All Episodes

How Nick Cave's songs reveal themselves painfully to him

Meera Syal on holding up a mirror to British society in Goodness Gracious Me

Why Lyse Doucet doesn't want to be called a war reporter

Gareth Southgate on putting on the England shirt for the first time

Michael Sheen on his father's time as a Jack Nicholson impersonator

Rick Rubin on finding the magic in music

Caitlin Moran on the smells that defined her childhood

Romesh Ranganathan on finding his comedy sweet spot

Tanni Grey-Thompson on winning four Olympic golds in Sydney

Greta Gerwig on her childhood enthusiasm for putting on plays

James Graham on his "stripping vicar" ice-dancing routine

Jessica Ennis-Hill on the moment she won Olympic gold

Warwick Davis on his first role as an Ewok in Star Wars

How Lily Allen brought the house down with a Disney song aged 11

How hiding in a toilet helped Steven Spielberg get into the movie business

Malorie Blackman on receiving 82 rejection letters from publishers

How snooker halls became Ronnie O'Sullivan's "creche" from a young age

Delia Smith on her catchphrase - "Let's be havin' you!"

How Kate Moss's modelling break came at an unexpected moment

Keith Richards on writing "Satisfaction" in his sleep

Chaka Khan, singer and songwriter

Professor Dame Pamela Shaw

Emma Grede, businesswoman

Sir Roger Deakins, cinematographer

Shania Twain, musician

Paul Farmer, charity leader

Professor Liz Morris, glaciologist

Norman Cook, DJ and musician

Jo Nesbø, writer

Anna Maxwell Martin, actor

Peter Layton, artist

Guy Martin, presenter and former motorcycle racer

Emily Watson, actor

Gary O'Donoghue, journalist

David Morrissey, actor

Classic Desert Island Discs - Whoopi Goldberg

Classic Desert Island Discs - Arsène Wenger

Classic Desert Island Discs - Dame Donna Langley

Classic Desert Island Discs - Thom Yorke

Classic Desert Island Discs - Dr Jane Goodall

Raymond Briggs

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Si King, cook

Joan Fontaine

David Bellamy

Sir Arthur Bryant

Norris McWhirter

Robert Stephens

Benjamin Luxon

Elia Kazan

Allan Prior

Robert Powell

Norman Parkinson

Sir Robert Helpmann

Dinsdale Landen

Barry John

Vladimir Ashkenazy

David Attenborough

Lauren Bacall

Nana Mouskouri

Sir Osbert Lancaster

Norman Mailer

Elisabeth Soderstrom

Charles Causley

Peter Shaffer

Michael Palin

Marti Caine

Sian Phillips

Roald Dahl

Rex Harrison

Josephine Barstow

Wilfred Thesiger

Pam Ayres

Ted Allbeury

Richard Buckle

June Mendoza

Peter Barkworth

Barry Norman

Boris Christoff

Countess Elizabeth Longford

Sir Ralph Richardson

Dame Moura Lympany

Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais

C Northcote Parkinson

Glen Tetley

Tito Gobbi

Ed McBain

Irene Thomas

Ian Carmichael

Sir Robert Mayer

Jack Brymer

Alec McCowen

Peter Blake

James Cameron

Edward Fox

Patricia Highsmith

Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Adrian Boult

Burl Ives

Ray Reardon