Rachael Stirling gave Dermot O'Leary one of the best interviews of the autumn, reading out loud from her new memoir about her late mother Dame Diana Rigg. The best bit was a letter Diana wrote to George Lazenby after he badmouthed her in the press following their Bond film together, which Rachael read out live, telling him "the manner of telling me abusively with threats to bash my face in was hardly the best way." She explained the row became so public that Lazenby later turned up at her mother's villa in Ibiza with his girlfriend, and the pair ended up having dinner together as if nothing had happened.
Rachael also spoke movingly about her mother's death, saying Diana "did not rage against the dying of the light" and instead told her "Rachie, I've had such a life." She revealed her mother gently fell for her husband, actor Guy Garvey, in her final weeks, flirting with him right up until the end.
Dermot paid tribute to the late composer George Fenton, who wrote the Bergerac and Bond theme tunes and had become a friend of the show, revealing Fenton once played Stevie Wonder an early version of one of his best-known pieces of music.
There was also a running Mystery Voice competition with listeners guessing everyone from David Bowie to Rylan, all wrong, plus a call to a bride's bridesmaid Vik ahead of a Glasgow wedding, and shout-outs including a couple who'd just welcomed baby Ethel after a three-and-a-half day labour.
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