Episode list

In a frank and provocative interview, writer Philip Roth discusses his most recent novel, the monumental impact of 9/11 and his disillusionment with the Bush administration.

David Chase, creative force and writer behind the hit TV series "The Sopranos," on HBO, talks openly and in depth with well known British presenter Mark Lawson about his personal and professional life: what has been his greatest influences, and what exactly it is, that keeps him ticking creatively. Shot on the set of "The Sopranos".

Stephen King has kept more people awake at night then indigestion. His horror and suspense novels, beginning with Carrie in 1974, have sold 350 million copies around the world and most of them have been filmed.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were introduced to each other by TV, meeting while being treated for the lung disease that, in the era before antibiotics, was a plague to generations

If surnames were the labels for the talents people have, a boy born in Leeds in 1935 would have been called not Barry Cryer, but Barry Laughter. For fifty years on stage, television and radio, Cryer has been making people smile.

It's appropriate that the master of espionage fiction should write under an assumed name. David Cornwell became John le Carré when he published his first novels while working in Germany for what he used to call the British Foreign Service.

Phil Collins talks to Mark Lawson about his early life, the early years of Genesis, his hugely successful solo career, and speaks frankly about the tabloid stories that damaged his reputation.