One to One

John McCarthy talks to those who find themselves by design or destiny, to be outside maninstream British Society. Today he talks to hermit, Rachel Denton, in her home in Lincolnshire.

Malcolm Bowden is a creationist and holds many other views that are contrary to mainstream thinking. He sees it as his duty to keep promoting his beliefs.

Paul Lambert lost his youngest brother in 1980, when the bulk carrier MV Derbyshire sank in a typhoon off Japan. He has campaigned tirelessly for safety for bulk carriers ever since.

Peace Campaigner Lindis Percy has been arrested over five hundred and times in pursuit of her course. Now a grandmother she plans never to give up but to hand the baton on to the next generation.

Olivia O'Leary talks to former jockey, Mick Fitzgerald.

Olivia O'Leary talks to Booker Prize winning author, John Banville.

In a new series of One to One, Olivia O'Leary speaks to people who've reached the peak of their careers about how growing older affects their approach to work. In this first programme, Olivia speaks to one of her heroes - the great Russian-Icelandic pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy. He left the Soviet union in the sixties, and has played a vast repertoire of the greatest piano music on stages all over the world. Ashkenazy is now conductor laureate with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Kate Silverton explores how our fear of failure can limit life choices and talks to businesswoman, Kate Hardcastle.

Kate Silverton talks to Composer Raymond Yiu about how fear of failure can impact on the choices we make

Over the course of three interviews the journalist Sarfraz Manzoor has been exploring the risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it public, something he’s done in a memoir, and throughout his journalism. This week he meets Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of what was considered to be the first ever misery memoir, 'Prozac Nation'.

Sarfraz Manzoor explores the risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it public. This is something he's done in his book ' Greetings from Bury Park' and within his journalism where he's written - amongst other topics - about his mixed-marriage and the experience of being a new father. He's intrigued by both the process and the ramifications of revealing private thoughts and experiences. As he prepares to adapt his memoir into a screenplay, Sarfraz speaks to others who have mined their own lives for creative purposes. This week he meets the best known of all the confessional columnists, Liz Jones, from The Mail on Sunday's 'You' Magazine

Journalist and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor explores the risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it public. This is something he's done in his book 'Greetings from Bury Park' and within his journalism where he's written - amongst other topics - about his mixed-marriage and the experience of being a new father. He's intrigued by both the process and the ramifications of revealing private thoughts and experiences. This week he is in conversation with children's author, Judith Kerr, whose famous children's book 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' was based on her own experience of escaping the Nazis in the 1930s

Paddy meets Lisa Cherry, whose childhood was spent in the Care System.

Paddy O'Connell has taken over the One to One interviewer's microphone to explore a subject that reflects his own experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family life. When Paddy was 11 his father died, and in this week's programme -- in order to explore what impact this can have -- he meets Sir Al Aynsley-Green who, at the age of 10, lost his own father. Almost immediately he decided that, when he grew up, he would become a doctor so that other children "didn't have to lose their mummies and daddies".

Paddy O’Connell has taken over the One to One interviewer’s microphone to explore a subject which reflects his own experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family life. Paddy lost his father when he was 11, and he was raised by his mother, a widow. In this programme he meets Chantal, a widow who was left to bring up three children when her husband died suddenly in 1995.