Who's on the show

Mon 11 Dec: Melanie Phillips, Germaine Greer, Prof Steve Jones
Tues 12 Dec: Greg Dyke, Kelvin Mackenzie, Marina Hyde
Wed 13 Dec: Baroness Julia Neuberger, Charles Glass
Thurs 14 Dec: Shami Chakrabarti, Oona King, Clive Anderson

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Mark Oaten

Liberal Democrat MP for Winchester and member of the All Party EU Accession group and the All Party Adoption Group. Oaten has announced he won’t stand in the next general election.

Peter Oborne

Journalist, commentator, author and political editor of The Spectator. His extensive contacts on the right of British politics mean he is regarded as one of the foremost conservative commentators in the land.

Cristina Odone

Journalist and broadcaster. Once editor of the Catholic Herald, and has also written for the New Statesman, The Independent and The Times.

John O'Farrell

Author. Books include The Best a Man Can Get. Began his career as an MP’s researcher before becoming a satirical comedy writer for radio and TV. He was a Guardian columnist for 5 years, and is an occasional joke writer for Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.

Jeremy O'Grady

Media entrepreneur, co-founder of The Week, where is he editor in chief, and Intelligence Squared, a debate society set up to encourage intelligent debate in a modern forum. A former academic and senior examiner at the British Board of Film Classification.

Andrew O'Hagan

Scottish writer and novelist. Writes regularly for the Telegraph and both the London and New York Review of Books. In 2001, was named Goodwill Ambassador by the UK branch of UNICEF, and has since been involved in fundraising efforts for the organisation.

John Oliver

A major comic force, John writes and appears in hit radio series The Department for Radio 4 with Andy Zaltzman and Chris Addison, and starred in James Carey's Radio 4 sitcom, The Pitts.

Brendan O'Neil

Deputy editor of spiked; online magazine. Has written for the Spectator, the New Statesman and the Guardian. Currently working on a book From Bosnia to Beslan: How the West Spread al-Qaeda.

Susie Orbach

A leading psychotherapist in Britain. C-founder of therapy centres for women in London and New York. Hs her own practice and also works as a psychotherapy consultant. Her first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, was published in 1978.