Previous Guests
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2013
Sunday 16th June
- Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister
- Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary
- Daniel Radcliffe, actor
- Lucky Moyo, Kenny Moyo and Sam Carter, musicians
Sunday 9th June
- William Hague, Foreign Secretary
- Liam Byrne, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary
- Ann Widdicombe, former cabinter minister
- Dan Stevens, actor and producer
- Newspapers reviewed by actress Sheila Hancock and Tim Montgomerie of The Times
Sunday 2nd June
- Douglas Alexander MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary
- David Davis MP, former Conservative Shadow Home Secretary and Lord West, former security minister
- Matt Baggott, Chief Constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland
- Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, singer, Salma Hayek, actress & Frida Giannini, Creative Director of Gucci
- Alison Moyet, singer
- Newspapers reviewed by Jane Moore, Sun columnist and music promoter Harvey Goldsmith
Sunday 26th May 2013
- Theresa May MP, Home Secretary
- Alan Johnson MP, former Home Secretary
- Felicity Kendall, actress
- Noah & The Whale
- Newspapers reviewed by Sarah Sands, editor of the London Evening Standard, and actress and writer Meera Syal
Sunday 19th May 2013
- Jeremy Hunt MP, Health Secretary
- Lord Mandelson, Labour peer
- John Redwood MP, Conservative
- Sir Jonathan Miller, theatre director
- The Allah-Las, band from Los Angeles
- Newspapers reviewed by Spectator journalist Isabel Hardman and Times columnist David Aaronovitch
Sunday 12th May 2013
- Michael Gove MP, Education Secretary
- Yvette Cooper MP, Shadow Home Secretary
- Lord Browne, former Chief Executive BP
- Ed Stoppard, actor
- The Soul Rebels, brass band from New Orleans
- Newspapers reviewed by actress Maureen Lipman and Ann Treneman, sketchwriter for the Sunday Times
Sunday 5th May 2013
- Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust
- Philip Hammond, Defence Secretary
- Nigel Farage, Leader of the UK Independence Party
- Zoe Wanamaker & Samantha Bond, actresses
- Nigel Kennedy, violinist
- Papers reviewed by Labour MP David Lammy and Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti
Sunday 28th April 2013
- Patrick McLoughlin MP, Transport Secretary
- Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Health Secretary
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
- Dame Diana Rigg, actress
- Blues Boy Dan Owen, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Simon Hughes MP, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat and Sarah Baxter, Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine
Sunday 21st April 2013
NO SHOW
Sunday 14th April 2013
- Baroness Helena Kennedy, Lord Cecil Parkinson and Andrew Marr
- Barbara Stephenson, acting US Ambassador to the UK
- Patricia Hodge, actress
- Newspapers reviewed by comedienne & broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, former ITN Political Editor/BBC Chief Political Correspondent John Sergeant and Sun columnist Jane Moore
Sunday 7th April 2013
- William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary
- Harriet Harman MP, Labour Deputy Leader
- John Simm, actor
- Julia Lezhneva, classical singer
- Newspapers reviewed by former Conservative cabinet minister Baroness Gillian Shephard and Editor of the New Statesman Jason Cowley
Sunday 31st March 2013
NO SHOW
Sunday 24th March 2013
- Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
- Alex Salmond MSP, First Minister of Scotland
- Henry Goodman, actor
- Newspapers reviewed by Joan Bakewell, broadcaster & Labour peer and Isabel Hardman from The Spectator
Sunday 17th March 2013
- George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Ed Balls MP, Shadow Chancellor
- Tamsin Greig, Actress
- Kodaline, Irish Band
- Newspapers reviewed by Gillian Tett from the Financial Times and Hugh Grant, actor and campaigner for Hacked Off
Sunday 10th March 2013
- Lord Ashdown – former Leader, Liberal Democrats
- Yvette Cooper MP – Shadow Home Secretary
- Dick Sawle – Member of the Legislative Assembly, Falkland Islands
- Ben Whishaw – actor
- Robert Cray - musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Sun columnist Jane Moore, founder of ConservativeHome Tim Montgomerie and the chief executive of Save the Children Justin Forsyth
Sunday 3 March 2013
- William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary
- Tim Farron MP, President of the Liberal Democrats
- Nigel Farage, Leader of the UK Independence Party
- Richard Gere, actor
- Gary Clark, Jr, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Jude Kelly, artistic director of the Southbank Centre, Iain Dale, Conservative blogger, Clare Short, former Labour cabinet minister
Sunday 24th February 2013
- Vince Cable MP, Business Secretary
- Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Labour Leader
- Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
- Niamh Cusack, actress, and Mark Haddon, author
- Newspapers reviewed by Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative MP, and Sarah Baxter, editor of The Sunday Times Magazine
Sunday 17th February 2013
- Iain Duncan Smith MP, Work & Pensions Secretary
- Gerry and Kate McCann, parents of Madeline McCann
- Malcolm Walker, chief executive of Iceland
- Sinead O’Connor, singer
- Newspapers reviewed by Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC and Labour peer and John Witherow, Acting editor of The Times
Sunday 10th February 2013
- Jeremy Hunt MP, Health Secretary
- Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party
- Dame Judi Dench, Actress
- Julian Lloyd-Webber, cellist (accompanied by cellist Jiaxin Cheng & harpist Catrin Finch)
- Newspapers reviewed by Margaret Hodge, Labour MP & Chair of the Public Accounts Committee and Tim Montgomerie, Editor of ConservativeHome
Sunday 3rd February 2013
- Tony Blair, former prime minister
- Al Gore, former US vice president
- Stephen Poliakoff, screenwriter and director, Jacqueline Bisset, acrtress
- Newspapers reviewed by Deborah Mattinson, founder and director of Britain Thinks, and Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator
Sunday 27th January 2013
- Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister
- Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
- Ibrahim Ag Youssof, exiled Malian peace activist
- Newspapers reviewed by Conservative MP Margot James and John Jungclaussen from Die Zeit
Sunday 20th January 2013
- William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary
- Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party
- Steven Spielberg, film director
- Josephine Oniyama, singer songwriter
- Newspapers reviewed by Deborah Haynes of the Times and David Morrissey, actor
Sunday 13th January 2013
- Ed Miliband MP, Labour Leader
- Peter Robinson MLA, First Minister of Northern Ireland
- Rufus Sewell, actor
- Newspapers reviewed by Gillian Tett of the Financial Times and Esther Rantzen, broadcaster
Sunday 6th January 2013
- David Cameron MP, Prime Minister
- Rupert Everett, actor
- Newspapers reviewed by Nick Watt of The Guardian, Jane Moore of The Sun and Sunday Times, and Rory Bremner, comedian
Sunday 16th December 2012
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
- Jack Straw MP, former home secretary
- Sir Ian McKellen, actor
- Amore, vocal quartet
- Newspapers reviewed by Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell and Richard Wilson, actor and musician
Sunday 9th December 2012
- Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- Anne Clwyd MP
- Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing
- Geri Halliwell, former Spice Girl
- State of the Union, musicians Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams
- Papers reviewed by former minister Lord Falconer and Sarah Sands, editor of The Evening Standard
Sunday 2nd December 2012
- George Osborne MP, Chancellor of The Exchequer
- Ed Balls MP, Shadow Chancellor
- John Whittingdale MP, chair of the Culture and Media Select Committee
- Hugh Grant, actor
- Rumer with the Jools Holland Big Band
- Newspapers reviewed by Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, and columnist Philip Collins of The Times
Sunday 25th November 2012
- William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary
- David Miliband MP, former Foreign Secretary
- Evgeny Lebedev, newspaper owner
- Sir Trevor Nunn, stage director
- Tinariwen, musicians
- Newspapers reviewed by Steve Richards, political columnist for The Independent, and Sarah Baxter, editor of The Sunday Times Magazine
Sunday 18th November 2012
- Vince Cable MP, Business Secretary
- Douglas Alexander MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary
- David Davis MP, Conservative backbencher
- Sixto Rodriguez, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by former head of the Army General Sir Mike Jackson, Times sketchwriter Ann Treneman and Harvey Goldsmith, music promoter
Sunday 11th November 2012
- Theresa May, Home Secretary
- Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust
- General Sir David Richards, Chief of Defence Staff
- Derek Derenalagi, Paralympic athlete and soldier
- Greg Craig, former White House lawyer
- Kate Rusby, folk singer
- Newspapers reviewed by broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby, Catherine Mayer, Europe editor of Time magazine and Sir Max Hastings, author and former newspaper editor
Sunday 4th November 2012
- Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary
- Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary
- Sir Robert Worcester, Democrat commentator and founder of Mori, and Colleen Graffy, law professor and leading Republican
- Newspapers reviewed by former Conservative cabinet member Michael Portillo and Helena Kennedy, QC and Labour peer
Sunday 28th October 2012
- Chris Grayling, Justice Secretary
- Harriet Harman, Deputy Labour Leader
- Edna O'Brien, author
- Regina Spektor, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, BAE Systems' international business development director, Anne McElvoy from the Economist and financial journalist Martin Lewis
Sunday 21st October 2012
- Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland
- Stephen Twigg, Shadow Education Secretary
- Michael Morpurgo, Author
- Greg Dyke, Former Director-General of the BBC
- Esther Rantzen, Broadcaster and founder of ChildLine
- Newspapers reviewed by historian and broadcaster Dan Snow and Shami Chakrabati, Director of Liberty
Sunday 14th October 2012
- Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Defence
- Michael Moore MP, Secretary of State for Scotland
- Pete Townshend, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by writer and broadcaster Clare Balding and Times columnist David Aaronovitch
Sunday 7th October 2012
- David Cameron, Prime Minister
- Hugh Grant, Actor
- Pete Townshend, Musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Daily Mail columnist Andrew Pierce and the writer and presenter Sandi Toksvig
Sunday 29th September 2012
- Ed Miliband, Labour leader
- Philip Glenister, Actor
- Ren Harvieu, Singer
- Newspapers reviewed by Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and Times columnist Matthew Parris
Sunday 23rd September 2012
- Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister
- Oliver Stone, film maker
- Lianne La Havas, singer-songwriter
- Newspapers reviewed by Amanda Platell of The Daily Mail and Kevin Maguire, assoicate editor of The Mirror
Sunday 16th September 2012
- Sir John Major, former prime minister
- Mark Thompson, BBC director general
- Harvey Weinstein, film and stage producer
- The Noisettes performed live on the show
- Newspapers reviewed by Philip Collins of The Times and Catherine Mayer of Time magazine
Sunday 9th September 2012
- Vince Cable, Business Secretary
- Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor
- Jude Law, actor
- Newton Faulkner, singer-songwriter
- Newspapers reviewed by actress Rebecca Front and Margot James MP, Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party
Sunday 2nd September 2012
- George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted Chief Inspector
- Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary
- Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright and screenwriter
- Nicola Benedetti, violinist
- Newspapers reviewed by Tim Hollingsworth, British Paralympic Association Chief Executive and Sarah Baxter, Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine
Sunday 21st July 2012
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
- Louis Susman, US Ambassador to the UK
- Daniel Barenboim, Conductor and Pianist
- Rumer, Singer-songwriter
- Chris Boardman, cyclist
- Newspapers reviewed by Tessa Jowell, Shadow Olympics Minister and Tom Brokaw NBC news special correspondent
Sunday 15th July 2012
- Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell
- Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt
- The Rev Jesse Jackson
- Pianist Lang Lang
- Newspapers reviewed by Ann Treneman on the Times and UKIP leader Nigel Farage
Sunday 8th July 2012
- Vince Cable, Business Secretary
- Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Tim Henman, Tennis Player
- Simon Russell-Beale, Actor
- Garland Jeffreys, Musician
- Newspapers reviewed by actress Samantha Bond and David Davis MP
Sunday 1st July 2012
- William Hague, Foreign Secretary
- Lord Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority
- Mark Rylance, actor
- Martina Navratilova, tennis player
- Joss Stone, singer
- Newspapers reviewed by Baroness Helena Kennedy and broadcaster Jeremy Vine
Sunday 24th June 2012
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Tony Blair, former Prime Minister
- Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary
- Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan conductor
- Newspapers reviewed by economist and author Dambisa Moyo and Mary Ann Sieghart, writer and broadcaster
Sunday 17th June 2012
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Opposition Leader & Nobel Peace Laureate
- Lord Mandelson, former Labour Cabinet Minister
- George Papandreou, former Greek Prime Minister
- Newspapers reviewed by former hostage and writer John McCarthy and editor Sarah Baxter
Sunday 10th June 2012
- Theresa May, Home Secretary
- Sir Terry Leahy
- Clarke Carlisle, chair of the Professional Footballers' Association
- David Suchet
- Florence + the Machine
Sunday 3rd June 2012
- David Cameron, Prime Minister
- Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London
- Adrian Evans, Pageant Master
- Michael Hohnen and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Musicians
- Ray Barnett, Founder, The African Children's Choir
- Newspapers reviewed by Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and impressionist Rory Bremner
Sunday 27th May 2012
- Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister
- Steffen Kampeter, Deputy German Finance Minister
- Tracey Emin, Artist
- Sir Tom Jones, Singer
- Newspapers reviewed by Sir Harry Evans, former editor of Sunday Times and Amanda Platell, Daily Mail columnist
Sunday 20th May 2012
- Andrew Lansley, Health Secretary
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nato Secretary General
- Alistair Darling, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Will Ellsworth Jones, author, and Francesca Gavin, art critic
- Newspapers reviewed by Financial Times Assistant Editor Gillian Tett and writer and broadcaster David Aaronovitch
Sunday 13th May 2012
- Philip Hammond, Defence Secretary
- Lord Coe, Chair of London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games
- Trevor Phillips, Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Ben Ainslie, Olympic sailing gold medallist
- Damon Albarn, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Olympian Kelly Holmes, Daily Mail columnist Andrew Pierce and Jude Kelly, artistic director of Southbank Centre
Sunday 6th May 2012
- George Osborne, the Chancellor
- Douglas Alexander, shadow foreign secretary
- Elena Panaritis, Greek socialist politician
- Christine Ockrent. broadcaster, commentator on French politics
- Newspapers reviewed by Lord Oaskeshott, Clemency Burton-Hill and Sarah Sands
- Keane performed their new track
Sunday 29th April 2012
- David Cameron, Prime Minister
- Eve Best, actress
- Robert Hollingworth, musical director
- Newspapers reviewed by Labour peer Helena Kennedy and Guardian's chief political correspondent, Nick Watt
Sunday 22nd April 2012
No programme
Sunday 15th April 2012
- Ed Miliband, Labour leader
- Lord Ashdown, former Lib Dem leader
- Sir Tim Rice, lyricist
- Raghu Dixit, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Conservative MP David Davis, Time Magazine's Catherine Mayer and Keith Blackmore from The Times
Sunday 8th April 2012
- Grant Shapps, Minister for Housing and Local Government
- Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary
- Tim Farron, President of Liberal Democrats
- Chris Keates, General Secretary of National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers
- Liam Neeson, actor
- Choir of New College Oxford
- Newspapers reviewed by Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine Sarah Baxter and journalist Kevin Maguire
Sunday 1st April 2012
- Yvette Cooper, Shadow home secretary
- William Hague, Foreign Secretary
- Nicholas Parsons, Just a Minute presenter
- Singer Laura Marling
- Newspapers reviewed by Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes, Deborah Bull of King's Cultural Institute and Andrew Rawnsley of the Observer
Sunday 25th March 2012
- Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- David Miliband, former Foreign Secretary
- Ben Macintyre, writer and historian
- Newspapers reviewed by Times sketchwriter Ann Treneman, Daily Mail columnist Max Hastings and Conservative Home's Tim Montgomerie
Sunday 18th March 2012
- George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor
- Brian Paddick, former Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner
- Lindsay Duncan, actress
- Newspapers reviewed by broadcaster Christiane Amanpour and the Guardian's Chief Political Correspondent Nick Watt
Sunday 11th March 2012
- Ed Davey MP, Energy and Climate Change Secretary
- Dr Bassma Kodmani, Syrian National Council
- Ken Livingstone, London mayoral candidate
- Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
- Ben Freeth, Zimbabwean human rights activist
- Dr Bassma Kodmani, Syrian National Council
- Michael Kiwanuka, musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Danny Sriskandarajah from the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Green Party's Jenny Jones
Sunday 4th March 2012
- Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
- Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
- Michael Moore, Scottish Secretary
- Tony Brenton, former UK Ambassador to Russia
- Tyne Daly, Actress
- Newspapers reviewed by Conservative MP Margot James and choirmaster & broadcaster Gareth Malone
Sunday 26th February 2012
- Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary
- Stephen Hester, Chief Executive RBS
- Salah Dabbakeh, Red Cross spokesman
- Celia Imrie, actress
- Noah Stewart, tenor
- Newspapers reviewed by Kate Adie, former BBC foreign correspondent and former Editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie
Sunday 19th February 2012
- William Hague, Foreign Secretary
- Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor
- Denzel Washington, actor
- Kasabian, band
- Newspapers reviewed by Deborah Haynes, Defence Editor at The Times, and Conservative MP David Davis
Sunday 12th February 2012
- Jeremy Hunt, Culture Secretary
- Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary
- Unal Cevikoz, Turkish Ambassador to the UK
- George Clooney, Actor & Director
- Christy Moore, Folk Singer
- Newspapers reviewed by Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell and Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes
Sunday 5th February 2012
- John Major, former Prime Minister
- Stephen Twigg, Shadow Education Secretary
- Mark Thompson, BBC Director General
- Tim Farron, President of the Liberal Democrats
- Newspapers reviewed by BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen, writer and broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill and Sunday Times Magazine Editor, Sarah Baxter
Sunday 29th January 2012
- Iain Duncan-Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary
- Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland
- Pantelis Kapsis, Greek government spokesman
- David Haig, Actor
- Newspapers reviewed by Labour's Baroness Helena Kennedy and Executive Director of consumer group Which? Richard Lloyd
Sunday 22nd January 2012
- Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister
- Jeremy Irons, Actor
- Emeli Sandé, Musician
- Newspapers reviewed by Conservative MP Anna Soubry and Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain
Sunday 15th January 2012
- Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition
- Andrew Lansley, Health Secretary
- David Hockney, Artist
- Newspapers reviewed by musician Midge Ure and columnist Mary Ann Sieghart
Sunday 8th January 2012
