Shrink Rap

Series & Episodes

• Stephen Fry

  First broadcast: Wednesday 10 March 2010, 10PM on More4

  In this programme Dr Pamela Connolly talks to Stephen Fry - comedian, author, actor, game show host and one of the cleverest men in Britain. Pamela sets out to explore how fame has affected Fry's psyche and why his celebrated mind has at times been in such torment that he has even tried to kill himself.

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• Carrie Fisher

  First broadcast: Wednesday 03 March 2010, 10PM on More4

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to Carie Fisher. The daughter of Hollywood royalty - actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher - Fisher became famous as Princess Leia in Star Wars. But at 24, after drink and drugs problems, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

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• Heather Mills

  First broadcast: Wednesday 17 February 2010, 12AM on More 4

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to former model turned campaigner Heather Mills about how she survived an unhappy childhood, the accident in which she lost her left leg below the knee, and her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney.

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• Billy Connolly

  First broadcast: Friday 14 August 2009, 11.35PM on More4

  In a one-off special of the acclaimed psychologically-based interview show, Shrink Rap , Dr Pamela Connolly puts her husband on the couch.

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• Joan Rivers

  First broadcast: Friday 21 March 2008, 12AM on More 4

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to comedian Joan Rivers to find out what makes her so funny, why she hates her body, what she is like when the jokes stop and what sex is like in your 70s.

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• Chris Langham

  First broadcast: Tuesday 15 January 2008, 12AM on More 4

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to comedian and writer Chris Langham on his release from jail. He talks openly about the abuse he endured as a child, his addictions, his trial and imprisonment.

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• David Blunkett

  Former Home Secretary, David Blunkett MP, is on the couch. Blunkett admits that at the height of his troubles over former lover Kimberley Quinn he was offered psychotherapy. He turned it down because as a 'bluff Northerner', he doesn't have much faith in it, believing that people should work things out themselves.

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• Gene Simmons

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to Gene Simmons, outrageous front man of heavy metal band Kiss and one of America's most successful rock stars. Pamela looks beneath the exterior of this quintessential Alpha male to find out what lies behind his relentless need for success and self-gratification.

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• Kathleen Turner

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to actress Kathleen Turner. Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, she took to drink to ease the pain. She talks about the illness and how she coped with drinking.

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• Pilot Show - Robin Williams

  Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams takes a seat on Dr Pamela Connolly's couch. Their in-depth discussion ranges from Williams' affluent but lonely childhood to how his world changed forever - for both good and ill - when he became famous overnight in the hit TV series Mork and Mindy . They also talk about Williams's problems with substance abuse, his penchant for collecting dangerous weapons and his first sexual experiences.

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• Salman Rushdie

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to Booker Prize winning author Sir Salman Rushdie, famed as much for his writing as for his four marriages and the Iranian fatwa that forced him into hiding for a decade.

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• Sarah, Duchess of York

  Psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly talks to Sarah, Duchess of York about her problems with weight and self-image, and her difficult childhood.

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• Sharon Osbourne

  Pamela talks to Sharon Osbourne, famous as an X Factor judge, chat show host, best-selling author and even star of her own real-life soap opera, Osbourne is one of the best-known women in Britain. But her childhood was chaotic. Her father - pop manager and renowned tough guy Don Arden - was a strict disciplinarian who would lock her in the coalhole for punishment.

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• Tony Curtis

  Dr Pamela Connolly talks to Tony Curtis about his violent mother, his guilt over the death of his younger brother and his relationships with some of the most famous women in the world

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