Peter Hennessy asks senior politicians to reflect on their life and times - today, Chris Patten, former Cabinet Minister, Hong Kong Governor, EU Commissioner and BBC Trust Chairman Show more

Peter Hennessy invites senior politicians to reflect on their life and times - this week, Alan Johnson, former postman, union boss, Home Secretary and author of acclaimed memoirs Show more

Peter Hennessy invites senior politicians to reflect on their life and times. This week his guest is Norman Lamont, former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Show more

Peter Hennessy invites senior politicians to reflect on their life and times. This week, his guest is Peter Hain, the anti-apartheid campaigner and former Cabinet Minister. Show more

Peter Hennessy invites Baroness Williams of Crosby (Shirley Williams) to reflect on her life and times. Show more

Peter Hennessy's guest is Jack Straw MP, who was first elected to the House of Commons in 1979 and sat in the Labour government between 1997 and 2010. Show more

Peter Hennessy's guest is Lord Tebbit (Norman Tebbit), the former Conservative cabinet minister and loyal ally of Margaret Thatcher. Show more

Peter Hennessy's guest is Lord Kinnock (Neil Kinnock), former Labour Party Leader. Show more

Former prime minister John Major talks about his journey from Brixton to Downing Street. Show more

Roy Hattersley tells Peter Hennessy how a teacher inspired his belief in equality and recalls what he learned about attitudes to poverty while delivering milk on a vacation job. Show more

David Steel (now Lord Steel of Aikwood), the former Liberal Party leader, reflects on his role in shifting Britain away from two-party politics towards multi-party politics. Show more

Margaret Beckett MP, the former foreign secretary and Labour deputy leader, reflects on her transition from trainee engineer to Labour MP. Show more

Historian Peter Hennessy talks to David Owen, the former foreign secretary and SDP leader, exploring the influences, events and people that have shaped his views. Show more

Peter Hennessy talks to Nigel Lawson, the former chancellor of the Exchequer, about his transition from an enjoyable existence at Oxford, via journalism, to front-line politics. Show more

Clare Short, the former international development secretary, discusses her Catholic upbringing in Birmingham and her father's sense of injustice at Britain's treatment of Ireland. Show more

Peter Hennessy invites a senior politician to reflect on his or her life and times. This week, his guest is Michael Heseltine, the former deputy prime minister. Show more

Peter Hennessy talks to Vince Cable, former Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman and former business secretary in the coalition government. Show more

Peter Hennessy's guest is Dame Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking since 1994 and former chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee. Show more

Peter Hennessy invites senior politicians to reflect on their life and times. This week, his guest is Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader. Show more

Peter Hennessy invites senior politicians to reflect on their life and times. This week, his guest is Sayeeda Warsi (Baroness Warsi), the former Conservative cabinet minister. Show more