This Week's Guests: 2017
Here's where to find out the names of the guests - and their videos - from This Week throughout the year.
Christmas recess
This Week will return on January 11, 2018
December 14th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Liz Kendall, John Nicolson and Miranda Green
Guests: Big Narstie and Barbershop-o-gram
Are you ready for Shame of Thrones (erm, This Week)?
Evening all and welcome to This Week!
So what was Liz's moment of the year ?
Nighty, night don't let Big Narstie bite
Trump and his Scottish connections
Whole programme on iPlayer (for UK viewers for 12 months)
December 7th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson
Guests: Tim Shipman,Kate McCann and Jon Culshaw
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Raising a glass to the Brexit negotiations
Kate McCann on the political downhill
Does DD want to be the next PM?
Andrew is on air most Thursdays around midnight
Andrew's message to those on social media
Panel on the future of Damian Green
Culshaw and political friends talk posturing
Nighty Night don't let Arlene bite,
Whole programme on iPlayer (for UK viewers for 12 months)
November 30th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall
Guests: Andre Geim, Emma Viv Groskop and Glyes Brandreth
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Only way is down for Brexit reckons Geim
You're worried about Sleeping Beauty being kissed by a Prince?
Go on, knock yourselves out! No really, knock yourselves out!
Cinderella Groskop reviews political fairytale
Michael recalls his own prediction
Liz on UK politics and Tory problems
Talking love with Gyles Brandreth
Nighty-night, don't let Chechen leader and Putin puppet bite
Whole programme on iPlayer (for UK viewers for 12 months)
November 23rd 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson
Guests: Andrew Adonis, Emma Barnett and Margaret Cho
Evening all, welcome to This Week
Adonis: I just wish we only had Germany's problems
Barnett crawls through political jungle
Ash Sarkar: I don't know what planet you are onThis Week's Guests: 2017
Does political power always corrupt?
Nighty night, don't let the gobbler bite
Whole programme on iPlayer (for UK viewers for 12 months)
November 16th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Ed Balls
Guests: Afshin Rattansi, Adrian Chiles and Bettany Hughes
Evening all, welcome to This Week
Is the Kremlin interfering in foreign politics?
Andrew Neil and Afshin Rattansi
Looking at claims about Kremlin influence
Got something to say about tonight's programme?
No silent night, or week, in UK politics
Why are we so concerned about body image?
Ed Balls on Boris Johnson for PM?
Night night, don't let the spicy chicken bite...
Whole programme on iPlayer (for UK viewers for 12 months)
November 9th 2017
Off-air for one week through recess
November 2nd 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Harriet Harman
Guests: Edwina Currie, Andy Parsons and Shazia Mirza
Who watches BBC1 at this time on a Thursday night?
Evening all, welcome to This Week
Currie on the Pestminster allegations
Harriet and Edwina on Westminster abuse claims
Harriet and Edwina on This Week
Let #choochoo have a say on the Westminster claims
Baking the political news of the week
Andrew really wants to hear from you on social media
Michael on the interest rate rise
Harman on being 'proved wrong' about Jeremy Corbyn
How easy is it to be offended?
Nighty-night, don't let Sandi and Sandra from Gogglebox bite
Whole programme on iPlayer (for UK viewers for 12 months)
October 26th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall
Guests: Kate Williams, Andrew Rawnsley and Scottee
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Williams: I worry about direction our country's going in
Michael reminds Liz of past Brexit comments
Rawnsley mirrors the political week
Michael and Liz on the poll tax
Scottee on 'dark' and 'sinister' masculinity
Nighty night, don't let the #twelfies bite
Whole programme on iPlayer (for 12 months for UK viewers)
October 19th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Caroline Flint
Guests: Yanis Varoufakis, Quentin Letts and Georgia Toffolo
There's one naughty word in the opening titles
Only the 15th crunch meeting this month
Moments of the week: Quinquennial?
'Brussels incompetence causing EU fragmentation'
Flint on PR and rise of far-right in some European election
Accelerating through the week's politics
Portillo says a UK-EU trade deal is 'easy'
Flint on the UK economy and the deficit
Tory asked: Why do young people back Corbyn?
"Can I say it, I don't know?" says Quentin Letts
Nighty-night, don't let Melania Trump's robotic body double bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
October 12th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Ed Balls, John Nicolson and Miranda Green
Guests: Munroe Bergdorf and Timothy Spall
Model: We live in a deeply racist society
Munroe Bergdorf on racism in the UK
Andrew Neil to Ed Balls: Are we a deeply racist society?
A revolutionary review of the week
Andrew calls on Miranda and John
Michael tells Ed to answer the question
Michael sums up the Brexit talks
Panel on how should Mrs May answer the Brexit question
Is PM strong enough for a reshuffle
John Nicolson on Scottish independence timing
Revolutionary talk from Timothy Spall
Nighty night - Don't let Amber's memes bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
October 5th 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall
Guests: Andy Coulson, Anne McElvoy, Rory Bremner and Niall Ferguson
Coulson: Theresa May 'in autumn of her years'
'Challenging political week' for Tories
Niall Ferguson on Europe's borders
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
September 28, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Lisa Nandy
Guests: Saira Khan, Kevin Maguire and Rick Edwards
Evening all.... political correctness gone mad?
Khan: Political parties once got aspiration
Saira and Lisa on who is standing up for whom
Reviewing a week of political wonder
Is Labour right to be sure on winning the next election?
Kevin Maguire on next election result
Andrew asks Michael: Could Labour win?
You normally talk about Michael's shirts, but what is Andrew wearing?!
Edwards talks political boldness
I's back, you know how you have missed it (apparently)
Nighty-night, don't let Ed Milliband kill the vibe
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
September 21, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Alan Johnson and Miranda Green
Guests: Tim Martin, Jane Moore and Gary Numan
I's back, you know how you have missed it (apparently)
Evening all, welcome to This Week
Martin: Negotiating with EU complete waste of time
'You can have both actually Andrew, you can'
What happens to rights of UK citizens in the EU after Brexit?
Michael talks about his old friend Boris
Miranda Green on the path ahead for the PM
Alan Johnson on the road ahead for Labour
Are we heading towards a dystopian future?
Nighty-night, don't let Tim Farron's karaoke bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
Summer recess
Michael took the This Week team on a railway journey through the summer break
July 20, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Liz Kendall, Miranda Green and John Nicolson
Guests: Richard Bacon, Quentin Letts, Kevin Maguire, Henry Blowfeld and Levi Roots
Reviewing the last pre-recess week
Blowers asked: when is it time to go?
Nighty night, don't let the holidays bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
July 13, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Ed Balls and Rosa Prince
Guests: Nigel Farage, Beth Rigby and Richard Herring
Out of this world? Well, it is This Week
So did you too shed a little tear? asks Andrew Neil
Farage: Yuck, this is not Brexit at all
'Absolute baloney' says Nigel Farage
"Please be quiet - just be quiet!"
Rigby's review of a chocolate orange week
Late night squabbling on the #bbctw sofa
'It must be absolutely shocking, what she has been through'
An awkward interview for Herring?
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
July 6, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Alan Johnson and Miranda Green
Guests: Tim Marshall, Emma Barnett and Slavoj Zizek
It's why I'm your Dear Leader, loved, respected and obeyed by all
Michael's moment of the week on rats and lambs and TW?
We have been lying to you for yours
Barnett penny-pinches through political week
Miranda Green on the next election
Talking political correctness with Slavoj Zizek
'I don't know why I bothered writing all these other questions'
Nighty nighty, don't let the G20 celebrations bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
June 29, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall
Guests: Adam Klug, Adam Boulton and Viv Groskop
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Momentum 'already launched' election campaign
'You are not really answering the question'
Hagrid helps round up political week
'I think there will be an election soon'
Does someone like Liz Kendall have a future in the Labour Party?
Who would win a snap election?
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
June 22, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson
Guests: Michelle Dewberry, Richard Madeley and Melanie Phillips
There appears to be a fault with This Week again!
Evening all, welcome to This Week
Dewberry: I'd have Parliament filled with independents
Dewberry on political reaction to Grenfell fire
Richard Madeley reviews the political week
Is the Anglosphere in decline?
Nighty night, don't let Sean Spicer bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
June 15, 2017
Nick Ferrari was the guest host
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Liz Kendall and John Nicolson
Guests: Liam Halligan, Gyles Brandreth and Dan Snow
Another lonely night in Westminster
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Liam Halligan's Brexit film for This Week
Portillo talks Brexit fantasies and Tory 'terrible quandry'
Liz Kendall on Brexit and election result
Gyles Brandreth's film for This Week
Michael Portillo on Tories and DUP
Dan Snow talks political popularity
Nighty night from This Week - we are not off out tonight
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
June 15, 2017
This Week returns but Andrew Neil will not be hosting
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall
June 8, 2017
No programme on election night
June 1, 2017
On the sofas: Ed Balls, Michael Gove, Miranda Green and Tommy Sheppard
Guests: Akala, Andrew Rawnsley and Lydia Bright
Which of this lot gets your vote
'I begin tonight with a defence of the Westminster Bubble'
Andrew Neil and Akala on coverage of terrorism claims
It's late - but what kind of late?
Andrew Rawnsley talks cricket on This Week
Here's Miranda and Tommy - where's John Nicolson
Tommy Sheppard on Tory campaign in Scotland
Miranda Green on Lib Dems and election campaign
Michael Gove asked about election result
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
May 25, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson with Suzanne Evans
Guests: Sajjan Gohel, Jo Coburn and Jan Ravens
Andrew Neil on the Manchester terror attack
Sajjan Gohel on IS: Nato needs to put boots on the ground
Sajjan Gohel with Andrew Neil on This Week
Coburn: Campaigning resumes against backdrop of terror
Alan Johnson on social care policy
Michael Portillo on social care policy
Suzanne Evans on social care policy
Ravens: Rhetoric 'totally replaced by repetition'
Nighty night, don't let the Donald's weird and wonderful world tour bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
May 18, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Ed Balls with Natalie Bennett and Polly Mackenzie
Guests: James Delingpole, Miranda Green and Doc Brown
Welcome to This Week (Twin Peaks style)
Evening all, welcome to This Week
What does Theresa May vision look like?
James Delingpole reads from the Tory manifesto
Ed Balls on the Labour manifesto
Taking a crystal ball to election campaign
Natalie Bennett on election campaign
Polly Mackenzie on election campaign
Young people engaged with election campaign?
Goodnight from Ed Balls playing bingo
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
May 11, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall
Guests: Douglas Murray, Kevin Maguire and David Baddiel
We need some better guests, says Choo Choo
Evening all, welcome to This Week
Murray talks immigration 'catastrophe'
Maguire's round-up of a girl and boy week
Murray talks immigration 'catastrophe'
Why are you grinning like a Cheshire cat?
Talking Brexit and trade deals
This is what our country looks like: When did we vote for this?
Nighty night, don't let Mr and Mrs May bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
May 4, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Lisa Nandy and Miranda Green
Guests: Lionel Barber, Adrian Chiles and Simon Evans
Lionel Barber - making a meal of the political week
Chiles goes in to the ring for a political ding dong
Comedian Simon Evans talks confrontation
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
April 27, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Alan Johnson, Sian Berry and John Nicolson
Guests: Giles Fraser, Helen Lewis and Dustin Lance Black
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Corbyn 'ordinary bloke for ordinary people'
Michael Portillo on Jeremy Corbyn
Going overboard in the political world
Berry and Nicolson on general election
Michael Portillo on Theresa May
Alan Johnson on election timing and Brexit
What happens if Labour does not win election?
'A little drunk on own successes in LGBT community'
Nighty Nighty don't let our #manontheleft bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
April 20, 2017
On the sofas: Chuka Umunna, Ann Widdecombe, Miranda Green and Suzanne Evans
Guests: Gina Miller, Gyles Brandreth and Big Narstie
ChooChoo channels Brenda from Bristol
Evening all, welcome to This Week
'Vote for the one who stands on principle'
"I love that you know what is in my mind" says Gina Miller
Have you turned tinkering in the democratic process into a rich woman's hobby?
Who's who in Brandreth's review of the week?
Who is the loveliest of them all?
Why are you 24 points behind in the polls?
What is the real reason she has called an election?
What is the real reason she has called an election?
Beginning of the end for UKIP?
What would a Lib Dem recovery look like?
Nighty night, don't let the voters bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
April 6 and April 13, 2017
No programmes - Parliament in recess (back on 20th)
March 30, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall with Suzanne Evans and John Nicolson
Guests: Alastair Campbell, John Pienaar and Daisy Lowe
Britain, Britain, Britain, why would you ever want to leave the EU?
Evening all, welcome to This Week
FILM: May 'does not have united cabinet on Brexit'
FILM: Game On! A review of the political week
Brexit not top of their agenda?
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
March 23, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, and Alan Johnson
Guests: Jonathan Russell, Quentin Letts and Simon Callow
Andrew Neil : Yes, you have the power to hurt us.
'Likely to see more attacks in France and UK'
Letts: Normal service will be resumed
Why are police in Parliament not armed?
Johnson: There are very few 'lone wolves'
Praise for May, Corbyn and Livingstone
Simon Callow with London Pride
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
March 16, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Liz Kendall and John Nicolson
Guests: Agnes Poirier, Andrew Rawnsley and Kate Williams
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Brits scared of far-right European politicians?
Liz Kendall on French politics
Michael Portillo on Brexit and Trump
Rawnsley's round up of a choppy political week
Stop hectoring me, stop hectoring!
Talking about a future Scottish currency
Talking nostalgia with Kate Williams
Nighty night don't let BoJo's raw sexual magnetism bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
March 9, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Lisa Nandy
Guests: David Starkey, Richard Madeley and Lily Cole
A world where nothing is private? Welcome to TW
Evening all and welcome to This Week
What should happen to the House of Lords?
Does the Lords need a Portillo and Starkey?
"I certainly don't want to blame the media" says Michael Portillo
Starkey: PM should not stop at Article 50
Madeley's cut above the political week
Madeley recalling the chancellor at school
Nighty night, don't let the PM's demonic laugh bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
March 2, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo, Alex Salmond and Liz Kendall
Guests: James Rubin, Kevin Maguire and David Rodigan
Evening all and welcome to This Week
'White House should be stopping Putin'
Maguire takes a gamble on political week
Salmond on Brexit vote and future of EU citizens in UK
Did you enjoy our bedtime story?
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
February 23, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson and Miranda Green
Guests: Ann Widdecombe, Emma Barnett and Milton Jones
By-election coverage guests: Barry Gardiner, Matt Hancock, Kath Pinnock and David Kurten
Evening all, welcome to This Week
Ann Widdecombe offers her advice for Conservatives to stay in power
Emma Barnett rounds up the political week
What's the name of Tory candidate in Stoke?
Labour MP Cat Smith on by-elections
New Stoke Central MP speaks after result
First interview with new MP for Stoke Central
Paul Nuttall on Stoke Central by-election result
New Copeland MP speaks after result
The new MP for Copeland in Cumbria speaks to Andrew Neil
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
February 16, 2017
No programme - Parliament in recess (back on 23rd)
February 9, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Liz Kendall
Guests: Liam Halligan, Andy Parsons and Matt Forde
Opening the programme with Big John
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Liz, Michael's and Andrew's moments of the week
Housing white paper 'not up to the job'
Michael Portillo on 'urgency' of building houses quickly
Liz Kendall on housing white paper
Rejoice! Rejoice! Together, we made it happen #PrayForDiane
Liz Kendall on Labour leadership
There was a lot of animosity around including to your good self
Nighty night, don't let the rabid seagulls bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
February 2, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Harriet Harman
Guests: Derek Hatton, Adam Boulton and Rory Bremner
Our presidential appeal of the week
Hatton: Corbyn 'got it wrong' on Article 50 vote
Rory Bremner talks statesmanship
"Can you bring us any word - to a worried nation"
Nighty night, don't let the Brexit bug bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
January 26, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson an John Nicolson
Guests: Ted Malloch, Isabel Hardman and Bridget Christie
Evening all and welcome to This Week
Malloch: No more 'free rides' on US defence budget
Isabel Hardman's cool review of the political week
Bridget Christie: There are good lies and bad lies
Don't worry Jezza: The future is bright
Getting chilly in the TW studio!
Goodbye to the #bbctw ice sculpture
Nighty night, don't let Dutch humour bite says
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
January 19, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Jess Phillips with John Nicolson
Guests: Radoslaw Sikorsi, Quentin Letts and Anthony Seldon
Sikorski: UK farmers to compete with Texan farmers
Letts cleans up on the week's politics
Seldon: Who deserves respect these days?
So what's the deal with watching #bbctw?
Slightly disconcerting the new chairman of the BBC speaks about us in the past tense.
When will the third referendum be?
'Obviously I'm a bit younger than other people here'
Nighty night, don't let the 45th President of the United States bite
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
January 12, 2017
On the sofas: Michael Portillo and Chris Leslie
Guests: Dr Saleyha Ahsan, Miranda Green and Paul McKenna
We're heading to a car crash as Andrew brings on TW bangers
Evenin all, welcome to This Week
Dr Saleyha Ahsan: Red Cross description on NHS 'proportionate'
Miranda Green: Crisis? What crisis in this political week?
Can McKenna cheer up our #sadmanonatrain?
Michael Portillo asked about Brexit
Nighty night, don't let the fake news haters bite
Chris Leslie on Corbyn leadership
Full programme for UK viewers (for 12 months)
