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Novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach joins Sian and Richard in the studio. Deborah's novel These Foolish Things was adapted into the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

After over 40 years, last week Cathy Kinley retired from her job at one of the smartest bars in London.

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Travel writer Sara Wheeler visits the Forth Rail Bridge and hears about a tribute to those who died among ‘The Briggers’, the men and boys who built the bridge.

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During his career in the City Geraint Anderson started writing an anonymous newspaper column, called City Boy, detailing the excesses and vices of life in that environment. AfterÌýa motorcycle accidentÌýhe changed his life, left his job, quit the column and settled down in the Black Mountains of Wales.

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Mott the Hoople lead singer Ian Hunter chooses 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' by Leslie Hutchinson and one of his own tracksÌý'Life'.

Kevin Mintern was illiterate until his late twenties. He left school at 12 unable to read or write muddling his way through life until his daughter, Cathy, wasÌý7 and began reading herself. It was then that Kevin knew he had to learn.