BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, the network’s flagship Saturday morning program, has been on the air since 2006 and is hugely popular. Since 2011 it has featured a slot called "Thank You,"
for which members of the public phone in to thank people for kind acts they have done for them in the past—sometimes decades and decades ago—and who they didn’t get a chance to thank at the
time. It’s a lovely, heartwarming slot and regularly brings listeners to tears. Stories range from the district nurse who thanked the person who gave her a car to carry out her rounds after she
lost her own in an accident, to the person who thanked every driver who stopped on the M6 motorway to collect her clothes up after a suitcase/roofrack malfunction—though she was a bit
embarrassed that the clothes weren’t clean! There’s the lady who was rescued from a lake 60 years ago and never knew who her rescuer was, and the man who was so grateful when a cab driver
waived the fare as he took home his newborn baby. This uplifting, dip-in-and-outable book gathers together the very best of the "Thank You" stories. It’s the perfect antidote for a cold,
miserable winter day—read it and you’ll see the very best of human nature.
