Last Word

Last Edited: 20-Dec-2015 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.

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2006
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
10-Feb-2006
S01e01
Freddie Laker – Betty Friedan – Romano Mussolini –
Ron Greenwood – Coretta Scott King
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
28:04, 26318, S
17-Feb-2006
S01e02
Kerry Packer – Jackie Pallo – Harry Mister –
Ernest Dudley – Michael Gilbert
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
28:05, 26329, S
24-Feb-2006
S01e03
Norman Shumway – Archbishop Paul Marcinkus –
Betty Heathfield – Horace Sankey – Peter Ladefoged
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:53, 26155, S
03-Mar-2006
S01e04
Peter Osgood – Ray Hanna – Professor Sir Hans
Singer – Linda Smith
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
28:00, 26253, S
10-Mar-2006
S01e05
John Profumo – Ivor Cutler – John La Rose –
John Junkin
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:45, 26017, S
17-Mar-2006
S01e06
George Wheeler, General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley,
Octavia E. Butler, Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, Lord Chan
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:55, 26182, S
24-Mar-2006
S01e07
Oleg Cassini, Milton Gossett, Jonathan James-Moore,
Pytt Geddes, Humphrey the Cat
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:41, 25964, S
31-Mar-2006
S01e08
Caspar Weinberger – John Hayes – Bernard Lacoste
– Peter Terry – William Russell – Stanislaw Lem
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
28:03, 26311, S
07-Apr-2006
S01e09
Lord Desmond Ackner – Professor Ephraim Saul Anderson
– Andrew Sherratt – The Very Reverend Basil Moss
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:58, 26224, S
14-Apr-2006
S01e10
John Letts – Pete McGovern – Brede Arkless – Laurence
Bradshaw and the Karl Marx Memorial
John Wilson
Produced by Robin Reed
28:02, 26298, S
21-Apr-2006
S01e11
Rudolf Vrba – Arthur Winston – Bobby Nudie – Walter
"Puggy" Pearson – Sir Roy Denman – Dame Muriel Spark
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Lay
and Julian May
27:56, 26196, S
28-Apr-2006
S01e12
Ellen Kuzwayo – Peter Cadbury – Alida Valli – June
Knox-Mawer – Brian Daley aka DJ Swing
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:56, 26190, S
05-May-2006
S01e13
John Kenneth Galbraith – Jean-Francois Revel –
Anthony Camden – Lewis Benjamin ”Tuna” Harrison
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:55, 26186, S
12-May-2006
S01e14
Drexel Sprecher And Belle Zeck – Mary Cook – Professor
Sir Nicholas Shackleton – Lillian Asplund
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Lake
27:52, 26133, S
19-May-2006
S01e15
Val Guest – Alexsandr Zinoviev – Did A Dog Change
History? – In Praise Of Yorkshire
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:57, 26214, S
26-May-2006
S01e16
Desmond Dekker – Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Miller –
Freddie Garrity – Alan Sapper – Eric Bedser – Cheikha Rimitti
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Lay
and Julian May
27:45, 26023, S
02-Jun-2006
S01e17
General Romeo Lucas Garcia – Henry Bumstead –
Reverend William Sloane Coffin – Tommy Watt
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paul Kobrack
27:55, 26187, S
09-Jun-2006
S01e18
Allan Prior – Hazel Dolling – Tamsin Causer – Richard Dalitz
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:45, 26017, S
16-Jun-2006
S01e19
Charles Haughey – Gyorgy Ligeti – Lord Kenneth Thomson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:50, 26108, S
23-Jun-2006
S01e20
James Cameron – Peter Kennedy – Monsignor Denis
Faul – Alan Kotok
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Lake
27:47, 26056, S
30-Jun-2006
S01e021
Robert Carrier – Graham Payn Memorial Service –
Kenneth Griffith – David Walton – Father George Saintsbury
Mark Lawson
Produced by Robin Reed
28:04, 26318, S
07-Jul-2006
S01e22
Rabbi Louis Jacobs – Kenneth Lay – Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
– Don Lusher – Eileen Barton – John Beloff – Fred Trueman
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Robin Reed
27:52, 26129, S
14-Jul-2006
S01e23
Francis Cammaerts – Abbye Stockton – Dorothy
Hayden Truscott – Dame June Lloyd –Syd Barrett
Jane Little
Produced by Emma Lake
27:42, 25977, s
21-Jul-2006
S01e24
Peter Hawkins, Nancy de Vries, Bill Miller,
ES Turner and Mickey Spillane
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:59, 26247, S
28-Jul-2006
S01e25
Ted Grant, Ta Mok, Dorothea Towles Church,
Sir Peter Masefield and Maurice Bevan
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:53, 26517, S
04-Aug-2006
S01e26
Louise Bennett-Coverley, Catherine Leroy, Ronnie Taylor,
Lieutenant Colonel George Styles, Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:58, 26235, S
11-Aug-2006
S01e27
Dr Vincent Dole, Cecily Mackworth, John Rundle,
Arthur Lee and Roy Selwyn Smith
Lucy Ash
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:02, 26288, S
18-Aug-2006
S01e28
Professor James Van Allen, Len Dyke, Kenneth
Richmond, Dr David Sainsbury and Rufus Harley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:02, 26288, S
25-Aug-2006
S01e29
Bismillah Khan, Roger Deakin, Peter Copeland
and Sandra Blow
Jane Little
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:39, 26875, S
01-Sep-2006
S01e30
Sir Alfred Sherman, Naguib Mahfouz, David
Plowright and Sir Clyde Walcott
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:59, 26249, S
08-Sep-2006
S01e31
John Drummond, Nellie Connally, Charlie Williams,
Sir Kyffin Williams and Steve Irwin
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:57, 26208, S
15-Sep-2006
S01e32
Joachim Fest, Khadambi Asalache, Warren
Mitofsky, Patty Berg and Blaster Bates
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:44, 26005, S
23-Sep-2006
S01e33
Oriana Fallaci, John Young, Raymond Baxter, Ed Benedict
and King Taufau'ahau Tupou the Fourth
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:57, 26214, S
30-Sep-2006
S01e34
Sir Malcolm Arnold, Iva Tugori and Dr Christopher Polge Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:51, 26116, S
06-Oct-2006
S01e35
Rosamond Carr, Henri Jayer, Joel Blamey and Tom Bell
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:02, 26293, S
13-Oct-2006
S01e36
Anna Politkovskaya, Beth Levine, Adam Curle,
Paul Hunter, Charles Rees
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:06, 26352, S
20-Oct-2006
S01e37
Marc Hodler, Lucilla Andrews, Hugh Merewether,
Bluma Feld
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:00, 26254, S
27-Oct-2006
S01e38
Eric Newby, Jeff Getty, Paul Walters, Valerie
Finnis, Anna Russell
Julian Worricker
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:01, 26279, S
03-Nov-2006
S01e39
President PW Botha, Nigel Kneale, Olivia Breitha
and Peter Barkworth
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:59, 26236, S
10-Nov-2006
S01e40
Marcus Wolf, Samuel Bowers, Allister Bowtell,
Bulent Ecevit, Susan Billington
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil McCarthy
27:55, 26187, S
17-Nov-2006
S01e41
Milton Friedman, Ursula Moray Williams, Ferenc
Puskas, Desert Orchid
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:02, 26291, S
24-Nov-2006
S01e42
Nick Clarke, Peter Fryer, Robert Altman,
Emanuel Hurwitz
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:16, 26511, S
01-Dec-2006
S01e43
Betty Comden, Edward Ford, Willie Pep,
Alan Freeman
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:08, 26381, S
08-Dec-2006
S01e44
Peter Roberts, Ed Bradley, Edward Grismond Beaumont
Davies-Scourfield, Lionel Bryer, Mario Merola
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:07, 26367, S
15-Dec-2006
S01e45
Frank Johnson, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Peter
Brayham, Augusto Pinochet, Ahmet Ertegun
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:15, 26493, S
22-Dec-2006
S01e46
Joseph Barbera, John Rae, Desmond Briscoe,
John Hamilton, Elizabeth Bolden
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:16, 26504, S
29-Dec-2006
S01e47
Maurice W. Graham, Major Roy Farran, Naushad Ali,
Lord Merlyn-Rees, Hugh Thompson, Birgit Nilsson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Legg
28:01, 26279, S

2007

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
05-Jan-2007
S02e01
Teddy Kollek, Sydney Wooderson, John
Heath-Stubbs, Phillippa Pearce, Scobie Breasley
Jane Little
Produced by James Cooke
28:00, 26260, S
12-Jan-2007
S02e02
Carlo Ponti, Richard Boston, Pierre de la Noye,
David Irvine, Magnus Magnesson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:54, 26159, S
19-Jan-2007
S02e03
Rev. Bruce Kenrick, Vincent Sardi Jnr, Antonella
Marchioness of Lothian, Alice Coltrane, Chalkie
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:56, 26197, S
26-Jan-2007
S02e04
Abbe Pierre, Gracie Cole, Sybil Elgar, Larry
Stewart, Robert Phoenix
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:08, 26382, S
02-Feb-2007
S02e05
Paul Channon, Ruth Crisp, Glen Tetley, Mary
Low, Professor Roland Levinsky
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:23, 26612, S
09-Feb-2007
S02e06
Adelaide Tambo, Frankie Laine, Sir Victor
Le Fanu, Gian Carlo Menotti, Hans Wegner
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:24, 26629, S
16-Feb-2007
S02e07
Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley, Harry Webster,
Cyril Demarne, Sir Ian McGregor, Christopher Helm
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:07, 26363, S
23-Feb-2007
S02e08
Maurice Papon, Peter Ellenshaw, Hugo Moser, Ray
Evans, Gary Frisch
Jane Little
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:12, 26450, S
gaps
02-Mar-2007
S02e09
Lord Forte, Arthur M Schlesinger, Earl Jellicoe
John Wilson
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:15, 26486, S
09-Mar-2007
S02e10
Ernest Gallo, Lieutenant Colonel Digby Willoughby,
Jean Baudrillard, Cecil Gysin, Sir John Smith
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:05, 26329, S
16-Mar-2007
S02e11
Captain William Anderson, Neville Butler, Russell Churney,
Baron Bernd Freytag Von Loringhoven, Jack Gaster
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:05, 26343, S
23-Mar-2007
S02e12
Beryl Corner, Chris Lightfoot, The Mighty Terror,
Sir Arthur Marshall, Freddy Francis
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:09, 26396, S
30-Mar-2007
S02e13
Alexander King, Mao Anqing, David Mendel,
John Backus
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:06, 26354, S
06-Apr-2007
S02e14
Franco Cosimo Panini, Sir Thomas Hetherington,
Tony Scott, Felix Levitan, Michael Dibdin
Russell Davies
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:01, 26280, S
13-Apr-2007
S02e15
Kurt Vonnegut, Colin Graham, Jagjit Singh
Chauhan, Terry Hall, Paul Lauterbur
Russell Davies
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:15, 26499, S
20-Apr-2007
S02e16
Dick Vosburgh, Joan Wyndham, Paul Leventhal,
Neville Duke
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:04, 26323, S
27-Apr-2007
S02e17
Mstislav Rostropovich, David Halberstam, Calvin
Lockhart, an elegy to the Virginia Tech students
John Wilson
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall
28:25, 26642, S
04-May-2007
S02e18
Jack Valenti, Margaret Sutherland, Dorrit Hoffleit,
Mike Reynolds
John Wilson
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall
27:32, 25818, S
11-May-2007
S02e19
Lord Bernard Weatherill, Wally Schirra, Isabella
Blow, Lesley Blanch
John Wilson
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:29, 26705, S
18-May-2007
S02e20
Sir Colin St John Wilson, Jerry Falwell, Kate Webb,
Professor John Henry
John Wilson
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:16, 26513, S
25-May-2007
S02e21
Ian Adam, Ed Boyd, Sydney Golder, Dame Mary
Douglas, Ben Weisman
John Wilson
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:11, 26425, S
01-Jun-2007
S02e22
Aubrey Singer, Phyllis Sellick, Percy Sonn,
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Peerie Willie Johnson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:08, 26377, S
10-Jun-2007 [1]
S02e23
James Beck, Garry Thomson, Ed Yost, Stanley
Miller, Povel Ramel
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:53, 26148, S
15-Jun-2007
S02e24
Kurt Waldheim, Sir David Hatch, Sir Wally Herbert,
Richard Rorty
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:56, 26204, S
22-Jun-2007
S02e25
Bernard Manning, Piara Khabra, Deborah Thornton
Jackson, Ousmane Sembene
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Legg
28:00, 26265, S
29-Jun-2007
S02e26
Erica Powell, Maurice Wood, Hank Medress,
Suzy Barratt
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paul Kobrack
28:08, 26389, S
06-Jul-2007
S02e27
George Melly, Alex Thomson, Jack Ormston
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
27:41, 25962, S
13-Jul-2006
S02e28
Ladybird Johnson, Anne McLaren and Donald Michie,
Regine Crespin, Brenda Rawnsley, Nigel Dempster
Ritula Shah
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:12, 26449, S
20-Jul-2006
S02e29
Ed Mirvish, Natalia Karp, Dr George Comstock,
Frank Langfield, David Smart
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:14, 26474, S
27-Jul-2006
S02e30
Don Arden, Tammy Faye Messner, Laszio Kovacs,
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Jonathan Freedland
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:15, 26489, S
03-Aug-2007
S02e31
Richard Stott, Phil Drabble, Michaelangelo
Antonioni, Albert Ellis
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sally Spurring
28:00, 26258, S
10-Aug-2007
S02e32
Raul Hilberg, Walter Ludewig, Charles Whiting,
Philip Baloun
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall
28:06, 26346, S
17-Aug-2007
S02e33
Lord Biffen, Merv Griffin, Dr Jim MacKeith,
Tony Wilson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:04, 26324, S
24-Aug-2007
S02e34
Michael Deaver, Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch,
Tikhon Khrennikov, Sir John Burnett
John Wilson
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:48, 26077, S
31-Aug-2007
S02e35
Irene Morgan, Oliver Hill, Inez Baskin, Mark
Birley, Hilly Kristal, Raymond Barre
John Wilson
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:09, 26400, S
07-Sep-2007
S02e36
Luciano Pavarotti, Geoffrey Buckland Orbell,
Michael Jackson, Abdul Rahman Aref
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:03, 26303, S
14-Sep-2007
S02e37
Dame Anita Roddick, Ian Porterfield, Lord
Bethell, Joe Zawinul, Sir John Compton
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:08, 26383, S
21-Sep-2007
S02e38
Major General Sir Jeremy Moore, Colin McRae,
Eva Crane, Dr John Gofman, Sister Gregory Kirkus
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:11, 26431, S
28-Sep-2007
S02e39
Marcel Marceau, Andy Norman, Professor Ruben
Sher, Ian Gray
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:02, 26293, S
05-Oct-2007
S02e40
Ned Sherrin, Tony Ryan, Ronnie Hazelhurst,
Joe Mitty
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:20, 26564, S
12-Oct-2007
S02e41
Dan Keating, Helen Flemming, Murray Martin,
Ronnie Fisher, Lady Katherine Brandram
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:12, 26446, S
19-Oct-2007
S02e42
Alan Coren, Deborah Kerr, Reverend Professor
CFD Moule
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:10, 26413, S
26-Oct-2007
S02e43
Andree de Jongh, Werner von Trapp, Admiral
William J Crowe, Lucky Dube
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
27:59, 26243, S
02-Nov-2007
S02e44
Paul Tibbets, Anthony Clare, Ursula Vaughan
Williams, Ray Gravell
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:15, 26486, S
09-Nov-2007
S02e45
Reverend Chad Varah, Elizabeth Nel, SP
Thamilselvan, John Woodruff
John Wilson
Produced by Jane Thurlow
27:55, 26176, S
16-Nov-2007
S02e46
Norman Mailer, Duncan Williamson, Diana Allen,
Graham Chadwick
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
27:57, 26213, S
23-Nov-2007
S02e47
Ian Smith, Verity Lambert, Vernon Scannell,
Professor Arthur Kornberg
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:13, 26458, S
30-Nov-2007
S02e48
Lord Bridge of Harwich, Peter Handford, William
Tallon, Gunnie Moberg, Bud Ekins
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:05, 26329, S
07-Dec-2007
S02e49
Evel Kneivel, Edmund Vestey, Air Vice Marshall
Peter Howard, Anton Rodgers
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:09, 26394, S
14-Dec-2007
S02e50
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Marit Allen, Elizabeth
Hardwick, Peter Orton and Ike Turner
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:09, 26393, S
21-Dec-2007
S02e51
Professor Peter Lipton, Valda Aveling, Donald
Frampton, Tony Tenser and Professor Seymour Benzer
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
27:51, 26123, S
28-Dec-2007
S02e52
Joseph Brooks, Hedley Thurtle, George Melly,
Sheila Black, Arty G
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Erin Reilly
and Emma Legg
28:56, 27139, S

[1] Pre-empted in its Friday slot, but broadcast in its Sunday repeat slot.

2008

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
04-Jan-2008
S03e01
George MacDonald Fraser, Peter Houghton, Oscar
Peterson, Ettore Sottsass and Lily Kwok
Jane Little
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:00, 26264, S
11-Jan-2008
S03e02
Sir John Harvey Jones, Professor Bert Bolin, Joan
Ingpen, Philip Agee and Sir Edmund Hillary
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
27:53, 26149, S
18-Jan-2008
S03e03
Bobby Fischer, Rear Admiral Jorge Anaya, Dr PK Sethi
and Jack Brod
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
27:52, 26137, S
25-Jan-2008
S03e04
Peggy Jay, Squadron Leader "Jimmy" James, Andy
Palacio, Alexandre de Paris and Rich Knerr
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
28:03, 26302, S
01-Feb-2008
S03e05
General Suharto, Miles Kington, Jeremy Beadle and
Lady Barbirolli
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:10, 26407, S
08-Feb-2008
s03e06
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Jim Nevill, Dr Judah Folkman,
Alastair Ross Goobey and Tommy McQuater
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:04, 26315, S
15-Feb-2008
s03e07
Oliver Foot, Richard Drewett, Tom Swallow, Roy
Scheider and Isabel Menzies Lyth
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:07, 26368, S
22-Feb-2008
s03e08
Ralph Bradshaw White, Professor Bryan Jennett,
Edward Wilson, Alaine Robbe-Grillet and Emily Perry
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Jane Thurlow
28:12, 26443, S
29-Feb-2008
s03e09
Pearl Cornioley, William Buckley, David Watkin, Dorothy
Podber and Mike Smith
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:02, 26296, S
07-Mar-2008
s03e10
Baron Pym of Sandy, Paul Raymond, Joe Beeston,
and Giuseppe di Stefano
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:43, 26001, S
14-Mar-2008
s03e11
Leon Greenman, Professor Norman Morris, Dan Shomron
and David Stogdon
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:06, 26354, S
21-Mar-2008
s03e12
Paul Scofield, Ralph Beyer, Arthur C Clarke, Tony Dye,
Anthony Minghella
John Wilson
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:02, 26294, S
28-Mar-2008
s03e13
Neil Aspinall, Philip Jones Griffiths, Mikey Dread, Shusha
Guppy and Nigel Acheson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:05, 26342, S
04-Apr-2008
s03e14
Angus Fairhurst, Eirlys Roberts, Dith Pran and
JNP Watson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:31, 25803, S
11-Apr-2008
s03e15
Charlton Heston, Gloria Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Cox and
Steve Sinnett
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:10, 26407, S
18-Apr-2008
s03e16
John Wheeler, Paul Arden, Klaus Dinger, EA Markham
and Gwyneth Dunwoody
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:58, 26223, S
25-Apr-2008
s03e17
Edward Lorenz, Hazel Court, Nikolai Baibakov, Aime
Cesaire and Sam Toy
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:05, 26329, S
02-May-2008
s03e18
Doug Hayward, William Frankel, Tristram Cary and
Albert Hofman
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:57, 26212, S
09-May-2008
s03e19
Diana Barnato Walker, Mildred Loving, Elaine Dundy,
Mary Berry and Germaine Tillion
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:25, 26654, S
16-May-2008
s03e20
Robert Rauschenberg, Nuala O'Faolain, Fred J Taylor
and Irena Sendlerowa
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:03, 26301, S
23-May-2008
s03e21
Robert Mondavi, Pauline Campbell, Michael de
Larrabeiti, Wilfrid Mellers and Margot Boyd
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:15, 26493, S
30-May-2008
s03e22
Beryl Cook, Martin Kelly, Brian Keenan and
Siegmund Nissel
John Wilson
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:57, 26214, S
06-Jun-2008
s03e23
Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Justman, Alexander "Sandy"
Courage, Joseph Pevney, Peter Milne, Hamilton Jordan
and Bo Diddley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:12, 26439, S
13-Jun-2008
s03e24
Jonathan Routh, Fritz Koerner, Paul Patrick, Trevor
Wilkinson and Jimmy McGriff
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:03, 26299, S
20-Jun-2008
s03e25
Stan Winston, Peter Asquith, Cyd Charisse, Jack
Skinner and Esbjörn Svensson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26265, S
27-Jun-2008
s03e26
Tony Schwartz, Frank Blackmore, Harvey Karman,
Red Harrison and Margaret Kitchin
John Wilson
Produced by Emma Beteridge
and Neil George
28:04, 26318, S
04-Jul-2008
s03e27
Sir Charles Wheeler, David Caminer and
Freddie Williams
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:21, 26586, S
11-Jul-2008
s03e38
Jesse Helms, Harry Lange, Ray Wyre
and William Buchan, third Lord Tweedsmuir
John Wilson
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:31, 26737, S
18-Jul-2008
s03e29
Dr Michael DeBakey, Valentine Vester, Bronislaw
Geremek and Vice Admiral Sir Tony Troup
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:06, 26347, S
25-Jul-2008
s03e30
Lord Stokes, Monica Dickinson, Hugh Lloyd and
Lyall Watson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:05, 26338, S
01-Aug-2008
S03e31
Lord Russell-Johnston, Youssef Chahine, Elizabeth
Bartlett and Professor Randy Pausch
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:55, 26173, S
08-Aug-2008 S03e32 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Simon Gray and
Pauline Baynes
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Beteridge
28:03, 26303, S
15-Aug-2008 s03e33 Sir Bill Cotton, Mahmoud Darwish, Harold Rosen
and PC John Johnson
Jane Little
27:50, 26109, S
22-Aug-2008 s03e34 Leo Abse, Jim Johnson, Jerry Wexler and Tony Vine
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:10, 26415, S
29-Aug-2008 s03e35 Ronnie Drew, Wolfgang Vogel, Levy Mwanawasa,
Rodney Gordon and Margaret Sainsbury
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:05, 26329, S
05-Sep-2008 s03e36 Geoffrey Perkins, Yuri Nosenko, Ken Campbell and
Phill Hill
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:06, 26348, S
12-Sep-2008 s03e37 Vernon Handley, Dame Alison Munro, Robert Giroux,
Sir Denis Rooke and Anita Page
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:24, 26629, S
19-Sep-2008 s03e38 Richard Wright, Thubten Jigme Norbu, Frank Mundus,
Harold Challenor and Phyllis Thom
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:10, 26407, S
26-Sep-2008 s03e39 Earl Palmer, William Woodruff, Dame Maeve Fort,
David Jones and Hugh Bradner
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Beteridge
27:58, 26228, S
03-Oct-2008 s03e40 Warrant Officer Second Class Gary O’Donnell, Paul
Newman, Boris Yefimov and Alys Lancaster
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:05, 26343, S
10-Oct-2008 s03e41 Reverend Leslie Hardman, Mauricio Kagel, Ian Hibell
and Marie Roberts
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:00, 26251, S
17-Oct-2008 s03e42 Joerg Haider, Ray Lowry, Jim Eyre, Terry Fincher
and Neal Hefti
John Wilson
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:04, 26321, S
24-Oct-2008 s03e43 Pat Kavanagh, Levi Stubbs, Ted Briggs and Pat Moss
John Wilson
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:11, 26465, S
31-Oct-2008 s03e44 Amos E Joel Jnr, Peter Collingwood, Sister
Emmanuelle, Aleck Craddock, David Evans
John Wilson
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:00, 26261, S
07-Nov-2008 s03e45 Studs Terkel, Alison Willett, Michael Crichton and
Yma Sumac
John Wilson
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:02, 26291, S
14-Nov-2008 s03e46 Sir John Hermon, Mitch Mitchell, Tony Hoare and
Dr Robert Foote
John Wilson
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:12, 26440, S
21-Nov-2008 s03e47 Douglas Keen, BR Chopra, Carl Keith, Richard
Carr Gomm and Reg Varney
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:59, 26243, S
28-Nov-2008 s03e48 Richard Hickox , Jacques Piccard, Sir Bernard Feilden,
Gerard Damiano and Betty James
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Emma Beteridge
28:05, 26334, S
05-Dec-2008 s03e49 Jorn Utzon, Odetta, Vladimir Rubenstein, Creighton
Carvello and Rob Partridge
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:12, 26446, S
12-Dec-2008 s03e50 Oliver Postgate, Patriarch Alexiy II, Harry Henry and
Otto Spoerri
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:45, 26022, S
19-Dec-2008 s03e51 Dr Conor Cruise O’Brien, Davey Graham, Mark Felt
and Bettie Page
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:57, 26215, S

2009

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
02-Jan-2009 1 Helen Suzman, Harold Pinter, Samuel Huntington and
Sir Michael Levey
John Wilson
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:00, 26257, S
09-Jan-2009 2 Sir Alan Walters, Dr Colin White, Dr D Carleton
Gajdusek, Valentin Berlinsky
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:07, 26374, S
16-Jan-2009 3 Sir John Mortimer, Lasantha Wickramatunga, David
Vine, Sir Dai Llewellyn
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:57, 26220, S
23-Jan-2009 4 Jan Kaplicky, Colonel David Smiley, Gaston Lenotre,
Mick Imlah, Tony Hart
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:11, 26434, S
30-Jan-2009 5 Bill Frindall, John Updike, John Martyn, Reg Gutteridge
and Angela Morley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:00, 26260, S
06-Feb-2009 6 Sharat Sardana, Rose Davis, Hans Beck and Bob Doyle
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:08, 26378, S
13-Feb-2009 7 Sir George Godber, Bobby Butlin, The Reverend Roy
Magee, Harold Blackham and Mansour Rahbani
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:04, 26316, S
20-Feb-2009 8 Sir Bernard Ashley, Dr Willem Kolff, Susan Hibbert,
Edward Upward and Harry Hammond
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:08, 26380, S
27-Feb-2009 9 Lord Dearing, Wendy Richard, Sir Ernest Harrison,
Christopher Nolan and Nancy Tait
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:25, 26652, S
06-Mar-2009 10 Sir Michael Quinlan, Christopher Raeburn, Dr William
T.Close, Geoffrey Smith and Chris Finnegan
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:49, 26090, S
13-Mar-2009 11 Bert Hardy,  Ali Bongo, Ann Marie Rogers, Sir Alan
Muir Wood and Joan Turner
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:08, 26383, S
20-Mar-2009 12 Sir Nicholas Henderson, Ian Carr, Richard Aoki,
Eric Simms and Natasha Richardson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall
28:11, 26428, S
27-Mar-2009 13 Gerard Morgan-Grenville, Betsy Blair, Dr Charles Lieber,
Margaret Mellis and  Bryan Martin
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall
28:02, 26291, S
03-Apr-2009 14 John Hope Franklin, Maurice Jarre, Dr Ruth Seifert,
Raul Alfonsin, Jim Edwards
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:01, 26274, S
10-Apr-2009 15 Sir Neil MacCormick, Coy Watson Jnr, Patrick Kinna,
Janet Jagan, Bob Scott
John WIlson
Produced by Neil George
27:59, 26240, S
17-Apr-2009 16 Sir Clement Freud, Sitara Achikzai, Simon Channing
Williams, Edmund Lawson, Johnny Roadhouse
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26212, S
24-Apr-2009 17 JG Ballard, Jack Jones, Peter Rogers, Lord George
and Zeke Zarchey
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:53, 26146, S
01-May-2009 18 UA Fanthorpe, Lieutenant-General Sir Martin Garrod,
Tam Paton, Feroz Khan, Hugh Miners
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26191, S
08-May-2009 19 John Weller, Augusto Boal, Iqbal Bano, Dr Margaret
Gelling, Maxime de la Falaise
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:02, 26284, S
15-May-2009 20 Henry T. King Jr, John Michell, Valentin Verennikov,
Bill Bailey
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:43, 25991, S
22-May-2009 21 Anne Scott-James, Nicholas Maw, Lord Kennet,
Alan Hackney
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:59, 26241, S
29-May-2009 22 Herbert York, Carl Spencer, Roger Planchon, Ken Gill
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26210, S
05-Jun-2009 23 Vincent O’Brien, Sir Clive Granger, Terence Alexander,
Jaafar Nimeiri, Danny La Rue
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:58, 26210, S
12-Jun-2009 24 Eric Hammond, Rajeev Motwani, Maurice Lindsay,
Father Bill Shergold, Ron Richards
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:05, 26345, S
19-Jun-2009 25 Ralf Dahrendorf, Dorothy Layton, Yehoshua Zettler,
Barry Beckett
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:14, 26478, S
26-Jun-2009 26 Michael Jackson, Douglas Bunn, Steve Race,
Farah Fawcett
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26376, S
03-Jul-2009 27 Mollie Sugden, Jean Hugel, Florence Lane, Tom Riley,
Steven Wells
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26302, S
10-Jul-2009 28 Robert McNamara, Allen Klein, Bela Kiraly
John WIlson
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26116, S
17-Jul-2009 29 Sir Edward Downes, Earl Haig, Donald MacCormick,
Naomi Lewis
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:01, 26283, S
24-Jul-2009 30 Jill Balcon, Ronald Pitts Crick, Jimmy Forsyth,
Gordon Burn
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:05, 26342, S
31-Jul-2009 31 Sir Bobby Robson, Merce Cunningham, Dr Yuri
Verlinsky, Vince Powell
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sarah Jane Hall
28:03, 26299, S
07-Aug-2009 32 Corazon Aquino, Peter Zadek, Richard Ferguson,
George Russell
Jane Little
Produced by Julia Johnson
27:53, 26157, S
14-Aug-2009 33 Budd Schulberg, Professor G A Cohen, Naomi Sims,
David Learmont, Les Paul
Jane Little
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:07, 26376, S
21-Aug-2009 34 Kim Dae Jung, Mike Seeger, Brian Mears, Kenneth
Major, Hildegard Behrens
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:59, 26238, S
28-Aug-2009 35 Edward Kennedy; Campbell Bridges; Clive Parsons;
Lawrence Lucie
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:01, 26276, S
04-Sep-2009 36 Edward Goldsmith, Simon Dee, Stanley Robertson,
Ellie Greenwich
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:06, 26345, S
11-Sep-2009 37 Keith Waterhouse, Baroness Nicky Chapman, Sergei
Mikhalkov, Francis Rogallo, Wycliffe Johnson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26310, S
18-Sep-2009 38 Brian Barron, Keith Floyd, Dr Norman Borlaug,
Larry Gelbart
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26305, S
25-Sep-2009 39 John Wild, Troy Kennedy Martin, Willy Ronis, Leonie
Cohn, Jim Carroll
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26205, S
02-Oct-2009 40 Piers Merchant, Pamela Schwerdt, Osman Ertugrul
Osmanoglu, Lucy Vodden, Alicia de Larrocha
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:55, 26185, S
09-Oct-2009 41 Marek Edelman, Robert S Baker, Dr Sula Wolff,
Mercedes Sosa
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:04, 26314, S
16-Oct-2009 42 Irving Penn, Dr Israel Gelfand, Stephen Gately,
Barry Letts, Patrick Hannan
John WIlson
Produced by Neil George
28:05, 26336, S
23-Oct-2009 43 Ludovic Kennedy, Michael Shea, Robert Kirby,
Fatima al-Sanussi
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26364, S
30-Oct-2009 44 Norman Painting, Werner Heubeck, Dr Ignacio
Ponseti, David Shepherd, William Phipps
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26371, S
06-Nov-2009 45 Qian Xuesen, Fred Kaan, Claude Levi-Strauss,
Olga Kevelos
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:55, 26188, S
13-Nov-2009 46 Jeremy Morris; Nien Cheng; Stanley Ellis; Lady
Tumim; Robert Rines
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:02, 26285, S
20-Nov-2009 47 Sir John Crofton, Edward Woodward, Jimmy Hoseason,
Derek B., Ralph Bird
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:01, 26280, S
27-Nov-2009 48 Max Robertson, Elizabeth Soderstrom, Lino Lacedelli,
John Craxton; Jeff Clyne
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26365, S
04-Dec-2009 49 Richard Todd, Professor Humphrey Kay, Cecilia Vajda,
William Miller
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26216, S
11-Dec-2009 50 Liam Clancy, Jim Brown, Barbara Cawthorne,
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:16, 26508, S
18-Dec-2009 51 Paul Samuelson, Yegor Gaidar, Bobby Jaye, Sir John
Quicke and Ken Wlaschin
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:06, 26353, S
25-Dec-2009   no programme    

2010

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
01-Jan-2010 1 Cardinal Daly, Terry Lawless, Pete King, Grand
Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, John Cushnie
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:38, 25889, S
08-Jan-2010 2 Sam Salt, Percy Sutton, Yves Rocher, Monsignor
Graham Leonard and Craigie Aitchison
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:05, 26329, S
15-Jan-2010 3 Sir Donald Acheson, Eric Rohmer, Philippa Scott, Willie
Mitchell, Miep Gies, Bobby Charles
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26372, S
22-Jan-2010 4 Bill McLaren, Kate McGarrigle, Andrew Booth and
Erich Segal
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:43, 25988, S
29-Jan-2010 5 JD Salinger, Lord Richardson and Earl Wild
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:15, 26494, S
05-Feb-2010 6 Sir Percy Cradock, Lucienne Day, Lieutenant-Colonel
Lee Archer and Pernell Roberts
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:53, 26142, S
12-Feb-2010 7 Alexander McQueen, Sir John Dankworth, Charlie Wilson
and Ian Carmichael
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26360, S
19-Feb-2010 8 Lionel Jeffries, Dick Francis, Geoffrey Burbidge and
Alfred Gregory
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
28:12, 26439, S
26-Feb-2010 9 Alexander Haig, Cy Grant, Geoffrey Woolley and
Allan Wicks
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:05, 26329, S
05-Mar-2010 10 Michael Foot, Rose Gray, Bert Bushnell, and
Winston Churchill
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26255, S
12-Mar-2010 11 Philip Langridge, Walter Plowright, Andree Peel, Sir
Kenneth Dover, and Fred Wedlock
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:06, 26356, S
19-Mar-2010 12 Charlie Gillett, Sir Brian Pitman, Fatima Meer, Harold
Beach, Peter Graves
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26365, S
26-Mar-2010 13 Harry Carpenter, Wolfgang Wagner, Sir James Black,
George Webb
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:01, 26280, S
02-Apr-2010 14 Daphne Park, Joseph Ettudgui, Alan King Hamilton,
Elinor Smith, Herb Ellis
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
28:06, 26347, S
09-Apr-2010 15 Malcolm McLaren, Eugene Terreblanche, Corin
Redgrave, Sir Alec Bedser
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
28:35, 26804, S
16-Apr-2010 16 Lech Kaczynski, Kenneth McKellar, Ed Roberts,
Anatoly Dobrynin, George Nissen
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:20, 26565, S
23-Apr-2010 17 Juan Antonio Samaranch, Tom Fleming, Ronald
Gregory, Bishop Abel Muzorewa
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:09, 26394, S
30-Apr-2010 18 Dorothy Height, Alan Sillitoe, Fred Halliday,
Peter Porter
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:40, 26889, S
07-May-2010 19 Antony Grey, Jean-Louis Dumas, Lynn Redgrave,
Gunter Wendt, Avigdor Arikha
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:05, 26343, S
14-May-2010 20 Peter Heathfield, Lena Horne, Rabbi Moshe Hirsch,
Marguerite Garden, Peter O'Donnell
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26212, S
21-May-2010 21 Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol, Professor
Richard Gregory, Hank Jones, Alan Watkins, Pamela Green
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:05, 26329, S
28-May-2010 22 Sir Peter Baldwin, Ray Alan, Rosamind Julius, John
Shepherd-Barron, Carlos Franqui, Paul Gray
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:04, 26327, S
04-Jun-2010 23 Dennis Hopper, Louise Bourgeois, Chris Haney,
Peter Orlovsky, John Gooders
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:48, 26065, S
11-Jun-2010 24 Robin Keeley, John Hedgecoe, Keith Jessop, Kazue
Ohno, Joan Rhodes
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:50, 26107, S
18-Jun-2010 25 Egon Ronay, Sir Harold Haywood, Ronald Neame,
Dr Fred Plum, Robert Hudson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26192, S
25-Jun-2010 26 Alan Plater, Lord Quinton, Professor Matthew Colton,
Chris Sievey, Andy Ripley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26261, S
02-Jul-2010 27 Beryl Bainbridge, Lord Walker, Dame Angela Rumbold,
Professor Sir Hugh Ford, Robert Byrd
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:55, 26180, S
09-Jul-2010 28 Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussain Fadlallah, David
Fanshawe, Dr Clement A Finch, Sigmar Polke, Rosemary
Lomax, Ilene Woods
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26300, S
16-Jul-2010 29 Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Marrack Goulding, Lord
Laing of Dunphail, Jim Bohlen, Pete Morgan
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:08, 26381, S
23-Jul-2010 30 Eduardo Sanchez Junco, Professor Stephen Schneider,
Sergei Tretyakov, Dr David Warren, Roy Waller
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Shuko Amurani
28:10, 26407, S
30-Jul-2010 31 Anthony Rolfe Johnson, George Steinbrenner, Luis
Corvalan, Lady Healey, Alex “Hurricane” Higgins
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Tamsin Barber
28:00, 26251, S
06-Aug-2010 32 Sir John Riddell, Lolita Lebron, Tom Mankiewicz,
Donald Shiley, Eric Tindill
Jane Little
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26263, S
13-Aug-2010 33 Patricia Neal, Jack Parnell, Jimmy Reid and Professor
Tony Judt
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26374, S
20-Aug-2010 34 Matt Lethbridge, Sir Frank Kermode, Dr Thomas
Peebles, Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Beryl Marriott
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:08, 26382, S
27-Aug-2010 35 Edwin Morgan, Dr Ivar Lovaas, Clara Claiborne Park,
Bill Millin, Bob Boyle
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paul Kobrack
28:02, 26289, S
03-Sep-2010 36 Sir Cyril Smith, Lord Glenconner, Dimitrios Ioannidis,
Lady Anne Tree, Michel Montignac
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:06, 26354, S
10-Sep-2010 37 Michael Burn, Corinne Day, Bill Richmond, Mike
Edwards, Hope Bourne
John Wilson
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:02, 26292, S
17-Sep-2010 38 Lord Bingham, Eileen Nearne, Vladimir Raitz, Claude
Chabrol, Sid Rawle
John Wilson
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:54, 26164, S
24-Sep-2010 39 Barbel Bohley, Geoffrey Burgon, Jill Johnston, John
McGlashan, Tom Guinzberg
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:58, 26222, S
01-Oct-2010 40 Tony Curtis, Gennady Yanayev, Catherine Walker,
Jimi Heselden, Don Partridge
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:01, 26279, S
08-Oct-2010 41 Sir Robert Mark, Sir Norman Wisdom, Philippa Foot,
Mahinder Singh Pujji, Gloria Stuart
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:09, 26396, S
15-Oct-2010 42 Malcolm Allison, Claire Rayner, Dame Joan
Sutherland, Mary Norwak
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26303, S
22-Oct-2010 43 Benoît Mandelbrot, Vera Rozsa, Bob Guccione,
Samuel Burke, Gerald S. Lesser
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:09, 26396, S
29-Oct-2010 44 Linda Norgrove, Eva Ibbotson, Gregory Isaacs
and Mary Malcolm
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:10, 26407, S
05-Nov-2010 45 Ted Sorenson, Maurice Murphy, John Huchra and
Ronnie Clayton
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:03, 25376, S
12-Nov-2010 46 Joseph Gavin, Admiral Emilio Massera, Shirley
Verrett, Professor Ehud Netzer, Geoffrey Crawley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:02, 26283, S
19-Nov-2010 47 Dino De Laurentiis, Professor John Waterlow,
Henryk Gorecki, Michael Seifert, Simon Roberts
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:05, 26341, S
26-Nov-2010 48 Ingrid Pitt, John Bulloch, Robin Day, Professor
Dudley Williams, Bernard Matthews
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:01, 26276, S
03-Dec-2010 49 Leslie Nielsen, Colin Slee, Maurice Wilkes, Peter
Christopherson, Rozsika Parker
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26259, S
10-Dec-2010 50 Sir Peter Wakefield, Bill White, Douglas Argent,
Samuel Cohen, Peter Hofmann
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:05, 26337, S
17-Dec-2010 51 Richard Holbrooke, Blake Edwards, Bella
Akhmadulina, Elaine Kaufman
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:00, 26251, S
24-Dec-2010   no programme    
31-Dec-2010 52 Elisabeth Beresford, Anthony Howard, Brian
Hanrahan, Judge James Pickles, Captain Beefheart
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:07, 26362, S

2011

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
07-Jan-2011 11-1 Jayaben Desai, Gerry Rafferty, Prunella Stack, Chief
Anthony Enahoro, Pete Postlethwaite
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:52, 26138, S
14-Jan-2011 11-2 David Hart, Dick Winters, Dick King Smith, Jiri Dienstbier,
Peter Yates
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:20, 26564, S
21-Jan-2011 11-3 Vang Pao, Nat Lofthouse, John Gross, Susannah York, 
Stu Smith
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:46, 26043, S
28-Jan-2011 11-4 Sargent Shriver, Reg Ward, Penny Tweedie, Bhimsen
Joshi, Jack Lalanne
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26300, S
04-Feb-2011 11-5 Penny Feiwel, Dame Margaret Price, David Kato, Malcolm
Lyell, John Barry
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:02, 26283, S
11-Feb-2011 11-6 Trevor Bailey, Ernest McCulloch, John Paul Getty III,
Maria Schneider, Lena Newman, Gary Moore
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
28:28, 26692, S
18-Feb-2011 11-7 George Shearing, Derek Rawcliffe, Brian Jacques, Daniel
Bell, TP McKenna
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26194, S
25-Feb-2011 11-8 Raymond Burton, Maria Altmann, Ronald Hickman, David
Tench, Nicholas Courtney
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:29, 25767, S
04-Mar-2011 11-9 Suze Rotolo, Susan Crosland, Jane Russell, Dr Christian J
Lambertsen, Major Peter Parkes
John Wilson
Produced by Shuku Amurani
28:05, 26329, S
11-Mar-2011 11-10 Cyril Stein, Alberto Granado, Rachel Cameron, Necmettin
Erbakan, Anthony Brooke
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:59, 26240, S
18-Mar-2011 11-11 Donny George, Owsley Stanley, Harold Massingham, Bob
Greaves, Hugh Martin
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26197, S
25-Mar-2011 11-12 Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Christopher, Fred Titmus, Jet Harris
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paul Kobrack
27:11, 25498, S
01-Apr-2011 11-13 Edward Stobart, Geraldine Ferraro, Diana Wynne Jones, Paul
Baran, Robert Tear
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paul Kobrack
27:54, 26161, S
08-Apr-2011 11-14 Juliano Mer Khamis, Leslie Collier, Pinetop Perkins,
Andrew Tait, Johnny Pearson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:08, 26383, S
15-Apr-2011 11-15 Sidney Lumet, Baruch Blumberg, Roger Nichols, Edith
Helm, Ishbel MacAskill
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paul Kobrack
27:51, 26124, S
22-Apr-2011 11-16 Tim Hetherington, TP Flanagan, Barbara Harmer, David
Bowen and Elisabeth Sladen
Jane Little
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26264, S
29-Apr-2011 11-17 John Sullivan, Sathya Sai Baba, Poly Styrene, Mike
Campbell, Max Mathews
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:01, 26277, S
06-May-2011 11-18 Osama bin Laden, Sir Henry Leach, Sir Henry Cooper, Hubert Schlafly and Arthur Laurents
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:02, 26288, S
13-May-2011 11-19 Seve Ballesteros, Richard Holmes, Dana Wynter, John Walker, Enid Seeney
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:55, 26180, S
20-May-2011 11-20 Garret FitzGerald, Pam Gems, Elisabeth Svendsen, Ernesto Sabato, Bernard Greenhouse
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:08, 26386, S
27-May-2011 11-21 Mala Sen, The Earl Of Onslow, Willard Boyle, Lloyd Knibb, Edward Hardwicke
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:55, 26185, S
03-Jun-2011 11-22 Dame Barbara Mills, Gil Scott-Heron, Leonora Carrington,
Flick Colby
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julia Johnson
28:04, 26324, S
10-Jun-2011 11-23 Lawrence Eagleburger, Josephine Hart, Miriam Karlin, Jack Kevorkian and Roy Skelton
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26307, S
17-Jun-2011 11-24 Albertina Sisulu, Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, MF Husein, John
MacKenzie and Carl Gardner
Jane Little
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26256, S
24-Jun-2011 11-25 Brian Haw, Mike Waterson, Yelena Bonner, Mietek
Pemper and Gunnar Fischer
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:01, 26269, S
01-Jul-2011 11-26 Arthur Goldreich, Peter Falk, Terry Marsland and
Mario Cassandro
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26252, S
08-Jul-2011 11-27 Otto van Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin
Nash and Robert Widmer
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:59, 26187, S
15-Jul-2011 11-28 Betty Ford, the Earl of Harewood, Christiane Desroches
Noblecourt, Betty Callaway, Itamar Franco, Josef Suk
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
28:04, 26268, S
22-Jul-2011 11-29 Lucian Freud, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Roland Petit and
Hanna Segal
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:53, 26090, S
29-Jul-2011 11-30 Cec Thompson, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Robert Ettinger,
Leo Kirch and Googie Withers
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:05, 26278, S
05-Aug-2011 11-31 John Stott, Stan Barstow, Derek Bryce-Smith and
Fran Landesman
Jane Little
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:45, 25977, S
12-Aug-2011 11-32 Michael Bukht, Hugh Carey, John Hoyland, Nancy Wake
and Joe Arroy
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:57, 26155, S
19-Aug-2011 11-33 Robert Robinson, Mother Thelka, Shammi Kapoor, Paul
Wilkinson, Marshall Grant
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Shagu Amarani
27:52, 26076, S
26-Aug-2011 11-34 Jerry Lieber, Diana Lamplugh, John Howard Davies,
Ctirad Masin and George Devol
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:51, 26071, S
02-Sep-2011 11-35 John McAleese, NF Simpson, Stetson Kennedy, George
Band and David Honeyboy Edward
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
28:04, 26265, S
09-Sep-2011 11-36 Vann Nath, Betty Skelton, Ray Fisher, Eugene Nida and
Len Ganley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:56, 26142, S
16-Sep-2011 11-37 Richard Hamilton, Michael Hart, Gabriel Valdes, Wardell
Quezergue, Herbert Lomas
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:57, 26165, S
23-Sep-2011 11-38 Burhanuddin Rabbani, Kurt Sanderling, Arthur Evans,
Walter Bonatti, Wade Mainer
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:45, 25967, S
30-Sep-2011 11-39 Wangari Maathai, David Croft, Gusty Spence and Carl Wood
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:47, 25996, S
07-Oct-2011 11-40 Steve Jobs, Bert Jansch, Ralph Steinman and Robert Whitaker
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:56, 26143, S
14-Oct-2011 11-41 George Baker, Ramiz Alia, Madeleine Simms, George
Hinchcliffe, Jagjit Singh
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil McCarthy
27:45, 25969, S
21-Oct-2011 11-42 Muammar Gaddafi, Dennis Ritchie, Sylvia Robinson, and
Betty Driver
Jane Little
Produced by Neil McCarthy
28:06, 26292, S
28-Oct-2011 11-43 Elouise Cobell, Edmundo Ros, Gil Hayward, Sue Mengers,
Norman Corwin
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sara Jane Hall
28:00, 26204, S
04-Nov-2011 11-44 Jimmy Savile, Nusrat Bhutto, George Daniels, Axel Axgil,
Norrie Woodhall
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sara Jane Hall
28:00, 26203, S
11-Nov-2011 11-45 Wallace Cunningham, Lord Gould, Alfonso Cano and
Joe Frazier
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sara Jane Hall
27:45, 25967, S
18-Nov-2011 11-46 Jackie Leven, Evelyn Lauder, Dulcie Gray, Richard Scott,
Jane Packer
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Roger Mohoney
27:53, 26089, S
25-Nov-2011 11-47 Basil D'Oliveira, Shelagh Delaney, Sir Robin Mountfield,
Sir David Jack, Peter Reading
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:59, 26189, S
02-Dec-2011 11-48 Ken Russell, Gary Speed, Lana Peters and Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:55, 26124, S
09-Dec-2011 11-49 Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Sócrates, Helen
Forrester, Wilfred Lambert
John Wilson
Produced by Julian May
27:50, 26057, S
16-Dec-2011 11-50 Christopher Hitchens, Lynn Margulis, George Whitman,
Jerry Robinson
John Wilson
Produced by Julian May
27:53, 26099, S
23-Dec-2011 11-51 Kim Jong-il, Chris Athey, Russell Hoban, Cesaria Evora,
Vaclav Havel
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paula McGinley
27:55, 26134, S

2012

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
06-Jan-2012 12-1 Eve Arnold, Ronald Searle, Sir Michael Dummett and Bob Anderson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Shagu Amarani
27:35, 25818, S
13-Jan-2012 12-2 Sir Robert Horton, Clive Robbins, Sir Roger Jowell and Harry Fowler
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:59, 26192, S
20-Jan-2012 12-3 Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord, Reginald Hill
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:47, 26000, S
27-Jan-2012 12-4 Nicol Williamson, Gustav Leonhardt, Manuel Fraga and Hugh Carless
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:55, 26131, S
03-Feb-2012 12-5 Angelo Dundee, Isi Metzstein, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Theo Angelopoulos, Homai Vyarawalla
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Alison Hughes
27:59, 26189, S
10-Feb-2012 12-6 Angela Culme-Seymour, Kazimierz Smolen, Nigel Doughty, Antoni Tapies and Don Cornelius
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Alison Hughes
27:52, 26085, S
17-Feb-2012 12-7 Patricia Stephens Due, James Whitaker, Josh Gifford, Jim Riordan, Whitney Houston
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Alison Hughes
27:51, 26067, S
24-Feb-2012 12-8 Marie Colvin, John Fairfax, MRD Foot and Frank Carson
John Wilson
Produced by Julian May
27:49, 26027, S
02-Mar-2012 12-9 Davy Jones, Jean Pateman, Steve Kordek and Betty Parsons
John Wilson
Produced by Julian May
27:42, 25917, S
09-Mar-2012 12-10 Norman St John Stevas, Buck Compton, Leonard Rosoman and Robert Sherman
John Wilson
Produced by Julian May
27:56, 26137, S
16-Mar-2012 12-11 Sherwood Rowland, Lawrence Anthony, James Q Wilson, Jack Chippendale, Joe Thompson and Philip Madoc
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:46, 25995, S
23-Mar-2012 12-12 Pope Shenouda the third, King George Tupou the fifth, Maurice Andre, Simin Daneshvar, Chaleo Yoovidhya
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:39, 25879, S
30-Mar-2012 12-13 Lord Newton, Jocky Wilson, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Jennifer Longford, Earl Scruggs
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:34, 25797, S
06-Apr-2012 12-14 Bill Wedderburn, Adrienne Rich, Tom Lodge, Howard Anderson, Cecil Sharpley
Jane Little
Produced by James Cook
27:54, 26104, S
13-Apr-2012 12-15 Fang Lizhi, Ferdinand Porsche, Miss Read, Bingu wa Mutharika, Derick Thomson
Jane Little
Produced by Neil George
27:45, 25964, S
20-Apr-2012 12-16 Bert Weedon, Mike Wallace, Judy Egerton, Jack Tramiel and Ahmed Ben Bella
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:02, 26229, S
27-Apr-2012 12-17 Lord Ashley, Levon Helm, Wendy Grant, Charles Colson, Val May
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26199, S
04-May-2012 12-18 Khalil Dale, Leila Berg, Tomas Borge, Terry Spinks, Rev Ray Davey
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:41, 25908, S
11-May-2012 12-19 Vidal Sassoon, Angelica Garnett, Maurice Sendak and Lloyd Brevett
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26156, S
18-May-2012 12-20 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Horst Faas, Carlos Fuentes, Lord Glenamara and Donna Summer
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:50, 26057, S
25-May-2012 12-21 Robin Gibb, Eric James, Alan Oakley, David Ellis and Eugene Polley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26146, S
01-Jun-2012 12-22 Leo De Rothschild, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Elisabeth Tomalin, Colin McIntyre, Alan Hacker
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:58, 26172, S
08-Jun-2012 12-23 Ray Bradbury, Bob Edwards, Astrid Aghajanian and Herb Reed
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:00, 26208, S
15-Jun-2012 12-24 Jean McFarlane, Phillip Tobias, Warda Al Jazairia, Barry Unsworth and Lee Rich
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:30, 25737, S
22-Jun-2012 12-25 Rodney King, Teofilo Stevenson, Gitta Sereny and Victor Spinetti
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:46, 25979, S
29-Jun-2012 12-26 Nora Ephron, Gunnar Sonsteby, Ron Onions, John Horder and Doc Watson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:13, 26412, S
06-Jul-2012 12-27 Eric Sykes, Yitzhak Shamir, Gillian Hush and Sir Michael Palliser
John Wilson
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:03, 26249, S
13-Jul-2012 12-28 Ernest Borgnine, Elinor Ostrom, Jeff Keen, Andy Hamilton
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:06, 26295, S
20-Jul-2012 12-29 Sir Alastair Burnet, Jon Lord, Yaakov Meidad and Mike Westmacott
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil McCarthy
27:58, 26172, S
27-Jul-2012 12-30 Sally Ride, Omar Suleiman, Rajesh Khanna, Jane Leighton and Jim Drake
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil McCarthy
27:47, 25999, S
03-Aug-2012 12-31 Maeve Binchy, Gore Vidal, Ann Atkinson and Geoffrey Hughes
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sara Jane Hall
27:34, 25807, S
10-Aug-2012 12-32 Robert Hughes, Sir Bernard Lovell, Lakshmi Sehgal, Sir John Keegan and Franz West
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Sara Jane Hall
27:56, 26144, S
17-Aug-2012 12-33 Sid Waddell, Helen Gurley Brown, Lord Morris of Manchester, Dr Aubrey Leatham and Carlo Rambaldi
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:42, 25924, S
24-Aug-2012 12-34 Nina Bawden, Tony Scott, Eileen Beasley and Scott McKenzie
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:09, 26339, S
31-Aug-2012 12-35 Neil Armstrong, Meles Zenawi, Carlo Curley and Phyllis Diller
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:47, 26007, S
07-Sep-2012 12-36 Sun Myung Moon, Max Bygraves, Sir Rhodes Boyson, Daire Brehan and Hal David
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26069, S
14-Sep-2012 12-37 Derek Jameson, Griselda Blanco, Allan Horsfall, Terry Nutkins and Joe South
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26139, S
21-Sep-2012 12-38 Sid Watkins, Bill Moggridge, Stanley Long, George Hurst and Ken McManus
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:46, 25985, S
28-Sep-2012 12-39 Andy Williams, Charlie Richardson, Gertrude Hughes, Herbert Lom and Eva Figes
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26135, S
05-Oct-2012 12-40 Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Hurll, Jerome Horwitz, Harry Chambers, Eddie Bert
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:46, 25992, S
12-Oct-2012 12-41 Verghese Kurien, Helen Nicoll, Bobby Hogg, Tereska Torres, 'Big Jim' Sullivan
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26064, S
19-Oct-2012 12-42 Keith Campbell, King Sihanouk, Wendy Greengross, Danny Sims, Sylvia Kristel
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:49, 26033, S
26-Oct-2012 12-43 George McGovern, Fiorenzo Magni, Paul Kurtz, Mike Morris, Roy Bates
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:54, 26108, S
02-Nov-2012 12-44 Hans Werner Henze, Emanuel Steward, Jacques Barzun, Yash Chopra, Terry Callier
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:46, 26042, S
09-Nov-2012 12-45 Clive Dunn, Elliott Carter, Lord Lofthouse, Han Suyin, Brian Cobby
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:50, 26048, S
16-Nov-2012 12-46 Sir Rex Hunt, Valerie Eliot, Duke Vin, Susan Jeffers, Joe Melia
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26069, S
23-Nov-2012 12-47 William Turnbull, Albano Harguindeguy, Martin Fay, Kenneth Cragg, Derek Hutchinson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:45, 25978, S
30-Nov-2012   no programme -- pre-empted for a Media Show special
 
 
07-Dec-2012 12-48 Oscar Niemeyer, Dave Brubeck, Bal Thackeray, Hector Camacho
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26254, S
14-Dec-2012 12-49 Ravi Shankar, Joseph Murray, Patrick Moore, Alex Moulton, Ian Campbell, Kenneth Kendall
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26068, S
21-Dec-2012 12-50 Lawrie Barratt, Galina Vishnevskaya, Jack Hart, Tommy Roberts
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:46, 25989, S

2013

Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
04-Jan-2013 13-1 Norman Schwarzkopf, Charles Chilton, Lord Rees Mogg,
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Christopher Martin Jenkins
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:33, 25786, S
missing a few
seconds of
opening
11-Jan-2013 13-2 Alasdair Milne, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Maurice Herzog,
Stanley Cohen, Daphne Oxenford
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:54, 26111, S
18-Jan-2013 13-3 Robert Kee, Claude Nobs, George Patterson, James
Buchanan, Midge Turk Richardson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:26, 26609, S
25-Jan-2013 13-4 Inez McCormick, Michael Winner, Pauline Phillips,
Dr Tingye Li, Katie Stewart
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26160, S
01-Feb-2013 13-5 John Hopkins, Lizbeth Webb, Peter Carson, Mary McIntosh,
Migs Greenall, Patty Andrews
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:48, 26012, S
08-Feb-2013 13-6 Amina Cachalia, Reg Presley,Chris Kyle,
Andre Cassagnes, and Ed Koch
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:54, 26110, S
15-Feb-2013 13-7 Zhouang Zedong, David Taylor, Stuart Freeborn,
Patricia Hughes, Paul Tanner
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:54, 26105, S
22-Feb-2013 13-8 Richard Briers, Ronald Dworkin, Eileen Fuchs, Kevin Ayers Matthew Bannister
Produced by Paul Kobrak
27:47, 26006, S
01-Mar-2013 13-9 Bruce Reynolds, Lady Elspet Gray, Bob Godfrey,
Sir Denis Forman, Stéphane Hessel
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:54, 26105, S
08-Mar-2013 13-10 Kenny Ball, William Letwin, Sarah Baring, Wolfgang
Sawallisch, Hugo Chavez
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
27:55, 26131, S
15-Mar-2013 13-11 Ieng Sary, Princess Lilian of Sweden, Tony Gubba,
John Shine, Alvin Lee
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:50, 26070, S
22-Mar-2013 13-12 Chinua Achebe, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, Frank
Thornton, James Herbert, Barbara Firth
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:58, 26204, S
29-Mar-2013 13-13 Richard Griffiths, Boris Berezovsky, Angela Bond,
Mohammed Zillur Rahman, Deke Richards
John Wilson
Produced by Neil George
28:02, 26273, S
05-Apr-2013 13-14 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henri Krug, Mabel Cooper,
Moses Blah, Anthony Conran
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:51, 26084, S
12-Apr-2013
13-15
Baroness Thatcher, Sir Robert Edwards, Marcel Van
Cleemput, Jane Henson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
28:03, 26288, S
19-Apr-2013
13-16
Colin Davis, Anne Williams, Storm Thorgerson,
Brigitte Askonas, Olive Lewin
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:47, 26023, S
26-Apr-2013
13-17
Jocasta Innes, Patrick Garland, Mike Denness,
Maria Tallchief, Richie Havens
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
28:02, 26262, S
03-May-2013
13-18
George Jones, Jim Mortimer, Deanna Durbin, Sarah Berger,
Janos Starker
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:58, 26210, S
10-May-2013
13-19
Andrew Simpson, Bryan Forbes, Giulio Andreotti, Mary
Thom, Rick Mather
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:59, 26219, S
17-May-2013
13-20
Paul Shane, Joe Farman, Dr Margaret White, Sir Terence
Beckett, Marcella Pattyn, Steve Martland, Arnold Peters
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Julian May
27:52, 26124, S
24-May-2013
13-21
Ray Manzarek, General Jorge Videla, Hans Moretti,
Zahra Shahid Hussain, Eddie Braben
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:56, 26192, S
31-May-2013
13-22
Bill Pertwee, Joyce Robertson, Georges Moustaki,
Professor George Gray, Angus Hutchison
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:55, 26156, S
07-Jun-2013
13-23
Tom Sharpe, Nigel Hepper, Anne Valery, Henri Dutillieux,
Molly Clutton-Brock
Mark Coles
Produced by Neil George
27:50, 26102, S
14-Jun-2013
13-24
Iain Banks, Sir Henry Cecil, Esther Williams,
Marshall Viktor Kulikov, the Countess of Arran
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:48, 26075, S
21-Jun-2013
13-25
James Gandolfini, Elizabeth Braund, David Wall,
Oliver Bernard, Mark Turnbull
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:28, 25764, S
28-Jun-2013
13-26
Mick Aston, Betty Joseph, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie,
Michael Baigent, Mr Yunupingu
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:46, 26053, S
05-Jul-2013
13-27

Douglas Engelbart, John D Wilson, Gyula Horn, Marjorie
Anderson, Richard Marlow, Bernie Nolan

Aasmah Mir
Produced by Neil George
27:56, 26148, S
12-Jul-2013
13-28
Alan Whicker, Lieutenant Islam Bibi, Lord Campbell of
Alloway, Paul Smith, Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:49, 26036, S
19-Jul-2013
13-29
Bert Trautmann, Kay Matheson, Elaine Morgan, Lord Chitnis,
Ray Butt
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26218, S
26-Jul-2013
13-30
Helen Thomas, William Turner, Mel Smith, James Martin,
T Model Ford
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:46, 25990, S
02-Aug-2013
13-31
Virginia Masters, Mike Morwood, John Casablancas, Sonia
Moriceau, JJ Cale
Jane Little
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:54, 26114, S
09-Aug-2013
13-32
Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, Mick Farren, Bernadette Lafont,
George Mitchell, Terry Conway
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:47, 25998, S
16-Aug-2013
13-33
Betty Maxwell, Mark Sutton, Karen Black, Kenneth Dancy,
George Duke
Aasmah Mir
produced by Paul Kobrack
27:55, 26126, S
23-Aug-2013
13-34
Elmore Leonard, Rosalia Mera, Jacques Vergès, John Coombs,
Margaret Pellegrini
Aasmah Mir
Produced by Neil George
28:08, 26330, S
30-Aug-2013
13-35
Seamus Heaney, Muriel Siebert, Florin Cioaba, Cliff Morgan
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
28:03, 26246, S
06-Sep-2013
13-36
Sir David Frost, David Jacobs, Lou Killen--Louisa Jo Killen,
David Dickson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:54, 26110, S
13-Sep-2013
13-37
Ray Dolby, Wing Commander Kenneth Wallis, Frederick Pohl,
Lydia Gridneff
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:41, 25912, S
20-Sep-2013
13-38
Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss, Pat Pilkington, Brian Sollitt, Joan
Regan, Tom Vernon, Franco de Gemini
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:50, 26055, S
27-Sep-2013
13-39
Kofi Awoonor, Peter Kay, Carolyn Cassady, Ferguson Smith,
Jackie Lomax
Matthew Bannister
Produced by
Neil George
27:46, 25992, S
04-Oct-2013
13-40
Tom Clancy, Lindsay Cooper, Rabbi Philip Berg, Anthony Hinds
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:58, 26181, S
11-Oct-2013
13-41
Maria de Villota, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Dr Ruth Patrick,
Kathleen Watkins, Phil Chevron
Matthew Bannister
Produced by
Neil George
27:52, 26089, S
18-Oct-2013
13-42
Choje Akong Rinpoche, Marcella Hazan, Maxine Powell,
Mark 'Chopper' Read, Charles Craig
Aasmah Mir
Produced by Neil George
27:48, 26019, S
25-Oct-2013
13-43
Sir Anthony Caro, Jovanka Broz, Felix Dexter, Professor
Olive Stevenson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by
Neil George
27:51, 26071, S
01-Nov-2013
13-44
Antonia Bird, Paul Reichmann, Robert Ford, Nigel Davenport,
Lou Reed
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:56, 26141, S
08-Nov-2013
13-45
John Cole, Professor John Cloudsley-Thompson, Georgina
Livingston, Roy Grantham, the Sultan of Sulu
Matthew Bannister
Produced by
Neil George
27:46, 25983, S
15-Nov-2013
13-46
Sir John Taverner, Eddie McGrady, Anca Petrescu, Manfred
Rommel, Grace Jones
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:56, 26139, S
22-Nov-2013
13-47
Frederick Sanger, Doris Lessing, Ray Gosling, Jock Kane,
Austin John Marshall
Matthew Bannister
Produced by
Neil George
27:54, 26117, S
29-Nov-2013
13-48
Father Alec Reid, Diane Disney Miller, Hetty Bower, Bill
Foulkes, Lewis Collins
Matthew Bannister
Produced by
Neil George
27:48, 26023, S
06-Dec-2013

no program


13-Dec-2013
13-49
Stan Tracey, General Alfonso Armada, Mary Eyre, Bob
George, Mary Riggans
Matthew Bannister
Produced by
Neil George
27:53, 26092, S
20-Dec-2013
13-50
Peter O'Toole, Lord Roberts of Conwy, Colin Wilson,
Joan Fontaine, Ronnie Briggs
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:50, 26051, S
27-Dec-2013

no program



2014
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
03-Jan-2014
1
Elizabeth Jane Howard, John Fortune, Vera Houghton, Sir
Christopher Curwen, Harold Camping
Julian Worricker
Produced by Neil George
27:53, 26099, S
10-Jan-2014
2
Simon Hoggart, Prof Janet Rowley, Saul Zaentz, Terry
Biddlecombe, Phil Everly
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26070, S
17-Jan-2014
3
Roger Lloyd Pack, Prof Julian B. Rotter, Hiroo Onoda, Rae
Woodland, Ariel Sharon
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Laura Northedge
27:42, 25920, S
24-Jan-2014
4
Lord McAlpine, Jocelyn Hay, Amiri Baraka, Sir Christopher
Chataway, Claudio Abbado
Matthew Bannister
Producer: Simon Tillotson
27:50, 26048, S
31-Jan-2014
5
Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey,
Sir Run Run Shaw
Matthew Bannister
Producer: Simon Tillotson
27:57, 26162, S
07-Feb-2014
6
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jose Sulaiman, Anna Gordy Gaye,
Ron Hall, Peter Austin
Matthew Bannister
Producer: Simon Tillotson
27:51, 26062, S
14-Feb-2014
7
Prof Stuart Hall, Jean Babilée, Tony Crook,
Shirley Temple Black
Matthew Bannister
Producer: Simon Tillotson
27:49, 26029, S
21-Feb-2012
8
Tom Finney, Sid Caesar, Ian McNaught-Davis,
Els Borst, Louise Brough
Matthew Bannister
Producer: Simon Tillotson
27:48, 26019, S
28-Feb-2014
9
Alison Jolly, Alice Herz-Sommer, Valery Kubasov, Mavis
Gallant, Harold Ramis
Aasmah Mir
Produced by
Simon Tillotson
27:51, 26067, S
07-Mar-2014
10
Paco de Lucia, Frank Rushbrook, Rose Finn-Kelcey,
Logan Scott-Bowden, Alain Resnais
Aasmah Mir
Produced by
Simon Tillotson
27:53, 26089, S
14-Mar-2014
11
Tony Benn, James Ellis, Peter Rona, Marion Thorpe,
Bob Crow
Julian Worricker
Produced by Simon Tillotson
27:52, 26081, S
21-Mar-2014
12
Clarissa Dickson Wright, Lord Ballyedmond, L'Wren Scott,
Mohammed Fahim, Peter Callander
Julian Worricker
Produced by Neil George
27:49, 26036, S
28-Mar-2014
13
Mickey Duff, John Tyson, Jill Sinclair, Adolfo Suarez,
Oswald Morris
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:52, 26082, S
04-Apr-2014
14
Margo MacDonald, Frankie Knuckles, Lorna Arnold,
Kate O'Mara, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26154, S
11-Apr-2014
15
Sue Townsend, Lord Kimball, Peaches Geldof, Prof Lorna
Casselton, Mickey Rooney
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:52, 26084, S
18-Apr-2014
16
Gabriel García Márquez, Edna Doré, Richard Hoggart,
Gerardo D'Ambrosio, John Shirley-Quirk
Julian Worricker
Produced by Neil George
27:57, 26161, S
25-Apr-2014
17
Mark Shand, Mrs Pilkington Garimara, Derek Cooper,
Wally Olins, Julian Wilson
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26065, S
02-May-2014
18
podcast
Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:45, 25994, S
09-May-2014
19
podcast
Sir George Christie, Leslie Thomas, Deborah Rogers,
Sir William Benyon, Elena Baltacha
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:48, 26032, S
16-May-2014
20
podcast
Prof Colin Pillinger, Antony Hopkins, Bev Evans,
Sir Ben Gill and Stan Kelly-Bootle
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:39, 25952, S
23-May-2014
21
podcast
Sir Jack Brabham, Prof Louise Wilson, Dick Douglas,
Harry Stopes-Roe and Mary Stewart
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:36, 25847, S
30-May-2014
22
podcast
Maya Angelou, Malcolm Glazer, Tessa Watts, General
Jaruzelski, Herb Jeffries
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:54, 26133, S
06-Jun-2014
23
podcast
Lady Mary Soames, Gordon Willis, Clyde Snow,
Count Suckle
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Steven Williams
27:34, 26033, S
13-Jun-2014
24
podcast
Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming,
Alan Douglas
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:43, 25959, S
20-Jun-2014
25
podcast
Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin,
Francis Matthews
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Steven Williams
27:45, 25004, S
27-Jun-2014
26
podcast
Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson,
Gerry Conlan, Eli Wallach
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:48, 26042, S
04-Jul-2014
27
podcast
Bobby Womack, Stephanie Kwolek, Dermot Healy,
Viktor Sukhodrev, Delia Craig
Julian Worricker 27:01, 25747, S
11-Jul-2014
28
podcast
Alfredo Di Stefano, Eduard Shevardnadze, Ultra Violet,
Chester Nez, Horace Silver
Matthew Bannister 27:42, 25042, S
18-Jul-2014
29
podcast
Elaine Stritch, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Scudamore,
Lorin Maazel
Matthew Bannister 27:48, 26038, S
25-Jul-2014
30
podcast
James Garner, Joep Lange, Alan Alan, Philip Wayre,
Dora Bryan
Julian Worricker 27:30, 25755, S
01-Aug-2014
31
podcast
Sir Richard MacCormac, Eileen Ford, Nigel Ryan,
Zohra Sehgal, Frank Mumford
Presenter Matthew Bannister
Producer Paula McGinley
27:45, 25986, S
08-Aug-2014
32
podcast
Chapman Pincher, Mike Smith, Lettice Curtis, Karl
Albrecht, Kenny Ireland
Presenter Matthew Bannister
Producer Paula McGinley
27:47, 26017, S
15-Aug-2014
33
podcast
Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams,
Peter Sculthorpe
Andrea Catherwood
Producer Paula McGinley
27:43, 25951, S
22-Aug-2014
34
podcast
Albert Reynolds, Ronnie Stonham, Norman Cornish,
Gerry Anderson, Licia Albanese
Matthew Bannister 27:32, 25783, S
29-Aug-2014
35
podcast
Richard Attenborough, Helen Bamber, BKS Iyengar,
Sam Galbraith, Bill Kerr
Presenter Matthew Bannister
Producer Laura Northedge
28:09, 26366, S
05-Sep-2014
36
podcast
Joan Rivers, Sir David Mitchell, Werner Franz,
Candida Lycett Green, Sandy Wilson
Presenter Matthew Bannister
Producer Neil George
27:32, 25783, S
12-Sep-2014
37
podcast
Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding,
Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen
Presenter Matthew Bannister
Producer Fiona Couper
27:35, 25880, S
19-Sep-2014
38
podcast
James Nesbitt MBE, Andrew McLaglen, Emilio Botin,
Simin Behbahani, Sir Philip Dowson
Matthew Bannister 27:42, 25935, S
26-Sep-2014
39
podcast
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Oleg Ivanovsky,
Jim Petrie, Dame Julia Polak and Bob Crewe
Julian Worricker 27:45, 25987, S
03-Oct-2014
40
podcast
Christopher Hogwood, Major General Yitzhak Hofi, Sheila
Tracy, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Lynsey de Paul
Matthew Bannister 27:29, 25739, S
10-Oct-2014
41
podcast
Andrew Kerr, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Dorothy Tyler MBE,
Prof Karl Miller, Cosimo Matassa
Matthew Bannister 27:40, 25912, S
17-Oct-2014
42
podcast
Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Jerrie Mock, John Moat,
Shirley Baker, David Rayvern Allen
Matthew Bannister 27:48, 26028, S
24-Oct-2014
43
podcast
Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry,
John Holt
Andrea Catherwood
Producer Neil George
27:39, 25892, S
31-Oct-2014
44
podcast
Jack Bruce, Gough Whitlam, Efua Dorkenoo,
James Dunlop
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:51, 26075, S
07-Nov-2014
45
podcast
Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt
Matthew Bannister 27:44, 25980, S
14-Nov-2014
46
podcast
Vivienne Price; Dr Dick Laws; Warren Clarke; Geoffrey
Clarke; Prince David Chavchavadze
Matthew Bannister 27:28, 25716, S
21-Nov-2014
47
podcast
Sir Thomas Macpherson, Mike Nichols, Alexander Grothendieck,
Paul Vaughan, Leonore Davidoff and Jimmy Ruffin
Matthew Bannister 27:43, 25961, S
28-Nov-2014
48
podcast
PD James, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Glen A Larson,
Medlin Lewis-Spencer, Arthur Butterworth MBE
Matthew Bannister 27:49, 26054, S
05-Dec-2014
49
podcast
Jeremy Thorpe, Ian McLagan, Viktor Tikhonov, Trevor
Pharo and Sabah
Matthew Bannister 27:35, 25838, S
12-Dec-2014
50
podcast
Stella Young, Queen Fabiola, Bernard Stonehouse,
Kent Haruf, Ralph Baer
Matthew Bannister 27:58, 26183, S
19-Dec-2014
51
podcast
Mandy Rice-Davies, Dr Tim Black, Michel du Cille,
Ian Player, Christopher Morris
Matthew Bannister 27:45, 25994, S
26-Dec-2014
52
podcast
Matthew Bannister talks to obituary editors from
around the UK about the nature of their work
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:46, 32534, S

2015
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
02-Jan-2015
1
podcast
Debbie Purdy, David Ryall, Willy Burgdorfer, Dame Mary
Glen Haig, Graeme Goodall
Presenter Julian Worricker
Produced by Neil George
27:39, 25895, S
09-Jan-2015
2
podcast
Jean Cabut and Georges Wolinski, Luise Rainer, Edward
Brooke and Chip Young
Matthew Bannister 27:49, 26049, S
16-Jan-2015
3
podcast
Ray McFall, Richard Meade, Joan Benesh, Frank Atkinson
and Brian Clemens
Matthew Bannister 27:14, 26073, S
23-Jan-2015
4
podcast
Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor
John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride
Matthew Bannister 27:48, 26038, S
30-Jan-2015
5
podcast
Sir Jack Hayward, Elena Obraztsova, Robert Stone,
Jean Stogdon and Demis Rousso
Matthew Bannister 27:48, 26040, S
06-Feb-2015
6
podcast
Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi,
Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass
Matthew Bannister 27:36, 25852, S
13-Feb-2015
7
podcast
John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles
Townes, Steve Strange
Matthew Bannister
27:50, 26062, S
20-Feb-2015
8
podcast
Michele Ferrero, Lady Platt of Writtle, John McCabe,
Louis Jourdan, Anne Naysmith and Lesley Gore
Julian Worricker 27:52, 26100, S
27-Feb-2015
9
podcast
Dan Topolski, Lady Villiers, John Davies, Tim Lusty,
Clark Terry
Andrea Catherwood 27:38, 25882, S
06-Mar-2015
10
podcast
Yasar Kemal, Maureen Guy, Professor Oliver Rackham,
Sir Noel Davies, Leonard Nimoy
Andrea Catherwood 27:42, 25934, S
13-Mar-2015
11
podcast
Sir Terry Pratchett, Florence Arthaud, Patrick Whitefield,
Lord Molyneaux, Sam Simon
Presenter Matthew Bannister
Producer Fiona Couper
27:46, 26009, S
20-Mar-2015
12
podcast
Shaw Taylor, Arthur Wyatt, Naty Revuelta Clews, Malcolm
Fraser, Andy Fraser
Matthew Bannister
27:45, 25987, S
27-Mar-2015
13
podcast
Lee Kuan Yew, Derek Chinnery, Eugenie Clark, Mal Peet,
Jackie Trent
Matthew Bannister
27:48, 26038, S
03-Apr-2015
14
podcast
Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff,
John Renbourn
Julian Worricker 27:06, 25375, S
10-Apr-2015
15
podcast
Frei Otto, Richie Benaud, Albert Maysles, Julio Cesar
Strassera, Mary Clarke
Matthew Bannister
27:35, 25826, S
17-Apr-2015
16
podcast
Günter Grass, Sheila Kitzinger, Andrew Porter, Dave
'Devilfish' Ulliott, Percy Sledge
Matthew Bannister
27:47, 26026, S
24-Apr-2015
17
podcast
Last Word 17 Margaret Rule, Lord Mason, Dell Williams,
Buddy Elias, Brian Couzens
Matthew Bannister
27:48, 26034, S
01-May-2015
18
podcast
Sir Philip Carter, Andrew Lesnie, Margaret Harrison, Tom
McCabe MSP, Claire Gordon
Matthew Bannister 27:48, 26029, S
08-May-2015
19
podcast
Ruth Rendell, Geoff Duke OBE, Katharine Worth, Jean
Nidetch, Errol Brown
Matthew Bannister 27:48, 26028, S
15-May-2015
20
podcast
B.B. King, Kenan Evran, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya
Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn
Matthew Bannister 27:34, 25822, S
22-May-2015
21
podcast
Oscar Holderer, David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness
of Reading, Alexandre Lamfalussy and Guy Carawan
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:45, 25991, S
29-May-2015
22
podcast
Raymond Gosling, Eileen Gray, Sir Duncan Watson, Denys
Darlow, Grace Lee Whitney
Matthew Bannister 27:50, 26071, S
05-Jun-2015
23
podcast
Tariq Aziz, Charles Kennedy, Julie Harris, Peter Cropper,
Alan Bond, Johnny Keating
Andrea Catherwood 27:47, 32540, S
12-Jun-2015
24
podcast
Christopher Lee, Marguerite Patten, James Last, Major
Roy Homard, Ron Moody
Andrea Catherwood 27:49, 26281, S
19-Jun-2015
25
podcast
Morris Beckman, Ornette Coleman, Tanith Lee, Süleyman
Demirel and Doris Hart
Matthew Bannister 27:39, 25927, S
26-Jun-2015
26
podcast
Sir Chris Woodhead, Patrick Macnee, Dame Anne Warburton,
Vic Mayhew, James Horner
Matthew Bannister 28:02, 26285, S
03-Jul-2015
27
podcast
Sir Nicholas Winton, Val Doonican, Nek Chand, James Salter,
Lady Rozelle Raynes
Matthew Bannister 27:36, 25877, S
10-Jul-2015
28
podcast
Omar Sharif, Stanley 'Steve' Moore, Jules Wright, Yevgeny
Primakov, Ernest Tomlinson
Matthew Bannister 26:47, 25113, S
17-Jul-2015
29
podcast
Rev Joyce Bennett, Prince Saud al-Faisal, Burt Shavitz,
Michael Oliver, Ian Allan
Matthew Bannister 27:41, 25961, S
24-Jul-2015
30
podcast
Scot Breithaupt, E. L. Doctorow, Claudia Alexander, Ron
Pollard, Magali Noel
Matthew Bannister 27:52, 26123, S
31-Jul-2015
31
podcast
Nova Pilbeam, Yochiro Nambu, Jon Vickers, the Reverend
Owen Chadwick, and Nick Ryman
Matthew Bannister 27:44, 25994, S
07-Aug-2015
32
podcast
Cilla Black, Michael Kidson, APJ Abdul Kalam, Evelyn Gillan,
George Cole
Matthew Bannister 27:46, 26036, S
14-Aug-2015
33
podcast
David Nobbs, Frances Kelsey, Kyril Zinovieff, Elio Fiorucci,
Harry Pitch
Reeta Chakrabarti
27:45, 26013, S
21-Aug-2015
34
podcast
Khaled Al-Asaad, Jazz Summers, Jack Gold, Manuel
Contreras, Dawn Wofford
Lucy Ash
27:55, 32709, S
28-Aug-2015
35
podcast
Bernie Passingham, Christopher Marshall, Wayne Carson,
Michael Turk, Marie Dobbs, Yvonne Craig
Matthew Bannister 27:42, 25970, S
04-Sep-2015
36
podcast
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Joy Beverley, Oliver Sacks,
Annette Worsley-Taylor
Matthew Bannister 27:44, 25999, S
11-Sep-2011
37
podcast
Sir Adrian Cadbury, Rico Rodriguez, Ieng Thirith, Margaret
Harrison, Judy Carne
Matthew Bannister 27:34, 25844, S
18-Sep-2015
38
podcast
Sir David Willcocks, Merv Adelson, Mariem Hassan, Brian
Close, Beryl Renwick
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:42, 25972, S
25-Sep-2015
39
podcast
Brian Sewell, Jackie Collins, Ted Smith CBE, PJ Kavanagh,
Yogi Berra
Matthew Bannister 27:23, 25671, S
02-Oct-2015
40
podcast
Brian Friel, General Mario Menendez, Tessa Ransford,
John Guillermin, Ben Cauley
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:50, 26095, S
09-Oct-2015
41
podcast
Lord Denis Healey, Carmen Balcells, Henning Mankell, Revd
Kenneth Leech, Captain Bob Arnott and Sandy Faris
Lucy Ash 27:44, 25995, S
16-Oct-2015
42
podcast
Geoffrey Howe, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Joe Henson, Hugh Scully
and Alexander Faris
Julian Worricker 27:49, 26069, S
23-Oct-2015
43
podcast
General John Galvin, Joan Leslie, Michael Meacher, Howard
Kendall, Jerry Parr
Matthew Bannister
Produced by Neil George
27:47, 26044, S
30-Oct-2015
44
podcast
Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella,
Maureen O'Hara
Matthew Bannister 27:47, 26030, S
06-Nov-2015
45
podcast
Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani,
Colin Welland and Peter Donaldson
Matthew Bannister 27:53, 26144, S
13-Nov-2015
46
podcast
Helmut Schmidt, Pat Eddery, Julia Jones, Lord Gulam Noon,
Nat Peck
Matthew Bannister 27:53, 26129, S
20-Nov-2015
47
podcast
Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia
Payne, Jonah Lomu
Matthew Bannister 27:40, 25928, S
27-Nov-2015
48
podcast
Peter Dimmock, Alix d'Unienville, Yolanda Sonnabend, Maggie
Eales and George Barris
Matthew Bannister 27:37, 25883, S
04-Dec-2015
49
podcast
General Sir Robert Ford, Hazel Adair, Jane Wardle, Gerry
Byrne and P.F Sloan
Matthew Bannister 27:47, 26033, S
11-Dec-2015
50
podcast
Marcus Klingberg, William McIlvanney, Setsuko Hara, Joel
Elkes and John Peel
Matthew Bannister 27:49, 26035, S
18-Dec-2015
51
podcast
Mick Murphy, Ahmed Chalabi, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Brajraj
Mahapatra and Holly Woodlawn
Matthew Bannister 27:40, 25895, S