Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles are joined by Al Murray, best known as The Pub Landlord, he’s also a history buff with a super successful World War II podcast, and he plays the drums.

Alexandra Heminsley found life shifted following a difficult pregnancy, sexual assault and her partner telling her she was going to transition. She joins us.

We also have Saturday Live listener, Doris Remnant, who was seven years old when her family were forced to flee Cairo in 1957 during the Suez conflict. They arrived in France as refugees, with little belongings, to start a new life.

Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter of the Today programme. In his almost 4 decades of journalism he has worked as Europe correspondent, war correspondent and chief correspondent in Washington DC. He reveals his complicated and unconventional childhood.

Patrick Gale chooses his Inheritance Tracks: Kathleen Ferrier singing The Keel Row & Mendelssohn piano trio in C minor.
and your thank you!

Producer Corinna Jones