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• guests include Omid Djalili 23 May 12

  Wed, 23 May 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by actor and comedian Omid Djalili; 'Chyna' who was in a girl gang but now helps others to escape that life; travel writer Brian Jackman; and folk musician Tim Edey.

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• guests include Angela Rippon 16 May 12

  Wed, 16 May 12

  Duration:
  43 mins

  Libby Purves is joined by journalist Angela Rippon; fashion photographer Jim Lee; Marian Partington whose sister Lucy was found to one of the victims of Rosemary and Fred West and In her book, ‘If You Sit Very Still’, she explores the territory of traumatic loss, and the restoration of the human spirit and musician & song writer Vusi Mahlasela.

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• guests include Hannah Rothschild 9 May 12

  Wed, 9 May 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by bat expert Dr Rodrigo Medellin; filmmaker Hannah Rothschild; playwright Michael Ashton; and former diplomat Sir Roger Carrick.

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• guests include Maria Friedman 2 May 12

  Wed, 2 May 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by food writer Ruth Joseph; musical theatre star Maria Friedman; BBC documentary maker Michael Cockerell; and grandson of Agatha Christie Mathew Prichard.

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• guests include James Cracknell 25 Apr 12

  Wed, 25 Apr 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by Olympian turned adventurer, James Cracknell; actor and children's author, Susannah Corbett; lawyer Nick Freeman aka Mr Loophole; and chef Gennaro Contaldo.

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• guests include Barry Briggs 18 Apr 12

  Wed, 18 Apr 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by Dacre Stoker, great great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker; Barry Briggs, former 4 time World Speedway champion; actors Roberta Taylor and Peter Guinness; and bridge maker Richard La Trobe-Bateman.

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• guests include Sir Trevor McDonald and Greg Doran

  Wed, 11 Apr 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  Libby Purves is joined by Dick Robinson who has published his great aunt's diaries from the First World War;Greg Doran who is the RSC's Artistic Director designate;broadcaster and presenter Sir Trevor McDonald and Lord and Lady Fitzalan Howard who live at Carlton Towers, near Selby in Yorkshire and feature in a new series about stately home owners who open their doors as a corporate and wedding venue.

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• guests include Gavin Turk 4 Apr 12

  Wed, 4 Apr 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by composer and arranger Barbara Moore; Falklands veteran Tony Banks; writer and journalist Donald McRae; and artists Gavin Turk and Deborah Curtis.

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• guests include Alvin Hall 28 Mar 12

  Wed, 28 Mar 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by financial expert Alvin Hall; singer and songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis; foreign correspondent Alex Crawford; and owner of Dartmoor Zoological Park, Benjamin Mee.

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• guests include Timothy Spall 21 Mar 12

  Wed, 21 Mar 12

  Duration:
  42 mins

  This week Libby Purves is joined by Shane and Timothy Spall, who sailed their barge Matilda around Britain; Barrie Rutter, founder and Artistic Director of Northern Broadsides theatre company; biologist Juliane Koepcke who was the only survivor of a plane crash in Peru in 1971; and musician and producer Grant Gordon who tells of how he and his father's relationship was cemented by their shared love of golf.

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