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Clive Anderson talks to Sanjeev Bhaskar about the return of The Kumars. After a 7 year break the multi-award winning, much loved television family bound back with a new home - a flat in Hounslow behind Dad's homewares and gift shop.

Each week Sanjeev struggles to interview celebrity guests despite continued interference by his family members. 'The Kumars' starts on Wednesday 15th January at 9pm on Sky 1HD.

Clive meets Peter May, author of the best-selling Lewis trilogy to learn more about his love of islands... and murder. His latest book is set on an island off the Canadian coast - home to only130 inhabitants - the wealthiest of whom has just been discovered murdered.
'Entry Island' is out now, published by Quercus Books.

Scottee talks to Sue Tilley about her friend, the late Leigh Bowery - legendary performance artist, fashion designer and '80s club promoter. Leigh introduced Sue to Lucian Freud. Freud's 1995 portrait of her, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, was sold in 2008 for £17.2 million - the highest price paid for a painting by a living artist. Sue's book, Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon is available now to download.

Irish comedian Ed Byrne is a miserable old git. So instead of celebrating his 40th birthday, he's used incipient old age to craft a cynical observational show, The Roaring Forties: "There are seven billion people on the planet and I only have time to be friends with10 of them". Is Clive one of them? 'Ed Byrne - The Roaring Forties' is on tour from February 2014.

Music from Grammy-nominated jazz and soul singer Gregory Porter, who sings the title track from his new album 'Liquid Spirit', and from rising young singer Zara McFarlane, who performs 'Open Heart' from her new album 'If You Knew Her'.

Producer: Sukey Firth.