First transmitted in 1965, Michael Dean interviews Peter Ustinov about his views on television. Ustinov offers his insight into how it impacts on the audience and reflects on his ambiguous engagement with the medium, before moving on to discuss broader themes.
First transmitted in 1966, Joan Bakewell interviews renowned circus performer Nicolai Poliakov who made his name as 'Coco the Clown'. Coco discusses his life and career, and reveals some of the unwritten 'rules' of clowning.
First transmitted in 1966, Michael Dean talks to Morecambe & Wise about their comedy act; world renowned ballerina Nadia Nerina talks to Joan Bakewell about her work; and Michael Dean talks to British actor Tommy Steele about his developing film acting career.
Russell Braddon looks back at his week
... If I could have been anything, I should like to have been a guitar-playing, motor-racing, professional footballer ... John Peel looks back over his week
... writers have such an easy life, my frieind tell me. No fixed hours. Working at home or where they will. Is it really like that.... ? Godfrey Winn looks back over his week
I consume television and cinema with the indiscriminate abandon of a goat. From the sublimity.'of Kenneth Clark isolating the radium of creative intelligence to John Wayne trumpeting the ethos of the muscled oaf, I am there at the trough saluting and chewing. Gwyn Thomas looks back over his week
Let me die a young man's death not a free from sin tiptoe in candle wax & waning death not a curtains drawn by angels borne ' what a nice way to go ' death Roger McGough looks back over his week
The private life, and the world outside, interact, often unpredictably, in one man's week. Television, on the whole, must stick to facts. One man's week does not. P. J. Kavanagh looks back over his week.
Journalist, broadcaster, ex-Minister of State at the Foreign Office and former Defence Correspondent of The Times Lord Chalfont looks back over his week.
How much does the news you see on the telly or in the papers tell you what is really going on? What are the faults in the system that make Private Eye in the words of Lord Gnome ' an essential link in the fabric of democracy '? Richard Ingrams looks back over his week
Jazz trumpeter, cartoonist, broadcaster, Good Food columnist and humorist Humphrey Lyttelton looks back over his week
Most of my television appearances have been filmed at my home in the country, where I do most of my work. My One Man's Week this week will be a look at my life in London J. B. Priestley looks back over his week
Is conversation killing the art of television? Former Head of Light Entertainment at London Weekend Television and scriptwriter with Marty Feldman and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In Barry Took looks back over his week
Torn between two old enemies, Fleet Street and the House of Commons, Michael Foot , MP, looks back over his week
Wheels to words … Maurice Levinson , London taxi-driver, author and journalist looks back at his week
A tree has many branches and so has the work of Keith Albarn who, if pressed, might define himself as ' a constructivist.' His constructions range from a Fun Palace on the west coast of Scotland to equipment for handicapped children. Keith Albarn looks back over his week
Disc jockey and entertainer Kenny Everett looks back over his week
I can never rest comfortably in any society's status quo. I trust I shall remain permanently in opposition. Derek Jones community militant, newspaper editor, talent scout, and vicar looks back over his week
John Aspinall master gambler and lover of wild animals looks back over his week
Some people need the stimulus of new faces and people, I get that in my work. But there are a few people in my life that I like to see without appointments and without saying sorry for not keeping in touch and sometimes without the need to even talk: just to be with and listen to. Singer Cleo Laine looks back over her week
Patrick - Fifth Earl of Lichfield photographer - restaurateur - fashion designer and schizophrene. ' People think of me as a mad loony rushing about. So I am. I've got so many compartments in my life and I want all of them. It's the way to live for me.'
The radio is sort of a combination of clock, metronome and productivity gauge-if The Archers are on, it must be the baby's bedtime. Radio critic and Liverpool housewife Gillian Reynolds looks back at her week.
People don't know whether to love newspapers or hate them. A newspaperman can find himself both the hero and the villain in the space of one day - let alone a week ...' Michael Finley , Editor of the Kent Messenger, looks back over his week.
Vincent Kane - the well-known radio and television broadcaster in Wales - looks back over his week.
Jack Trevor Story, novelist and scriptwriter, treading the thin line between fact and fiction, his feet firmly planted in the clouds, looks back over his week.
" We have been wanting to get a television critic to do this programme," they said I reckon they're hoping I'll make a fool of myself '- Peter Fiddick of The Guardian exposes his week
This week, Richard Demarco 'That non-stop, wall-to-wall, round-the-clock poet and visionary, whom I tip for Minister of the Arts and Environment in ten years' time...,'
Patrick Murray - collector - looks back over his week. A week enriched by his museum of childhood, the latest news of the Loch Ness monster, and a personal view of flying saucers. ' It's a good job I never collected money - or I'd have put the Bank of England out of business years ago.'
One man's week - one man's weaknesses - one man's weak knees - all will be revealed.'
Nell Dunn , best-selling writer of Up the Junction, Poor Cow and Talking to Women, looks back over her week. ' How to achieve a passionate intimacy and a spiritual space with a man - that is my endeavour.'
Patrick Nuttgens , director of Leeds Polytechnic, is an architect, architectural historian, teacher and broadcaster. He looks back at his week, '... not knowing a few scraps about the whole world, but discovering a whole world in one's immediate surroundings.'
Derek Dougan, Chairman of the Professional Footballers Association and centre-forward for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Ireland looks back over his week.
Derek Cooper works in radio, television and documentary films and writes books (The Bad Food Guide and The Beverage Report) in his spare time. He looks back on a typically crowded week. ' After 21 years in broadcasting I am tending to take things easy these days ...'
John Tavener , composer and conductor, looks back over a week spent at the Little Missenden Festival, a monastery in Kent and lying on his back in the garden.
Molly Parkin , Sunday Times writer, looks back over her week. ' It would be nice to wantonly waste time without the gnawing sense of guilt.'
Arianna Stassinopoulos, undergraduate and President of the Cambridge Union Society, looks back over her week: 'I like being emancipated but I have no desire to be liberated
Ron Geesin. An ordinary human person with three eyes looks back over his week.
John Wells satirist and belle-Iettriste looks back on a week of ' Me, me, me, me, me'.
Chairman of Bodley Head, chairman of Greene, King Brewery, chairman of The European Atlantic Action Committee on Greece, writer, journalist, creative consultant to a television series ... ' I never foresaw what a busy life retirement would mean.' The former Director-General of the BBC looks back on his week.
Alan Bennett -humorist and play-wright looks back over his week. 'The programme may be selected from the following: Whither the Novel? - several prominent used-car dealers discuss where they would put E. M. Forster; "Bride of Wittgenstein" with Oliver Reed as Gilbert Ryle; The Wonderful World of Irving Wardle. '
William Davis, editor of Punch, looks back over his week. William Davis's career began as a junior in a stockbroker's office, which led him into a career as a financial journalist. He wrote one of the most controversial books of the 60s, Three Years Hard Labour. He is a frequent contributor to radio and television, and it is said of him that 'he thinks, speaks and works as though there isn't a moment to lose.'
Frank Carson , comedian, looks back over a week of club nights in Glasgow; the start of a panto season in London; and Blackpool in winter. ' I'll get by with a little help from my friends.'
Spike Milligan. In which a McGonagall-haunted Milligan finds himself on a week-long journey from London to Norwich on the only British Railways train to contain a TV studio, a hotel bedroom, an abominable X-Ray machine, the Scots Guards ... and on which a book is written and Peter Sellers draws.
David Hutchings. The project organiser of the Upper Avon Navigation Trust looks back over seven days last May which culminated with a ceremony performed by HM The Queen Mother following a journey she made up the restored River Avon to Stratford: the first official boat trip on this section of the river for a hundred years. For David Hutchings the event marked the end of ten fraught years and the realisation of a dream.
The phonofiddler and hopeful turtle breeder looks back over a fragment of his life.
The creator of ' The Fosdyke Saga ' and tripe-ist par excellence lays bare a week in Southport last October.
The final subject in the series shares seven soul-searching days with a camera unit in Southern Ireland and sets out to demonstrate how the writer must experience pain and suffering in everyday life before the act of artistic creation can be fully and satisfyingly achieved. A hopeless goal but one worth striving for.