephen Jones and the Inheritance Tracks of Gina Yashere from 2019-03-23T11:27

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the milliner Stephen Jones whose passion for hats has led him from the catwalks of Dior to the Brighton Pavillion, the adventurer and extreme sleeper Phoe...

Gareth Malone, YolanDa Brown from 2019-03-16T12:52

Choirmaster Gareth Malone describes working with pupils from Kensington Aldridge Academy to help them create a concert to mark the return to their school building next to Grenfell Tower. Listener R...

Dido, Noel Clarke from 2019-03-09T12:57

Best-selling singer-songwriter Dido on her new album Still On My Mind, fame, life growing up and working with her brother. Wendy Gould and John Sandford talk about being reunited after many years –...

Jo Malone and the Inheritance Tracks of Shakin' Stevens from 2019-03-02T11:53

Richard and Aasmah are joined by Jo Malone CBE, who left school aged 15 with no qualifications and became a scent supremo and one of the UKs best known entrepreneurs. We also have comedian aka 'Ba...

Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Nicole Farhi from 2019-02-23T11:59

Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles are joined by the writer Dame Jacqueline Wilson. She discusses her heroine Tracy Beaker who is now grown up with a daughter of her own and why she prefers...

Shane Richie, Dave Gorman from 2019-02-16T12:10

The actor Shane Richie, star of East Enders talks about his latest role, in the West End show ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’. Chelcee Grimes describes how she combines her two careers, playing...

Patrick Grant and Mark Anthony Turnage from 2019-02-09T11:36

Aasmah and Richard are joined by: Patrick Grant - he bought and revived a failing tailors in Savile Row in 2005, since then he’s been awarded Menswear designer at the British Fashion Awards, become...

Jim Al-Khalili from 2019-02-02T12:30

Scientist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili shares his experience of growing up in Iraq, his passion for music and his first novel, which will be published in April. Eboni Beckford-Chambers talks abo...

Brenda Blethyn, Mo Gawdat and James Haskell's Inheritance Tracks from 2019-01-26T15:08

The actress, Brenda Blethyn, star of Vera; Monisha Rajesh recounts travelling around the world by train; Mo Gawdat on his happiness algorithm, and rugby international James Haskell shares his Inhe...

Trevor Nelson from 2019-01-19T11:43

Trevor Nelson talks about how he became one of the country's leading R&B DJs; pigeon fancier Ian Evans sets the scene from The British Homing World Show of the Year in Blackpoool. Man Like Mobeen s...

Dame Kelly Holmes, Rick Wakeman's Inheritance Tracks from 2019-01-12T12:10

Aasmah Mir and Konnie Huq are joined by Dame Kelly Holmes, double gold winner at the Athens Olympics in 2004. She talks about her life in the army, pursuing her dream of becoming an Olympian and ...

Bradley Walsh, Jodie Kidd and Mobeen Azhar from 2019-01-05T14:02

Aasmah Mir and Mobeen Azhar are joined by the actor and TV presenter Bradley Walsh. Currently starring in Doctor Who, he talks about going on a father and son road trip in the US, where he was push...

Gabrielle and the inheritance tracks of Brian Conley from 2018-12-29T11:15

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Gabrielle, THE pop star of the 90s – inspiring lyrics, cool image, intriguing eye patch, hit after hit, and then she went quiet. After time out as a mum ...

Former cricketer and commentator David Gower from 2018-12-22T12:06

David Gower talks about his life in cricket and how spending his early years in Africa inspired his passion for wildlife. Anne Atkins has been inspired to write about her son Alex, who has Asperger...

Hugh Dennis and Eric Idle's Inheritance Tracks from 2018-12-15T13:36

The comedian and actor Hugh Dennis talks about being the son of a Bishop and his latest role in The Messiah. Former nurse, Christie Watson, recalls lessons of kindness and hospital Christmasses....

Prue Leith and the Inheritance Tracks of Sir Tim Rice from 2018-12-08T11:59

Prue Leith has been in our cooking consciousness for years but her appointment as a judge on TV's bake off has exposed her culinary expertise to a whole new audience and inspired a new cook book. ...

Slade's Dave Hill, Dr Xand van Tulleken and actress Joanne Froggatt from 2018-12-03T17:07

Slade guitarist Dave Hill; Young People’s Laureate for London Momtaza Mehri; Listener Mary Diggory takes JP Devlin back to the woods that gave her sanctuary; Shona Davies on finding love as she sai...

Sandi Toksvig, Helen Czerski and Richard Blackwood's Inheritance Tracks from 2018-11-24T14:06

Comedian and writer Sandi Toksvig, former armed robber turned triathlete John McAvoy and bubble enthusiast, Dr. Helen Czerski and harmonica fan Ben Hewlett. With the Inheritance Tracks of Richard ...

Stephen Fry and the Inheritance Tracks of Jenni Murray from 2018-11-17T10:59

Stephen Fry joins Richard and Aasmah to talk about Greek Heroes and finding wedded bliss. We also have JoJo Wood who extolls the virtue of wood carving for mental health, and Dr Catherine Walker, ...

Michael Palin from 2018-11-10T14:48

Michael Palin talks with Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir about travelling in the footsteps of a ship, Erebus, that went missing in the late 1840s and was only re-discovered in 2014. He also discu...

Tamsin Greig, Shaun Wallace and Stephen Mangan's Inheritance Tracks. from 2018-11-03T13:04

Actor Tamsin Greig, quizzer and barrister Shaun Wallace, explorer Aldo Kane, RAF trauma nurse Sadie Melling and "Chabuddy G". With Stephen Mangan's Inheritance Tracks. Presented by Aasmah Mir and...

Marcus Brigstocke, Curtis Stigers from 2018-10-27T10:32

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, who reveals why he has a red painted head and blue horns for his first character-driven stand up show. Jodi Ann Bic...

Adam Hills and the Inheritance Tracks of Paul Jones from 2018-10-22T11:04

Comedian and writer Adam Hills is also the host of Channel 4's taboo busting comedy satire The Last Leg. He joins Richard and Aasmah along with: Georgina Lawton who grew up thinking she was white...

Bridget Christie, Paul Anthony Jones, Kirsty Latoya and Ian Beardwell from 2018-10-16T17:10

Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles are joined in the Saturday Live studio by stand-up comedian Bridget Christie, digital artist and mental health campaigner Kirsty Latoya, milkman Ian Beardwell a...

Kevin Keegan and Romesh Ranganathan from 2018-10-06T12:02

Former England football player and manager Kevin Keegan made his professional debut fifty years ago. He talks to Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles about how a nun was his first mentor, the way ...

Bonnie Langford from 2018-09-29T11:18

She can dance, she can sing, she can ice skate and act in gritty London based soap EastEnders: all round showbiz star Bonnie Langford joins us to talk about her show business career spanning 5 deca...

Neil Oliver and Amy Macdonald in Stirling from 2018-09-22T11:06

Coming live from Stirling, Coast presenter and archaeologist Neil Oliver talks about his love of the British Isles; writer, musician and journalist Doug Johnstone takes time out from Stirling's Blo...

Rick Wakeman and Ray Winstone from 2018-09-18T13:17

Legendary keyboard player Rick Wakeman is known for his huge contribution to prog rock with the band Yes, his own innovative compositions, his flamboyant caped stage presence and his numerous piano...

Susan Calman, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, Simon's Cat from 2018-09-08T10:33

Conversation from comedian Susan Calman, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones aka The Black Farmer and about Simon's Cat. Naga Munchetty shares her Inheritance Tracks. Presented by Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richar...

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock from 2018-09-01T11:11

Maggie Aderin-Pocock on her love of the moon and Nigerian heritage; Ali Payne tweeted to try and find the inscribed copy of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist given to her by her late husband. She contin...

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, Lloyd Grossman, Atoosa Sepehr, Leye Adenle, Paula Moulton, Gary Lyness from 2018-08-25T10:43

Singer songwriter Jim Kerr of Simple Minds talks about his love of walking in deserts and mountains, sustaining friendships over decades and his pop career. Atoosa Sepehr shares recipes from her c...

Sir Michael Parkinson, Martin Carthy, Kiki Dee from 2018-08-18T12:32

We're live from the YMCA Theatre in Scarborough with Sir Michael Parkinson, folk legend Martin Carthy, surfer Tori Gower and Jennifer Dunne on the exhibition the Ancient Seas of the Yorkshire Coast...

Mark-Anthony Turnage and Kim Wilde from 2018-08-11T10:55

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, Kim Wilde's inheritance tracks, Bryony Gordon on staying sober and running, the Urban birder David Lindo and Thames plastic picking cyclist Dhruv Boruah join Rev Rich...

Shaun Keaveny with Rylan Clark-Neal from 2018-08-04T10:32

Shaun Keaveny and Sonali Shah are joined by Rylan Clark-Neal who found fame as a contestant on the X-Factor in 2012. He subsequently won Celebrity Big Brother in 2013 and is now a presenter on prog...

Stephen Mangan, Matt Cain, Orla Kiely and Dr Michelle Dickinson aka 'Nanogirl' from 2018-07-28T11:16

Conversation from the actor Stephen Mangan, pop-up beach organiser Scott Barton, nanotechnologist Dr. Michelle Dickinson, and The Madonna of Bolton - Matt Cain. With Orla Kiely's Inheritance Tracks...

Mark Gatiss from 2018-07-21T11:13

Mark Gatiss talks about return of The League of Gentlemen, his passion for painting, and why he's drawn to the artist John Minton. Joining him are history teacher and performance poet Jaspreet Kaur...

Robert Peston, Kate Bradbury, Chris Difford from 2018-07-07T10:37

Conversation from the Journalist Robert Peston, stand up comedian Darren Harriott, teacher Vanessa Tissington, Wimbledon obsessive Ben Chatfield and Butterfly Ambassador, Kate Bradbury. With Chris ...

Bryn Terfel, Judy Murray, Frank Gardner, Rai Rafiq, Edwina Brocklesby from 2018-06-30T10:35

Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles host and perform with opera star Bryn Terfel. He's appearing in the title role in Falstaff at the Royal Opera House. Edwina "IronGran" Brocklesby, tells how sh...

Kriss Akabusi, Shaun Keaveny, Kim Appleby, Ben Okri, Steven Camden from 2018-06-23T10:21

Aasmah Mir and Shaun Keaveny with athlete and presenter Kriss Akabusi, singer Kim Appleby, writer Steven Camden, teacher Abed Ahmed and author Ben Okri. Sporting legend Kriss Akabusi still holds t...

Alison Balsom meets Aasmah Mir and Konnie Huq from 2018-06-16T10:41

With Aasmah Mir and guest presenter Konnie Huq are trumpeter Alison Balsom OBE, cycling blogger Jools Walker, self taught Fungi expert Geoff Dann and Joanne Barton who went from teenage alcoholism ...

Richard Blackwood, Matt Lucas, Simon Doonan from 2018-06-09T11:03

Guests include actor and stand up comedian Richard Blackwood, Little Britain star Matt Lucas, fashion commentator and football obsessive Simon Doonan, and American Football player Phoebe Schecter. ...

David Coulthard from 2018-06-02T10:27

With Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir, David Coulthard talks about his Formula 1 career and life after racing. Listener Kate got in touch to tell us how writing helped her on the way to recovery ...

John Torode from 2018-05-26T10:59

With Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir, John Torode on MasterChef and how travel has inspired his cooking, Simon Mayo shares his Inheritance Tracks, Milad Shadrooh reveals how he became The Singin...

Benedict Allen from 2018-05-19T10:33

The adventurer and explorer Benedict Allen joins Konnie Huq and the Rev. Richard Coles. He explains why he returned to Papua New Guinea to visit a community he'd befriended 30 years earlier, why he...

Eliza Carthy from 2018-05-12T10:35

With Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson for parents, Eliza Carthy was unlikely to do anything else, but her enthusiasm, research and skill in arranging, writing and performing along with 2 Mercury Mu...

Pam Ayres, Leee John from 2018-05-05T10:48

Aasmah Mir and Rev. Richard Coles are joined by poet Pam Ayres, who talks about her passion on hedgehogs, her time in the WRAF and the everyday events that have inspired her more recent poems. Li...

Sir Tim Rice from 2018-04-28T11:20

Sir Tim Rice talks to Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles about bringing the musical Chess back to the West End. He also reflects on his career, love of cricket and performing himself. Listener Talitha M...

Lucy Worsley and Brian Conley from 2018-04-21T10:39

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by history obsessive Dr Lucy Worsley, whose mission is to make history accessible: she writes books for adults and children, she presents TV documentaries, o...

Andy Hamilton from 2018-04-14T11:37

Presented by Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. Andy Hamilton earned his comedy stripes at Cambridge, in the university's Light Entertainment Society, and has written and performed for a numbe...

Alesha Dixon from 2018-04-07T10:47

Alesha Dixon tells us about her career as singer, songwriter, author and Britain's Got Talent judge. Christian Donlan describes living with multiple sclerosis.Rev Andrew Rawding served as a Britis...

Arthur Smith from 2018-03-31T10:18

Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein talk to stand-up comedian Arthur Smith about his new act examining his father Syd's experiences in World War Two and as a police constable. Syd fought in north Africa, was...

Alexandra Burke from 2018-03-24T11:34

Alexandra Burke reveals the life events that have inspired the songs on her new album. Raynor Winn was made bankrupt and lost her home, just as her husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness. ...

Kim Wilde from 2018-03-17T12:29

Kim Wilde joins presenters Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. She sold ten million albums, and after retiring, having a family and then a successful gardening career, has returned to the stage. She has ...

Katie Piper from 2018-03-10T11:18

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by presenter and author Katie Piper. In 2008, she survived a horrific acid attack that left her blind in one eye and required more than 200 operations. Putti...

Charles Hazlewood from 2018-03-06T11:27

The conductor, Charles Hazlewood, believes in making music inclusive, from projects fusing five Grime MC's with the BBC Concert Orchestra to founding the world's first paraorchestra, inspired by hi...

Debbie McGee from 2018-02-24T11:34

Debbie McGee tells us about her time on Strictly, how she needs to keep busy and life two years after the death of her husband, Paul Daniels. Joe Cushnan's father walked out on his family, never to...

Greg Wise from 2018-02-17T11:50

The actor and producer Greg Wise is brother of Clare Wise, who died of cancer in 2016. Greg has co-written a book about how he and Clare dealt with her illness - the appointments, the hair loss, th...

Dame Evelyn Glennie, Max Beesley, Keeva, Matt Hopwood from 2018-02-13T12:09

Dame Evelyn Glennie tells presenters Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles about her mission to find new ways to help people really listen. She blazed a trail as the world's first professional solo perc...

Jenny Agutter from 2018-02-03T11:42

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the actress Jenny Agutter who plays Sister Julienne in Call the Midwife. She recalls her time living in Hollywood and reveals her passion for rap...

Jo Wood from 2018-01-27T11:58

Jo Wood's first foray into the public eye was as a popular newspaper's "Face of 1972" aged 17. After 5 years working as a model she met Ronnie Wood and spent the next 30 years living the whirlwind ...

Dan Snow from 2018-01-20T11:27

Broadcaster and author Dan Snow is the history guy - from first appearing on our screens with the 60th Anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein, with dad Peter to numerous other documentaries includ...

Brian Moore from 2018-01-13T11:38

Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein are joined by the commentator and former England Rugby hooker, Brian Moore, who talks about his career, recent health scare and passion for opera and wine. 18 year old Liv...

Phil Daniels from 2018-01-06T11:45

Actor Phil Daniels joins Aasmah and Richard in the studio. Since his first big role aged 19 as the lead in cult The Who film Quadrophenia, he hasn't stopped working in film, theatre or TV includin...

Lemn Sissay from 2017-12-30T11:16

The poet Lemn Sissay, lexicographer Susie Dent and conservationist Ian Redmond join the Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. Lemn Sissay is a poet and broadcaster who has written extensively abo...

Chris Difford from 2017-12-23T11:31

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the lyricist and musician Chris Difford who, along with Glenn Tilbrook, co-founded Squeeze - with hits such as 'Cool For Cats' and 'Up The Juncti...

James Blunt from 2017-12-16T11:38

Hit singer songwriter James Blunt joins Aasmah Mir and Shaun Keaveny to talk hits, the army and acerbic tweets. Actor Abubakar Salim is the new lead in Assassin's Creed, a video game. We ask him w...

Tim Peake from 2017-12-09T11:27

Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein meet astronaut Tim Peake; writer and actor Sanjeev Kohli and cake maker Cynthia Stroud. Tim Peake is a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. He finished his 186-day Prin...

Liza Tarbuck from 2017-12-02T11:40

The actress and Radio 2 DJ, Liza Tarbuck, joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles to discuss annuals, puzzles and why she's distracted by everything. Michael Smith became the first person to f...

Bruce Dickinson from 2017-11-25T12:47

Bruce Dickinson is best known as lead singer one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, Iron Maiden. But he's also a airline captain, international fencer, radio presenter, and writer...

Lee Child from 2017-11-21T14:07

Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher thrillers, talks to Aasmah Mir and Shaun Keaveny about his latest book The Midnight Line. Actress Alison Steadman discusses Hold the Sunset, her upcoming sitc...

Radio 4 BBC Children in Need auction; Katie Melua from 2017-11-11T11:27

Katie Melua joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. She talks about her childhood from Georgia to Belfast and London, her music, and she describes how the late Sir Terry Wogan championed her career and...

Reggie Yates from 2017-11-04T14:54

Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles are joined by broadcaster and actor Reggie Yates. From Desmonds to Top of the Pops, he's been on camera nearly all of his life, but it's as a documentary filmma...

Goldie from 2017-10-28T10:31

Goldie, producer, DJ and artist; actor Tim Bentinck and model and campaigner Mary Russell join Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles.. Born in Walsall and brought up in a series of children's ...

Rick Stein from 2017-10-21T10:53

Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles are joined by chef, restaurateur and TV presenter Rick Stein whose latest culinary journey has taken him to California and Mexico. Showjumper Nick Skelton wen...

Mary Berry from 2017-10-14T10:24

Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles are joined by the Queen of Baking, Mary Berry who has been teaching the nation to cook for over four decades. She's now turning her attention to home maintenanc...

Gloria Hunniford from 2017-10-07T13:40

Aasmah Mir and Shaun Keaveny are joined by the broadcaster Gloria Hunniford - who started out as a singer at the age of seven and went on to become the first woman to have a daily radio programme o...

Monty Don from 2017-09-30T12:57

Monty Don joins presenters Aasmah Mir and Shaun Keaveny to discuss his television gardening career, his new book Down To Earth, and how getting your hands dirty is good for your mental well-being. ...

Marc Almond from 2017-09-23T10:40

Presented by Aasmah Mir and Shaun Keaveny. The singer Marc Almond talks about his new album of 1960s orchestral pop and his diverse career using world music influences, including Russian folksongs...

David Essex from 2017-09-16T10:38

As he prepares to join the forthcoming Living Legends tour, David Essex tells us about his route from blue-eyed East End boy to star of stage, screen and soap via a barrage of screaming fans. The L...

Jeremy Vine from 2017-09-09T10:58

Jeremy Vine recalls his dad-built tree house and hoisting Karen Clifton aloft on Strictly. Sally Goble tells us what it's like to swim the channel. Malachy Tallack spends his time cresting the oc...

Stephen McGann from 2017-09-02T11:05

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by Stephen McGann, who plays Dr. Turner in BBC TV series Call the Midwife. He reveals why he has combined his passion for genealogy, with his academ...

Marty Wilde and Roger McGough from 2017-08-26T10:50

Sixty years in showbiz for Marty Wilde this year. The south London boy was signed by the famously unsentimental pop Svengali Larry Parnes, and rose to fame with the generation that included Sir Cli...

Simon Williams from 2017-08-19T12:28

Actor Simon Williams; singer Heather Small; writer John Higgs and angler Marina Gibson join Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles. The actor Simon Williams got his big break playing James Bell...

Levi Roots from 2017-08-12T11:31

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the chef and musician Levi Roots, whose business success began following an appearance on BBC Two's Dragon's Den. He's performed with James Brown...

Blenheim with John Craven from 2017-08-05T14:40

Good morning from Blenheim, where to the sounds of the xxxx brass band, we join Countryfile Live for an early harvest festival of things rural. We're joined by John Craven, who's been reporting co...

Sir Tim Smit from 2017-07-29T10:45

Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project; actor and writer John Gordon Sinclair; performer Sophie Willan and confectioner Andy Baxendale join Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles. Sir Tim...

Feargal Sharkey from 2017-07-22T10:56

Feargal Sharkey talks about his journey from Undertone to executive. Josette Simon tells us about her career as an actor and current role as Cleopatra at the RSC Stratford.Cat Irving is Human Rema...

Martine McCutcheon from 2017-07-15T10:55

Martine McCutcheon, real life east ender, became famous as a TV Eastender in the 90s playing Tiffany, on off love interest for hi-maintenance Grant Mitchell, until she was squished by Frank Butcher...

Alexei Sayle from 2017-07-08T10:26

Alexei Sayle talks about his Imaginary Sandwich Shop and forthcoming appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Martine Wright lost both her legs in the 7/7 London bombings and went on to repres...

Judy Murray from 2017-07-01T10:19

Judy Murray talks about her family and their tennis story - and her subsequent projects from dancing the Viennese Waltz at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, to heading the women's tennis coaching init...

Henry "Blowers" Blofeld, Tom Chaplin, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean, Jess Walkup from 2017-07-01T07:11

Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles chat with cricket commentator Henry "Blowers" Blofeld, Keane singer Tom Chaplin on his solo career, comedian Kiri Pritchard-Mclean&British Antarctic winter base...

Foxton Locks Festival; Lee Hall; Thomasina Miers from 2017-06-17T10:37

A Canal Themed Programme with the Rev. Richard Coles on location from Foxton Locks in Leicestershire for the festival. He is joined by the Canal Laureate, Luke Kennard; Lynne Berry of the Canal and...

Oz Clarke from 2017-06-10T10:57

The Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the wine writer and broadcaster Oz Clarke; TV presenter and author of "The Grief Survival Guide" Jeff Brazier; former England cricketer and Direc...

Robert 'Judge' Rinder; Amelia Dalton; Professor Clare Brant; Daragh O'Malley. from 2017-06-03T10:39

Presenter and barrister Robert 'Judge' Rinder; actor Daragh O'Malley; Clare Brant, professor of 18th century literature and culture and ship's captain Amelia Dalton join Aasmah Mir and the Revd Ric...

Adrian Lester, James May, Marawa Ibrahim, Lottie Muir from 2017-06-02T11:10

Actor Adrian Lester, star of Sky drama Riviera; TV presenter and author of The Reassembler, James May; record breaking hula hooper and author of The Girl Guide, Marawa Ibrahim; plus cocktail garden...

Nicola Adams and Les Dennis from 2017-05-20T10:45

Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein are joined by the boxer and Olympic gold champion Nicola Adams, who talks about her boxing career and work as an extra in programmes including Coronation Street. Actor Les...

Sharleen Spiteri from 2017-05-13T10:37

Sharleen Spiteri was just 21 when she found herself and her band Texas at number 8 in the charts with I Don't Want A Lover. Almost 30 years later, she's still writing and recording - back with Texa...

Dame Penelope Keith from 2017-05-06T10:37

Actor Dame Penelope Keith; interior designer Nicky Haslam; writer Alex Wheatle and conservationist Dr Amy Dickman join Aasmah Mir and the Revd Richard Coles. Dame Penelope Keith, best known for he...

Leo Sayer from 2017-04-29T10:55

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the singer/songwriter Leo Sayer. Still touring 40 years after he reinvented the Pierrot for Top of the Pops, he discusses his popularity in south...

Roy Hudd from 2017-04-22T10:50

Roy Hudd is a national treasure. He's been entertaining, acting and generally having fun on TV, the stage and wireless for many decades. Next month he'll be 81 years old and he's still working. I...

Milton Jones, Sam Sweeney, Catherine Howell, Michael Volpe. from 2017-04-15T10:48

Comedian Milton Jones; musician Sam Sweeney; opera impresario Michael Volpe and curator Catherine Howell join Aasmah Mir and Kate Silverton. Milton Jones is a stand-up comedian, known by many as t...

Christopher Biggins from 2017-04-08T11:45

The actor and TV personality Christopher Biggins joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. Best known for his performances as Lukewarm in the BBC series of Porridge, Emperor Nero in I Claudius, ...

Daniel O'Donnell from 2017-04-01T10:33

Irish singing superstar Daniel O'Donnell made history in 2016 by becoming the first recording artist in the history of the UK album chart to have at least one new album every year since 1988 - an u...

Jodie Prenger from 2017-03-25T11:27

The actress Jodie Prenger joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. Best known for winning the role of Nancy in the West End production of Oliver! She is now receiving rave reviews for her perfo...

Jimmy Osmond from 2017-03-18T11:30

Jimmy Osmond is only 53 - but has 50 years of showbiz under his belt. How does he do it? Maria MacLennan trained as jewellery designer but found her way, unexpectedly, into a very different (if re...

Paul Nicholas from 2017-03-11T13:23

The actor Paul Nicholas talks about his recent visit to The Real Marigold Hotel and his early career in the first rock musical Hair. 'Punk potter' Keith Brymer Jones describes how he made his firs...

Lee Mack from 2017-03-04T11:15

Lee Mack star of the long running BBC sit com Not Going Out, former stable boy and keen darts players joins the Rev Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.Life-long petrolhead Bron Burrell on why she is raci...

Rory Bremner from 2017-02-25T11:44

Rory Bremner joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles, with his impressions of Trump and JP, among many others. He explains what he enjoys about the wordplay of translating operas and, as Scotla...

Marti Pellow from 2017-02-18T11:39

Marti Pellow first hit the charts with Wet Wet Wet's Wishing I was Lucky in 1987. He's gone on to have a successful musical theatre career. With the forthcoming release of his solo album Mysterious...

Una Stubbs from 2017-02-11T11:34

Una Stubbs discusses her love of painting and her role playing Sherlock's landlady Mrs Hudson Dinosaur expert and primatologist Ben Garrod on how his love of nature started.Bill Griffin founder of...

Amanda Redman from 2017-02-04T11:38

Amanda Redman, best known for her role as DSI Sandra Pullman in BBC1's New Tricks, joins Rev Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir to discuss filming in Sri Lanka for a new TV medical drama, her early years...

Martin Kemp from 2017-01-28T11:38

Martin Kemp didn't realise when he was shifting kit for big brother Gary's band Spandau Ballet, that his future lay not back stage but ON stage. Invited to play bass in the band which conquered the...

Mark Watson from 2017-01-21T11:27

Mark Watson is an award winning comedian who has written six novels. He explains why in spite of his success, his dream job is still to be a football commentator. Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes mak...

Martin Clunes from 2017-01-14T11:37

Actor and presenter Martin Clunes, best known for his roles in Men Behaving Badly and Doc Martin, joins Rev Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir to discuss discovering the islands of Australia, his love of...

Ed Balls from 2017-01-07T11:40

Former Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, joins Richard and Aasmah to discuss his surprise success on Strictly Come Dancing, passion for football, how he coped in public life with interiorised stammering...

Lucy Porter from 2016-12-31T11:23

Comedian Lucy Porter joins Aasmah Mir and Kate Silverton to discuss why she originally wanted to follow in the footsteps of Kate Adie, the pleasures and perils of setting up a Mums and Babies comed...

Arabella Weir from 2016-12-24T11:23

Arabella Weir, star of Two Doors Down, talks to Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein about what neighbours mean to her, festive celebrations and how she got into comedy. Mark Forsyth explains why he decided ...

Raymond Blanc from 2016-12-17T11:35

Raymond Blanc grew up in a self sufficient household in France, and after a few false starts in other professions, became a self taught Michelin star winning chef, and restaurant entrepreneur. Ka...

Anthony Horowitz from 2016-12-10T11:26

Crime writer Anthony Horowitz joins Richard and Aasmah in the studio to discuss his love of Tin Tin, Victorian fairgrounds and why villages are so well suited to murder mysteries. After his retur...

Saturday Live Panto Programme with Lesley Joseph from 2016-12-03T13:15

Star of Birds of a Feather and Strictly Come Dancing, Lesley Joseph, joins Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles live from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House to talk about pantomime and her role as...

Aled Jones from 2016-11-26T11:37

Aled Jones will forever be associated with the song he made a hit - Walking in the Air. Now he's released a seasonal CD where he sings in harmony with his 14 year old self. He'll join Richard and A...

Adrian Chiles, David France, Phoebe Wainman, Mark Grist from 2016-11-19T11:20

Kate Silverton and the Rev Richard Coles talk to Adrian Chiles about football and a particular match that pitted black players against white players. Phoebe Wainman is the current British Stock C...

Ray Mears from 2016-11-12T13:25

British Bushcraft, survival expert and photographer Ray Mears talks to Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles about what draws him to the outdoors. Charlie McDonnell was the first Video Blogger in the U...

Clare Balding from 2016-11-05T11:37

Clare Balding and Sir David Tang join Aasmah and Richard Clare Balding was a horse mad girl who became a leading amateur flat jockey in her teens. She found success as a racing correspondent and s...

Tony Robinson from 2016-10-29T10:22

Actor and broadcaster Tony Robinson joins Aasmah Mir and Rev. Richard Coles to talk about his life onstage, the impact of playing Baldrick, and the unusual way his love of history developed. Gemma...

Alexander Armstrong from 2016-10-22T10:36

Alexander Armstrong, quizmaster, actor, classically trained baritone and occasional oboist shares his love of music and llamas. Arlene Phillips left home at 22 to follow a career in dance. She fo...

Michael Ball from 2016-10-15T10:55

Michael Ball joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles to discuss his musical collaboration with the Tenor Alfie Boe; his family's association with the Mini car, and how he deals with his superst...

McFly singer and author Tom Fletcher from 2016-10-08T11:04

Tom Fletcher of McFly, Silent Film pianist Neil Brand, Bookshop frequenter Erica Jones and extreme engineer Jimmy de Ville join Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.Tom Fletcher is best known as singer and...

Ian Wright from 2016-10-01T10:34

Ian Wright joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles to discuss his football career, proudest achievements and life after retiring from the game aged 36. Reporter JP Devlin talks to Saturday Liv...

Derren Brown from 2016-09-24T10:40

The illusionist Derren Brown joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles to discuss why he's spent three years researching what makes us happy. The ex-footballer and manager of the England Women's...

David Baddiel from 2016-09-17T10:30

Comedian and writer David Baddiel on writing for children and whether death and dementia make good subjects for comedy. Olympic diver Chris Mears won gold in Rio in spectacular style. He reveals ...

Damon Hill and Cerys Matthews from 2016-09-10T10:00

Cerys Matthews, Damon Hill, Meik Wiking and Benny Lewis join Aasmah and Richard for Saturday Live. He became Formula One World Champion in 1996, following in the footsteps of his father, the lege...

John Bishop from 2016-09-03T11:01

Stand-up comedian and actor John Bishop joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles. John Bishop found fame after discovering his talent for stand-up comedy in his thirties. He talks about his will...

Ralf Little from 2016-08-27T10:44

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Ralf Little. He first came to our attention as Antony in The Royle Family and has now produced the 'mockumentary' series Borderline. He reveals why he swa...

Miles Jupp from 2016-08-20T10:43

Miles Jupp joins the Rev Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir and shares his love of cricket, rollercoasters and why he is possibly the poshest stand-up comedian on the circuit. Lance Corporal Richard Jon...

Craig Charles and David Emanuel from 2016-08-13T10:47

Craig Charles and David Emanuel join Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. For a while Craig Charles was best known for playing Dave Lister in sci fi comedy Red Dwarf, but he has probably usurped that wit...

Martin Fry from 2016-08-06T10:30

Martin Fry is a singer/songwriter who came to prominence in the early 1980s as lead singer of the band ABC. Their debut album, the Lexicon of Love, was a UK number one. Thirty four years on, he has...

Wayne Sleep from 2016-07-30T10:53

Dancer and choreographer Wayne Sleep talks about life as a dancer, his love of the stars and shares his unusual new hobby. Gary Fildes is a bricklayer turned astronomer, and founder of the Kielder ...

Denise Welch and Brendan Foster from 2016-07-28T15:21

Saturday Live's summer road trip begins in South Shields, at the Westovian Theatre, with Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. As preparations for the maritime themed summer parade get underway, actor and...

Leslie Garrett from 2016-07-28T14:58

The Saturday Live Summer Road Trip pulls into its final stop in Cromer, Norfolk where Reverend Richard Coles and Kate Silverton broadcast live from the Pavilion Theatre at the end of Cromer Pier. ...

Wayne Hemingway from 2016-07-16T10:13

This week the Saturday Live road trip continues to Morecambe in Lancashire, where the Catch The Wind Kite Festival is taking place this weekend, with beautiful views across Morecambe Bay and plenty...

Tim Vincent from 2016-07-09T10:21

The next stop on the Saturday Live summer road trip is the beautiful seaside town of Tenby in Pembrokeshire. It's the Long Course Weekend and Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles will be celebrating extr...

Richard Madeley from 2016-06-25T10:47

Richard Madeley is one of the most recognizable faces on British TV, part of a successful husband and wife presenting team that lasted over 20 years. He has written four books - one about his relat...

Rick Astley from 2016-06-18T10:33

Rick Astley rolls into the studio to talk to Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles about his comeback album, what it's like to be at the top of the charts the second time round and why he drives to as m...

Freddie Fox from 2016-06-11T10:29

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Actor Freddie Fox starred in TV drama Cucumber, has played Romeo, and is currently performing the parts of both Demetrius and Bottom in a madcap producti...

Michaela Strachan from 2016-06-04T10:49

This week on Saturday Live - Aasmah Mir and Kate Silverton speak to wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan about her long and varied career, train enthusiast David Brewer, the man who has photographe...

Barry Cryer from 2016-05-28T10:16

The comedy writer and performer, Barry Cryer, joins Aasmah Mir and Kate Silverton. James Young has always been a keen gamer. When, in 2012, he lost two limbs after he was hit by a train, James thou...

John Sergeant, Juliet Sargeant, Freya Rodger, Mikael Lindnord from 2016-05-21T11:23

Former political correspondent, pasa doble specialist and now narrow boat enthusiast John Sergeant celebrates 50 years of broadcasting and reveal show he got his break into the industry

G...

Actor, Writer and Comedian David Mitchell from 2016-05-14T10:31

With Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles

Actor and writer David Mitchell talks about playing William Shakespeare in new series Upstart Crow, his comedy partnership with Robert Webb, and b...

Mark Haddon from 2016-05-07T10:58

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Mark Haddon.

Best known for writing multi prize winning novel The Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime, author and illustrator Mark Haddo...

Lenny Henry, Pumeza Matshikiza, Jack Cooke, Emma Bridgewater, Ana Matronic from 2016-04-30T10:28

With Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles


Lenny Henry talks about his new album of Blues music and his hugely successful career in show business. Following the news that he will rece...

Saturday Live with James Nesbitt from 2016-04-23T10:52

With Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles



James Nesbitt talks about going back to his childhood home to play Colin Howell in real life drama The Secret, the return of Cold Feet a...

Michelle Collins from 2016-04-16T12:07

Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles talk to the actress Michelle Collins about her love of markets and clothes, her singing and acting career from EastEnders to Coronation Street, and her latest ...

Stuart Maconie, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Radzi Chinyanganya, Frederick Forsyth from 2016-04-12T10:52

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by DJ and writer Stuart Maconie.

Stuart's new paperback 'The Pie at Night', is an exploration of "what the North does for fun" and a defence of nort...

Paul Young from 2016-04-02T10:41

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Paul Young.

His music was the sound of the 80's, with a multitude of chart topping hits, he won Best British Male at the Brit awards, toured Euro...

Dexter Fletcher and Shazia Mirza from 2016-03-26T12:33

Presented by Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein. Dexter Fletcher's big break came as a child actor when he was cast a BabyFace in Bugsby Malone. He talks about his acting career, move into directing and the...

Mel Giedroyc from 2016-03-19T11:27

With the Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir

Mel Giedroyc is taking on her most serious acting role, playing an American mother dealing with the potentially troubling actions of her son, in ...

Anita Dobson from 2016-03-12T11:29

Anita Dobson's acting career spans more than forty years. She found fame in the 1980s playing pub landlady Angie Watts in EastEnders. She has starred in television, film and theatre productions as ...

Rebecca Front from 2016-03-05T11:25

Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles are joined by Bafta award winning actor Rebecca Front to talk about being funny, playing dislikeable characters and claustrophobia.

Chef and write...

Marian Keyes from 2016-02-27T11:35

Marian Keyes joins the Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. A columnist, blogger and bestselling author of a dozen novels, she has sold more than 33 million copies worldwide. She shares her passion f...

Laurence Fox from 2016-02-20T11:26

The actor Laurence Fox is best known for playing DI James Hathaway in the ITV crime drama Lewis. He's now on the London stage playing a giant of history Charles de Gaulle in 'The Patriotic Traitor'...

Jamie Foreman from 2016-02-13T11:50

After playing tough guys in Layer Cake, Oliver Twist and Nil by Mouth, the part of thug Derek Branning in Eastenders seemed a natural choice for actor Jamie Foreman. But with comedy parts in Birds ...

Ronan Keating from 2016-02-06T11:24

The singer-songwriter and actor Ronan Keating joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles.
Ronan has sold more than 45 million records worldwide as a solo artist, and alongside Boyzone. After a...

Nicky Clarke, George Cohen from 2016-01-30T12:07

Nicky Clarke, hairdresser to the stars, shares his style tips and tales of celebrity clients from Elizabeth Taylor to Princess Diana.
In 1966 George Cohen helped England to victory in the World...

Mark Steel from 2016-01-23T11:26

The stand-up comedian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist grew up in Kent with his adopted parents. He's currently touring the country with his new stand up show. 'Who do I think I am?, which deal...

Katy Brand from 2016-01-16T11:12

Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Katy Brand.

Comedian Katy Brand graced our screen in her Big Ass Show where we saw her parody pop culture. She danced like Beyonce for S...

Paul McKenna from 2016-01-09T11:46

The hypnotist and self-help author, Paul McKenna, has sold more than 10 million books worldwide. He describes his career, working with celebrity clients, and reveals his latest work on how to gain ...

Pauline McLynn from 2016-01-02T11:25

Actress and author Pauline McLynn talks about her varied career which includes Mrs Doyle in Father Ted and Nasty Nick Cotton's ex-wife in EastEnders. She also discusses being attracted to playing b...

Russell Grant from 2015-12-26T11:10

Join Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein for a live Boxing Day Saturday Live.

Russell Grant has been synonymous with astrology ever since he interpreted the stars on breakfast TV in the 1980s. But i...

Gyles Brandreth, Sue Perkins from 2015-12-19T11:14

Game show regular and former MP Gyles Brandreth discusses the wonders and curiosities of the English language.
Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins reveals how she overcame childhood sh...

Michael Morpurgo, Dr Helen Sharman from 2015-12-12T11:25

Michael Morpurgo joins Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles. He describes how stories from his mother, and a decorated soldier from WWI, have inspired his latest novel; the importance of daydr...

Suzi Perry from 2015-12-05T11:30

It's listener week on Saturday Live with Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

We've accepted Philip Farmer's invitation to come to his house in Wolverhampton. Philip, his wife Sarah and ...

Caroline Quentin from 2015-11-28T11:38

Richard Coles and Aasmar Mir are joined by Caroline Quentin. She became a national treasure as the long suffering Dorothy on Men Behaving Badly, followed by lead roles in Jonathan Creek, Blue Murde...

Griff Rhys Jones and Beverley Knight from 2015-11-21T11:23

Griff Rhys Jones joins the Reverend Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir, to share tales about his long association with historic buildings, hosting quizzes in museums, his great Welsh adventures and dress...

Anne Reid from 2015-11-14T11:30

Anne Reid joins Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles. After becoming a household name as Coronation Street's Valerie Barlow, Anne's varied career has seen her seducing Daniel Craig in The Moth...

Radio 4 BBC Children in Need Auction, Ian Rankin from 2015-11-07T11:37

Crime writer Ian Rankin joined Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

Saturday Live hosted a special auction, offering listeners the chance to bid for some amazing prize packages to raise money for...

Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Ashley Walters from 2015-10-24T10:25

Sophie Ellis-Bextor first topped the charts with Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) and successes continued with hits including Murder On The Dancefloor and Take Me Home. Sophie joins Aasmah and Richar...

Steve Coogan from 2015-10-17T10:41

Joining Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles is the actor, writer and comedian Steve Coogan. He has won seven comedy awards, six BAFTAs for his work including The Trip and Philomena, and had a box office n...

Gaby Roslin from 2015-10-03T10:27

Inspired by Blue Peter at the age of three Gaby Roslin's career has taken her from The Big Breakfast to Chicago and the National Lottery Draw. She joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir to talk about h...

Actor Sophie Thompson from 2015-09-26T10:25

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by Sophie Thompson. The award winning actor has appeared in Harry Potter, EastEnders and won celebrity MasterChef in 2014. Sophie talks about how her family,...

Professor Green from 2015-09-19T10:36

He's sold over three million records, has over 2 million twitter followers and has notched up 66 million YouTube views of his work. Rapper Professor Green aka Stephen Manderson has now written his ...

Michael Mosley from 2015-09-12T10:28

Science journalist and self-experimenter Michael Mosley joins Kate Silverton and Suzy Klein. Michael's varied career started in banking and then he qualified as a doctor before joining the BBC. He ...

Nigel Havers from 2015-08-29T10:35

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are charmed by Nigel Havers. He shot to fame as Lord Lindsay in the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire, and is best known for playing charmers, cads and conmen from Co...

Larry Lamb from 2015-08-22T10:24

Long before the actor Larry Lamb achieved notoriety as the evil Archie Mitchell in EastEnders or twinkly Micky Shipman in Gavin & Stacey he'd lived a life dramatic enough to be made into a TV hit o...

Richard Herring from 2015-08-15T10:32

The prolific podcaster, comedian, writer and blogger Richard Herring joins Kate Silverton and Richard Coles to tell them why, after an unbroken run of performing a different stand-up show at the Ed...

Simon Webbe from 2015-08-08T10:26

Simon Webbe is currently playing the part of the Big Bad Wolf in the Three Little Pigs but is perhaps best known for being a quarter of the boy band Blue. Simon made his theatre debut in Sister Act...

Jenny Eclair from 2015-07-25T10:45

Comedian and writer Jenny Eclair talks about her latest novel Moving, which taps into her obsession with motherhood and family secrets; whilst taking Jenny back to memories of being a life model an...

Alfie Boe from 2015-07-18T12:24

The tenor Alfie Boe joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein to talk about his latest project with Pete Townhend's Classic Quadrophenia, and going to Broadway to star as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. Listen

Phill Jupitus from 2015-07-11T12:26

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by comedian Phill Jupitus. Having carved out a career in stand up, he was the voice that launched BBC 6 Music, spending 5 years presenting Breakfast. He is a...

Sally Phillips from 2015-07-04T12:42

Writer and actress Sally Phillips first appeared regularly on our screens in female comedy series Smack the Pony. Roles in Alan Partridge and Bridget Jones soon followed and since then she's carved...

Boris Becker from 2015-06-30T10:51

With Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

Boris Becker is the only person to have won two Wimbledon titles by the time he was 18. He talks about tennis, his love of Wimbledon, a place he now call...

Dom Joly from 2015-06-20T12:50

The comedian and travel writer, Dom Joly, joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. Best known as the star of Trigger Happy TV, he has written a number of books including The Dark Tourist for which he vi...

Sophie Kinsella from 2015-06-13T13:53

Bestselling author of the Shopaholic series Sophie Kinsella has written her first book for young adults. She joins Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein on Saturday live to talk about her joy in writing for di...

Reginald D Hunter from 2015-06-06T12:27

Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by the American stand-up comic Reginald D Hunter. He talks about growing up in America's Deep South, only being the fourth funniest in his family and how, al...

Tony Parsons from 2015-05-30T12:54

The journalist and novelist, Tony Parsons, joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.
Tony was working on the night shift at Gordon's Gin Distillery when he was offered his first job as a journalist o...

Jon Culshaw from 2015-05-23T12:36

With Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

Jon Culshaw talks about making a career out of impressions, with a repertoire of over 350 voices including John Major, Simon Cowell, Ed Miliband and Patr...

Chris Tarrant from 2015-05-16T12:31

Presented by Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

Chris Tarrant has been a household staple since the mid 70s when he shook up Saturday mornings with children's TV series Tiswas. He went on to do...

Edith Bowman from 2015-05-09T12:29

Presented by Richard Coles and Suzy Klein.

DJ and veteran festival-goer Edith Bowman on her love for the sonic boom of Green Man and Glastonbury. For the past twenty years Edith's taken in...