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Liz Smith
Mark Lawson talks to actress Liz Smith about her life and career. She reflects on her lonely childhood and her days as a single mother struggling to make ends meet as well as her determination to join the acting profession.\n\nSmith got her big break at the age of 50, after being discovered by film director Mike Leigh, but perhaps she's best known as the nation's favourite gran - Nana in the iconic character comedy series, The Royle Family.
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Michael Frayn
Mark Lawson talks to the distinguished playwright and novelist Michael Frayn about his life and 50-year career. In this reflective interview Frayn discusses the craft of writing ...
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Julian Barnes
In a programme first broadcast in 2014, Julian Barnes, whose most recent novel was Levels of Life, a memoir of bereavement following the loss of his wife to cancer, talks candid ...
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Stephen King
Horror writer Stephen King talks to Mark Lawson about his life and work.
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Terry Wogan
Mark Lawson talks to legendary broadcaster Terry Wogan about his life and 50-year career. In this thoughtful interview Terry explores his early years growing up in Ireland, reca ...
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Joanna Trollope
Novelist Joanna Trollope talks to Mark Lawson about creativity, divorce and the inescapable drama of domestic life. Her hugely popular novels include The Rector's Wife, The Choi ...
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John Le Carre
John le Carre converses with Mark Lawson about his fragmented childhood, life in the diplomatic service, working with Alec Guinness and his book A Most Wanted Man. Le Carre work ...
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Mark Gatiss
Mark Lawson talks to writer, actor and comedian Mark Gatiss about his life, career and fulfilling childhood dreams. In this entertaining interview Gatiss explores formative memo ...
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Brian Cox
Mark Lawson talks to Brian Cox, ahead of his lead role in the BBC4 Westminster drama, On Expenses. In this candid interview, Cox talks about his passion for portraying complex a ...
27-05-2025
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Jimmy Mcgovern
Mark Lawson talks to the Emmy and Bafta Award-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern about his life and career in television drama. In this insightful interview McGovern shares his ...
23-04-2025
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Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin talks to Mark Lawson about his life and work, including how his parents and his younger son, who was born with a rare genetic condition resulting in severe learning d ...
15-06-2024
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Richard Wilson
Mark Lawson talks to actor and director Richard Wilson about his life and work. Best known for playing the irascible character of Victor Meldrew in the hit BBC sitcom One Foot i ...
30-11-2021
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Jonathan Pryce
From princes to professors and cardinals to comedians, star of stage and screen Jonathan Pryce is one of Britain's most versatile actors. Here he talks to Mark Lawson about his ...
24-03-2015
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Terry Wogan
Mark Lawson talks to legendary broadcaster Terry Wogan about his life and 50-year career. In this thoughtful interview Terry explores his early years growing up in Ireland, reca ...
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Sanjeev Bhaskar
Mark Lawson talks to Sanjeev Bhaskar about his background and how it inspired him to turn the British Asian experience into comedy.\n\nMark finds out how he made the incongruous ...
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Diana Rigg
Mark Lawson talks to the revered actress Dame Diana Rigg about her life and 50-year career on stage and screen. In this thoughtful interview she explores her early years in Indi ...
23-12-2020
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Michael Parkinson
The interviewer turns interviewee as Michael Parkinson sits in the guest's chair, talking to Mark Lawson about turning to journalism to avoid life in the Yorkshire coalmines, hi ...
19-02-2024
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Barry Cryer
With a comedy career which kicked off in strip clubs, Barry Cryer became a Windmill regular in the 1950s. A brief foray into musicals and the West End stage followed with Expres ...
15-02-2022
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Stephen King
Horror writer Stephen King talks to Mark Lawson about his life and work.
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