Loose Ends: Recent Episodes
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Stuart Maconie finds himself "i lár an aonaigh" - at the heart of craic, ceol, and much more at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (All-Ireland Fleadh), as Belfast hosts the festival celebrating Irish music and culture for the very first time.
The Fleadh comes second nature to frontman and lead singer of Hothouse Flowers Liam Ó Maonlaí, who was brought up in a household full of traditional Irish music and song. As the band prepares for their "Greatest Hits" tour later this year, Liam reflects on the poignant story behind their hit single "Don't Go", and the time he was left behind by the band's tour bus.
Olivia McVeigh mighn't be in a band, but alongside her fellow podcasters of The Girls Groupchat she's taking the show onstage, alongside Irish girl group legends B*witched and even to ABBA Voyage. She tells Stuart about how her diagnosis of alopecia changed her entire career trajectory, into a world of advocacy and empowering others with the condition.
Emma Southon may have had a very different career as historian if she hadn't hated history so much at school. She talks about her new book Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire, which sets out to give readers a full picture of the reality of enslaved people in Ancient Rome.
And Michael Fry muses on how a period of pure boredom pushed him towards comedy, and why he thinks the medium of radio is ripe for laughs, ahead of his third series of Lunchtime with Michael Fry on BBC Radio Ulster.
Plus, musicians Dónal O'Connor, Neil Martin and Clare Sands give us just a "blaiseadh beag" - a very small taste of the great music coming out of the Fleadh.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Anthony McKeeTechnical Producer: Davy NeillProduction Co-ordinators: Sylvie Conway and Caoilfhinn McFadden
TV presenter and wine expert Olly Smith's written a novel - Death by Noir - a crisp murder mystery set among the vineyards of Sussex.
Smack the Pony star Fiona Allen's taking a solo show - White Lies - to the Edinburgh Fringe, all about the fibs people tell to get out of socialising...and their dire consequences.
Tristan Gooley, author of The Hidden Seasons, tells us about 'shooting star' season, what to learn from a single tree and how to navigate using grass as a compass.
Music from Mari Wilson who sang Just What I Always Wanted in the 1980s and has her first new music out for a decade. Plus a song from rising star of lo-fi folk Natalie Wildgoose.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive ClancyAssistant Producer: Lizzie FosterTechnical Producers: John Cole and Kelly YoungContent Assistant: Sam Nixon
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined in Salford by writer and Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall who has turned his hand to crime novels, first with Death at the White Hart and now The Parkwood Murders.
Comedian Ayoade Bamgboye is fresh off the first season of Saturday Night Live UK and she's wrapping up the tour of her hit Edinburgh show Swings and Roundabouts, which earned her the best newcomer award at the festival in 2025, before heading back to the festival this year with a work in progress show.
Wendi Peters played Cilla Battersby-Brown in Eastenders and Dr Nina Bulsara in Doctors. Her latest role is in the new BBC One crime drama series The Hairdresser Mysteries.
Music is from The Anchoress, AKA Catherine Ann Davies who is soon to release a new album As We Once Were, her much anticipated follow up to her critically acclaimed 2021 album The Art of Losing, and Later Youth AKA Joe Dudderidge.
Presenter: Kiri Pritchard-McLeanProducer: Jessica Treen
West End star and Olivier Award winner Ruthie Henshall has a new memoir and as you might expect it's very glamorous and full of tales about the cast of Cats, Les Mis and Crazy for You. It also tells the story of her secret five year relationship with a young Prince Edward, how the now-King of England mixed her first martini and Princess Diana encouraged her to belt out a show tune after dinner.
Performer and all-round master entertainer Joe Pasquale is making his Edinburgh Fringe debut this year - before now he's always been too busy presenting The Price Is Right or competing in Dancing on Ice or winning I'm a Celebrity. Find out about his show - 11 and a half Angry Men.
The comedian Tez Ilyas, star of Man Like Mobeen and The Tez'O Clock Show is also heading for Edinburgh and then out on tour with his new show - Tez Things I Hate About You. He's entered his "uncle stage", he says, and thrives on deinfluencing.
Plus music from soul singer Mica Millar and from The Zutons front man Dave McCabe, now solo.
Presenter Kiri Pritchard-McleanProducer Olive ClancyAssistant producer Lizzie FosterProduction co-ordinator Pete LigginsTechnical producers Amy Brennan and Kelly Young
Stuart Maconie is joined by Nigel Harman, best known for playing lovable rogue Dennis Rickman in Eastenders, he's also much in demand as a panto villian. Trained in musical theatre, he also started in Shrek the Musical and his latest stage role is playing Bruce Bechdel in a musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel's memoir 'Fun Home' at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Daliso Chaponda describes himself as a 'comedian, writer and antisocial commentator' and has been touring the country with his latest show Topical Storm. A regular on Radio 4, Daliso tackles not the actual news, but look at news itself. Thriller writer Nikki Smith began her career in finance, and only turned to writing in 2017. Since then she's more than made up for lost time, publishing five best selling books and she's just about to publish book number six, 'The Last Place You Look'.
Music is from Liana Flores who had a viral hit with Rises The Moon in 2022 and has since released her debut album and toured round the world and Ibibio Sound Machine
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Adrian Lester on the art of simultaneously sword-fighting while reciting poetry in his starring role in the RSC's acclaimed Cyrano de Bergerac.
Alexandra Burke pays tribute to Chaka Khan in her new show I'm Every Woman and sings a beautiful Loose Ends special version of Ain't Nobody.
Sir Grayson Perry is putting the fun into dysfunctional with a comedy musical about his life, he describes it as the "most expensive therapy ever".
Kathy Lette's new novel explores what happens when the sisterhood goes sour and how to put it right.
Plus musical comedy from Katie Norris's Edinburgh-bound show Mother Succubus.
Presenter Clive AndersonProducer Olive ClancyAssisstant producer Sam NixonTechnical Producers Gayl Gordon and Dave O'NeillProduction Coordinator Pete Liggins
Harry Shearer is a comedy legend. He’s the voice of Mr Burns in the Simpsons (and many other characters), he’s Derek Smalls in Spinal Tap, and he’s over here with a brand new musical about J Edgar Hoover. Bella Hull first performed stand up a decade ago at the age of 17. In her new show ‘Mad Cow Disease’ she looks back on her decade in comedy. She also spills secrets from the writing room of Saturday Night Live UK. Best Selling novelist Joanna Cannon’s latest book is ‘An Unlikely Visitor’, the story of recently widowed Margaret, who is finally facing up to her past. And there’s music from Gina Birch whose band The Raincoats are a cult favourite. She performs from her latest solo album, ‘Trouble’ and we're also joined by Gabriella Cilmi whose song 'Sweet About Me' was a massive global hit. She performs new material and tells us about meeting her hero, Robert Plant.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie sets up camp at Borders Book Festival in the Scottish Borders.
Comedian Daniel Sloss continues his world domination with his latest show Bitter which is helping him tick off 60 different countries.
She perhaps can't claim 60, but Helen Watson visited an incredible list of countries when she cycled 15,000km from Glasgow to China along the Silk Road in 2009. Her book Tea and Grit dives back in to memories of that expedition.
Actor Darren Brownlie's latest project takes us on another journey, to Cumbrae on the west coast of Scotland where musical Crocodile Rock tells a beautiful story of coming out and finding out who you really are.
Dan Richards adventures have been very much in the dark, as his book Overnight explores the many wonders and workers of the nighttime, from the high seas, to the top of a crane.
Plus, singer-songwriter Horse fills the tent up with glorious music, picked from her decades-long back catalogue.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Caitlin SneddonTechnical Producers: Andrew Hay and Fraser JacksonProduction Co-ordinator: Lauren Stewart
Cosy crime, Mams and other people's Mam's and the joy of space travel are all explored on this week's Loose Ends. Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood reveals his Aunty Jess, a woman who thought two vegetables of the same colour on a place was "common", inspired his Marlow mysteries ace-investigator Judith Potts.
Dublin comedian Emma Doran is heading to Edinburgh Festival, but she's not convinced its anything other than a pyramid scheme. Her tour is called Emmaculate, after the ultimate compliment one Mam would give another Mam in her youth - "your house is immaculate".
And award winning playwright Tim Foley talks about his latest play Life Out There, set aboard a drifting space ship full of jobsworth astronauts in the near future. Its going to be staged at Jodrell Bank Observatory - find out what the real scientists make of his ideas.
With music from Hot Chip front man Alexis Taylor's new solo album Paris in the Spring and from folk pop act Creepy Crawly aka Rachel Cawley.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Olive ClancyAssistant Producer: Lizzie FosterTechnical Producers: John Benton and John ColeProduction Co-ordinator: Pete Liggins
Edith Bowman is joined by best-selling author Holly Jackson, whose Young Adult mystery crime series A Good Girl's Guide to Murder has been adapted into a TV series staring Emma Myers as the straight-laced amateur detective Pip. Comedian Nish Kumar is heading out on a new tour later this year 'Angry Humour from a Really Nice Guy', he joins Edith to tell her what makes him angry, (hopefully whilst being really nice about it). Rachel Parris is also going on tour soon, a musical comedy show called 'The Rachel Parris Songbook'. She talks about her greatest hits and also the new series of her podcast 'The Power of A Book'.
And there's music from Haircut 100, back with a new album - their first in 44 years, and Liam Bailey from his new album Shadow Town
Presenter: Edith BowmanProducer: Jessica Treen
Comedy writer Ben Elton's autobiography What Have I Done? tells the story of a career of comedy firsts, writing hit shows like Blackadder, The Young Ones and Upstart Crow. His love of words is legendary - as a small child his mother wouldn't let him speak til she was on her second cup of tea to braving the "Oxbridge tutorial" vibe of the Blackadder rehearsal room with Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson.
Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones is a man so mad about pots they can move him to tears. He's now on the road with a tour about his renovation of a Welsh church complete with pigeon poo that took £40,000 to remove. But did you know he puts his remarkable resilience down to his ballet training?
Comic Suzi Ruffell is also on the road with her stand up show, dressed correctly - 'shirt, tie and mullet', she says - but she's also written a memoir slash how-to-guide, Am I having fun now?, about winning (and laughing) at life in spite of her deep anxiety about it.
And music from Sarah Jane Morris's new album paying tribute to the great women singer songwriters and from Anglo-American rocker Barns Courtney.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive ClancyAssistant Producer: Sam NixonTechnical Producers: John Cole and Kelly Young
Recorded in front of an audience at this year's Hay Festival, Clive Anderson is joined by comedian Athena Kugblenu, celebrating failure with her second history book for children, History's Most Epic Fails. Comedian Robin Morgan bears all in his latest stand-up hour, Let's Overshare. Food writer Georgina Hayden's new book is Medesque: Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots. Keith Cameron is the author of 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of the Manic Street Preachers, telling their story song by song. Keith is joined by James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire from the band. And there's more music from Welsh harpist Cerys Hafana.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Best-selling historical novelist Conn Iggulden on influencers in the Roman Empire, why Emperor Nero wasn't entirely a baddie and why we have far more in common with ancient Romans than we think.
The stand-up comedian Cally Beaton didn't get into comedy until she was in her 40s, but after a chance conversation with Joan Rivers, she left the boardroom for evenings telling funny stories from sticky stages at the back of pubs. She has plenty to say about career swerves.
Emma Kenny is best known as a TV parenting guru, but her dark side hustle is true crime tours - more gristle than toddler grizzle - and audiences love it.
Also, music from Rob Madge's joyful Bank of Dave Musical and from MOBO winner Guvna B's new album, The Bed I Made.
Presented in Salford by Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive ClancyAssistant producer: Sam NixonTechnical producers: John Cole and Helen Williams
Ardal O'Hanlon's new book 'A Plot to Die For' is the first in a series of crime novels starring Finn O'Leary, the celebrity gardener who comes back to his small home town where it turns out things aren't quite so cosy. Ella Risbridger tells us why the maxim 'never met your heroes' absolutely does not apply to Nigella Lawson and comedian Kathy Maniura skewers a specific kind of male midlfe crisis in her show 'Cycling Man'. Music is from Jasmine Jethwa and Jim Moray.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Its food, glorious food week on Loose Ends as new Masterchef host - the Irish restaurateur and chef Anna Haugh - joins Clive to talk about her chemistry with co-host Grace Dent, kitchen etiquette and the hierarchy of carbohydrates (spuds on top, of course).
Potatoes just don't cut it for the comedian Phil Wang, who will always be a noodles-man. He's going on tour but has a number of foodie side hustles, including hosting the Great British Menu and judging "the slurpies" his award for best chinese restaurant at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
And the historian Tracy Borman has a new novel all about the Boleyn family, its seems Tudor real lives were strange enough to seem made up and yes, foods like marchpane and manchet feature alongside the odd turkducken roast.
Plus music from singer songwriter Finn Forster (who loves a Middlesborough chicken parmo) and from the golden era of the Hollywood musical from jazz pianist Joe Stilgoe with singer Liza Pulman (popcorn, anyone?).
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Olive ClancyAssistant Producer: Sam NixonTechnical Producers: Gayl Gordon and Giles Aspen
Comedian Chris Forbes is better known to many as Duncan AKA the other Murray brother, whose sketches with Judy Murray have tickled the nation. And thankfully they seem to have amused his fictional brothers too.
Danielle Jam will be telling us what's the story in Balamory - she's joined the cast in the new series and is the nepobaby of the island, following in her dad's footsteps as village's latest resident inventor Ava Potts.
From a sunny summer in London, to life as a Benedictine monk, Andrew Meehan's book Hey Man is all about a lifechanging friendship.
The Light House is theatre-maker Alys William's touring play which wraps her experience supporting her suicidal partner in to a tale of love and play. Expect tears, and also a clown nose.
Plus music from Cammy Barnes, whose musical career has taken him from bagpiping around world, to the stage of Britain's Got Talent, and sell-out solo shows. And Louisiana-born Ant Thomaz will be performing a track from his new album Gaia named after and inspired by his daughter.
Presenter: Edith BowmanProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
Alfie Boe's album Face Myself is his most personal yet, packed with original songs which let us get to know the man behind the music. He shares one of his new tracks.
Comedian Paul Black has become a star of Scottish social media, with his viral videos reminding us that dads on holiday are all much the same no matter where they're from. His tour Cash Cow brings us more of the characters that people have come to love.
Hannah Lavery's latest book Everything Everyday is a collection of poems that chart protest, grief and hope through the seasons, from the lament of a mourning whale, to the spark of connection of a message notification.
This year's Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award winner was Amanda Dwyer. As a lifelong fan of the Big Yin, this win is propelling her towards her August Fringe run.
Plus music from Alice Faye, whose beautiful songwriting has taken her from Waverley Station on Channel 4's The Piano, to recent wins at the Scottish Album of the Year Award and BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
Kiri Pritchard-McLean welcomes the actor and writer Ralf Little as he tours the country with the first ever stage adaptation of John le Carré's classic book The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
Comedian Nina Gilligan joins us to talk about her new Radio 4 comedy special and her upcoming stand-up tour, Lemoncake.
Actor Sam Riley is about to star in the new BBC romantic crime drama Mint.
And we've music from Kansas-born preacher's son Will Brown, and Janet Devlin with her new single, co-written with Jack Savoretti.
Presenter: Kiri Pritchard-McLeanProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Clive Anderson is joined by comedian Jen Brister, currentl touring her show 'Reactive', she's on a mission to see if she can chill out. Actor Giles Terera is starring in a new production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at the Old Vic and best-selling novelist Jojo Moyes' latest book is 'We All Live Here'.
Angélique Kidjo is back with her first new album in five years, inspired by her mother, it's called 'HOPE!!'. Tessa Rose Jackson performs from her album The Lighthouse.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie is joined in Salford by master of mind control and psychological illusion Derren Brown who is currently touring his latest show 'Only Human'. Stand up Maria Shehata moved to the UK for love, but the course of true love did not run smoothly and the relationship ended soon after. She explores her decision in a new Radio 4 stand up special 'Maria Shehata is Wisdomless'. Alison Larkin turned her one woman show 'Grief … A Comedy into an unusual memoir that sees her guided by the presence of her late fiance. And there's music from the Peter's Field - a musical ode to the victims of the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 and a celebration of men and women who championed votes for working people, written by Sean Cooney who performs alongside Sam Carter and Eliza Carthy.
And there's more music from Francesca Pidgeon aka Dilettante
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie soaks up Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
He is joined by comedian Alana Jackson who went viral with her stories of Glasgow funerals, took home the prestigious So You Think You're Funny? award in 2024, and took time out of her line dancing schedule last year to enjoy a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival.
Plus stand-up Sam Lake, who asks guests on his podcast - I've Had A Rosé, Let's Talk About Feelings - to join him on a deep chat with a beverage of their choice. But why did jelly change the way he flies forever?
Writer and restaurant critic Candice Chung delves her relationship with her family and how food says things that words can't in her memoir - Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You.
With music from Vitamin String Quartet, whose classical pop-covers help bring the world of Bridgerton alive, and the cast of One Day: The Musical share a track from the new production.
Producer: Caitlin SneddonProduction Coordinator: Lauren Stewart
Comic, Strictly winner and Live Comedy Day ambassador Chris McCausland joins Kiri Pritchard-McLean for a chat about siblings. Chris remembers pitched battles aged 11 with his then four year old sister over TV rights.
Comedy cabaret duo Flo and Joan are sisters Rosie and Nicola Dempsey who do perform songs about slipping each other poison in their tea. But we think that's a joke.
The Orielles too are a trio made up of the Hand-Halford sisters who bumped into guitarist Henry at a party aged 9 and are are now on their 4th record.
The best selling thriller writer Dorothy Koomson admits to writing anybody who crosses her into her books, complete with sticky ending.
And the space historian and broadcaster Dallas Campbell explains why the astronomer Galileo may have shopped in a 16th century middle aisle.
Presenter: Kiri Pritchard-McLeanProducer: Olive Clancy
Clive Anderson is joined by The O.C star Mischa Barton who is in a new production of Double Indemity. And it's a double dose of murder and intrigue as we're also joined by best-selling crime writer Ava Glass with her new book 'The Hiding Season'. And from death to life, since we're very grateful comedian Emmanuel Sonibu survived his near fatal heart attack and is here to tell the tale in his stand up show 'Life After Near Death'. Squeeze are back with their first album of new material in 8 years, 'Trixies', as well as Samantha Crain who brings us even more intrigue with her new album 'Gumshoe'.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie talks to the Riot Women and In The Thick Of It actress Joanna Scanlan on her lastest project, Mercy - a dark comic thriller.
Faye Tozer is perhaps best known as part of the crowd pleasing, hearts and flowers pop band Steps, but now she's joining the cast of Mean Girls the musical - what does she make of the world of queen bees and "plastics".
Fascinating Aïda's Adèle Anderson on staying fierce and fabulous while on tour with Priscilla Queen of The Desert the musical without her caberet co-stars.
Plus music from smokey-voiced, Americana-inspired English singer song-writer Elles Bailey and BBC Introducing NorthEast indie pop singer ERNIE.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive Clancy
Joining Stuart for this week's Loose Ends are...
Comedian and actress Lucy Beaumont on the play that, 40 years ago, inspired her mum to become a writer. It also features a chip-eating Alsatian.
Chef and broadcaster Gizzi Erskine with tales of members of The Damned being left with Courtney Love's baby.
Comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on the good old days of landline phones and pop tarts.
Jonny Balchandani, known to his huge social media following as the Bearded Plantaholic, tells us how he covertly turned his wife's office into a living, breathing jungle.
And there's music from Jesca Hoop and Lail Arad as they perform Morning Morgantown and Big Yellow Taxi from their show The Songs of Joni Mitchell.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Stuart talks to the award winning writer and composer of Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots - Tim Firth - about his latest stage creation, The Ladies Football Club. Can the man who got his break with a play about two yucca plants strike fresh gold with this tale of the women who began to play football whist working in Sheffield's munitions factories during World War I and end up playing to many thousands in a South Yorkshire women's league.
Taskmaster and Mr Bigstuff star Fatiha El-Ghorri says she's ironing her swaggest hijab to head out on her debut stand up tour - Cockney Stacking Doll. She'll also have the story of her journey out from divorce and back on the dating scene in her new Radio 4 comedy - A Match Made Inshallah.
Tom Hodgkinson's the editor of The Idler and author of books such as How to be Idle, The Idle Parent and - here's the outlier - The Ukelele Handbook. So perhaps busier than he makes out? His new book is a fresh look at one of the world's oldest philosophies - How to Live Like A Stoic. Stoicism is having a moment in the manosphere but he explains how "bro-ism" has got stoicism all wrong.
With music from the cast of the smash hit musical Operation Mincemeat and from BBC Introducing "one to watch" , Lois.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive ClancyAssistant Producer: Samuel NixonTechnical Producers: John Coles, Amy Brennan, Phillip HalliwellProduction Co-ordinator: Pete Liggins.
Joining Clive this week are the actress and singer Keala Settle, who's starring in a newly re-imagined production of John Ransom Phillips' Mrs President.
Presenter Michaela Strachan is heading off across the country with her show Not Just A Wild Life, to celebrate 40 years of her career in television.
Comedian Ross Noble joins us mid-tour to delve into his Cranium of Curiosities.
Star of stage and screen Melvyn Hayes brings along his new autobiography It Ain't Half Late Mum.
And there's music from Beverley Knight, who's about to grace the stage in the West End premiere of Marie and Rosetta.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Stuart Maconie is in Glasgow for the city's annual folk, roots and world music festival - Celtic Connections.
He's joined by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, whose tour Vitruvian Mango sees him trying to figure out what it is to be a man, and why he feels like more of one when his wife asks him to reach something from a high shelf.
Ashley Storrie will be chatting all about the new series of her award-winning BBC show Dinosaur. Autistic palaeontologist Nina is knee-deep in mud on an Isle of Wight dig site, living the dream. Well, either that or she's desperately missing reality tv marathons on her own sofa with some sausage rolls.
In writer Louise Welsh's latest novel The Cut Up, Glasgow auctioneer Rilke is once again drawn in to drama, murder and detective work, as he curses his very loyal but very troublesome friends.
With performances from Newfoundland folk band Rum Ragged who are keeping the music of their Canadian island home alive. Plus Glasgow-based female and non-binary music collective Hen Hoose share a track from new album The Twelve.
Producer: Caitlin SneddonProduction Coordinator: Lauren StewartEngineers: Andrew Hay, Fiona Johnstone, Sean Mullervy
Joining Stuart for this week's Loose Ends are actor Nigel Havers, who tells us about his remarkable shepherd's pies and the sex appeal of Mrs Thatcher.
Comedy writer and performer Rosalie Minnitt on how dreaming of cows and seeing moonlit owls doesn't bode terribly well.
Comedian Mike Wozniak on how a luxuriant moustache can help balance out an underdeveloped lower face.
And there's music from Dan Gillespie Sells, performing a song by his band The Feeling, and Liverpool's electro-pop trio Stealing Sheep, with their track GLO.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Stuart Maconie's tiptoeing the line between dark and light in this week's Loose Ends.
When she won Strictly Jill Halfpenny got the highest ever score for her sequin studded jive, but there's not a glitterball to be seen in her latest role as the traumatised mum Eve in the dark psychological thriller Girl Taken, which also stars Alfie Allen as the creepiest teacher you'd never hope to meet.
Ian Smith is a comedian who mines his own anxieties for his art - be that his Radio 4 series called "Ian Smith is Stressed", the unintentionally hilarious news from his hometown in the Northern News Podcast or his new tour, "Footspa Half Empty".
The comic, actor and Dead Ringers impressionist Jess Robinson's very funny and also very sad new memoir contrasts her own twentysomething exploits as a stage ingenue with her Jewish Grandmother's diaries at the same age - Life Is Rosi: Grandma, Me and Our Diaries at 23. Grandma Rosi loved music, boyfriends and having a laugh too but was enduring Germany during the rise of Hitler at the same time.
And as they head out on tour, we have performance from The Charlatan's new album We Are Love.
Producer: Olive ClancyAssistant Producer: Samuel NixonTechnical Producers: John Cole and Mark WardProduction Coordintor: Pete Liggins
Joining Stuart Maconie for this week's Loose Ends are Professor Alice Roberts with her book Domination, which takes a deep dig into the heart of the Roman Empire.
Comedian and poet Rob Auton is about to tour with his show CAN: The Story of a Man Called Can...he's here to tell us all he can about that.
Actor Amir El-Masry is starring in the new film Giant as the boxer Prince Naseem Hamed, and he joins Loose Ends to talk technique, training and working with Pierce Brosnan and Sylvester Stallone.
The comedian Esther Manito drops into the studio mid-tour to bring her humorous take on what she calls a "very undignified period of life".
And there's music from Cast who are about to release their new album Yeah Yeah Yeah at the end of January.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Clive Anderson is joined in Glasgow by broadcaster and author Sally Magnusson, whose latest novel breathes new life into stories told to her as a child by her Icelandic father. She brings together modern day Orkney and the Norse myth of Hel in The Shapeshifter's Daughter.
In 2017 Ray Bradshaw became the first comedian to perform simultaneously in English and in sign language. In his upcoming tour CODA, he returns to tales of his parents and the experience of growing up as A Child of Deaf Adults.
Grado has many a feather in his cap - wrestler, Two Doors Down star, presenter - and he is currently brightening up panto season in Jock and the Beanstalk (oh no he isn't!).
Plus music from Nathan Evans x SAINT PHNX, and Mairi Campbell.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
There's plenty of festive energy left with Stuart Maconie and guests in the Loose Ends twixtmas studio:
Taskmaster champion Maisie Adams tells us how she got in touch with her previously hidden competition-demon on the show, her highly-flammable competition outfit and that nailbiting finish, as well as revving up for a new tour in 2026.
ITV's hit drama Red Eye is back for a second season on New Year's Day and its star Jing Lusi tells us about reprising her role as the kickboxing DI Hanna Li. She thinks DI Li would not approve of her penchant for Romcoms and fitness avoidance.
And Radio 3's Elizabeth Alker outlines how rock and pop musicians from The Beatles to Radiohead to Manic Street Preachers owe a debt to classical music with tales from her new book Everything We Do Is Music. She also has tales of her rockstar Yorkshire terrier Terry who rules the roost at her house in December and well, all year round really.
Plus inspiring music for the turning of the year from Thea Gilmore and from Carly Mercedes Dyer singing You Are My Lucky Star from the musical Singing in the Rain.
Producer: Olive ClancyAssistant producer: Sam NixonTechnical producers: John Cole & John BentonProduction coordinator: Pete Liggins
Stuart Maconie presents the Loose Ends festive Christmas special, recorded in front of an audience in the BBC's Philharmonic Studio at MediaCity.
King of the Christmas jumper, Gyles Brandreth brings his book 'Somewhere, A Boy And A Bear' - a biography of AA Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh. He regales us with stories of Christopher Robin and of a surprising encounter with a Rolling Stone.
Carrie Grant tells us all about the book she's written with her husband David, 'Joy To The World', which explores the stories behind iconic Christmas songs, including Stay Another Day, Last Christmas and Gaudete.
Lisa Faulkner is returning to the stage for the first time in 21 years, as she's about to star in new stage adaptation of the hit 90s movie Single White Female alongside Kym Marsh. We hear about her upcoming epic tour, as well as her controversial take on the role of Yorkshire Puddings on a Christmas dinner.
Comedian Simon Evans takes a break from his current tour 'Staring At The Sun' to talk Coleridge, James Joyce and, of course, Bernard Manning...
There's music from The Unthanks as they perform 'The Cherry Tree Carol' and the beautiful winter song 'Hawthorn'.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Clive Anderson is joined in Glasgow by My Mad Fat Diary actor Sharon Rooney. In her latest thriller series The Revenge Club she joins Martin Compston and Meera Syal in a cast of motley divorcees who want to get back at their exes.
Jonathan Watson is back on the telly this Christmas when Two Doors Down returns. The neighbours of Latimer Crescent reunite for a special episode, as Beth and Eric dare to put their tree up a bit earlier than usual.
Interior Design Masters winner Banjo Beale has filled our screens with transformations across the country. Now Banjo and Ro's Grand Island Hotel takes him and his husband to the remote island of Ulva as they attempt their biggest design project to date.
Flora Shedden first charmed the world when she appeared on The Great British Bake Off as a teenager in 2015. Now she keeps her community in Dunkeld supplied with baked goods and local produce, and in her new book Winter in the Highlands she shares some of those recipes with us.
Plus music from Malin Lewis, and a track from new folk musical Ballad Lines.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
Making lemonade from the lemons of life is the theme to this week's Loose Ends.
The comedian Omid Djalili was so incensed by having his shows cancelled after 9/11 due to his Middle Eastern heritage that he devised a stand up tour called Namaste so he could let off steam as well as make us laugh.
Elizabeth Day's How to Fail podcast is, ironically, a massive success but she says her latest novel - a darkly humorous political satire - draws on her own feelings of being an outsider.
Neil Morrissey had an ill-starred childhood but managed to head straight for the limelight in Men Behaving Badly, Line of Duty and is now playing Jacob Marley who brings redemption to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
And Taskmaster contestant and comedian Ania Magliano attributes her personality to growing up playing with Sylvanian family toys rather than Barbies - find out how that inspired her new stand up show, Peach Fuzz.
Plus a performance from Dracapella, a comedy retelling of the Dracula story, introduced by its writer Dan Patterson, the creator of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Producer: Olive ClancyAssistant producer: Samuel NixonTechnical Production: Giles Aspen and Gayl Gordon
Stuart Maconie welcomes Angie Le Mar to talk about appearing in her son Travis Jay's Radio 4 comedy Rum Punch. The actor Nabil Elouahabi talks about his role as the veteran explosives officer in the TV drama Trigger Point and comedian Phil Ellis is about to tour the country with his new show Bath Mat. He joins us to tell us why he's about to wipe the floor with his new show.
And we've music from Seb Lowe and Glasgow's Goodnight Louisa, who perform their new single 'Drew Barrymore'.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Loose Ends is cavorting among the snow-caps of Cumbria at the Kendal Mountain Festival this week. Chef d'Equipe Stuart Maconie reaches for the summit of chat with navigation from the adventurer and broadcaster Ben Fogle - celebrating twenty five years since he was Castaway on a remote Scottish island for the BBC reality TV show that he says is more relevant today than ever. The award-winning writer Sarah Hall provides forecasts as she describes the star of her new novel Helm - a personification of Britain's only named wind, the puckish, mercurial, destructive force of the Eden Valley she grew up on. Horrible Histories author Terry Deary confesses to being an inveterate townie, but keeps our spirits up with gruesome tales from his latest book Revolting, which asks what would make you fight the power and how would you do it? He cites the Suffragists and their daring idea to wrap themselves in brown paper and post themselves to Downing Street. With music from rising Americana band Smith and Liddle who hail from the Northeast and Cumbrian singer-songwriter Holly Brooke.
Producer: Olive ClancyAssistant producer: Samuel NixonTechnical producers: Mark Ward and Liam JuniperProduction coordinator: Pete Liggins
What's a Kentucky? Comedy legend John Lloyd is here to reveal all, in honour of the 42nd anniversary of his cult dictionary 'The Meaning of Liff', co-written with the much missed Douglas Adams, Jessica Swale is the writer behind the new Paddington musical and she tells us about her emotional first meeting with the bear. Jessica Valene stars as a woman on the edge in a new drama series, Summerwater. There's music from cabaret star Kit Green with her new album 'Four Letter Words' and alternative pop singer-songwriter Luvcat will be performing from her debut album Vicious Delicious.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Clive Anderson is joined by a giggle of comics or should that be a brace of jokers in the Loose Ends studio this week. Fawlty Towers creator John Cleese recalls being told his nascent sitcom - 50 years old this year - would fail if they didn't "get it out of the hotel more". Sue Perkins describes the urge to get out on a stand up tour again after a decade presenting shows from Great British Bake Off to Just a Minute, her show is called The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins - what could be so embarrassing? Judi Love is on our screens practically daily - on ITV's Loose Women or shows from Taskmaster to The Wheel but she too is drawn to the stage - what gives? Meanwhile Hugh Dennis is not on tour, but he's on stage, as Rev Chasuble in the National Theatre's production of The Importance of Being Earnest - he may not be planning to go all churchy but he does feel right at home in clerical garb. With music from Editors front man Tom Smith with a track from his forthcoming album There Is Nothing In The Dark That Isn't There In The Light and from Natalie Duncan Trio with her new single Breakaway before her London Jazz Festival gig.
Produced by Olive Clancy
It's a particulary spooky edition of Loose Ends as we're joined by Danny Robins - host of Uncanny and writer of 2.22 a Ghost Story and cult horror author Garth Marenghi. But which of them is the real king of horror? Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem brings us her literary debut, A Complicated Woman and there's music from The New Eves with a song from their debut album 'The New Eve is Rising' and Donna Thompson performs 'Gardner Street'
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Kiri Pritchard-McLean loves a bit of crime - so much so that she hosts a podcast about serial killers. So she's right at home on Loose Ends this week talking cosy crime and laminating machines with actor and comedian Kerry Godliman, who stars as the charming private detective and oyster-shucking restaurateur Pearl Nolan in TV drama Whitstable Pearl. Then things take a dark turn with The Long Firm author Jake Arnott's latest novel Blood Rival - a psychological thriller based on the Oedipus myth but also rooted in true crime journalism - turns out he worries a lot about libel suits but he names no names. India Knight's book Home is a plea to chuck out social media and get in touch with our charm-ometers at home. Nothing nefarious there but she does want us all to steal her design tips. Star folk musicians Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden sing songs from their Wassail album and attempt to solve the mystery of the top motorway service stations in the country as they head out on tour.
Presented by Kiri Pritchard-McLeanProduced in Salford by Olive Clancy
Clive kicks off in Belfast's Black Box as the Belfast International Arts Festival begins to light up venues around the city. Poet Brian Bilston is in town after putting some of his poetry to music with the help of The Catenary Wires. US folk and blues musician Chris Smither tells all about his musical journey spanning over six decades. Someone else who knows a lot about blues as of recent is opera singer Jolene O'Hara, who has taken on the role of County Down musician and 'godmother of British blues' Ottilie Patterson in the one-woman show, Ottilie. Plus, Teresa Livingstone has plenty of embarrassing stories from former jobs and her own work in stand-up, so she's channelling it all into gathering the same from other comedians in her podcast Scundered.
Belfast's AOIBHA reflects on her year of her debut EP Insignificance, and folk-duo Stick in the Wheel chat about their current tour as they bring a bit of Tudor-era satire with their track The Cramp.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Anthony McKee
A BBC Audio Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4.
Clive Anderson is joined in Glasgow by comedian Dom Joly who first introduced the world to the concept of a very loud man yelling in to a giant mobile phone 25 years ago. He’s celebrating Trigger Happy TV on a national tour. Lauren Lyle is used to an investigation in her role as Val McDermid's Karen Pirie, and in new psychological thriller The Ridge she embarks on another kind of search for the truth, this time in New Zealand. In his varied career, actor Lorn Macdonald has made us chuckle with his turn as Albion Finch in TV hit Bridgeton, taken on Trainspotting on stage and now plays the tormented young playwright Konstantin in Chekhov’s The Seagull at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. After becoming a finalist on MasterChef in 2022 Sarah Rankin has cooked up a storm in the culinary world, and her newest cookbook Feast has the perfect recipes for hosting cosy dinner parties all through the darker months. Plus – she’ll be explaining why she’s been hanging out with the world champions of porridge-making.
Cara Rose shares her reflective new single, and Highlands four-piece Tide Lines look ahead to their 10th anniversary celebrations.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
There's plenty of treasures, national and otherwise in this week's Loose Ends. Joanna Lumley describes selecting from a lifetime's worth of lists, poems and anecdotes to create a thoughtful, moving and often hilarious anthology that she says describes the workings of her mind perfectly. Playwright James Graham on updating his play Dear England to send it touring the country and why the story of England football manager Gareth Southgate is exactly the way to cheer us all, even if you never want or need to understand the offside rule. Journalist Esther Walker on being rejected umpteen times by "very mean" publishers before bringing out her debut novel that explores what it is children give us and what it is they take away. With music from ex-Flight of the Conchords frontman and Oscar-winning Muppets songwriter Bret McKenzie and Egyptian-British singer and TikTok star Nxdia.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Olive ClancyAssistand Producer: Nancy Bennie
Loose Ends this week is full of people who aren't afraid to say or do difficult things in the name of entertainment. The actor Nigel Planer will forever be associated with the character Neil from The Young Ones, so much so that Nigel's Mum thought he was vegetarian because Neil was, though Nigel definitely isn't. At least, he says, she remembered his name. His autobiography - Young Once - reflects the fact that brilliant though Neil is, Nigel has done far, far more than that as a poet, author and performer. Life merges with art, or at least comedy in Bryony Kimmings' new show - Bog Witch - too. It's all about what happened when she moved to the country, had an eco-conversion and found out the difference between a frog and a toad. Rowan McCabe's written about being a doorstep poet, who knocks on the doors of perfect strangers and offers to write them a poem about the things that mean most to them. Find out how many ways that can go wrong.Plus music from Mercury Music Prize nominee Emma-Jean Thackray's album Weirdo and from Studio Electrophonique aka Sheffield singer songwriter James Leesley.
Hosted by Stuart MaconieProduced in Salford by Olive Clancy
Edith Bowman is your host for a special Loose Ends live at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford. Guests include the celebrated actor - from Sherlock to Mission Impossible - and writer - from Dr Who to Bookish - Mark Gatiss. He's at the festival starring in a Radio 4 comedy drama written by his League of Gentlemen colleague Jeremy Dyson. We'll hear from Amit Dhand, who credits working in his Dad's Bradford cornershop with providing the psychological insight needed to be a best-selling thriller writer. Writing as AA Dhand, he's behind the high octane BBC drama Virdee and his latest book The Chemist, set against a raging drugs war in Leeds, is his most personal yet, based on what he learnt while working as a Bradford community pharmacist. We'll have festival poet Kate Fox, who is also a standup, a Dr Who superfan and has a phd in northern comedy. All this and music from The Divine Comedy's brand new album Rainy Sunday Afternoon.
Produced by Olive Clancy
Stuart Maconie's guests in Salford include comedian Josh Jones on his new tour 'I Haven't Won The Lottery So here's Another Show'. We find out what happens if he wins the lottery mid-run. Actor and writer Moira Buffini has just won the YA Book Prize for her debut novel Songlight. George Egg is the Snack Hacker, brining us goodies from his kitchen and Urielle Klein-Mekongo is the author of a new musical, Black Power Desk. And there's music from Black Country, New Road from their critically acclaimed album Forever Howlong.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Clive Anderson is joined by the multi-platinum selling American Jazz singer Curtis Stigers, Rob Webb on Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping, best-selling Irish novelist Cecila Ahern, author of P.S I Love you, on her new book Paper Heart, director Patrick Marber discusses his spin on Mel Brook's musical The Producers and Mercury prize shortlisted rock duo Nova Twins.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie is joined by his 6Music weekend breakfast co-host Mark Radcliffe who's here to talk about his new book Et Tu, Cavapoo - all about Mark’s springtime sojourn to Rome alongside his dog Arlo. Andi Osho is taking on the role of Tedra in the RSC's production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Fat Ham and prolific novelist Adele Parks is with us to talk about the twists and turns of family dynamics in her new book A Beautiful Mess. There'll be music from The 7:45s and from the musical comedian Amy Webber, fresh from her Edinburgh Fringe run.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth Foster
Stuart is joined by Jon Culshaw, the star of the much loved comedy series Dead Ringers, which is about to hit the road for its 25th anniversary tour. Harriet Dyer is Easily Distra.... so let's hope she doesn't wander off halfway through the show. Jon Watts discovered his love of cooking in custody. After being taken under the wing of Jamie Oliver he's now a culinary star in his own right, about to publish his third book. And there's music from the Manchester based, New Zealand born singer songwriter Nadia Reid from her acclaimed third album Enter Now Brightness and soul singer Yazmin Lacey.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Clive Anderson hosts a Loose Ends party with some of the many musicians, comedians, writers and stars of the stage lighting up the Edinburgh Festivals.
Ruth Jones’ latest book By Your Side is partly set in Scotland, and she’ll be in the capital sharing some of her pet peeves that have found their way on to its pages. Comedian and actor Jordan Gray is having a busy summer, her new sitcom Transaction hit our screens in June and her stage show promises to be her rootin-est, tootin-est, shootin-est hour of musical comedy so far. Stand-up Jamie MacDonald doesn’t want being blind to shut down his opportunities to be loathsome and toxic. Plus comedian Dylan Adler on growing up one half of a pair of identical gay twins.
With music from Hot Mess, a musical that rides the highs and lows of Earth and Humanity's passionate love affair, and Nigerian singer-songwriter James Emmanuel shares his love for Edinburgh, the city he now calls home.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
Clive Anderson hosts a Loose Ends party with some of the many musicians, comedians, writers and stars of the stage lighting up the Edinburgh Festivals.
Tom Rosenthal is a comedian best known as Jonny on Friday Night Dinner, though I suppose you can describe him however you’d like as his new show is Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am. Thanyia Moore is back at the Edinburgh Fringe for her first time since 2022 – a summer that she looks back at in her aptly named August. Switzerland’s answer to John Oliver – Michael Elsener – gives his top tips on How to Live in Paradise, and explains where flooding a leading politician's post box with compression stockings comes in to it. Plus writer and storyteller Niall Moorjani shares how their new show Kanpur: 1857 manages to incorporate gender, an Indian uprising against British colonial forces, and comedy.
With music from Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan who are raising a parting glass to a 200-year-old palm tree in Windblown, and Couplet who are spending their Honey Honey Moon Moon performing at the festival.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
Listen up as Nihal unfolds the Beyoncé/Destiny's Child theme he's spotted in this weeks' Loose Ends. He's humming "Irreplaceable" for the heroine of author Jo Wood’s debut novel - The Resurrection of Flo - who's left her cheating husband Max (“To the left, to the left”). It's "I'm a Survivor" for the actor Bertie Carvel who is playing King Leontes in Shakespeare's intense psychological drama The Winter's Tale at the RSC. Newlywed comedian Rajiv Karia gets a blast of Crazy In Love on his way to performing at the Edinburgh Festival. And the actor and writer Tori Allen-Martin, who plays Cherry in the BBC sitcom Here We Go, won celebrity mastermind with the specialist subject of.....Beyoncé and Destiny's Child!All this with music from the classically trained, Bollywood influenced pop artist RIYA and from Indie folk duo Lost Chimes.
Presented by Nihal ArthanayakeProduced in Salford by Olive Clancy
Clive Anderson is joined in Salford by a Post-Coital (that's the name of her new show) Tiff Stevenson and by Sam Palladio is finally acting in his own accent in 'The Couple Next Door' after playing Texan Gunnar Scott in 'Nashville' for six seasons. Ella Al-Shamahi has been in search of what makes us 'Human' for her new BBC Two series. American actor and comedian Chris Grace is attempting to write a new show every night of the Edinburgh fringe. And there's music from the former Lush lead singer's new musical project, The Miki Berenyi Trio.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Loose Ends is the guest of Durham Brass Festival this week, providing flugelhorns, euphoniums and an enthusiastic audience at the newly refurbished 110 year old Redhills Miners Hall, once known as "the Pitman's Parliament". Far from brassed off to be with him is the poet laureate Simon Armitage who finds exactly the right words to describe the magic of brass music but then admits to never having won a game of Cluedo. Perhaps unsurprisingly the thriller writer Paula Hawkins tells us she was something of a Cluedo ace in her youth but these days sticks to reconnoitring ideas for places to stash bodies for future novels. And there's laughs aplenty from the comedian Ria Lina who sensibly doesn't enter the Cluedo-debate though one suspects her masters in forensic science might give her an edge. All this with gorgeous music from Bill Ryder Jones with cellist Evelyn Halls and members of the NASUWT Riverside Brass Ensemble.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced by Olive Clancy
This week Stuart is joined by comedian and poet Tim Key who takes us to LA Baby in his new book, Lucy Porter who is learning to let go in her new stand up show, and Shabaz Ali: the Tik Tok sensation with his takedowns of the super-rich. Eastenders and Call the Midwife star Leonie Elliott is starring in a new play, Liberation. There's music from Billy Nomates, performing from her new album Metalhorse and Brazilian composer, poet and multi-instrumentalist Bruno Berle.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
It's mostly lollipops, ribbons and cakes for Clive Anderson this week as he meets Bake Off host Mel Giedroyc, Jane Austen improviser Rachel Parris and Romantic Novelist Mike Gayle (the only man to win the Romantic Writers Association's top award). But not all....
Mel Giedroyc's new podcast - and she emphasises it's a comedy one - is taking over from Kathy Burke on Where There's a Will There's a Wake - all about death, funerals and everything in between. She reveals how she and Sue Perkins met and unsurprisingly enough it was love-friends at first sight.
Rachel Parris is taking Austentacious, her improv show based on Jane Austen, on the road and to Edinburgh Fringe again. She explains why nothing quite hits the spot like Jane. But she's also written a novel based on the romance between Pride and Prejudice character Charlotte Lucas and Mr Collins. And reader, Eliza Bennett does not come out of this well.
Mike Gayle is the only man the Romantic Writers Association has bestowed its Outstanding Achievement Award upon and is a bestselling novelist. He describes his favourite reader letter from when he worked as an Agony Uncle for Bliss Magazine back in the day.
All accompanied by the glorious sound of Debbie Wiseman's music for the TV series Wolf Hall, played by the composer herself with the Locrian Ensemble of London, soprano Grace Davidson and Alec Harmon on Cor Anglais.
Presented by Clive AndersonProducer Olive Clancy
This week Loose Ends is coming from the Homecoming festival at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. Clive Anderson is joined by comedian, actor and writer Dawn French, who moved to Cornwall to give her more space to write and Fern Britton, who has written eleven novels set in Cornwall, and has lived here on and off since starting her career in regional television here in 1980. He also chats to Edward Rowe, who starred in Mark Jenkin's acclaimed film 'Bait' and who performs comedy as The Kernow King, and there's music from the Welsh-Cornish singer-songwriter Gwenno who will be performing tracks from her upcoming album 'Utopia'.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
It's 20 years since Jenny Colgan became a published author and since then her books have been translated across the globe, from Brazil to Bulgaria. Her latest novel is Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages.
Playwright Douglas Maxwell is back at the Tron in Glasgow, a theatre that kickstarted his professional career 25 years ago. His one-man show Man’s Best Friend explores isolation and dogwalking.
Zara Gladman might be best known online for her portrayals of her Glasgow West End Mum character, but she has found fans far beyond the realms of her home city. In August, she'll be swapping sketch for stage with her show Aileen: Cameron’s Gap Year Fundraiser.
Poet Michael Mullen's book Goonie is their debut poetry collection. It tells stories of family, humour and queer identity, from the living room to the hairdresser's chair.
Plus music from singer-songwriter James Yorkston ahead of the release of his new album Songs for Nina and Johanna.
Award-winning singer, harpist and composer Rachel Newton shares a track from her latest solo album Sealladh.
Presenter: Nihal ArthanayakeProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
Ore Oduba switched broadcasting for the stage after his 2016 Strictly win. His latest production is the adaptation of Peter James’ Picture You Dead book which is on tour across the country.
Tom Newlands' debut novel Only Here, Only set in a fictional Fife town has received many plaudits in the UK and beyond. It's coming out in paperback later in June.
Comedian Kim Blythe continues to go from strength to strength, from online skits to stand-up. Her show Cowboy will be at the Edinburgh Fringe this August.
Amy Macdonald has answered her fans' calls for new music with her upcoming album Is This What You've Been Waiting For?. She shares a track.
Plus music from jazz quartet Rose Room ahead of their performance at the Glasgow Jazz Festival.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
This week Clive Anderson is talking playing with toys, settling scores and saying goodbyes with OG podcaster Adam Buxton.
Tanita Tikaram has finally recorded the follow up to her multi-millions selling 1988 album 'Ancient Heart', called 'LIAR'
Jimi Famurewa tells us how you go from stuffing mashed potato in your pocket to appearing on Masterchef.
Kiran Landa stars in 'Marriage Material', based on the novel by Santham Sangerhera at the Lyric Hammersmith
South London trio Honeyglaze perform a track from their album 'Real Deal'.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Jason Donovan won the hearts of millions alongside Kylie Minogue in the Australian soap Neighbours; then his debut album was the biggest seller of 1989 and he topped the UK singles chart 4 times. In the 1990s he reinvented himself in musical theatre with acclaimed roles in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and now he's playing Frank-n-furter in the Rocky Horror Show tour. Its safe to say he knows a thing or two about eye catching costumes, as does Great British Sewing Bee judge and designer to the stars Patrick Grant. His book - Less - is a plea to us to stop buying so much rubbish, buy better, mend more and think about wearing woollen knit swimming costumes or at least cotton running gear. The comedian Sophie McCartney is best known for poking fun at parenting and her viral mum-parody to the tune of Ed Sheeran. But she likes a costume too - thigh high silver boots and leather shorts for her latest show One Foot In the Rave, full of advice on how best to turn 40, how to parent questioning teenagers and say a loud "no thanks" to a midlife crisis. With music from BBC Folk Award winners The Young'Uns and indie-soul singer Mychelle who's supporting Jorja Smith on tour.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced in Salford by Olive Clancy
Clive Anderson brings us Loose Ends from the Hay Festival. Joining Clive in front of a Hay audience are singer Paloma Faith who last year released her most personal album 'The Glorification of Sadness'. She also published her first book 'MILF' (no, not that one), a rousing call to arms for women to take up space, based on her experiences in the music industry, and as a mother. Welsh comedian Mike Bubbins is the star of the sitcom 'Mammoth', in which he plays Tony Mammoth, a PE teacher from the 70's who finds himself in 2024. Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce has an impressively diverse CV, having written films such as 24 Hour Party People, Hilary & Jackie, Code 46 as well as the 2012 London Olympics Ceremony. He's the author of many beloved children's books including Millions, and his latest 'The Blockbusters'. Historian Helen Carr is the author of the best-selling 'The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster and her new book 'Sceptred Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century'
And there's music from Euros Childs and Kizzy Crawfod
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
The comedian and podcaster Stevie Martin is currently battling it out in the latest series of Channel 4’s award winning show Taskmaster - you might have enjoyed her "most snooty possession" which was a portrait of her pet tortoise in military uniform. She'll be here to tell us all about getting "the call" and her favourite games...sorry... tasks. Its also tricky-book-titles week on Loose Ends. The award winning novelist and screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth likes a one word name for her books - the best selling Adults and Animals, which went on to become a feature film starring Holliday Grainger, and scooped Emma a British Independent Film Award - for the script. Her new book is called Slags, Stuart'll be finding out why. And travel writer Ben Aitken went to twelve of the least popular spots in the UK and Ireland for his book - Sh**ty Breaks. He'll be explaining the joys of travelling in the opposite direction to everybody else and still managing to get a great instagram photo. Music will be from the Jess Gillam Trio and former Welsh Music Prize winner Georgia Ruth.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced by Olive Clancy
Joining Stuart Maconie in the Salford studio are the actress Phina Oruche who began her career modelling in America. She's best known for playing Liberty Baker in Footballers Wives. Phina is currently on stage at the Liverpool Everyman in Nathan Powell's new play 'Takeaway', where she stars as Carol, the matriach behind Hyltons Caribbean takeaway.
Kate Mossman is facinated by 'Men of A Certain Age'. so she's written a book to try to get to the bottom of why she's so enthralled by a certain kind of wrinkly rock star. Drag Race star Divina De Campo has been touring her solo show, a mix of comedy, song and storytelling, and Joe Kent-Walters won best newcomer at this year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards for his show in the guise of Frankie Monroe, the owner of Rotherham's finest working men's club 'The Misty Moon'.
And there's music from Gruff Rhys, who has just released a remastered version of his 2014 album 'American Interior'
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Taskmaster star, comic and sitcom actor Alex Horne joins Clive Anderson to talk about season two of his sitcom, to introduce his comedic band The Horne Section and tell us why he's never running out of taskmaster tasks. The lexicographer and broadcaster Susie Dent is now a mystery thriller writer too, she'll be with us to talk about twisty word clues and her all-encompassing love of the English language. Star of Its A Sin, Callum Scott-Howells is currently appearing on stage in Ibsen's Ghosts - he'll tell Clive why this 19th century play still has plenty to tell us today. The historian Kate Williams is often found on our TV screens telling us what's going on during coronations and royal weddings. But she's here to talk about her less sober side hustle - a podcast dishing the gossip from royal history. With music from Anoushka Shankar's latest album, the concluding part of a trilogy which has been orchestrated and will be part of this years' BBC Proms programme.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Rachel Joyce’s debut novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was a bestseller in 30 languages, became a much-loved film with Jim Broadbent and is about to become a stage musical. She's also got a new novel, a sun-soaked family drama called The Homemade God which has already been hailed by one critic as "the perfect holiday read". Levison Wood has travelled to 150 countries but holiday reading probably isn't top of his priorities as an explorer, documentary maker and photographer. He'll join us to talk about a career that's seen him serve in the army in Afghanistan, walk the full length of the Nile, make documentaries about endangered animals and circumnavigate the Arabian Peninsula. The actor and comedian Kiell Smith Bynoe starred in Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats and presented the Great British Sewing Bee but is about to go on tour with the aim of making improv cool again. Kool Story Bro sees him and a cast of comedians and actors pick up stories from audiences and make them into a show. What can he improv from this week's Loose Ends? Plus music from a contrasting pair of singer-songwriters - indie folk from Matilda Mann and jazz inflected from Maya Delilah.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced in Salford by Olive Clancy
Clive Anderson will be joined by comedian and star of Two Doors Down Kieran Hodgson ahead of his upcoming show Voice Of America.
Chef Julie Lin's cookery book Sama Sama celebrates all parts of her Malaysian, Chinese and Scottish identity and mixes tradition with innovation.
Lewis Gribben stars in the new series of Charlie Brooker's multi award-winning dystopian drama Black Mirror.
Selali Fiamanya's debut novel Before We Hit the Ground is set between Ghana and Glasgow and explores love, grief, family and belonging.
With music from Skerryvore and Mike McKenzie.
Stuart Maconie will be joined by comedian Karen Dunbar, star of sketch comedy show Chewin’ The Fat, ahead of her nationwide tour.
Restless Natives: The Musical is the new stage adaptation of the Scottish cult classic. Actor Kirsty MacLaren stars in the show which brings some of Big Country's greatest hits to life.
Rosco McClelland celebrates his recent win, having taken home the Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award at Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
World-record breaking adventurer Mollie Hughes became the youngest woman to climb both sides of Mount Everest, and the youngest woman to ski solo to the South Pole. Her latest book is called Breathe.
With music from NATI. and Lewis McLaughlin.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Caitlin Sneddon
Joining Clive Anderson in the Loose Ends studio are the Emmy award-winning actor Billy Porter, currently hanging out in the Kit-Kat club where he is starring as Emcee. Comedian and 'Guilty Feminist' podcaster Deborah Frances White has just published a new book 'Six Conversations We're Scared to Have', about how to ask difficult questions and change minds - including our own.
Anna Chancellor stars in April De Angelis's 'Playhouse Creatures', about the first women of theatre at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London.
Music from Lapsley, one of the BBC Radio 1 Sound of... artists in 2025, she is about to release her fourth album 'I'm a Hurricane I'm a Woman in Love', the first on her own record label 'Her Own Recordings', and from poet and musician Anthony Joseph's new album 'Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back'
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Loose Ends this week is all about finding the light. Poet, performer and broadcaster Michael Rosen is touring a one man show making sense of some of the darker moments of his life. Dylan Jones was the editor of era-defining magazines like i-D, Arena and British GQ in the 1990s and noughties. Now his memoir, These Foolish Things - tells how he left behind a difficult childhood to embrace a career that encompasses hobnobbing with celebrities from Elton John to Tracey Emin, taking phone calls from David Bowie and recommending a tailor to Gordon Brown. There's dark themes too to the Texan comedian Kemah Bob's new show Miss Fortunate which tells the story of a disastrous solo trip to Thailand. It was hailed as "chest-achingly funny" and "charismatic" by the critics and won her a Best Newcomer nomination at Edinburgh Festival Last year. The actress Barbara Flynn knows how to pick her projects, appearing in Cracker, Cranford and now the BBC's hit drama Beyond Paradise where cosy crime meets health concerns, heated relationships and family niggles.With music by the winner of Channel 4's talent show The Piano Brad Kella, who is about to tour with Take That's Gary Barlow and the folk singer and protest song writer Grace Petrie.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced in Salford by Olive Clancy
Clive Anderson's guests in Salford include Bridget Christie who returns with series two of The Change. Gardener's World expert Adam Frost who is on the road with his 'Lessons from the Garden' tour and up and coming stand up Louise Young. Music is from Richard Dawson who has just released a new album 'End of the Middle' and cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe performs from his new album 'Hymns of Bantu'
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie and guests come together with mighty laughs, big stories, and altogether good craic from Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Declan Lawn is a screenwriter of multiple TV series alongside his creative partner Adam Patterson, including the successful Blue Lights as well as the BBC miniseries The Salisbury Poisonings. Series three of Blue Lights is currently being filmed in Belfast, and he is currently writing series four. Comedian John Meagher is currently touring his stand-up show Big Year across the UK and Ireland. He chats about his big years in mixed martial arts prior to kicking off a career on the comedy circuit, as well as his Radio 4 documentary The Divil's Own. Writer Naoise Dolan has travelled the world after success with her bestsellers Exciting Times and The Happy Couple, but is returning back to Dublin as she spends this year as the inaugural IPUT Writer-In-Residence. County Tyrone comedian Emer Maguire is bringing her biggest gig yet - Notions - to the Grand Opera House later this year, exploring her experiences of growing up with autism and finding the funny in the most unexpected of places.
After a year of accolades and success within the Irish music industry, Corkonian musician Chubby Cat performs a track from her latest EP THE FINE ART OF DISASSOCIATION accompanied on guitar by Ben Murray. Portaferry born singer-songwriter Ryan McMullan performs a track from his upcoming EP In This Room, before beginning his UK and Ireland tour in April. Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Anthony McKee A BBC Audio Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4.
Clive hosts Loose Ends with an audience in London this week with a set of guests with a serious work ethic and willingness to try new things in the name of entertainment. The chart topping superstar and award winning actor Michael Ball is now also a best selling novelist. Can life backstage really be as chaotic as this page-turner set in theatreland suggests? Hollie McNish is that rare thing, a best-selling poet who also likes to make people laugh. Fresh from entertaining Swiss school children with her work, she'll be discussing her latest collection Lobster (and other things I'm learning to Love), the follow up to Slug (and other things I've been told to hate). And Dr Who and Ballet Shoes actress Pearl Mackie on her new venture - a true crime podcast called Theatre of Crime, investigating famous murder mysteries with a touch of audio drama. Comedian Pierre Novellie also co-hosts podcasts, alongside names like Frank Skinner and Phil Wang. But he's going it alone in a new show - Must We? - a sell out Edinburgh Festival hit that makes comedy out of Cargo Cults, neurodiversity and quirky obsessions. Plus, music from the English folk star Sam Lee, who is Artist-in-residence for a year of environment-themed events - Earth Unwrapped - at Kings Place in London.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Stuart Maconie is looking on the bright side this week with Dave Gorman who thinks that 'Modern Life is Goodish'. In the latest installment of his TV series, Dave Gorman is back with his trusty powerpoint as he falls down rabbit holes but always with a smile on his face -ish. And just to balance out all that positivity we've got natural worrier Angela Barnes whose new stand up tour is called 'Angst', a very funny catalogue of her failures.
And if you are anxiously watching the green shoots emerge awaiting the end of winter, nature writer Simon Barnes is the ideal guide with his new book 'Spring is the Only Season'
And there's music from the Hastings band HotWax who are just about to release their debut album Hot Shock and neo-soul vocalist Ni Maxine
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProdcuer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie is joined by the 41st best stand up ever to talk about his new tour 'Stewart Lee Vs The Man-Wulf', and by Philippa Dunne who plays Anne in the school gates sitcom 'Motherland'. Anne is back in the spinoff series 'Amandaland', focusing on Anne's glamorous best friend Amanda. Aysha Kala tells us how she nailed the accent to play Saima in the new Bradford set crime thriller Virdee.
Music from song intrepeter Barb Jungr whose new album 'Hallelujah on Desolation Row' sees her back in the company of two songwriters whose music she has spent a lifetime alongside, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen as well as Irish singer and rapper Biig Piig who has just released her debut album '11:11'.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Jack Docherty has entertained audiences in eight series of BBC Scotland’s mockumentary police show Scot Squad, as Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson. He returns to our screens in new spin-off The Chief.
Writer Kirsty Logan has written on witches, mermaids, and motherhood. Her latest collection of dark tales of love and desire is No & Other Love Stories.
Comedian Larry Dean is bringing his acclaimed stand up show Dodger on tour. It explores identity, his grandmother's dementia diagnosis, and a love of Elvis Presley.
After big 40th anniversary celebrations last year, Pat and Greg Kane - AKA pop duo Hue and Cry - are set for a year of touring. They share a song fit for Valentine's Day weekend.
Cellist Su-a Lee performs a track from her solo album Dialogues which celebrates decades of folk music friendships. She's joined by composer and pianist James Ross.
Kevin Clifton entertained the nation for years on Strictly, now he can often be found treading the boards instead – and is currently starring in Chicago as it tours the country.
Poet and former Scots Makar Liz Lochhead talks about her collection of poems A Handsel ahead of her appearance at the Winter Words Festival in Pitlochry.
Coinneach MacLeod, best known as The Hebridean Baker, has found a global audience for his Scottish recipes. His latest release is The Hebridean Baker: The Scottish Cookbook.
Olivier Award-nominated Dawn Sievewright’s next project is Wild Rose, a stage musical adaptation of the 2018 film. She shares a track from the show ahead of it’s premiere in March.
Jazz/soul ensemble Mama Terra perform from their new album Chameleons: Live Interpretations of Herbie Hancock.
Natural history presenter and cameraman Gordon Buchanan’s new book In The Hide is a look back at some of his greatest adventures across the world, from Mumbai to Mongolia.
In 2015 Mhairi Black became the youngest MP elected to the House of Commons since the 1800s. After stepping down at the 2024 General Election, she turned her mind to her tell-all comedy show Politics Isn’t For Me which took last year’s Fringe by storm. She's now taking it on tour.
Cal MacAninch is well known for roles in Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge, Vigil and Wild At Heart amongst much else. He plays Banquo in a production of Macbeth that has wowed audiences at the Donmar Warehouse and the West End and can be seen in cinemas in February.
Edinburgh’s Makar Michael Pedersen writes about friendship, grief and pretending to be a cat. The newest addition to his expanding body of works is his debut novel, Muckle Flugga.
Tunisian singer-songwriter EMEL has performed across the world, and rose to fame with her protest song Kelmti Horra which became an anthem for revolution. She performs from her latest album is MRA.
Irish-Scottish contemporary folk duo LÉDA share a new track ahead of their debut album launch later this year.
Clive Anderson celebrates Scotland’s Bard with a special Loose Ends Burns Supper.
Comedian Susie McCabe is back with her new show Best Behaviour. The Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow award-winner and host of the smash-hit podcast Here Comes The Guillotine is headed for Glasgow Comedy Festival.
Meredith Brook stars in new BBC ALBA drama An t-Eilean (The Island), the UK’s first high-end Gaelic drama series which is set on the Isle of Harris.
Franco-Scot poet Paul Malgrati’s book Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics – The Bard of Contention (1914-2014) explores Rabbie’s influences around the world. He shares why the poet still means so much to modern audiences across the world, and what it was like learning Scots as a French-speaker.
Carina Contini discusses cooking up the perfect Burns Supper and her showcase of the rich variety of Italian recipes The Contini Cookbook.
Plus Isle of Lewis trio Peat and Diesel bring a bit of island spirit to Glasgow.
This year the Scottish pop rock band Deacon Blue celebrates 40 years together. Not only is the band going strong – so is the marriage bringing together its lead vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh. They both join Nihal Arthanayake to reflect on four decades of music-making.
Paul McKenna’s career has taken him from radio DJ to stage hypnotist to self-help book author. His latest offering – Power Manifesting – explores how he’s used manifesting to achieve his goals. He looks at how super-achievers praise this technique and explains how he uses the toolkit in day to day life.
Julie Wilson Nimmo is a star of Scottish TV classics like Balamory, Chewin’ The Fat and Scot Squad. Her current role is slightly different as she and fellow actor and comedian husband Greg Hemphill set off to the Scottish islands to dip in their beautiful seas. Jules and Greg’s Wild Swim sees the couple enjoy the invigoration of cold water swimming, along with chats about mental health, the menopause and much more.
Indie-folk pop singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni shares music from her latest release – no way blues.
And singer-songwriter Jon Muq who was born in Uganda and has forged a career in Austin, Texas. He performs from his album Flying Away.
Loose Ends is in Hebden Bridge this week, a town made famous by the BBC drama Happy Valley, but you might also recognise the place and its glorious scenery from Last Tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack or The Gallow's Pole.
Clive will talk to local resident and bestselling novelist Joanne Harris, maybe best known for Chocolat which was adapted into an Oscar nominated film of the same name. Her latest book The Moonlight Garden is a fantasy set in a "long ago and far away" version of London and fits right into the wildly popular "romantasy" genre - a good fit for a town renowned for its quirky ways and alternative lifestyles.
Also in the show, the acclaimed comedian and actor Richard Blackwood, best known for roles in Hollyoaks and EastEnders as well as on stage, is out on the road and passing through town on a stand up tour promising heavyweight laughs and no messing.
TV presenter, GP and host of Europe's most popular wellness podcast Dr Ranjan Chatterjee will be easing us all into the New Year, just about the time when we all begin to fall off the New Year resolutions wagon and we'll be hearing about what happened to his own long held ambition to be Jon Bon Jovi.
And award wining stand-up comedian and Hebden resident Nina Gilligan will explain why her new show is called Goldfish.
Music from former I am Kloot frontman John Bramwell and band The Full Harmonic Convergence and also from all female Indie-folk band The Deep Blue.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Loose Ends is kicking off the year with a special recording at the Salford Lad's Club. If your New Year's resolution is to listen to music we've got you covered as Stuart Maconie will be joined by Stockport's finest, Blossoms, performing songs from their fourth UK number one album 'Gary'. We also have the powerhouse vocals of Rowetta, who will also talk about her time with the Happy Mondays and we have Graham Fellows, who celebrates 40 years as John Shuttleworth. Journalist Miranda Sawyer is the author of 'Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in Twenty songs'. She tells us about her 90's, and perhaps finally get to the the bottom of who came up with the term 'britpop'.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Wayne Sleep, Ben Miller, Rosalind Eleazar and Lou Conran join Stuart Maconie for this week's Loose Ends, with music from The Lottery Winners.
Dance icon Wayne Sleep waltzes in to tell us stories of his life - all detailed in his new autobiography, Just Different. Tales of his friendships with Princess Diana, Freddie Mercury, David Hockney and fellow ballet legend Rudolph Nureyev intermingle with insights into his working-class upbringing and the difficulties of trying to make it as the shortest principal dancer ever to get into the Royal Ballet. Told he would always have to spin twice as fast and jump twice as high to succeed, Stuart hears all about the trials, tribulations and backstage gossip that make up Wayne’s world.
With notable appearances in Slow Horses, Howards End, Rellik and the Personal History Of David Copperfield, as well as striding such prestigious stages as the Royal Court and the National Theatre, Rosalind Eleazar is set to return to the small screen this New Year. Starring in the Netflix production of Harlan Coben’s Missing You, filmed across the north west of England, she’s here to tell us all about her new role as Detective Kat Donovan. Award-winning comedian and writer Lou Conran has been storming stages up and down the country since 2005 with her innate brand of sharp wit and honest and open humour. 2025 will see her twenty year anniversary as a performer and off the back of a sold out UK tour, she’s about to embark on a tour of New Zealand, and joins Stuart to tell us about the year ahead.
The actor and comedian Ben Miller is of course known for The Armstrong & Miller Show, the Johnny English and Paddington films, Death in Paradise, Bridgerton - but over recent years has turned his hand to writing children’s books. From his Elf series to the recent The Night I Met Father Christmas, he joins Stuart to talk about his new character – Robin Hood…aged 10¾. And we’ll hear all about his new TV series Austin which will be on our screens in 2025.
Robbie Williams, Noel Gallagher, Boy George, Shaun Ryder and Frank Turner are just some of the huge names The Lottery Winners have in their phonebook. Formed in the mining town of Leigh 15 years ago, The Lottery Winners set out to work the UK gig circuit and perfect their now acclaimed stagecraft. And it all paid off when their last album went to No.1 in the UK. Their fourth original album KOKO is due out in February with a tour closely following…and another one with Robbie Williams following that! They join Loose Ends to play two songs - Superpower and Worry.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth FosterProduction Co-ordinator: Lydia Depledge-Miller
It's a glorious fusion of nostalgia, tinsel and song this week in a show recorded with an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.
Clive talks to punk princess Toyah Willcox about her Xmas Party tour with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and a blistering year that's seen her perform at Glastonbury, take part in Strictly Come Dancing and join the cast of Now That's What I Call a Musical.
To celebrate 30 years since boyband East 17 scaled the charts with Stay Another Day - songwriter Tony Mortimer performs the song with Edele Lynch of B*Witched for a boy and girl band treat. Find out the true origin of the song and why it almost wasn't released.
There's bromance, baubles and banter with a pair of Edinburgh Comedy Award winners - Adam Riches and John Kearns - who this year are collaborating on a "once in a lifetime, yuletide extravaganza" show at the Soho Theatre.
And the columnist, broadcaster and newly-announced MasterChef host Grace Dent - who knows a thing or two about comfort eating having written a book about it - on creating Christmas food memories, including loading up on yellow-stickered trophies at the supermarket late on Christmas Eve.
Plus in this 40th anniversary year since the release of Wham's Last Christmas we have a gorgeous soulful version from singer and former UK Jazz Act Of The Year - Georgia Cecile.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Stuart Maconie is joined in the Salford studio by Sheffield's finest, Richard Hawley, playing tracks from his latest album 'In This City They Call You Love', and by comedian and podcaster Cariad Lloyd on her Christmas book for children, The Christmas Wish-tastrophe. Seema Pankhania is on a quest to cook the national dish from every country around the world and she's documenting her journey on her popular Youtube and TikTok channels. She's just pusblished her first cookbook 'Cravable: All I want to eat, big flavours for every mood. Tim Clare takes gaming very seriously in his book 'The Game Changers' - a history of tabletop game playing, and Katy Stephens stars as The White Witch in a new version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at the Leeds Playhouse.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Loose Ends this week is a masterclass in the many ways human beings find to laugh: the writer and comic Jenny Eclair started her career as a punk performance poet, who created her stage name to chime with the band she joined - Cathy le Creme and the Rumbabas. But as we learn in her new memoir, she knew as a small child called Jenny Hargreaves that she had the "funny bones" required to make her a comedy star. There is little about Ferdia Lennon's debut novel Glorious Exploits that might suggest comedy - its set in 412 BC Sicily, in the years after Athens’ failed invasion and tells the story of two locals who get Athenian prisoners of war to stage a production of the play Medea. Yet this book's just won an award for comic writing. Nikki Amuka-Bird is a Bafta-winning actor and her new movie Rumours features a constellation of Hollywood stars. But this comedy-horror-satire features her alongside Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance prat-falling as world leaders at a summit. And stand-up Lou Sanders is about to go on the road with a show called No Kissing In The Bingo Hall, but she's taken diversions via Dancing on Ice and Taskmaster and will be trying not to laugh in series one of Last One Laughing UK next year. With music by Roddy Woomble of Idlewild.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Olive Clancy
Author and historian Charles Spencer has written many books including The White Ship, To Catch A King and A Very Private School, and now finds himself down a Rabbit Hole – along with his fellow trivia hunters Cat Jarman and Richard Coles - in their podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives. Digging into the past and uncovering weird and wonderful stories, every week the trio discuss the whos, whats, whens and whys and have now turned all this into a book… aptly titled The Rabbit Hole Book. Charles joins us to dig a little deeper… Romy Gill is a celebrated chef and food writer whose many TV appearances include Ready Steady Cook, Morning Live, Countryfile and Celebrity Masterchef, as well as being a regular voice on Radio 4 on The Food Programme. Her food is inspired by both her West Bengal and Punjab roots, and she tells us all about her new book in which she collects many recipes of home, Romy Gill’s India.
Former EastEnder turned X Man Ben Hardy has left both Albert Square and his superhero wings behind to take on the role of Luke, a single father and a seemingly straight, white, car mechanic, who meets and forms a deep relationship with a south Asian, queer, club dancer called Ayesha in the film Unicorns. Ben joins Clive to talk about the challenges of the role and his leap from the small to the big screen.
Comedian, writer and campaigner Sarah Mills was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2018, or, as she puts it, “my bum tried to kill me”. Since then, she has tried to shine a light on hidden disability and has been breaking taboos in conversations around what would normally be seen as embarrassing bodily functions. She tells us all about her new Radio 4 series Sarah Mills’ Bad Bod Squad, and all things leaky, squeaky, lumpy and wonky.
There's music from New Starts who bring their style of new wave and angular guitar rock with two songs - Don't Need Persuading and Let Me Start Again.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Elizabeth FosterProduction Co-ordinator: Lydia Depledge-Miller
Loose Ends embraces the great outdoors this week at the Kendal Mountain Festival. Stuart talks to festival patron and bestselling writer Robert Macfarlane about his "mountain DNA" and unusual walking snack. Broadcaster and writer Louise Minchin loves a mountain too. Having put aside the extreme working practice of rising at 3am for Breakfast TV she now loves a triathlon, a free-dive at night under ice or the extreme experience that is learning to cook a soufflé from an online video for Celebrity Masterchef. Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock - who is such a star there is even a Barbie doll in her image - on being inspired by the night sky, be that incredible telescope images or The Clangers as she was as a child. And for a counterpoint approach we have a relative newcomer to the country, the comedian Chris Cantrill who describes himself as a "rural imposter" and hosts a podcast about adapting to the northern wilds by competitive leek growing and donning a cape. Plus music from Lake District singer songwriter Olivia Fern and Cumbrian-born indie artist Melanie Baker, who loves mountains so much she once filmed a music video at the top of one.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive Clancy
Clive Anderson is joined by actor Shazad Latif, who stars as Nemo in 'Nautilus', a new ten part TV series based on Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Latif's TV credits include Spooks, The Pursuit of Love and Toast of London, where he played the fan favourite Clem Fandango.
And he's also joined by Michael Cumming, who directed Latif in three series of Toast of London. He is currently touring his documentary film 'Oxide Ghosts', a collection of outtakes and behind the scenes footage from the cult series 'Brass Eye' only ever shown at special live screenings.
Laurie Anderson is one of the world’s most pioneering creative artists. Her documentary film 'Heart of a Dog' was nominated for an Oscar, and she had a surprise hit in 1981 with her song 'O Superman', which reached number two in the UK singles chart. Her new Multimedia show ARK: United States V has just opened at Manchester's Factory International.
Comedian Sooz Kempner's most recent stand up show is 'Class of 2000'. It takes her back to sitting her GCSE's in a state school in the year 2000 while being preoccupied with horses, EastEnders and the millenium bug. It's also about the architectural wonder of the Viennetta. Sooz is also one of the hosts of The Queen Podcast.
Music is from Trust Fund, the musical project of Ellis Jones. After taking a break from music Jones is back with a new album 'Has it been a while?' And we also have a performance from Manchester based soul-pop artist Ellen Beth Abdi.
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
The comedian and actor John Bishop is about to head off on a tour celebrating 25 years in stand up - a quarter century since he took to the stage on a whim and ended up one of the UK's favourite stars. The explorer Lucy Shepherd is more likely to be found fighting off venomous spiders than hecklers. For her latest TV series she's embarked on a never before completed journey across Guyana. How did she cope with the threat of trench foot, zero daylight and the ominous warnings from the locals - "don't go, you might not get back"? The Comic and podcaster Grace Campbell is also one for exploration but hers involve the world of dating and parties in her tour - On Heat. She'll be competing on tall tales and ominous warnings, no doubt. And broadcaster and columnist Adrian Chiles will cast a cool eye on proceedings as he does in his much-shared newspaper articles on chewy topics such as home urinals, favourite spoons and the biggie - we can go to the moon, so why can’t we stop my glasses sliding down my nose?With music by "the songwriter's songwriter" Ron Sexsmith and "Hendrix of the kora" Seckou Keita.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced by Olive Clancy
Monty Python star and king of the travel documentary Michael Palin has just published the fourth volume of his best-selling diaries. In 'There and Back' he covers the years 1999-2009. He joins Clive to talk about how the 21st Century has treated him.
The actor and Call The Midwife star Jessica Raine is soon to return to our screens in the second series of 'The Devil's Hour' where she plays Lucy Chambers, the insomniac social worker who wakes every night at 3.33am.
Susan Wokoma has just finished playing Charlotte in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing at the Old Vic and she will soon be back as Fola in the BBC drama Cheaters, which starts its second series later this month.
The WAEVE are a collaboration between Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and singer-songwriter Rose Elinor Dougall. They perform a track from their new album City Lights.
And there's more music from the London based Jazz musican Ashley Henry who has just released his sophmore album 'Who We Are'
Presenter: Clive AndersonProducer: Jessica Treen
Loose Ends is at the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Stuart Maconie is joined by Harriet Walter, who has played many roles at the RSC in Stratford and has just published 'She Speaks!', a book imagining what Shakespeare's women might have said if they'd been given half a chance. John Douglas Thompson is one of America's finest classical actors, now playing his first role on the main stage at the RSC. He is returning to the role of Othello, 16 years after first taking it on.
Comedian and writer Robert Popper created the beloved sitcom Friday Night Dinner and has been the scourge of many with his 'Time Waster Letters'. He's back writing letters again, this time as Elsie Drake (104 years old). Jessica Hepburn is an 'arts adventurer', and the only woman to have swum the English Channel, run the London marathon and summitted Everest. She might also be the only person in the world to have listened to every available episode of Desert Island Discs...
And there's music from Emily Burns and Wes Finch
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart is joined in the Loose Ends Salford Studio by comedian, musican, actor and Strictly winner Bill Bailey. His new book is 'My Animals, and Other Animals: A memoir of sorts'. It's the story of his life through the creatures who have meant something to him, and a celebration of how animals bring us joy. The Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda Owen, talks about her latest Channel 4 series - Our Farm Next Door - where she and her large family adapt a ruined farm for a show described as Grand Designs meets Our Yorkshire Farm. In 2022 the comedian and podcast host Kiri Pritchard-McLean hosted a Radio 4 programme Egg-sistential Crisis, exploring her decision not to have children. In her new stand up tour, Peacock, she continues her story now that she and her partner have become foster carers. Maya Sondhi played the hapless PC Maneet Bandra in Line of Duty and Shazia Khan in Citizen Khan. But she is also the writer and creator of ITV’s police thriller DI Ray starring Parminder Nagra who describes her role as “a female Columbo in a green coat”. And there's music from the acclaimed folk singer Katherine Priddy, who released her second album 'The Pendulum Swing' earlier this year. She also performs a duet with Grammy nominated songwriter Richard Walters
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive Clancy
The poet Pam Ayres, author of Oh, I wish I'd looked after Me Teeth - which was voted one of the UK's top ten comic verses - joins Clive to discuss almost half a century of writing and a new volume of her collected works - Doggedly Onwards. Dawn O'Porter was once the journalist behind documentaries on topics from extreme dieting to poligamy and even the movie Dirty Dancing. Now she's a bestselling novelist and her latest work Honeybee is the taboo-tackling tale of twentysomething friends Renee and Flo who grew up, like Dawn herself, on Guernsey and seem to be failing at life. The comedian Ahir Shah went to Edinburgh festival last year with a work-in-progress show about family, immigration, Rishi Sunak and baked beans. He came home with the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award. Now that show is on Netflix and he's taking off on a UK tour. And Poppy O'Toole, a Michelin-trained chef who's become a TikTok sensation with the moniker "The Potato Queen" on gadgets and keeping eating interesting. Plus music from soul singer Dee C Lee, who worked with Wham! and The Style Council but is now back with a new album and touring for the first time in 25 years.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Stuart Maconie presents Loose Ends from the North Cornwall Book Festival in St Endellion. He is joined by Patrick Gale, Tom Allan, Anna Keirle and Tim Smit, and there's music from the multi-instrumentalist Angeline Morrison.
Patrick Gale is the author of the Emmy award-winning BBC drama Man in an Orange Shirt and novels including A Place Called Winter, A Perfectly Good Man and Notes From An Exhibition. He’s been the Artistic Director of the North Cornwall Book Festival since it began in 2012. He joins Loose Ends to tell us all about his final year in the role.
Born in Scotland and armed only with an English degree, Tom Allan turned his back on his desk-based city job and headed west, where a life out in the open air beckoned. Now a full-time thatcher and writer, Tom’s book On The Roof tells tales of craftmanship from around the world and he joins Stuart to talk nitches, yealms and exactly what to do with a biddle.
Anna Keirle is stand-up, writer and actor who has been working the comedy circuit for over 20 years performing from Cornwall to Edinburgh and beyond. She co-wrote and starred in Radio 4’s Wosson Cornwall alongside Dawn French, and faced Anne Robinson when she took on - and won - The Weakest Link.
Former archaeologist-come-songwriter-come-producer-come-entrepreneur Sir Tim Smit KBE once sheltered from the Cornish rain in an estate agents while on holiday - and ended up buying a house. After relocating to Cornwall, he came across someone who needed a little archaeology expertise for some overgrown and neglected land... and the Lost Gardens of Heligan were reborn. Spotting a disused pit a little further up the road, and - one night in the local pub later - plans for the Eden Project were formed. Opening in 2001, the Project has contributed over £1.9 billion to the Cornish economy.
And there's music from Angeline Morrison, who joins us to play Fair Maid In Bedlam and the haunting Unknown African Boy. Angeline has been unearthing the voices of black ancestors whose footprint has been missing from the collected British folk history. Affectionately referred to as 're-storying', the result of her work - 2022’s The Sorrow Songs - drew acclaim across the board, praising her “courage in reconstructing folk repertoire” as “truly revolutionary”.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Elizabeth FosterProduction Co-ordinator: Lydia Depledge-Miller
Photo: Drew Shearwood
Nihal Arthanayake presents Loose Ends from the third annual Morecambe Poetry Festival. He's joined by Henry Normal. Henry is a writer, poet, TV and film producer who has been involved with many of our most loved comedies, such as The Mrs Merton Show, The Royal Family, Gavin and Stacey and Alan Partridge. He's a prolific poet, and his latest collection is 'A Moonless Night'. He also presents the occasional 'A Normal...; series for Radio 4 combining stand-up, poetry and stories about his life and family. Henry explains how, prematurely old at 23 he turned his back on a traditional career path and entered the worlrd of comedy and performance.
Donna Ashworth's lockdown poetry went viral in 2020 and her popularity has been credited with 2023 being the best year for poetry sales in Britain since records began. Her new collection is 'Growing Brave'. She tells us about her days as a Butlin's red coat, celebrating overlooked kinds of bravery, and her dogs Dave and Brian.
Mike Harding is a stand-up comic, musician and poet. He's been performing since the 1970's, and has released over a hundred books and recordings. He presented the Folk show on Radio 2 for 15 years. He's performing alongside Henry Normal at the Morecambe Poetry Festival. His latest poetry collection is 'The Lonely Zoroastrian', and he also tells us about the luck involved in his hit single, 'The Rochdale Cowboy'.
Lisa Goodwin-Allen is Morecambe born and bred. She's the executive chef at the nearby Northcote and appears frequently on TV including on The Great British Menu and James Martin's Saturday Kitchen. Lisa's ingredients for success in the kitchen include imagination, being an adreneline junkie and a passion for seasonal and local produce.
And we have music from the Lancaster based musical duo The Lovely Eggs, from their seventh album. 'Eggsistentialism'. The album is personal, inspired by their lives, particulary their struggle to save the Lancaster Music Co-op.
The Lovely Eggs are Holly Ross and David Blackwell and the show is dedicated to David's mum, Annie Blackwell, who died shortly before this programme was broadcast. A former acress and headteacher, Annie was a was known Morecambe character. A keen member of Morecambe Speaker's Club, she lived and breathed theatre and performing and was much loved within the community.
Presenter: Nihal ArthanayakeProducer: Jessica Treen
The tenor Russell Watson's remarkable career took him from playing from working mens clubs in Salford to performing at the Vatican. But his life hasn't been completely charmed - he discusses the brain tumour that threatened his life as well as his voice and how he found his way back to centre stage.
Jackie Kay is one of the UK's most lauded poets who turned to writing as a child as a sanctuary from the difficulties of life as an adopted, if much loved, half-Nigerian child in Scotland. A new BBC One documentary tells her story "In Her Own Words"; we'll be asking why she wanted to do that.
Doctor-turned-comedian-turned-author Adam Kay’s first book This Is Going To Hurt sold over 3 million copies and was adapted into a multi award-winning TV series. Now he's taken another career turn into children's fiction with a new character – Dexter Procter, the ten year old doctor.
As an actress Deborah McAndrew played Angie Freeman on Coronation Street in the 1990s. She left the Rovers Return behind long ago for a career as a writer and her latest play tells the story of the night an Unidentified Flying Object landed near Stoke-on-Trent's Bentilee housing estate. The show draws on multiple eyewitness accounts from the time to create a warm and funny depiction of an extraordinary event happening to very ordinary people.
Plus music from The Lemon Twigs's latest album A Dream Is All We Know.
Presented by Nihal ArthanayakeProduced by Olive Clancy
From Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in Stirling.
Richard Armitage’s CV is already packed with roles, including a string of stellar acting credits in the likes of The Hobbit, North and South, Robin Hood, and Spooks. Now he’s added author to the list with his debut novel Geneva.
Ambrose Parry is not one writer but two – it's the penname of internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience, Dr Marisa Haetzman. The married couple write books inspired by the gory details Marisa uncovered during her History of Medicine degree.
One of the writers on this year’s Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year shortlist is Suzy Aspley. She started her writing career at the festival when she won its Pitch Perfect competition, and released her spooky novel Crow Moon earlier this year.
With music from Scottish singer-songwriter Rianne Downey, and Chloe Matharu who is both a Merchant Navy Navigational Officer and singer-songwriter and harpist.
Sir Ian Rankin’s much-loved detective Rebus has had a big year, with a fresh BBC TV adaptation in the summer, and now a return to the stage. Clive Anderson hears about new play Rebus: A Game Called Malice which was written by Sir Ian and Simon Reade, it's touring the UK.
Michelle McManus chats to poet and women’s rights advocate Len Pennie who rose to fame on social media during the pandemic when she shared her Scots words of the day. Her first book Poyums is a collection of funny and fiercely feminist poems.
Northern Irish comedian, actor and podcaster Shane Todd has a loyal fanbase as the host of the Tea with Me podcast and with sell out shows across the world, including opening for the likes of Kevin Hart. He’s currently embarking on his eleventh solo show – Full House.
With music from musician and singer Kim Carnie, whose newest project is documentary Kim Carnie Out Loud which explores her experience of hiding a six year same-sex relationship. She meets other LGBTQ+ folk and creates songs around their stories.
Plus Bathgate singer and Scottish Music Awards Breakthrough-winner Luke La Volpe.
Elaine C. Smith has delighted audiences for decades, including work on TV shows like BBC Scotland’s Two Doors Down. In her latest project she joins the touring cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and takes on a character that used to terrify her - The Childcatcher.
Claire Love Wilson is a Scottish-Canadian theatre-maker, actor, and singer-songwriter whose semi-autobiographical show Morag, You’re A Long Time Deid is inspired by the story of a grandmother she never met, and explores queer history from fragments of a recently forgotten past.
Glaswegian stand-up Christopher Macarthur-Boyd had a total sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and 2024, and is about to take his Scary Times show on tour across the UK and Ireland.
With music from Irish country sensation Nathan Carter, and soul and pop singer Becky Sikasa.
Actress and singer Su Pollard’s new tour Still Fully Charged celebrates her 50 years in showbiz – she catches up with Michelle McManus about what keeps her hooked, and being beaten by a dog in a talent competition. Clive Anderson chats to comedian and actor Chris Grace. He’s returned to Edinburgh after his sold-out 2023 run, this time with a packed out performance schedule including his new show Sardines (A Comedy About Death). Award-winning non-fiction writer Sinéad Gleeson’s debut novel Hagstone sees an artist discover a commune of women on a remote island – she discusses the inspirations behind it.
With music from comedian and actor Catherine Cohen, and Irish singer and musician Camille O’ Sullivan.
Presented by Clive Anderson Co-host: Michelle McManusProduced by Caitlin Sneddon
Clive Anderson is joined by comedian Jason Byrne who returns to Edinburgh for his 28th consecutive Fringe with No Show, a performance that will be totally new each night. Playwright and actor David Ireland’s award-winning plays Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American have had success across the world. His latest play The Fifth Step stars Jack Lowden and Sean Gilder as they navigate the road to recovery. Shetland comedian Marjolein Robertson’s show titled O is full to the brim with blood as she explores her fascination with her own funeral and her near death experience. My English Persian Kitchen is the true story of losing a homeland, and building a new life and community around the tastes and aromas of an Iranian kitchen. Isabella Nefar chats about starring in the play, and cooking on stage.
With music from Scottish violinist and composer Catriona Price and Two Hearts, AKA New Zealand's hottest comedy pop-music duo Laura Daniel and Joseph Moore.
Presented by Clive Anderson Produced by Caitlin Sneddon
From the Edinburgh Festivals, Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus talk to actor, comedian and family favourite Bobby Davro about his beginnings in TV entertainment, his acting journey and finding comedy through tough times – something he explores in his show Everything is Funny...If You Can Laugh at It. Lara Ricote, a former winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer prize, chats about her Fringe run of Little Tiny Wet Show (Baptism) which looks at the complexities of relationships. Plus Australian actor, writer, and director Virginia Gay – she's a familiar face on the small screen down under, and makes a return to Edinburgh with her gender-flipped version of Cyrano.
With music from critically-acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter Hamish Hawk, and a performance from gig-theatre production A Giant on the Bridge – featuring Jo Mango and Louis Abbott (of Admiral Fallow), alongside fellow Scottish musicians Raveloe, Solareye and Goodnight Louisa.
Presented by Clive Anderson Produced by Caitlin Sneddon
This week Stuart is joined by Jon Holmes who's producing a new play at the Edinburgh Festival - which explores what happens when the camera moves on from a relationship forged on a Love Island-style reality show.
And there are definitely some strained relationships in the second series of House of the Dragon - but they're more the kind that result in being run through with a sword. Breakout star Ewan Mitchell tells us about working on the blockbusting Game of Thrones spin-off.
Julia Fordham joins to perform for us and share some of her insights into the relationships that are meant to last - and Kym Marsh talks about bringing a classic Disney villain to the stage in a touring production of 101 Dalmations.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced by Kev Core
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud present Loose Ends from Latitude Festival. They'll talk to the Actor-turned-musician Damian Lewis who will discuss his latest album Mission Creep and why he's chosen to go back to his musical roots when he could have rested on his Hollywood laurels as the star of Homeland and Billions. The UK's favourite Choirmaster Gareth Malone on a new tour of Sing-Along-A-Gareth and why he's the Festival Chief Chef. The director Rachel Ramsay on her Grierson award shortlisted documentary - The Lost Lionesses - about the 1971 unofficial Women's World cup which was watched by record audiences but subsequently largely erased from sporting history. And the comic Elf Lyons who studied at a Parisian clown school where she learnt the fine art of "bouffon" - a performance style based around mockery - that she works into stand up shows that have been hailed as "unhinged brilliance". Plus, as we're recording at the BBC Introducing stage, we have fresh new music from Indie pop sibling duo Esme Emerson and from Americana led singer-songwriter Gia Ford.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Clive will talk monkeys, masks and improvisation with comic Nina Conti who is honing a brand new show Whose Face is it Anyway? and about to release her directing debut a feature film called Sunlight; Chef Tom Kerridge's been on a culinary tour of the UK for a new cookbook and TV show and has plenty to say about our food, farming and how to pronounce "scone"; Actress Samantha Spiro stars in an acclaimed new RSC production of "Shakespeare's sitcom" - The Merry Wives of Windsor - where the women get the last laugh; Best selling crime writer Donna Leon on her much-loved detective hero Commissario Brunetti and why she's been moved to become an "eco-detective" herself. With music by Braimah Kanneh-Mason and Plínio Fernandes ahead of their appearance at the BBC Proms and from That Woman, aka Josie from Oh Wonder who is realeasing a solo album.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
The actor, producer and now memoirist Griffin Dunne on growing up in Hollywood in a family of literary stars including his aunt Joan Didion, on his own screen success opposite Madonna in Who's That Girl and in After Hours and the real-life tragedy that changed his life forever. Soft Cell front man Marc Almond on his early days as a subversive performance artist, mellowing into music that showcases his voice and his trip to the palace to get his OBE. In the decade since publishing her first psychological thriller, Ruth Ware's become an international best-seller, with her stories optioned for Hollywood movies and published in 40 languages. Now she's curated Harrogate Crime Writing Festival and has plenty to say about new trends, the enduring popularity of the genre and the forthcoming Netflix movie of her book The Woman in Cabin 10 starring Kiera Knightley. The comedian, Taskmaster champion and Celebrity Mastermind Sophie Duker advocates self delusion in her new show - But Daddy I Love Her - arguing that we should all opt for hot fantasy rather than cold hard reality. How will that work? Plus music from Tyneside singer-songwriter Nadine Shah's album, Filthy Underneath.
Presented by Stuart MaconieProduced by Olive Clancy
Stuart is joined in the Salford Loose Ends studio by the Welsh Sprinter Iwan Thomas, who held the UK 400m record for 25 years. His new memoir 'Brutal', tells his story - one of speed, the drive to succeed and an extremely high tolerance for pain. . Comedian Chloe Petts is gearing up for the Edinburgh Fringe, and in perhaps the ultimate highbrow/lowbrow combination; she's just presented a series on Radio 4 on the history of the toilet.
Raghu Dixit is an independent Indian artist, soundtrack composer and former Microbiologist. His new album 'Shakkar' has been inspired by his personal struggles, but spreads a message of joy and kindness. Kiiōtō is the new project by singer songwriter (and former Lamb vocalist) Lou Rhodes and musician and songwriter Rohan Heath, formerly of the Urban Cookie Collective. They are just about to release their debut album 'As Dust We Rise'.
Anna Ptaszynski joins us for some sport fact ephemera and Lottie Gross talks about where to take your dog on holiday.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen and Kev Core
Joining Stuart in our Salford studio are Charlie Higson. After writing several books in the bestselling 'Young Bond' series, Charlie has written his first Bond for Adults. Stand up Bilal Zafar's new show 'Imposter' is about a once harmonious house-share that goes very wrong and Pravesh Kumar has written 'Frankie Goes to Bollywood', a new musical about an everyday girl from Milton Keynes plucked from obscurity to live the life of a bollywood star.
Music this week comes from English Teacher, dubbed 2024's hottest new guitar band, and tik-tok sensation, classical guitarist Alexandra Whittingham.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
CHARLIE HIGSONCharlie Higson is an author, actor, comedian and writer for radio and television. He is the author of five beloved Young Bond books, starting with Silverfin in 2005. He’s also the author of the ‘Enemy’ series of Young adult Zombie adventures and the crime thriller ‘Whatever Gets You Through The Night’. He’s also one of the brains behind one of the best comedy series of the 90’s, ‘The Fast Show’, which recently completed a 30th anniversary tour.
A New Bond for a new Monarch, Charlie Higson’s first ‘Adult’ Bond – On His Majesty’s Secret Service was written in double quick time for the coronation and is inspired by researching his history podcast. Higson’s Bond is very much a man of 2023 – he’s in tune with his gut biome, but he’s still got the car, the gadgets and the girl.
ENGLISH TEACHERLeeds based ‘English Teacher’ have been hailed as 2024’s hottest new guitar band, but they’ve spent time honing their craft - they’ve been playing together since meeting at the University of Leeds at 2018. In April they released their debut album, This Could Be Texas. Fresh from from touring America, they are vocalist Lily Fontaine, guitarist Lewis Whiting, drummer Douglas Frost, and bassist Nicholas Eden.
PRAVESH KUMARBack in the year 2000 armed with a credit card, Pravesh Kumar started the Rifco theatre company with an aim to tell accessible stories about British Asian communities like the one he grew up in in slough. Rifco’s shows include the musical Britain’s Got Bhangra, The Deranged Marriage and the film Little English. Along the way, Pravesh was awarded an MB for his contribution to British Theatre. His latest musical is ‘Frankie Goes to Bollywood’ – the story of Frankie, played by Laila Zaidi, a normal girl plucked from obscurity in Milton Keynes to be the latest Bollywood star. Frankie is taken in by the glamour, a romance with leading man Raju King and a rivalry with a fellow Bollywood actress no longer deemed young enough.
ALEXANDRA WHITTINGHAMManchester-born Guitarist Alexandra Whittingham started with humble beginnings performing covers of Avril Lavigne and auditioning for Blackpool’s Got Talent. Since then she has become a viral sensation through videos of her performing breathtaking classical arrangements on her guitar.
Fresh off of signing with a major music label, Decca, she’s here to tell us about her journey to becoming a revered guitarist and why it’s important that classical music is accessible to everyone.
BILAL ZAFAR
Sharing a house can be an unpredictable experience, we’ve all heard about ‘nightmare’ housemates. In Bilal Zafar’s new show ‘Imposter’ he tells the story of his old housemate, a story of compulsive lying, escalating threats and minty hot chocolate. Bilal is a ‘wry storyteller’; his previous shows are ‘Zafarcakes’, about a joke on twitter that got out of hand, and the people who couldn’t take a joke and ‘Care’, about looking after wealthy residents in a care home, for minimum wage. He’s also active on the Twitch streaming platform where he plays a manager from the game Pro Evolution Soccer 5 to an enthusiastic audience of ‘Assistant Managers’. Bilal won the new act of the year award in 2016 and was nominated for best Newcomer at the Edinburgh comedy awards
The comedian Paul Sinha is a man of many careers - from working GP to sucessful stand up to his role as "The Sinnerman" in ITV's quiz show The Chase. He joins Clive to talk about his new autobiogaphy - Once Sinha Lifetime - charting his extraordinary Bengali family background through the peaks and troughs of his own working life to his recent medical diagnosis. Tara Fitzgerald is an actor with a career that encompasses both film classics like Brassed Off and I Capture the Castle as well as new hits like Game of Thrones and Waking the Dead. Now, to celebrate 125 years since the birth of Noel Coward, she stars in a triple bill of his less performed plays – Suite in Three Keys. We'll ask what Coward has to offer today's audiences. And forget about five a day, the TV Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says we should be eating thirty a week and what's more its really not that hard to do. Plus music from singer songwriter Bess Atwell's third album Light Sleeper, produced by The National's Aaron Dresser who also works with Taylor Swift. Plus comedy performance from Jazz Emu, the alter-ego of comedian Archie Henderson and his hilarious band The Cosmique Perfection.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
After a series of best-selling books focussing on girls and women Caitlin Moran turns her attention to the lads in ‘What About Men?’. Find out if comedian Laura Smyth is indeed living her best life on the ‘Living My Best Life’ tour and Alex Lowe tells us what makes his Clinton Baptise character so popular. John Hopkins on playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Leeds Playhouse and we have music from Dexys - formely Dexy's Midnight Runners.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Stephen Merchant - the BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor, comedian and writer behind hits like The Office and Extras - joins Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu to talk about a new series of The Outlaws, a hugely popular crime caper set on a Bristol community service project; the Vogue journalist and author Plum Sykes will discuss her new novel, Wives Like Us, billed as "desperate housewives in the Cotswalds"; Award-winning actor Adeel Akhtar of Sherwood, Fool Me Once and Four Lions fame on returning to the stage for the first time in almost a decade in Chekov's The Cherry Orchard and the writer and broadcaster Kate Bradbury on taking a stand against climate change in our own back gardens. Plus music by jazz singer songwriter Madeleine Peyroux and Irish pop sensation LYRA - who managed to knock Beyonce off the number one slot in the Irish album charts.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Clive is joined by impressionist Jan Ravens (who brings along Liz Truss and Theresa May) chatting about the challenge of developing an impersonation and what happens when the politician who forms part of your act gets the boot...Award-winning novelist Tiffany Murray describes her unusually starry childhood at the residential recording studio Rockfield. It includes a childhood visit from David Bowie and being woken by Freddie Mercury singing "Galileo" - as revealed in her new book My Family and Other Rock Stars. Viv Groskop chats about her One Ukrainian Summer a memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR. The Will Barnes Quartet and Aleighcia Scott provide the music. Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Kevin Core
Joining Stuart Maconie in our Salford studio are the comedians Frank Skinner and Rachael Fairburn. In Frank's latest stand up show '30 years of Dirt' he has his comedic eye firmly on the dirty joke, while Rachel Fairburn's showgirl finds her moving away from boozing and towards crystals - will it last?
Maxine Peake stars in Robin/Red/Breast at Manchester's Factory International. Based on John Bowen's cult TV play Robin Redbreast, Maxine plays Norah, a woman who has escaped the city for village life. But it is not exactly the idyll she dreamed off... The movement director is Imogen Knight, the writer is Daisy Johnson, and it is directed by Sarah Frankcom and features music from Gazelle Twin.
In her latest book the biographer and historian Kathryn Hughes tells the story of how we fell in love with cats, and illuminates the life of the man who did so much to change their image, the artist Louis Wain.
Music is from Willy Vlautin, novelist, songwriter and musician who was the lead singer in Richmond Fontaine. Willy also chats about his new novel 'The Horse', his most personal book yet, it examines the trials of a life on the road. And we also hear from BBC Introducing Rising Star Phoebe Green.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Jessica Treen
Stuart Maconie is joined by Sacha Lord who offers some Tales from the Dancefloor, Julie Hesmondhalgh talks about the impact of a single punch which is considered in a new play by James Graham at the Nottingham Playhouse. Dr Benji Waterhouse, a frontline NHS psychiatrist, discusses his new book You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here and there's music and chat from Fairground Attraction and Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand.
The comedian Rhod Gilbert gave up touring and TV appearances last year when he got cancer. Now he's back - a newly focussed man - with a show called 'Rhod Gilbert & The Giant Grapefruit', all about the big bitter diagnosis he had to swallow; the best-selling novelist Kathy Lette's latest book is called The Revenge Club and is based on a real life career setback - we want to hear all; Poet and stand up comic Luke Wright on managing to combine humour and pathos on the page and on the stage and 25 years on from her breakout role in Queer as Folk, the actor Carla Henry tells Stuart about her latest role in the gritty and prescient drama Sweat. Plus music from The Zutons and Bryony Jarman Pinto.
Stuart is joined by multi instrumentalist and singer of hits like Electric Avenue, Eddy Grant; comic-turned-author Natalie Haynes on putting the feminisim into Greek mythology; actress Adelayo Adedayo on her upcoming second series playing the rookie cop in the hit BBC police drama The Responder and Comedian Richard Herring on finding the humour in his testicular cancer diagnosis. Plus performance from the only band fronted by the poet laureate Simon Armitage - LYR and the soul singer Nectar Woode.
Presenter: Stuart MaconieProducer: Olive Clancy
The astronaut Tim Peake joins Clive to talk about life on and off Earth, and he's joined by the acclaimed guitarist Phil Manzanera who tells us about the astonishing life he led en route to joining Roxy Music.
Helen Lederer discusses her new memoir and recalls formative days in The Comedy Store and Jess Fostekew talks footie in her new podcast.
We've music from Michele Stodart and Geejay.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Kevin Core
Stand up comic Al Murray on 30 years of his outspoken stage persona The Pub Landlord and his more recent side-hustle as a history podcaster; Actor Lesley Sharp on playing a spy in her high octane thriller set on a London to Beijing flight and called Red Eye; Historian Bettany Hughes on her new series of Treasures of the World, this time heading along the Silk Route to Estonia, Bulgaria, Georgia and beyond; Restauranteur Nisha Katona on giving up being a barrister only to end up being a judge - on the Great British Menu and Guy Chambers on co-writing some of pop's greatest hits like Angels and Milennium with Robbie Williams and getting back together to record with his band The Lemon Trees. Plus performance from rising stars of British Country The Wandering Hearts.
Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Olive Clancy
Ruby Wax defined an interview style which many of us now take for granted. She discusses her hugely popular books on mindfulness and her new book which sees her undertake a series of journeys designed to aid her recovery from depression.Paul Hartnoll of the dance act Orbital is another genre definer, looking back at the history of electronic music - and his soundtrack work - ahead of a new tour marking three decades since the seminal "green album". Anuvab Pal is one of India's top English speaking comics and has some words for Brits who think the Indian language is complicated but have no problem saying Siobhan.Jessica Gunning is known to a host of fans from the series The Outlaws, she talks to us about her role in the new, dark Netflix series Baby Reindeer.We've music from Nerina Pallot ahead of her Palladium show and singer songwriter Tiger Braun-White performs, telling us how he's done with session work... aged 19.Presented by Clive AndersonProduced by Kevin Core
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Daniel Mays, Cush Jumbo, Janey Godley and Marc Wootton for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ride and Georgia.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Gemma Whelan, Mark Watson, Shaznay Lewis and Mr Motivator for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Mary Wallopers and Sahra.
Clive Anderson and Bidisha Mamata are joined by Jonny Lee Miller, Ade Adepitan, Kimberley Chambers and Gary Stevenson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kat Eaton and Blondeting.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Armistead Maupin, Ophelia Lovibond, Toheeb Jimoh and Emmanuel Sonubi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Amelia Coburn.
Clive Anderson and Rachel Parris are joined by Bruce Dickinson, Noomi Rapace, Siobhán McSweeney and Travis Jay for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from MT Jones and OneDa.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by George Clarke, Lindsay Duncan and Charithra Chandran for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Caity Baser and Ministry of Desire.
Clive Anderson and Jayde Adams are joined by Sylvester McCoy, Peter Lord, Lucy Porter and Nancy Medina for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Diane Birch and Gardna, recorded at Beacon Hall, Bristol.
Clive Anderson and Richie Anderson are joined by Andy Nyman, Stella Graham, Luisa Omielan and Bernie Kavi Pujara for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Liam Bailey and Ffion Rebecca, recorded live at Curve Theatre, Leicester.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Sir David Jason and Jay Blades, Sir Tim Rice, Denise Welch and Jodie Mitchell for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Future Islands and Rosie Frater-Taylor.
Clive Anderson and Richie Anderson are joined by Tracy-Ann Oberman, Daliso Chaponda, Annette Badland and Mathew Baynton for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from BenObi and Gaby Kettle, recorded at Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Clive Anderson and Janey Godley are joined by Stuart Murdoch, Tony Singh and Joanne Clifton for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Belle and Sebastian, Wayward Jane and Joy Dunlop, recorded at BBC Scotland, Glasgow.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Matt Lucas & Elis James, Trinny Woodall, Urooj Ashfaq and Martin Jarvis for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bill Ryder Jones and Marika Hackman.
Clive Anderson and Ellie Simmonds are joined by Helen George, Frances Barber, Kevin McCloud and Dom Joly for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Al Lewis and Laville.
Clive Anderson and Danny Wallace are joined by Timothy Spall, Miles Jupp, Isabella Pappas and Iain Stirling for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mica Paris and Maiya Quansah-Breed and Rumer.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Brian Cox, Toby Jones, Mary Beard and Richard Coles for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Katherine Jenkins and Marisha Wallace, recorded in the BBC Radio Theatre in London.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Janine Harouni, Morfydd Clark and Jared Harris for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Guvna B and Deniece Pearson.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Elvis Costello and Conor McPherson, Suranne Jones, Martin Kemp and Michelle McManus for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Roachford and Ify Iwobi.
Clive Anderson and Kiri Pritchard-McLean are joined by Max Boyce, Non Evans, AJ and Curtis Pritchard and Caryl Lewis for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Angharad Jenkins & Huw Warren and Aisha Kigs, recorded at Swansea Grand Theatre.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Madness, Daisy Haggard, Karen Gibson and Charlie Stemp for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Madness and Soft Lad.
Clive Anderson and Soweto Kinch are joined by Tony Iommi, Steven Knight and Ellie Simmonds for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Emeli Sandé and Nathan Queeley-Dennis, recorded at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Alfie Boe, Paul Rhys, Sabrina Bartlett and Andi Osho for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Passenger and Gaby Moreno.
Clive Anderson and Kofi Smiles are joined by Barrie Rutter, Richard Bean, Leah Brotherhead and Kat Hudson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Eliza Carthy and Chiedu Oraka, recorded at Wrecking Ball Music & Books in Hull.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Caroline Quentin, Paul Whitehouse, Tom Walker AKA Jonathan Pie and Sam Quek for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Roberto Cacciapaglia and Gemma Rogers.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Miriam Margolyes, Beverley Knight, Nick Frost and Paul Sinha for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Emily Breeze and Beverley Knight.
Clive Anderson and Kate Robbins are joined by Jimmy McGovern, Lady Anne Dodd, Ian Broudie and Andy McCluskey for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from OMD and Martha Goddard, recorded at Liverpool Everyman Theatre.
Clive Anderson is joined by Jeremy Dyson, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lucy Beaumont and Bob Cryer for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy at The Holbeck in Leeds. With music from Corinne Bailey Rae.
Clive Anderson and Kiri Pritchard-McLean are joined by John Whaite, Henry Normal, Bronté Barbé and Cath Staincliffe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Swing Out Sister and Badly Drawn Boy.
Danny Wallace and Janey Godley are joined by Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Abir Mukherjee and Jenny Colgan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Blue Rose Code and Sophie Penman.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by John Lydon, Jamie Lee O'Donnell, Isabel Adomakoh Young and Simon Reeve for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Polly Paulusma & Kathryn Williams, and Beautiful Landing.
Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus are joined by Eddi Reader, Sumayya Usmani, Ben Hart and Kieran Hodgson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by by comedians Josie Long, Darren Harriott, David O'Doherty and Ria Lina for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kitti and David O'Doherty.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O' Neill are joined by Paul Merton, Gail Porter, Levi Roots and Anu Vaidyanathan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Pictish Trail and Leila Navabi.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Freema Agyeman, John O'Farrell, Dr Xand van Tulleken and Ravinder Bhogal for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lady Nade and Saramaccan Sound (Suriname)
Danny Wallace and Emma Freud are joined by Michelle de Swarte, Helen Czerski, Michael Akadiri and Danny Robins and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Connie Constance and Jerub.
Anneka Rice and Arthur Smith are joined by Kate Nash, Guvna B, Alex Wheatle and Issy van Randwyck for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Reuben James. With music from The Coral and Reuben James.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O' Neill are joined by Lesley Sharp, DJ Fat Tony, Vivian Oparah and Ravneet Gill for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Keaton Henson and Lilo.
Jaime Winstone, Geezer Butler, Paterson Joseph, Andy Hamilton, Denai Moore, Ashley Henry, Christopher Eccleston, Clive Anderson
Emma Freud and Arthur Smith are joined by Jon Ronson, Jayde Adams, Tom Allen and Rakie Ayola for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Glenn Tilbrook & Beautiful Landing and Rae Morris.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by David Baddiel, William Hartston, Priyanga Burford and Megan McCubbin for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Carminho and Mariachi Las Adelitas.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Richard E. Grant, Sandie Shaw, Emer Kenny and Bishi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from LA Priest and Operation Mincemeat the Musical.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O'Neill are joined by Bob Clearmountain, Jack Whitehall, Stephen Mangan and Anita Mangan and Shazia Mirza for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Caitlin Rose and Nick Waterhouse.
Danny Wallace and Sara Cox are joined by Debra Stephenson, Tiernan Douieb, Gaz Choudhry and Robbie Cumming for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ondara and Pokey LaFarge.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by John Cooper Clarke, Harry Hill, Monica Ali and Suhini Shah for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Supalung and Sam Brookes.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Christopher Biggins, Sian Brooke, Lemar and Arthur Parkinson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Billy Valentine and Romeo Stodart.
Clive Anderson and Bidisha Mamata are joined by Kathy Kiera Clarke, Nadine Shah, Gabby Best, Barnaby Jameson and Grace Savage for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Billie Marten and Grace Savage.
Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus are joined by Charles Dance, Dyllón Burnside, Thomasina Miers and Sara Wheeler for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sarah Jane Morris and Trampolene.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Frank Skinner, Sophie Okonedo, Gurdeep Loyal and Sam Brown for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Daoirí Farrell and Say She She.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Gordon Buchanan, Soweto Kinch, Juliet Cowan and Shamim Sarif for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Soweto Kinch and Enny.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O' Neill are joined by Richard Curtis, Ben Bailey Smith, Alice Loxton and Stephen Moss for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Anna B Savage and Joesef.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Tara Fitzgerald, Danny Sapani, Alasdair Beckett-King and Mike Dilger for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Yazmin Lacey and Savourna Stevenson & Steve Kettley.
Danny Wallace and Anneka Rice are joined by John Kearns, Leila Farzad, Neil Forsyth and Jamie Demetriou for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Robyn Hitchcock and Maja Lena.
Emma Freud and Scottee are joined by Suzanne Vega, Treasa O'Brien, Lucy Porter, Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Suzanne Vega and The Golden Dregs.
Danny Wallace and George Egg are joined by Morwenna Banks, Rosie Jones, Gennaro Contaldo and Sam Delaney for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Fantastic Negrito and Charlie Austen.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Layton Williams, Catherine Cohen, Steve Bugeja and Damian Dibben for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nickel Creek and Sacha T.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Lisa McGrillis, Travis Alabanza, Joe Thomas and Emma Moran for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rozi Plain and Jaz Delorean.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Felicity Kendal, Liam Dutton, Matt Cain and Charlie Taverner for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from James Yorkston and Nina Persson and Ana Moura.
Clive Anderson and Yasmeen Khan are joined by Liz Kingsman, Iwan Rheon and Claire McGowan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Loose Ends and MacWatt.
Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus are joined by Elaine C. Smith, Janey Godley, Ricky Ross, Courtney Stoddart and Larry Dean for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Brooke Combe, Ricky Ross and Michelle McManus.
Clive Anderson's specially created box of delights full of Celebrations, heroes (and heroines), Quality Street preachers, poets and their poems… friends of the show giving us chapter and verse of their take on the festive season. Guests include Cerys Matthews and The Gwalia Male Choir, Judy Collins, Brian Bilston, Dean Atta, Imelda May, Salena Godden, Luke Wright, Polarbear, John Shuttleworth, Jade Anouka and Grace Savage.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Mackenzie Crook, Ben Miller, Nneka Okoye and Isata Kanneh-Mason for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Antonio Forcione, The Soul Dogs feat. Lifford Shilingford and Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O' Neill are joined by Martha Plimpton, Brian Bilston, Rachel Fairburn and Jimi Famurewa for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Hu and Lola Kirke.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Sir Cliff Richard, George Takei, Charlie Brooks and Simon Frederick for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Wallace Shawn, Matthew Modine, Jasmine Naziha Jones and Zoe Lyons for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mary Gauthier and DJ Yoda.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by by Vicki Pepperdine, Nick Lowe, Claudia Hammond and Chloe Petts for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nick Lowe and Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Cerys Matthews, Jake Shears, Graham Fellows and Tom Allen for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Benjamin Clementine and Amythyst Kiah.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Richard Herring, Thaddea Graham, Simon Garfield and Dominic Dromgoole for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tawiah and Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by writer and TV presenter, Dawn O'Porter, comedian Ian Moore, actor Nikesh Patel and Children’s Laureate of Wales, Connor Allen for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Eva Lazarus and Rachael Dadd.
Clive Anderson and Bidisha are joined by Sara Pascoe, Benedict MacDonald, Dreda Say Mitchell and Elf Lyons for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective and George Riley.
Clive Anderson and Bidisha are joined by Sara Pascoe, Benedict MacDonald, Dreda Say Mitchell and Elf Lyons for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective and George Riley.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O' Neill are joined by Craig Cash, Alex Kapranos, Miquita Oliver, Raymond Antrobus and Dan Schreiber for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Unthanks.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O' Neill are joined by Craig Cash, Alex Kapranos, Miquita Oliver, Raymond Antrobus and Dan Schreiber for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Unthanks.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Julian Lennon, Kyle Soller, Marina Hyde and Anita Anand for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kathryn Joseph and Julian Lennon.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Julian Lennon, Kyle Soller, Marina Hyde and Anita Anand for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kathryn Joseph and Julian Lennon.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Anthony Horowitz, Melissa Thompson, James Yorkston, Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from GoGo Penguin and Lissie.
Danny Wallace and Sara Cox are joined by Stewart Lee, Denzel Westley-Sanderson, Charlotte Ritchie and Dr John Woolf for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Julian Lage and Plastic Mermaids.
Danny Wallace and Sara Cox are joined by Stewart Lee, Denzel Westley-Sanderson, Charlotte Ritchie and Dr John Woolf for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Julian Lage and Plastic Mermaids.
Clive Anderson and Annie MacManus are joined by Irvine Welsh, Hal Cruttenden, Pearl Chanda and Simon Taffe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jesca Hoop.
Clive Anderson and Annie MacManus are joined by Irvine Welsh, Hal Cruttenden, Pearl Chanda and Simon Taffe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jesca Hoop.
Clive Anderson is joined by Lenny Henry, Julia Donaldson, Vince Cable and Patrick Gale for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Allison Russell and Kitti.
Clive Anderson is joined by Lenny Henry, Julia Donaldson, Vince Cable and Patrick Gale for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Allison Russell and Kitti.
Anneka Rice and George Egg are joined by Emma Donoghue, Dean Atta, Russell Kane and Isy Suttie for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Gretchen Peters and Everette.
Anneka Rice and JP Devlin are joined by Judy Collins, Tom Kerridge, Clare Grogan and Will Hodgkinson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Fyfe & Iskra Strings and LOTOS.
Danny Wallace and Athena Kugblenu are joined by David Threlfall, Josie Long, James Acaster and Juno Dawson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Valerie June and Miss Kiddy and the Cads.
Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus are joined by Alan Cumming, Rich Hall, Luca Cupani, Amanda Thomson and Arthur Smith for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kitti and Hamish Hawk.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Louise Welsh, Sikisa, Movin' Melvin Brown & Victoria Melody for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Niteworks & AiiTee.
Anneka Rice and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Emer Reynolds, Travis Alabanza, Mark Borkowski and George Fouracres for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from St Paul & the Broken Bones and Comorian.
Clive Anderson and Yasmeen Khan are joined by Ian McKellen, David Sedaris, Imelda May and Simon Munnery for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Carwyn Ellis and The Heavy Heavy.
Clive Anderson and Andrew O'Neill are joined by Jayde Adams, Ambreen Razia, Max Dickins and Graham Bartlett for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Laville and Memorial.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Bill Pullman, Jenny Agutter, Simon Callow and Mo Wilde for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rae Morris and Katy J Pearson.
Clive Anderson and Annie MacManus are joined by Indira Varma, Craig Reedie, Jon Holmes and Joy Gregory for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Vieux Farka Touré and Anna Phoebe.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Gina Yashere, Chris Patten, Jen Offord and Andrew O' Neill for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Rosellys.
Anneka Rice and Scottee are joined by Noma Dumezweni, Andi Oliver and Darryl W. Bullock for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kathryn Williams & Ed Harcourt and Tot Taylor.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Ian McMillan, Christina Lamb and Jenny Lecoat for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler and Trombone Shorty.
Clive Anderson and Yasmeen Khan are joined by Lucy Worsley, Lynette Linton, Sadia Azmat and James Vincent for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Hinako Omori and Monophonics.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Dave Stewart, John Waters, Shingai and Ali Official for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ian Shaw and Zaz.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Katherine Parkinson, Jess Phillips, Melissa Johns and Raven Smith for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Leyla McCalla and SOAK.
Anneka Rice and Sara Cox are joined by Stephen K Amos, Joe Alwyn, Claire Goose and Bonnie Wright for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo and Charlie Austen.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Steven Moffat and Janey Godley for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ye Vagabonds and Paul Brady.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Alison Steadman, Ardal O'Hanlon, Cherrelle Skeete and Holly Walsh for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kurt Vile and Honeyglaze.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Charlie Higson, Jenny Sealey, Sian Clifford and Ore Oduba for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kathryn Joseph and Alex Cameron.
Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus are joined by Jack Davenport, Shaparak Khorsandi, Farah Sharp, Jonzi D, Kae Tempest and Lady Nade.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Chris Tarrant, Luke Wright, Lou Sanders and Chloe Duckworth for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mykki Blanco and Father John Misty.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Steve Coogan, Deborah Meaden and Omid Djalili for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Coral and Tenille Townes.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Jack Thorne, Rachel Parris, Seiriol Davies and Kasim Ali for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Joss Stone and Ibibio Sound Machine.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Barry Humphries, Andy Hamilton and Laura Neal for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Pictish Trail and Nilüfer Yanya.
Clive Anderson and Yasmeen Khan are joined by Jade Anouka, Tom Allen, Mark Hodkinson and Count Arthur Strong for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Charles Watson.
Anneka Rice is joined by Philippa Perry, Catherine Bohart, Shobna Gulati and Nicôle Lecky for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Judi Jackson and Mica Millar.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Jim Broadbent, Mark Thomas, Gráinne Maguire and Tim Firth for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jamie Webster and John Shuttleworth.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Isis Davis, Monica Dolan, C.K. McDonnell and Tim Key for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from K.O.G and Anaïs Mitchell.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Greg James, Florence Odumosu, Labi Siffre and Giles Cooper for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from This is the Kit and Florence Odumosu.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Neil Hannon, Michelle Collins, Michael Rosen and Felicity Ward for with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Divine Comedy and Skip Marley.
Clive Anderson and Annie MacManus are by Christopher Eccleston, Emeli Sandé, Richard Strange and Tudur Owen for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Emeli Sandé and Soft Lad.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Kiefer Sutherland, Elizabeth McGovern and Rob Brydon for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Janis Ian and Kiefer Sutherland.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Samantha Morton, Armando Iannucci, Paul Nicholas and Simon Barnes for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Orlando Weeks and Woom.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Donny Osmond, Rebecca Frecknall and James Nesbitt for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Stealing Sheep and The Radiophonic Workshop and Maia Miller-Lewis.
Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus are joined by Trevor Horn, Stewart Lee and Laura Checkley for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mica Paris and Cherise.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice with their pick of Loose Ends 2021. Conversation, comedy and music comes courtesy of an eclectic line up.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Crook and Elvis McGonagall for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Tiger Lillies and Steven Bamidele.
Clive Anderson and George Egg are joined by Elvis Costello, Amelia Bullmore, Natasha Bowen and Dan Saladino for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jaz Delorean and Kay Young.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Tom Jones, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Cariad Lloyd for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sarah Jane Morris and Scrimshire.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined, amongst others, by Sting, Dame Siân Phillips and Harry Hill for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sting and Abi Farrell.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Robert Plant, Kayleigh Llewellyn and Bill Bailey for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita and Frazey Ford.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Sir Rod Stewart, Damon Albarn, Dan Schreiber and Jen Brister for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Damon Albarn and Jordan Rakei.
Clive Anderson and Annie MacManus are joined by Stephen Fry, Bidisha and Polly Creed for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir and Dal:um.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Mike D’Abo, Jayde Adams, Eleanor Tomlinson and Laura Harling for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Julia Biel and Bishi.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are by Daniel Mays, Al Murray, Carla Valentine and Pearl Mackie for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Self Esteem and Gruff Rhys.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Miriam Margolyes, Stevie Van Zandt and Dino Fetscher an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Billy Bragg and MF Robots.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Kimberley Chambers, Sarah Solemani, Alexandra Burke and Lucy Beaumont for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Specials and Kat Eaton.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Alan Johnson, Rufus Hound, Don Letts and Lucy McCormick for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lady Blackbird and Trampolene.
Clive Anderson and Yasmeen Khan are joined by Karen Gillan, Jo Brand, Elis James and Ola Ince for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from José González and Alexis Taylor.
Sara Cox and JP Devlin are joined by Hayley Mills, Bridget Christie, Helen Lewis and Kazvare for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from John Grant and Pokey LaFarge.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Ed Balls, Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Edmondson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rag'n'Bone Man and Emily Barker featuring Frank Turner.
Clive Anderson and Michelle McManus are joined by Val McDermid, Eddi Reader, Sir Geoff Palmer and Mele Broomes for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nova and Kitti.
Clive Anderson and Muriel Gray are joined by Jason Byrne, Lubna Kerr, Pat Nevin and Myra DuBois for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Staves and Brooke Combe.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Samuel West, Natasha Kaplinsky and Chris Bryant for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Will Young and Courtney Marie Andrews.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by musicians Sparks, comedian Iain Stirling, actress Siobhán McSweeney and author Frauke Bagusche for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Yola and Fryars.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by David Crosby, Jamz Supernova, Alfred Enoch and Willy Vlautin for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jackson Browne and Jake Wesley Rogers.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Kenneth Branagh, Lolita Chakrabarti, Jackie Clune and Danny Wallace for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Paul Weller and Enny.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Miles Jupp, Gabrielle Brooks, Janine Irons and Ben Macintyre for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jazz Jamaica and Eoin Glackin.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Les Dennis, Charlotte Philby, Ivanno Jeremiah and Kiri Pritchard-McLean for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Emma-Jean Thackray and Tamaraebi.
Clive Anderson and Yasmeen Khan are joined by Tim Minchin, Karin Slaughter, Jenny Seagrove and Amanda Wilkin for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Glare and Attawalpa.
Clive Anderson is joined by Jenna Russell, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Ben Bailey Smith and Imran Mahmood for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Angelique Kidjo and Rasha Nahas.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by David Rodigan, David Greig, Nadine Shah and Jack Guinness for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Elli De Mon and NNAMDÏ.
Clive Anderson and Anneka Rice are joined by Stephanie Cole, Larry Lamb, Peter Wohlleben and Dawn Walton for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sons of Kemet and Sam Wills.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Chrissie Hynde, Harriet Walter, George Egg and Ríoghnach Connolly for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Chrissie Hynde and The Breath.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Seth Rogen, Lesley Sharp, Gilles Peterson and Derek Griffiths for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Allison Russell and Gruff Rhys.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Mary Beard, Ian Smith, Le Gateau Chocolat and Rakie Ayola for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Glenn Tilbrook and Morcheeba.
Clive Anderson is joined by Graham Norton, Susannah Fielding, Kathryn Williams and Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Madness and Kathryn Williams.
Clive Anderson and Gemma Cairney are joined by Marianne Faithfull, Stephen Mangan, Kristin Hersh and Alexia and Jaye J from the band SVN, for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Matt Sweeney and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Lainey Wilson.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Stacey Dooley, Maureen Beattie, Kelly Hoppen and Adjani Salmon for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Coral and Maths Time Joy x Rich.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Emma Kennedy, Kate Humble, Errollyn Wallen and Katy Wix for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Billie Marten and Evans McRae.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Michael Mosley, Yasmeen Khan and Tez Ilyas for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi and Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Lynda La Plante, Daliso Chaponda and Saima Mir for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Dom La Nena and Lava La Rue.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Richard Thompson, Rebecca Hall, Neil Morrissey and Jack Steadman for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bombay Bicycle Club and Tune-Yards.
Clive Anderson is joined by Harlan Coben, Jessica Fostekew, Loyiso Gola and Chris Brookmyre for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves and Emily Moment.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by John Simm, Jon Culshaw and Nicola Roberts for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lake Street Dive and Jimmy Regal and the Royals.
This edition of Loose Ends was recorded on Friday 12th March 2021.
Emma Freud, YolanDa Brown and Gemma Cairney are joined by Lorraine Kelly, Katherine Ryan, Lynn Ruth Miller and Bishi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bishi and Shingai.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Sheila Hancock, Alice Cooper, Humza Arshad and Pippa Evans for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.With music from Gizmo Varillas featuring Orkesta Mendoza and Georgia Van Etten.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Hugh Bonneville, Michael Cashman, Sian Clifford and Omari Douglas for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tongue Fu and Mosa Wild.
Clive Anderson and Sindhu Vee are joined by Professor Alice Roberts, Josh Widdicombe, Dr Jonathan Clements and Omari McQueen for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sabiyha and Hafdis Huld.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Sylvester McCoy, Zoe Adjonyoh and Angela Scanlon for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Perfume Genius and Soothsayers.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Petula Clark, Marian Keyes, Melanie Challenger and Kingsley Ben-Adir for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Steve Earle and Tunng.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Stewart Lee, Angela Hartnett and Salena Godden, for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from KT Tunstall and Sleaford Mods.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Tony Robinson, Rebeca Omordia and Noel Clarke guests for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Passenger and Ayanna Witter-Johnson.
Clive Anderson is joined by Lord Peter Hain, Ralf Little, Adil Ray and Mari Hannah for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Calexico and Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined, amongst others, by Cerys Matthews, Adjoa Andoh and Melissa Johns for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox pick their Loose Ends highlights from 2020. Conversation, comedy and music comes courtesy of an eclectic line up.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Gemma Arterton, Jamie Cullum and Jenna Coleman for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Loudon Wainwright III and Jamie Cullum.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Lisa McGee, Ed Harcourt, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Monet X Change for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ed Harcourt and Tom Sanders.
Clive Anderson and Sindhu Vee are joined by Gary Wilmot, Barbara Dickson, Megan McCubbin and Martin Latham for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tankus The Henge and Erland Cooper.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Juliet Gilkes Romero, Kevin Le Gendre, Welly O’Brien and Richard Herring for with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mica Paris and This is The Kit.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Ian Hislop. Stuart Turton and Andrew Cotter for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ben Whishaw and Katy J Pearson.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Stephen Fry, David Arquette, Bidisha and Matt Forde for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Marika Hackman and Judi Jackson.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by The Hairy Bikers, Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss, Lucy O'Brien and Amir Wilson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sting & Melody Gardot.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Sir Cliff Richard, Elvis Costello and Grace Dent for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sir Cliff Richard and Jazz Morley.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Damon Albarn, Bill Bryson, Jenny Landreth and Mark Radcliffe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Adrianne Lenker and Tré Burt.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by John Cooper Clarke, Shabaka Hutchings, Vanessa Kisuule and Pippa Bennett-Warner for a mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from L.A Salami and Leenalchi.
Amendment: Leenalchi are part of K-Music 2020 - London’s Festival of Korean Music, which runs from 30 October to 16 November.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Paul Merton, Joanna Scanlan, Mawaan Rizwanan and Dawinder Bansal for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Richard Thompson and Sarathy Korwar.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Kae Tempest, Jim Moir and Magid Magid for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Amythyst Kiah and Lack of Afro.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Adrian Lester, Mary-Ann Ochota, Alice Levine and Nina Sosanya for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Colorama and Loony.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined,by Dara Ó Briain, Nina Conti, David Nichols and Jamz Supernova for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Allergies and 47 Soul.
Clive Anderson and Sindhu Vee are joined by Celia Imrie, Christopher Hampton, Vinnie Jones and Nick Hayes for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Angelique Kidjo and Park Jiha.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Jane Birkin, Billy Ocean, James Dean Bradfield and James Acaster for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Suzanne Vega and Billy Ocean.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Sandi Toksvig, Yotam Ottolenghi and Jules Buckley for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Gregory Porter and Bumi Thomas.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Ruthie Henshall, Harry Hill, Tom Ellis for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Katie Melua and The Golden Dregs.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined, by Alan Cumming, Karen Koren, Gbemisola Ikumelo and Fern Brady for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Camille O' Sullivan and Callum Easter.
Nikki Bedi and JP Devlin are joined by Lesley Manville, Linda Grant, DBC Pierre and Tahmima Anam for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tawiah and Nilüfer Yanya.
Nikki Bedi and Christopher Eccleston are joined by Jade Anouka, Ben Hart, Sindhu Vee and Raphael Rowe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Black Pumas and Lady Blackbird.
Studio Manager: Emma Harth Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Chris Frantz, Mary Coughlan and Kayode Ewumi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Courtney Marie Andrews and Winston Surfshirt.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Ian Stone, Irini Tzortzoglou, Ned Glasier and Kiri Pritchard-McLean for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Samantha Crain and Monophonics.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined, by Julian Clary, Amma Asante and Dotty for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Lemon Twigs and Leonie Evans.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Bernardine Evaristo, Himesh Patel and Tudur Owen for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Birds of Chicago and Leyla McCalla.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Jeanette Winterson, Nigel Slater, Travis Alabanza and Luke Wright for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nadine Shah and Beans on Toast.
Photo: Mark Vessey
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Charles Dance, Philippa Forrester and Dan Glass for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from and Celeste and Arlo Parks.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Siobhan Finneran, Afua Hirsch, Andrew Ridgeley and Annabel Scholey for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lady Sanity and Denai Moore.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Annie Mac, Winsome Pinnock and Dan Schreiber for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Last Poets and LA Priest.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Twiggy, Imelda May and Juno Dawson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nick Lowe and Lainey Wilson.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Sally Phillips, Felicity Cloake and Babou Ceesay for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Steve Earle and Rioghnach Connolly and Ellis Davies.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Grayson Perry, Rafe Spall and Janey Godley for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jacob Collier and Laville.
Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined by Christopher Eccleston, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Big Zuu for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Richard Thompson and Vilray.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Mel Giedroyc, Brian Conley and John Niven for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Self Esteem and Melissa Laveaux.
Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined by Matthew Kelly, Lenny Abrahamson and Monique Roffey for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Anna Calvi and Marker Starling.
Producer: Sukey Firth Studio manager: Donald MacDonald
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Dame Harriet Walter, Matt Lucas and Claire Rutter for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Emily Barker and Jake Wesley Rogers.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Marcus Mumford, Ainsley Harriott and Spencer Jones for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Glenn Tilbrook and Ady Suleiman.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Kristin Scott Thomas, Jim Naughtie and Robert Popper for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bill Ryder-Jones and Maia Miller-Lewis.
Nikki Bedi and Sara Cox are joined by Amrita Acharia, Pete Paphides and Jimmy Akingbola for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bombay Bicycle Club.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Anneka Rice, Conrad Murray, Sebastian Barry and Niamh Algar for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Yazmin Lacey, and Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Hugo Weaving, Tamsin Greig, Rachael Stirling and Samra Habib for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Julia Biel and Alex Rex.
Nikki Bedi and Athena Kugblenu are by joined by Vicki Pepperdine, Tanita Tikaram, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Suzi Ruffell for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Unnati and Joy Crookes.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by actors Dawn French, Brian Cox and Chris Addison for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Seth Lakeman. and Cherise
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Jennifer Saunders, Francesca Annis, Haydn Gwynne and Kwame Asante for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Flavia Coelho. and Pictish Trail
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Anne Reid, Gemma Whelan, Ben Bailey Smith and Edith Bowman for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from SOAK and Debris & Jammz.
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Rebecca Front, Sheila Atim, John Kani and Andrew Hunter Murray for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.. With music from The Hu and The Lost Hours.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Richard Armitage, Clara Amfo, Rufus Jones and SJI Holliday for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Shovels & Rope and Daoirí Farrell.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Britt Ekland, Rob Delaney, Alexei Sayle and Lucy Hawking for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Stephen Schwartz and Luke Brady and Rachael & Vilray.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by David Baddiel, Njambi McGrath, John Shuttleworth and Paul Chahidi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Reuben James and Pepe Belmonte.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by David Threlfall, Jodie Prenger, Angela Barnes and Bosh! for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Georgia.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Claudia Hammond, Mark Thomas, Nikita Gill and Mike Batt for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Alice Russell and Rachael Dadd.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi pick their Loose Ends highlights from 2019. Conversation comes courtesy of an eclectic line up: Michael Sheen, Prue Leith, Mavis Staples, Daisy May & Charlie Cooper, Ross Noble and many more.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Petula Clark, Rick Stein, Jayde Adams and Shazia Mirza for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Angus Munro and Chris Holland & Siobhan Parr.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Mackenzie Crook, Paterson Joseph, Ruth Madeley and Penn Jillette for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Simply Red.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by M. Night Shyamalan, Amelia Bullmore, Rob Brydon and Ayesha Casely-Hayford for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Tiger Lillies and Jungle Brown.
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Niamh Cusack, Laura Dockrill and Kim Longinotto for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rick Wakeman and Marry Waterson & Emily Barker.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Emily Maitlis, Frank Skinner, Paul Charles and Jeff Kinney for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Calexico and Iron & Wine and Natacha Atlas.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Paul Merton, Lucian Msmati, Cathie Pilkington and Samantha Baines for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sharky and Odette Peters.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Adrian Dunbar, Raymond Blanc, Desiree Burch and Dickie Beau for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Delines and Cleveland Watkiss.
Producer: Tim Bano
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Jeff Goldblum, Sir Trevor McDonald and Tricky for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra and Tawiah.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Peter James, Bridget Minamore, Peter Bradshaw and Sophie Duker for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Hannah Williams & The Affirmations and Jake Wesley Rogers.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson is joined by Ross Noble, Kara Tointon, and Stephen Chbosky for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Roberto Fonseca.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Patricia Cornwell, Lucia Lucas, Daisy May & Charlie Cooper and Tracie Bennett for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nine Below Zero and Josin.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Patricia Hodge, Hanif Kureishi and Rhik Samadder for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Skinny Pelembe.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Christopher Eccleston, Louis Theroux and Sh!t Theatre for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Squeeze.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Jason Isaacs, Karla Crome, Cerys Matthews, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Dizraeli and Vicente Garcia.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Katherine Parkinson, Gary Crosby and Cora Bissett for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Gary Crosby.
Producer: Tim Bano
Nikki Bedi and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Ben Elton, Mark Strong, Gemma Cairney and Frans Bak for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ashley Henry Trio and Lainey Wilson.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Nikki Bedi and YolanDa Brown are joined by Emma Kennedy and Jay Rayner for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Teskey Brothers & Robyn Hitchcock.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined by Frances Barber, Edwyn Collins, Stephen K. Amos and London Hughes for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Edwyn Collins and Baba Brinkman.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Christopher Biggins, Nish Kumar and Jackie Kay for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Blue Rose Code and Amy Lou.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Nikki Bedi and Deborah Frances-White are joined by Aisling Bea, John Finnemore and Konnie Huq for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Terry Reid and Marika Hackman.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Nikki Bedi and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Tez Ilyas, Roisin Conaty and Dean Atta for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rozi Plain and Bill Ryder-Jones.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined by Eve Myles, Michael Dapaah, Doon Mackichan and Richard Strange for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Aldous Harding and Lady Sanity.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Kevin Bishop, Mo Gilligan, Jasmine Lee-Jones, and Charlotte Philby. With music from DJ Yoda and Nilüfer Yanya.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by George Benson, Carleen Anderson, Maria Friedman and David Morrissey for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lisa Knapp and Carleen Anderson.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Bryn Terfel, Brian Bilston and Marina Sirtis for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jesca Hoop.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Lolita Chakrabarti, Indira Varma, Ayisha Malik, and Lynette Linton for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jorja Smith and Ida Mae.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Martha Plimpton, Lou Sanders, Emily Watson and Nels Abbey for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ady Suleiman and Arlo Day.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Dom Joly, Neil Hannon, Giles Cooper and Tilly Collins for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Divine Comedy and Jordan Rakei.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined, amongst others, by Renee Fleming, Armistead Maupin and Rina Fatania for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from PP Arnold.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Samin Nosrat, Hattie Morahan, Susan Hill and David Quantick for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Hayley Atwell, Wendell Pierce, Martin Plimmer and Petra Massey for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Angus Munro and Rachel Chinouriri.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Russell T Davies, Jon Ronson, Matthew Sweet and Shelina Permalloo for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Loyle Carner and Six The Musical.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Michael Sheen, Sudha Bhuchar and Alex Horne for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Marty Wilde and SK Shlomo.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Nikki Bedi and YolanDa Brown are joined by Kiefer Sutherland, Bill Pullman and Andi Oliver for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Angélique Kidjo and Kiefer Sutherland.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Prue Leith, Danielle de Niese, Deborah Frances-White and Samson Kayo for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from K.O.G & The Zongo Brigade.
Producer: Tim Bano
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Emma Bunton, Daisy Haggard and Toyah for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Peter Doherty.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Marc Maron, Mavis Staples, Judy Craymer and Anita Anand for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rodrigo y Gabriela and Ray BLK.
Producer: Tim Bano
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by singer Will Young, actress Zawe Ashton, children's author Francesca Simon and poet Murray Lachlan Young for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lee Fields and The Expressions and Leyla McCalla.
Producer: Tim Bano
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Bonnie Tyler, Angellica Bell, Mark Benton and Paul Mayhew-Archer for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Yamato and Bonnie Tyler.
Producer: Tim Bano
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Michael Ball, Alex Kingston, Jocelyn Jee Esien and Francis Rossi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali and Laville.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Richard Curtis, Anne Washburn, Emily Dean and Daniel Lawrence Taylor for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ibibio Sound Machine and Self Esteem.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson is joined by Steven Knight, Sophie Thompson, Shaun Williamson and Elf Lyons for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from 10cc and Dhafer Youssef.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Paul Whitehouse, Alison Jackson, Alexei Sayle and Tana French for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra and Jacob & Drinkwater.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Sophie Okonedo, Tcheky Karyo, Carlo Rovelli and Andi Osho for with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from John Grant and DuBlonde.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Trevor Horn, Bonnie Langford, David Suchet and Apphia Campbell for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Gavin Greenaway and Greentea Peng.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Rich Hall, Tamara Harvey, Layton Williams and Michelle Collins for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Adrianne Lenker and Tiny Ruins.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Natalie Ibu, Ade Adepitan, Jonathan Bailey and Kieran Hodgson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Eddi Reader and Ché Lingo.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Sheila Ravenscroft, Dave Gorman, Anna Jordan and Angela Barnes for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Fatima and Lisa O' Neill.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Tim Roth, Mark Bonnar, Ahir Shah and Rose Matafeo for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Zara McFarlane and Marker Starling.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Lesley Sharp, Rebecca Front, Ishy Din and Omar Meziane for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Art Brut and Novelist.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi pick their Loose Ends highlights from 2018. Conversation, comedy and music comes courtesy of an eclectic line up: Hugh Grant, Catherine Tate, Janis Ian, David Sedaris and many more.
Producer: Sukey Firth
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Donovan, David Mitchell, Maureen Lipman and Gillian Burke for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Donovan and Tankus The Henge.
Producer: Tim Bano
Nikki Bedi and YolanDa Brown are joined by Sue Johnston, Dan Schreiber and Lauren Child for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Kingdom Choir and The Burning Hell.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Jim Broadbent, Meera and Jackie Hagan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jon Hopkins and Tarantina.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Sir Michael Parkinson, Andy Nyman, Cariad Lloyd and Felicity Cloake for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jalen N'Gonda and Luke Sital-Singh.
Producer: Tim Bano
Sara Cox and Emma Freud are joined by Sir Cliff Richard, Sophie Hannah, Suba Das and René Redzepi for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sir Cliff Richard and Ed Harcourt.
Producer: Tim Bano
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Mark Knopfler, Nina Wadia, Kate Humble and Liam Charles for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mark Knopfler.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Ross Noble, Daniel Mays and Beverley Knight for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Camille O'Sullivan and Beverley Knight.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Freddie Flintoff, Gloria Obianyo, The Hairy Bikers and Ben Miller for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mutual Benefit and Jazz Morley.
Producer: Tim Bano
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Andrea Riseborough, Michael Connelly, Colin Morgan and Ariane Sherine for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Baxter Dury and Kojey Radical.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Sue Perkins, Ian Rankin, Nina Sosanya and Schalk Bezuidenhout for with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Delgres and The Breath.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Jessica Hynes, John Simpson, Edward Carey and Atiha Sen Gupta for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lake Street Dive and Tawiah.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Fay Weldon, Clare Perkins, Mark Kermode and Ekow Eshun for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sarathy Korwar and Her's.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Jeff Goldblum, Graham Norton, Adrian Lester and Rosemary Shrager for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.
Producer: Paula McGinley
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Lucy Worsley, Steve White, Jon Plowman and Adam Kashmiry for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Anthony Joseph and Jimmy Galvin.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Joan Armatrading, Professor Michael Scott, Dr Phil Hammond and Arinze Kene for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Joan Armatrading.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
Nikki Bedi and Sara Cox are joined by Simon Beaufoy, Cerys Matthews, Jill Johnson and Rebecca Trehearn for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Coral, Chilly Gonzales and Rebecca Trehearn.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined by Phil Nichol, Priyanga Burford, Daliso Chaponda and Jack Monroe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Laura Misch and Marine.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson, Sara Cox, Arthur Smith and Nikki Bedi get out and about beyond the festivals in Edinburgh...
Producer: The Loose Ends Team.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Ruth Jones, Jennifer Kidwell & Scott R Sheppard, Athena Kugblenu and Olaf Falafel for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert and Daniel Martinez Flamenco.
Produced by The Loose Ends Team.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Julie Hesmondhalgh, Su Pollard, Gbolahan Obisesan and Jayde Adams for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tracyanne & Danny and Bala Baile.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Nana Mouskouri, Sam Claflin, Dean Atta and Sindhu Vee for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kathryn Joseph and XamVolo.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Barry Humphries, Michael Palin, Kelli O'Hara and Cherrelle Skeete for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Calypso Rose and Dinosaur.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Dick and Dom, Tai Shan Schierenberg, Alex Wheatle and Charlie Murphy for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Gengahr and Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Nikki Bedi and Scottee are joined by Janis Ian, Tasmina Perry, Tyrone Huntley and Siobhan McSweeney for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jake Shears and Janice Ian.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Frank Skinner, Nicola Walker and Craig Cash for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Meklit and Abatwa.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Peter Hain, Joanna Scanlan, Alex Lawther and Salena Godden for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Oi Va Voi and Sabiyha.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by David Sedaris, Erica Whyman, Elis James and Courtney Act and for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Gruff Rhys and Paul White.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Robert Harris, Patricia Cumper, Rhashan Stone and Sunetra Sarker for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rostam and Anna Leone.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Paterson Joseph, Shirley Manson, Thomasina Miers, Bobby Crush and Mike Birbiglia for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nick Lowe.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Kenney Jones, Colm Toibin, Debbie Wiseman and Jon Sopel for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Etienne Charles and Tuuletar.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Eddie Marsan, Dean Burnett and Split Britches for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mary Gauthier and Charles Watson.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Robert Webb, Jake Shears, Jade Anouka and David Almond for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tankus The Henge and The Savannahs.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Don McLean, Amanda Abbington and In-Sook Chappell for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kimmie Rhodes and The Magic Numbers.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Sheila Reid, Juno Dawson, Hugh Dennis and Sean Gandini for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Manic Street Preachers and Melissa Laveaux.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Martin Freeman, Irvine Welsh, Diane Morgan and Sarah Phelps for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lisa Stansfield and The Turbans.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Lee Mack, Sharon D Clarke, Brett Anderson and Yolanda Mercy for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from George Ezra and Imarhan.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by John Lloyd, Tom Fletcher, Bob and Roberta Smith and Tiff Stevenson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from JD McPherson and Kadialy Kouyate.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Rupert Graves, Tom Burke, Garry Robson and Sandhya Suri for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rae Morris and Nilüfer Yanya.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Timothy Spall, Phill Jupitus, Monica Dolan and Philip Norman for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Iron & Wine and Graham Fellows.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Sean Hayes, John Simm, Jessica Swale and Bridget Christie for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ezra Furman and The Visions and Geowulf.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Sylvia Syms, Mark Thomas, Kimberley Chambers and Mitu Misra for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Oumou Sangare and Julia Biel.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Phil Gayle are joined by Stephen Mangan, Juliet Stevenson, Arabella Weir and Luke Wright for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from GoGo Penguin and Poppy Ackroyd.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Jack Jones, Warwick Davis, Sarah Hadland and Tim Cowbury for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Go! Team and Sheila Atim.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Tony Robinson, David Olusoga, Tom Kerridge and Phyllis Logan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Son of Sam and Penniless Cove.
Producer: Tim Bano.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi pick their Loose Ends highlights from 2017. Conversation, comedy and music comes courtesy of an eclectic line up: Gina Yashere, Jason Isaacs, Stephen Fry, Sir Trevor McDonald, Stormzy, Dave Johns, Frank Gardner, Meera Syal, Rupert Everett, Margaret Cho, Noel Clarke, Jayde Adams, Frank Skinner, Ibibio Sound Machine, Mica Paris, Sampha, Brandy Clark and Rick Wakeman.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
Clive Anderson is joined by Bill Bailey, Joe Lycett, Shappi Khorsandi and Josie Naughton for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mica Paris and The Hempolics.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Al Murray, Ellie Kendrick and Spencer Jones for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Dave and The Surfing Magazines.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Denis Lawson, Paulette Randall, Hossein Amini and Michael Buffong for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Tricky and Jazz Morley.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Professor Brian Cox, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Paul Chowdhry for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Dan Gillespie Sells and Lail Arad & JF Robitaille.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Stormzy, Margaret Cho, Peter Bowker and Dan Stevens for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Zara McFarlane and Holly Macve.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by The Hairy Bikers, Anna Ptaszynski, Sathnam Sanghera and Travis Alabanza for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Lemon Twigs.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Jason Isaacs, Michaela Strachan, Timothy West and Phil Wang for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from !!! (Chk Chk Chk) and Anoushka Lucas.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Sir David Jason, Rachel O'Riordan, Miranda Kaufmann and Nikki Amuka-Bird for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Weezer.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Jenson Button, Frank Skinner, Rupert Goold and Reverend Billy for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Brandy Clark and Trio Da Kali.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Jessica Raine, Kevin Bishop, Linda Lewis and Chris Thorpe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bedouine and Siv Jakobsen.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined by Tim Minchin, David Bryan, A.L. Kennedy and Joseph Barnes-Phillips for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Benjamin Zephaniah & The Revolutionary Minds and Susanne Sundfor.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Vince Cable, John Thomson, Simon Amstell and Sudha Bhuchar for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton and Josh Ritter.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Christopher Eccleston are joined by John O'Farrell, Ore Oduba, Ria Jones and Stephen Harris for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Squeeze.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Phil Gayle are joined by P.P. Arnold, Camille O' Sullivan, Michael Frayn and Adam Kay for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Amadou & Mariam and Micah P Hinson.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Alan Johnson, Zinnie Harris, Ursula Martinez and Twayna Mayne for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kathryn Joseph and Pictish Trail.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Isla Fisher, Selina Thompson, Dave Johns and Sage Francis and B. Dolan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy from the Edinburgh Festivals. With music from Dorec-a-belle and Sage Francis and B. Dolan.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Nikki Bedi is joined by actor Rupert Everett, OMD's Andy McCluskey and broadcaster and journalist Bidisha for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from OMD and Thabo.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Sara Cox and Christopher Eccleston are joined by Gary Numan, Norman Jay, Dermot Kavanagh and Alice Lowe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Fantastic Negrito and The Ska Vengers.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Nikki Bedi and Scottee are joined by Steven Berkoff, Ciaran Hinds, Sofie Hagen and Andrew O'Neill for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nomade Orquestra and Tanzania Albinism Collective.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Francesca Martinez are joined by Danny Brocklehurst, David Sedaris, Amma Asante and Akala for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Miles From Kinshasa and Miss Hope Springs.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Stephen Fry, Geri Horner, Martin Bell and Gina Yashere for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Portico Quartet and Cody ChesnuTT.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Alice Cooper, Eddie Izzard and Tape Face for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy With music from Elkie Brooks and Poppy Ajudha.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Brian Blessed, Nadiya Hussein, Sara Pascoe and Andy Zaltzman for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mercury Rev and Sweet Baboo.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Brendan Gleeson, Anita Anand, Richard Bean and Danny Wallace for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mokoomba and Kathryn Williams.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Joe Thomas, Darryl DMC McDaniels, Thomas Dolby and Rose Matafeo for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Voices of the Amazon.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Tony Adams, Jane Horrocks, Steve Earle, Emily Barker and Reggie Watts for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Meera Syal, Anthony Head, Alistair McGowan and Rhyannon Styles. With music from Ron Sexsmith and Mykki Blanco.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Graham Linehan, Frances Barber, Dominic Dromgoole and Katherine Ryan for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from MF Robots and Eivør.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Ray Winstone, Emma Donoghue, Adrian Edmondson and Stephen Unwin for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Bill Callahan and Boo Hewerdine.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Howard Jacobson, Joe Boyd, Gaia Vince and Vivienne Acheampong for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Orchestra Baobab and Her's.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Sophie Okonedo, Mica Paris, Stephen Mangan and John Grant for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Mica Paris and Joe Goddard.
Producer: Debbie Kibride.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by John Bishop, Simon Bird, Daniel Mays and Dawn O' Porter for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from António Zambujo and Maia.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Kathryn Hunter, Vika Bull, Le Gateau Chocolat and Kiri Pritchard-McClean for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kevin Morby, Vika Bull and Le Gateau Chocolat.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by David Tennant, Don Warrington, Kurt Jackson and Lucy McCormick for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rhiannon Giddens and Samantha Crain.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by David Haig, Nicky Campbell, Lashana Lynch and Geoff Norcott for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from George McCrae.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Sir Trevor McDonald, Alison Moyet, Harry Hill, Kurupt FM and James Rhodes for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Alison Moyet and James Rhodes.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Josie Lawrence, Sarah Kendall, Daniel Cole and Mae Martin for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Ibibio Sound Machine and Courtney Marie Andrews.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Goldie, Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, John Tiffany and Dr Miriam Stoppard for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Johnny Flynn and Nerija.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Owen Sheers, Jatinder Verma, James Brown and Eline Van Der Velden for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Omar and John Shuttleworth.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Shane Richie, Daniel Pinchbeck, Angela Barnes and Christian O'Connell for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Flavia Coelho and Deep Throat Choir.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Rufus Hound, Kerry Howard, Frank Gardner and Josette Bushell-Mingo for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Timothy B. Schmit and Big Thief.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Vicky McClure, Ken Hom, Mark Thomas and Bilal Zafar for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Sampha and Loyle Carner.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Lucy Worsley, Reggie Yates, Tayo Aluko and Bruce Guthrie for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Fairport Convention and Reuben Hollebon.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Phil Gayle are joined by Emily Watson, Lord John Bird, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Rick Wakeman for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Rick Wakeman and Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Hugh Dennis, Bridget Christie, Liz Carr and Arinzé Kene for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from L.A Salami and Ciaran Lavery.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by Peter Doherty, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Shobna Gulati and Fisher Stevens for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Peter Doherty and Jain.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Jean-Michel Jarre, Paul O'Grady, Edith Bowman and Daisy-May Hudson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Lemon Twigs and Marker Starling.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Michael Palin, Elaine Paige and Ralf Little for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Beth Orton and Anoushka Shankar.
Producer: Debbie Kilbride.
Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by William Bell, Elaine C Smith, Amy Lennox and Allegra McEvedy for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from William Bell and Lewis & Leigh.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Jane Horrocks, Harry Redknapp and Susan Calman for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Cliff Richard and Lake Street Dive.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Alison Lapper, DJ Semtex and Jack Monroe for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Norma Winstone and Orkesta Mendoza.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Ian Rankin, Anne-Marie Duff, Richard Gadd and James Grieve for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Marcus King Band and Nick Harper.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderon and Sara Cox are joined by Harry Hill, Bonnie Greer, Barry Cryer and Malachi Kirby for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lee Fields & The Expressions and Haley Bonar.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson is joined by Ron Howard, Noah Hawley, Gordon Ramsay and Barrie Rutter for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Martin Taylor and Scritti Politti.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Dame Edna Everage, Alan Carr, Leonie Orton and Jake Arnott for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kefaya and Antonio Forcione and Sarah Jane Morris.
Producer: Sukey Firth.