creation podcasts: guestlist

This week The Guest List talks to Mike Oldfield who's now followed in the footsteps of Paul McCartney and Sting by releasing a classical album.

The man behind Tubular Bells talks about why Music of the Spheres is a new chapter in his career.

Plus the star of Rebus .. Messiah and The Vice, Ken Stott, will be talking about his latest role in a new West End production called God Of Carnage written by Yasmina Reza who was behind the smash hit - Art.

Join Anne-Marie Minhall this Sunday at the new time of 3 to 5pm where she will be in conversation with Hollywood legend Julie Andrews who has just released a memoir of her early years....Hear what is was like growing up in WWII Britain to being on the brink of international stardom in the sixties as she was cast as the world's most famous nanny , Mary Poppins.

Also on the show is one of the world's best loved violinists Maxim Vengerov...Maxim tells the Guest List about his plans for the future which include working with the next generation of violinists. He'll also be talking about a unique concert

in Cardiff in April where he'll be conducting his good friend and fellow fiddle player, Joshua Bell, playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto....

Plus Jessica Stevenson of Spaced and Royle Family fame joins the show to talk about a great new British comedy called Son Of Rambow which opens in cinemas in April

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to

Sir David Frost...The man behind The Frost Report talks to

The Guest List about a one-off tv programme that reunites

the team behind the legendary satirical series. Hear from the only person to have interviewed the last seven US Presidents and the last seven Prime Ministers of the UK.

Also on the show is Trumpeter Alison Balsom who talks about

Hear Here!... The UKs first classical music project dedicated to listening Mike Newell , the man behind 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire' tells Anne-Marie about his new movie 'Love in The Time of Cholera'...Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez .

This Week the Guest List returns to the European Capital of Culture -Liverpool where Anne-Marie Minhall presents the show from the stunning Albert Docks...

On the show will be one of world's most popular living composers Karl Jenkins whose new work 'Stabat Mater' will be premiered at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral on Saturday

15th March....Also on the show is scouse comedian , writer and actor Alexei Sayle who tells the Guest List about reconnecting with his scouse routes in a new TV series...

On The Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to

actor Timothy Spall who is currently starring alongside

Johnny Depp in Timothy Burton's new movie 'Sweeney Todd'

Also on the show is on one of Britain's best loved comedienne

Jo Brand , who is about to play the role of the policeman in

Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Pirates of Penzance' at the Gielgud Theatre in London....

Join Anne-Marie Minhall from 9pm this Sunday aboard the legendary Mersey Ferry as the Guest List celebrates Liverpool being the European Capital of Culture '08'.....

On the show will be the principal conductor of Classic Fm's Orchestra in the North West of England , Vasily Petrenko who tells Anne-Marie about what impact the orchestra has had on the city and what events they have lined up for the year ahead....

The Guest List also chats to the Liverpool born author , actress and writer Lynda La Plante who tells Anne-Marie why she thinks the people of Liverpool are unique....

On The Guest List this week hear why actress

Eva Longoria wants to stay in Desperate Housewives

for as long as she can and how she got her work

ethic from her mother....

Also on the show is one of the world's leading violinists

Nicola Benedetti who is about to undertake a UK tour

with the Tonkunstler Symphony Orchestra under the baton

of Kristjan Jaarvi.

The Guest List is coming from Liverpool this week .

To celebrate the city being the European Capital of

Culture Anne-Marie Minhall reports from Philharmonic

Hall , the home of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic as they

rehearsed in the hall under the direction of Sir Charles MacKerras..

On the show this week is the man behind this years celebrations, writer and producer of TV programmes like Grange Hill and Brookside, Phil Redmond , who tells Anne-Marie what he hopes the legacy of Liverpool '08 will mean for the city....

Anne-Marie also talks to world renowned pianist and Liverpudlian Stephen Hough about what Liverpool has meant to him over the years....

On the Guest List this week Anne-Marie Minhall talks to two of the world's leading authors Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin....

Both McCall Smith and Rankin are taking part in Scottish Opera's new season featuring collaborations between some of Scotland's most famous composers and

authors....

Ian Rankin is collaborating with the film composer Craig Armstrong on a new piece entitled 'Gesualdo'

While Alexander McCall Smith is working with the composer Stephen Deazley on a work called 'Dream Angus' ...

On The Guest List this weekend, the Academy Award-winning director, Richard Attenborough talks about his latest movie.

Closing The Ring is a love story spanning two continents and half a century. Starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, the film tells the tale of an American woman who honours a wartime promise of love.

Also making an appearance will be the singer whose album, Pure, was number one in the Classic FM Top 300 best-selling classical albums of the century - Hayley Westenra. She'll be talking about her new book - In Her Own Voice.