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• 26 May 2012

  Sat, 26 May 12

  Duration:
  86 mins

  Sian Williams and Richard Coles with writer and broadcaster Bamber Gascoigne, a woman dubbed 'The Angel of Mostar', the funeral director decorated for his service to fallen soldiers, a real life Billy Elliot who's off to the Bolshoi ballet school, John McCarthy returns to Beirut, a Thing About Me feature about a chopper bike, and boxer Sugar Ray Leonard's Inheritance Tracks.

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• 190512

  Sat, 19 May 12

  Duration:
  120 mins

  Sian Williams and Richard Coles with chef Angela Hartnett, Jackie Green had a sex-change operation on her 16th birthday, Sandra Jenkins and Mavis Smith saw their village demolished, and John-Paul Flintoff who weaves his own underpants from nettles; John McCarthy goes Plane-spotting, there's a Soundsculpture about cicadas, and Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond's Inheritance Tracks.

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• 12 May 2015

  Sat, 12 May 12

  Duration:
  85 mins

  Sian Williams and Richard Coles with historian Peter Hennessy, John McCarthy on Canvey Island, Sheri Pitman a young woman who went through school refusing to speak, Tony Walker a 56 year old man whose life has been documented on TV since he was seven, Kevin Allmond who has become the Baron of a small European principality, a Crowdscape from Reading, The UK representative for the Pacific Island of Nauru Martin Weston makes a plea for Naurans in Britain to contact him, a "Thing About Me" feature from Sinead Withers about a beloved leather jacket, and Folk legend Joan Baez's Inheritance Tracks.

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• 050512

  Sat, 5 May 12

  Duration:
  86 mins

  Sian Williams and Richard Coles with 1970's pop mega-star David Cassidy; writer Jane Johnson who got lost in the Atlas mountains in Morocco and ended up marrying the Berber tribesman who rescued her; actor Patrick Duffy (aka Dallas' Bobby Ewing) who describes his love of caravanning; translator Mary Hobson who took a degree in Russian in her sixties and, now in her 80s, is winning awards for her version of Pushkin; John McCarthy reveals some secrets of the Paris metro; Chris Purkiss who lost her husband in a crowd; Steve Blacknell who wrote to his heroes, the Incredible String Band, and ended up living with them; Andrew Buckingham who struck up an unlikely pen-friendship with the iconic British wit and actor Kenneth Williams; a Bank Holiday poem from Luke Wright and the Inheritance Tracks of evergreen chanteuse and entertainer Cilla Black.

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• 28th April 2012

  Sat, 28 Apr 12

  Duration:
  57 mins

  Anita Anand with "The Idler" editor Tom Hodgkinson, gay dads Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow talk about their decision to have a sixth child by a surrogate mother, Emma Gray on her life as a shepherdess, poetry from Matt Harvey, Caroline Cornish tells the story of her daughter's red dress, Jacquie Meredith explains how she was adopted by a stray cat, and former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway's Inheritance Tracks

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• 21 April 2012

  Sat, 21 Apr 12

  Duration:
  58 mins

  Musician and activist Billy Bragg joins Richard Coles; with poet Murray Lachlan Young; Harry Rothman, son of Benny Rothman, the leader of the Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout on its 80th anniversary; Simon Wheatcroft, a blind ultra-marathon runner; a feature about a homeless man from London, James Bowen, who was adopted by a cat and now they're constant companions; and Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend's Inheritance Tracks.

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• 14 March 2012

  Sat, 14 Apr 12

  Duration:
  57 mins

  Last broadcast today, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4. SynopsisRichard Coles with food writer Tamasin Day-Lewis, David Gollancz, who discovered he's one of the 600 children fathered by a British scientist's sperm donations and Moss Hills, who's been on board two different ships as they've sunk. There's poetry from Aoife Mannix, a sound sculpture featuring the unforgettable sound of the iconic 2CV engine, Inheritance Tracks from Nicholas Parsons and news of what's thought to be the furthest flung highland games in the world.

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• 07 April 2012

  Sat, 7 Apr 12

  Duration:
  57 mins

  Anita Anand with author Jeanette Winterson, poet Mr Gee, young taxidermist Polly Morgan and urban birder David Lindo. Plus a crowdscape from the Welsh town of Carmarthen, Inheritance Tracks from 80s pop star Howard Jones and listener Sir George Pollock remembers taking part in a ski jump on Hampstead Heath in London in the 1950s.

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• 31 March 2012

  Sat, 31 Mar 12

  Duration:
  57 mins

  Richard Coles with Jarvis Cocker, poet Elvis McGonagall, Zuhal Sultan taught herself to play the piano and set up the Iraqi Youth Orchestra, Garret Smyth is planning to freeze his brain at the point of death, Anne Pattullo hitched a ride with Salvador Dali, Piers Plowright's I Was There from a ski jumping competition in the middle of London in the 1950s, and the Inheritance Tracks of actor Roger Lloyd Pack.

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• 24 March 2012

  Sat, 24 Mar 12

  Duration:
  57 mins

  Scientist Mark Miadovnik, poet Luke Wright, rockney singer Chas Hodges, late literacy learner Sue Chapman, dog owner Maurice Holder and the Inheritance Tracks of comedian Sarah Millican.

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