Jeremy sits down with Sir William Atkinson, the superhead who came to Britain from Jamaica at the age of seven, and in a stellar career earned a knighthood, and some fame, for turning round some of the country's toughest schools. On the agenda: teaching, rugby, racism, history, ambition, pubs

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Jeremy has a pint with David Runciman, host of the Talking Politics podcast, author, and Cambridge Professor. They discuss the waning public faith in democracy and how it might be fixed. Should we let children vote? Should we make people pass a test to vote? Should we at least try something to arrest the alarming trend of people turning away from the system of government meant to be the worst except for all the others?

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Jeremy has a 'pint' with Sir David Omand, former head of the government's listening, GCHQ, and thus one of our top spies. Topics include the power of rational thinking, how an intelligence analyst would go about buying a house, the need for a devil's advocate, how to keep kids safe on the internet, and how Edward Snowden should have gone about his historic leak.

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Jeremy talks to Dr Rachel Clarke, specialist in palliative care, about the meaning of a good death and her experience of the pandemic.

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Jeremy has another imaginary pint with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of 'Cynical Theories' and participant in the infamous 'grievance studies affair'. Helen unpicks the intellectual history of 'woke' thought, Jeremy is baffled.

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With pubs still closed, Jeremy has yet another virtual pint with Andrew Dole, creator of Twitter sensation, Titania McGrath.

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Jeremy sits down with Tom Holland, one of Britain's best-known historians, to discuss no less a subject than the making of the modern world.

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Jeremy enjoys another notional pint with Ben Macintyre, a man who knows more about spies than is healthy for anyone. They discuss Agent Sonya, the woman who stole Britain's nuclear secrets for the Soviet Union and almost assassinated Hitler.

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Jeremy sits down with Clare Balding broadcaster, rambler, scion of a racing dynasty, and now the author of a book about 'heroic animals'. Topics include racing, dogs, donkeys, anthropomorphisation. Jeremy makes a tabloid confession.

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Jeremy enjoys an actual pint with Matt Parr, a former nuclear submarine commander and Rear Admiral, Submarines. They discuss the merits of life in "an expanded cigarette tube, underwater".

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