Midweek: Diverse Conversation

This week Anita Anand is joined by actor/producer David Westhead and Thapelo Motsumi, a South African photographer talk about a photography exhibition at the Oxo Gallery in London, 'Wembley to Soweto' which features images taken by young people from townships South Africa; Kamin Mohammadi, who fled Iran in 1979 talks her book 'The Crypress Tree'; Pauline Black, lead singer with 2-Tone band The Selector on her life as a black child adopted by a white family in 50s Britain; and Paul Magid of The Flying Karamazov Brothers, the anarchic Californian jugglers, who are performing at London's Vaudeville Theatre.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Rev Nicholas Holtam, of St Martin in the Fields, talking about his new book 'The Art of Worship'; former US Marine Rye Barcott on his book 'It Happened on the Way to War'; William Rees-Mogg, former Editor of The Times who has written his memoirs; and Sue Tilly, muse to artist Lucian Freud on her 80s catwalk show at the Southbank's Vintage festival.

This week Libby Purves is joined by singer, actor and performance artist Justin Vivian Bond, who is performing at the Soho Theatre; critic Ruth Leon, the widow of theatre critic Sheridan Morley, who writes about their life together in a memoir, 'But What Comes Next?'; Kenneth Cranham is the actor currently appearing in 'The Cherry Orchard' at The National Theatre; and Noel Tovey, choreographer and campaigner who is telling his life story 'Little Black Bastard', as part of the Origins - Festival of First Nations 2011.

This week Libby Purves is joined by nursing sister Princess Campbell was one of a pioneering group of African-Caribbean workers who began to challenge barriers of prejudice in the UK; Simon Day is the stand-up comedian from 'The Fast Show' who publishes his memoirs, 'Comedy and Error'; Claire Peake, daughter of Mervyn Peake, who has written about her life with her father in 'Under a Canvas Sky'; and Henry Winkler, aka 'The Fonz' who is in the UK to promote a new newspaper for children, 'First News'.

This week Libby Purves is joined by craftmaker Phil Davison who has revived the ancient art of cross-stitch; Sylvia Holder who founded the the Venkatraman Memorial Trust to help a village in India; Iris Krass, was fifteen when she was interned by the Japanese during the Second World War; and Bill Collison, of Bill's Produce Store on his new cookbook.

This week Libby Purves is joined by opera singer Meeta Raval who is one of the contestants in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition; Kate Allatt's life was torn apart when she suffered a massive stroke leading to locked-in syndrome in which she was totally paralysed; Gene David Kirk is Artistic Director of London's Jermyn Street Theatre; and Nell Gifford is the founder of Gifford's Circus.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Carol Furtado, lead dancer in 'The Merchants of Bollywood' at London's Peacock Theatre; Colour Sgt Simon Panter, who features in 'Our War' on BBC Three; singer Vince Hill on his memoir 'Another Hill to Climb'; and Barry McGuigan, the former World Featherweight boxing champion, known as 'The Clones Cyclone', on his memoir, 'Cyclone: My Story'.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition at Cambridge University and is an expert in bird behaviour; Bill Roedy, the former Chairman and Chief Executive of MTV; actor Edward Petherbridge; and Steve Greenhaugh, who worked as an RSPCA inspector for twenty-eight years.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Dr Kevin Jones, an NHS Consultant and and sometime comedian, on a new short film 'Dying for a Laugh', in which comedians reflect (and joke) about the taboo subject of death and dying; stuntman and director Vic Armstrong, stunt double for Indiana Jones, on his book 'The True Adventures of The World's Greatest Stuntman'; Vidal Sassoon on a new film 'Vidal Sassoon - The Movie' about his life from his East End routes, to his beginnings on Bond Street and ultimately to international success and celebrity.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Jon Cousins, who set up the website 'Moodscope' to help people manage their moods; Paul Broda, whose memoir 'Scientist Spies', centres on the lives of his mother, father and stepfather, the latter two spies who passed nuclear secrets to the Russians in the 1940s; Suggs, the Madness frontman who is performing his first solo show 'LIVE SUGGS! The Rambunctious Recollections of the Madness Front Man' on a UK tour; Patsy Rodenburg, Head of Voice at the Guildhall School who is about to direct Richard III.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Baroness Anne Jenkin who is taking part in 'Live Below the Line', which is challenging people to spend just one pound a day on food and drink for five days; Walter Schwarz, who was The Guardian's foreign correspondent from 1964 to the 1990s, talks about his memoir 'The Ideal Occupation'; actress Doreen Mantle, whose latest role is in a production of Ibsen's Little Eyolf at London's Jermyn Street Theatre; and make-up artist to the stars, Gary Cockerill, on his autobiography, 'From Coal Dust to Stardust.

Libby Purves is joined by Wayne Bartholomew who is taking part in a Channel 4 series called The Hotel; singing coach Mary King; poet Roger Garfitt and landscape architect Randle Siddeley.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Dion Dublin, Robert Irwin, Gary Wiltshire and Molly Naylor.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Indian musician Raghu Dixit who founded the Raghu Dixit Project, an open house for musicians and artistes from different genres to come together and collaborate; Beata Zatorska who returned to the village in Poland where she was brought up and rediscovered her grandmother's family recipes for her book 'Rose Petal Jam'; Linda Nolan, one of the Nolan sisters, on their memoir 'Survivors'; and Brian Deighton is Head Gardener at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, winners of the annual Christie's Historic Houses Association's 'Garden of the Year Award'.

This week Libby Purves is joined by Joshua Foer who spent a year investigating memory for his book 'Moonwalking with Einstein'; Marianne Talbot talks about caring for her own mother who suffered from dementia in her book 'Keeping Mum'; Dr Tom Renouf, who served in the Black Watch during the 2nd World War on his book 'Black Watch'; and Lydia Carmichael, a former pupil of the Foundling Hospital, whose experiences of being brought up in care there are featured in a new exhibition at London's Foundling Museum.