Saturday Live

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

On Saturday Live this week we’ll be looking up, down and all over the place.

Dame Maggie Aderin, space scientist, will have us looking to the skies in wonder before David Mearns, shipwreck hunter, takes us down into the ocean deep as we marvel at his life’s work - and a man never short of a sense of wonder is writer, actor, comedian, sailor and lover of alpacas...Griff Rhys Jones.
Also today, we’ll rise from the depths to the surface for some sea shantying from The Longest Johns - and we’ll be getting the Inheritance Tracks of Andy Zaltzman.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producers: Lowri Morgan and Alice McKee
Researcher: Angharad Butler
Editor: Glyn Tansley
(The live music performed in this programme has been shortened for music rights reasons)

Today we’re in the company of a billionaire, a hostage negotiator and the most sought after screenwriter in the business.
The screenwriter in question is Jack Thorne who’s now turned his considerable talent to a brilliant TV adaptation of Lord of the Flies.
Nicky Perfect says hostage negotiation is all about empathy, and less about talking than listening. And we’ll be all ears as she tells us what we can all learn from the techniques police negotiators use.
And we’ll certainly be paying close attention to what Welsh born billionaire Michael Moritz has to say to us, about his own story, and his telling of the story of his family which is fascinating, harrowing and inspiring in equal measure.
Also today the firefighter who spends his spare time being a Viking - and the Inheritance Tracks of Marian Keyes.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producers: Catherine Powell, Ribika Moktan, Imy Harper
Researchers: Angharad Butler, Jesse Edwards
Editor: Glyn Tansley

Today we have a comedian, a nun and an undertaker’s beautician.
Mark Steel says that when there’s a crisis afoot, while everyone else is panicking the comedians in the room are busy finding the funny side. This Mark’s done, with a book about what he calls his adventures in cancerland.
The remarkable Sister Libby Osgood, worked for NASA before she became a nun. Quite the career path that.
And Jayne Lownds - who brought her expertise as a high-street beautician into the family funeral business.
Also today the annual pancake race still being run more than 550 years after it started - and the Inheritance Tracks of Radio 1 DJ and boardgame designer Matt Edmondson.
Presenter: Adrian Chiles
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producer: Ribika Moktan
Researcher: Jesse Edwards
Editor: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Alexander Armstrong on life as a writer, Professor Patricia Wiltshire explains the role of a forensic botanist, Mackenzie Crook unveils the secrets behind his latest show.