It's Friday! with Jim White

Jim White and guests Claudia Connell and Brian Viner take a delightful walking tour of Paris, and then sit down for an evening of theatre... all without stirring from their sofas. Friday Night Dinner provides some much-needed laugher, and Jim interviews Steve Hackett of Genesis on why there's not one, but two Genesis tours planned in the very near future.

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After a week of self-isolation, Jim White and guests Claudia Connel and Brian Viner pick out the oddities and gems of entertainment they've found to stream online in these strange times. Plus thriller maestro Linwood Barclay reveals what novelists know about self-isolation - and talks about how his new thriller Elevator Pitch seems strangely appropriate to the coronavirus era.

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As 2011's Contagion becomes Warner's most-downloaded film (beating Harry Potter), Jim White and guests Brian Viner and Baz Bamigboye pick out the best fictional epidemic films. Plus, the best films to download while you self-isolate, and QI elf and author Andrew Hunter Murray talks about how to create a perfect post-apocalyptic world.

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Jim White & guests Baz Bamigboye, Brian Viner & Claudia Connell on the hilarious trend ‘spoiler trailers’. Plus is Julian Fellow’s ‘Belgravia’ the new Downton Abbey? And Adrian Thrills on his best music picks this week.

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Jim White and guests Brian Viner and Claudia Connell on the growing trend of resurrecting dead A-listers for new tours and films (but should some stars be left to rest in peace?) Plus, is Military Wives the feel-good British film we all need right now? 

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Jim White and guests Brian Viner and Claudia Connell discuss the upcoming Friends reunion (and Tom Cruise as the oldest combat pilot in history in Top Gun: Maverick), while Jim interviews Emma Kennedy about her bestselling novels, and her lifelong hatred of camping. Plus, Jaci Stephen on the latest Meghan and Harry rumour

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Jim White and guests Brian Viner and Claudia Connell breathe a sigh of relief at the end of awards season, and ask if we really need them at all, while Jim White interviews TV nature presenter Chris Packham on how his love for hard-hitting punk music inspired his own 'can do' attitude. Plus, Jaci Stephen on what happened when she tried to imitate Sharon Osbourne's hairdo.

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Jim White and guests Brian Viner and Claudia Connell hold their noses as they review the most nauseating rom-coms of all time, while Jim interviews bestselling novelist Katie Fforde on her extraordinary method for writing hit romances. Plus, Brian Viner meets a hedgehog unlike any he's ever seen.

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Jim White and guests Brian Viner and Claudia Connell offer their tips for Oscar glory next week, while the Daily Mail's Jaci Stephen pays tribute to screen legend Kirk Douglas, whose Hollywood career spanned seven decades. Plus, Dom Joly on 20 years of people shouting, 'HELLO!' at him in public

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Jim White and guests Brian Viner and Claudia Connell listen through a catalogue of the most gratingly awful accents ever recorded on film, Jim talks to broadcasting legend Johnnie Walker about his new Sounds of the Seventies tour, and hears from Jaci Stephen about a period of American mourning unlike anything since Princess Diana

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