Meet the More or Less presenter and 'nerd storyteller' whose job it is to defend us from dubious numbers and manipulated facts. 

Nick reveals Sugar's brief to make him "the Donald Trump of The UK Apprentice"... and his own imposter syndrome on Countdown.

"Party politics is so unpleasant." The ex-Tory minister turned The Rest Is Politics host (with 19m monthly downloads!) is not planning a comeback. 

An end of season treat – from decoding Trump to besting Beckham, from National Treasure to costly joke, from AI music to Mars!

With Rory Bremner, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Amber Rudd, Iain Lee, Gerald Ratner, Danny Wallace, LJ Rich, Tom Watt, David Blunkett, Omid Djalili, Petra Velzeboer, Fred MacAulay, Kevin Fong, Alan Dedicoat and John Lloyd. 

We'll be back with series two on 5th January. 

https://www.jeremy-lee.co.uk/ 

The peerless QI, Blackadder and Spitting Image producer shares the secret of funny stuff, learning stuff and The Meaning of Liff. 

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/douglas-adams/the-meaning-of-liff/9781035051458

The voice of Strictly & Dancing with the Stars fears for the BBC – but shares his love of quizzes, buses and awards bashes.  

Fred and Jeremy reminisce about the comedy circuit, with name-dropping galore and some useful advice along the way.

Tom shares his journey from soap star to scripting video games for 25m players... to ghostwriting Beckham's autobiography.

Find out more about Tom's books - https://www.waterstones.com/author/tom-watt/924904/page/1 

https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/david-beckham-my-side-david-beckham?variant=32552786591822 

What sort of deal can the Tories strike with Farage come the election? The ex-Home Secretary says it's not looking good! 

Listen to Amber's podcast The Crisis Room - https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42L3Nx/

LJ Rich (tech forecaster, musician and co-creator of United Nations AI for Good events) muses on where humans and music meet technology.

For more information on LJ go to https://ljrich.wordpress.com/