Julia Miles spent 28 years as the wife of a diplomat, living in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Athens, has worked as a social worker, a probation officer and is now a psychotherapist. She reveals the realities of life as ambassador's wife, ranging from food shortages to terrorist incidents.

Saturday Live listener, David Ainsley, shares the story of his the best Father's Day gift he ever received.

JP Devlin meets Peter Firmin, creator of the sets and puppets for The Clangers, Bagpuss and Basil Brush.

At the age of 30, armed with a cannon, Gary Stocker took a break from a lucrative career in law for a shot at fame as a human cannon ball - performing as The Great Herrmann.

The actor and presenter Bradley Walsh shares his Inheritance Tracks: Stranger in Paradise by Tony Bennett and The Hungry Years by Neil Sedaka.

Viv Albertine is best known as the guitarist for the all-female English punk group The Slits. After the band broke up in 1981 Viv left music behind to become an aerobics instructor, a mother and housewife, and an artist. She returned to music in middle age, picking up her guitar for the first time in 25 years.

Additional Information

Here Comes the Clown - A Stumble Through Showbusiness by Dom Joly.

The Ambassador's Wife's Tales by Julia Miles.

A new series of The Clangers is on CBeebies.

Bradley Walsh stars in Sun Trap on BBC One on Wednesday nights at 10.35pm.

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, by Viv Albertine is in paperback.