Season 1 - 2003 poster

Season 1 - 2003

118 episodes December 27, 2003

Episodes

1 Anthony Minghella Dec 27, 2003 No ratings 2 Professor Colin Blakemore Mar 11, 2004 No ratings 3 Howard Dean May 26, 2004 No ratings 4 Peter Singer Jun 1, 2004 No ratings 5 Derek Walcott Sep 28, 2004 No ratings 6 John Sulston Nov 15, 2004 No ratings 7 Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Dec 13, 2004 No ratings 8 David Attenborough Feb 27, 2005 No ratings 9 Bill Deedes Mar 7, 2005 No ratings 10 Seymour Hersh Mar 18, 2005 No ratings 11 Madeleine Albright Sep 12, 2005 No ratings 12 Michael Palin Sep 19, 2005 No ratings 13 Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sep 26, 2005 No ratings 14 John Simpson Jan 8, 2006 No ratings 15 Robert Winston Jan 15, 2006 No ratings 16 PD James Mar 11, 2006 No ratings 17 Frederick Forsyth Jan 3, 2006 No ratings 18 Griff Rhys Jones Apr 24, 2006 No ratings 19 Julian Fellowes May 8, 2006 No ratings 20 James Lovelock May 22, 2006 No ratings 21 Bill Oddie May 29, 2006 No ratings 22 Philip Roth Jun 3, 2006 No ratings 23 David Baddiel Jul 12, 2006 No ratings 24 Terry Gilliam Jul 23, 2006 No ratings 25 Clive James Jul 31, 2006 No ratings 26 Engelbert Humperdinck Aug 19, 2006 No ratings 27 David Chase Aug 20, 2006 No ratings 28 Jilly Cooper Sep 27, 2006 No ratings 29 Jack Dee Oct 3, 2006 No ratings 30 Alexei Sayle Oct 10, 2006 No ratings 31 Marguerite Patten Oct 17, 2006 No ratings 32 Ridley Scott Oct 22, 2006 No ratings 33 Claudia Roden Oct 24, 2006 No ratings 34 lain Banks Nov 14, 2006 No ratings 35 Terry Pratchett Nov 21, 2006 No ratings 36 Stephen King Dec 11, 2006 No ratings 37 Armando Iannucci Jan 2, 2007 No ratings 38 Ian Rankin Mar 3, 2007 No ratings 39 Nicholas Craig Apr 1, 2007 No ratings 40 The Teletubbies May 26, 2007 No ratings 41 Biddy Baxter May 31, 2007 No ratings 42 Stephen Fry Aug 18, 2007 No ratings 43 Sanjeev Bhaskar Aug 20, 2007 No ratings 44 David Renwick Dec 3, 2007 No ratings 45 Russell T Davies Jan 16, 2008 No ratings 46 Nicholas Parsons Feb 27, 2008 No ratings 47 Rabbi Lionel Blue Mar 5, 2008 No ratings 48 Galton and Simpson Mar 19, 2008 No ratings 49 George Cole Mar 26, 2008 No ratings 50 Barry Cryer Apr 2, 2008 No ratings 51 Liz Smith Jul 14, 2008 No ratings 52 Jonathan Meades Jul 21, 2008 No ratings 53 G.F. Newman Aug 11, 2008 No ratings 54 Melvyn Bragg Sep 27, 2008 No ratings 55 John le Carre Oct 5, 2008 No ratings 56 Michael Parkinson Nov 9, 2008 No ratings 57 Quentin Blake Nov 16, 2008 No ratings 58 Rolf Harris Nov 23, 2008 No ratings 59 Phil Collins Jan 4, 2009 No ratings 60 Maureen Lipman Jan 11, 2009 No ratings 61 Bill Bryson Jan 25, 2009 No ratings 62 Sir Antony Sher Feb 15, 2009 No ratings 63 Mike Leigh Apr 19, 2009 No ratings 64 Ian Hislop May 9, 2009 No ratings 65 William Boyd Aug 30, 2009 No ratings 66 Richard Wilson Sep 30, 2009 No ratings 67 Sir Ranulph Fiennes Nov 14, 2009 No ratings 68 Jane Horrocks Nov 22, 2009 No ratings 69 Imelda Staunton Nov 29, 2009 No ratings 70 Alan Bennett Dec 6, 2009 No ratings 71 A.S. Byatt Dec 13, 2009 No ratings 72 Brian Cox Feb 23, 2010 No ratings 73 Tracey Emin Mar 18, 2010 No ratings 74 Timothy Spall May 10, 2010 No ratings 75 Martin Amis May 23, 2010 No ratings 76 Vanessa Redgrave May 30, 2010 No ratings 77 Sir David Frost Jun 13, 2010 No ratings 78 Julie Walters Oct 31, 2010 No ratings 79 Alison Steadman Nov 7, 2010 No ratings 80 Tom Jones Nov 14, 2010 No ratings 81 Jimmy McGovern Nov 21, 2010 No ratings 82 Simon Russell Beale Dec 24, 2010 No ratings 83 Gilbert and George Feb 3, 2011 No ratings 84 Sir Anthony Caro Feb 9, 2011 No ratings 85 Anne Robinson Feb 28, 2011 No ratings 86 David Mitchell Mar 22, 2011 No ratings 87 Peter Blake Jul 11, 2011 No ratings 88 Diana Rigg Sep 27, 2011 No ratings 89 Rob Brydon Oct 4, 2011 No ratings 90 Michael Frayn Oct 11, 2011 No ratings 91 Alice Cooper Nov 21, 2011 No ratings 92 Frank Skinner Mar 13, 2012 No ratings 93 Terry Wogan Mar 20, 2012 No ratings 94 Graham Norton Mar 26, 2012 No ratings 95 Noel Gallagher Mar 30, 2012 No ratings 96 Mark Gatiss Apr 3, 2012 No ratings 97 Mark Rylance Apr 15, 2012 No ratings 98 Felicity Kendal Apr 22, 2012 No ratings 99 Sean Langan Apr 26, 2012 No ratings 100 Zoe Wanamaker Apr 29, 2012 No ratings 101 Sir Patrick Moore Jan 13, 2013 No ratings 102 Mark Knopfler Mar 3, 2013 No ratings 103 Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais Mar 20, 2013 No ratings 104 Miriam Margolyes Apr 1, 2013 No ratings 105 Michael Ball Apr 7, 2013 No ratings 106 Bob Geldof Oct 6, 2013 No ratings 107 Steve Coogan Nov 12, 2013 No ratings 108 David Bailey Mar 10, 2014 No ratings 109 Joanna Trollope Mar 23, 2014 No ratings 110 Julian Barnes Mar 30, 2014 No ratings 111 Jo Brand Jul 20, 2014 No ratings 112 Michael Morpurgo Nov 16, 2014 No ratings 113 Frances de la Tour Jan 7, 2015 No ratings 114 Celia Imrie Feb 8, 2015 No ratings 115 Kazuo Ishiguro Feb 22, 2015 No ratings 116 Alexander McCall Smith Mar 1, 2015 No ratings 117 Jonathan Pryce Mar 24, 2015 No ratings 118 David Hare Nov 15, 2015 No ratings