Jeremy Vines Being Human

Artist Alison Lapper talks to Jeremy Vine about phocomelia, growing up without arms, motherhood and predjudice against disabled people.

Libertarian commentator Brendan O'Neill tells Jeremy Vine how our ability to create change is what really makes us human.

Robert Peston - the BBC's Business Editor - talks to Jeremy Vine about his late wife Sian Busby and how his love for her is what makes him human.

Eminent philosopher, writer and huntsman, Roger Scruton talks to Jeremy Vine about Paris '68, Thatcher and how asking questions are what make us human.

World renowned solo percussionist, Evelyn Glennie, discusses music, her hearing loss and listening with her whole body. Features an impromptu performance on her mbira thumb piano.

Celebrated crime writer PD James talks to Jeremy Vine about her own extraordinary story. Having chronicled Britain's changing society in her murder mysteries since the 1960s, she says our ability to rein in our aggressive impulses is what make us human.

Philosopher Alain de Botton believes it is wisdom that is key to emotional health and to what makes us human.

Alexei Sayle, the godfather of alternative comedy, talks to Paddy O'Connell about serenity, consumerism and the 1000 year human experiment. And being named after Maxim Gorky.

Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield suggests individuality - and the Seven Deadly Sins - holds the clue to what makes us human.

Caitlin Moran - columnist, feminist icon and best-selling author – talks to Jeremy Vine about her extraordinary life, the gospel according to Sgt Pepper and how humans have a unique ability to create joy.

The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev James Jones, talks to Jeremy Vine about justice, Hillsborough, and what makes him - and us - human

Mary Robinson, Ireland's first female president, tells Jeremy Vine how it is empathy that binds humans from all walks of life together. A former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, she is currently president of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice.

David Puttnam - Oscar-winning filmmaker, UNICEF ambassador and Labour peer - sees the Olympic spirit as the embodiment of humanity. In conversation with Jeremy Vine

Brian May - rock star, astrophysicist and animal rights campaigner - tells Jeremy Vine how kindness and cruelty is the key to what makes us human

Philosopher AC Grayling discusses growing up in Africa, how culture raises us above animals and the art of humanity

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks talks to Jeremy Vine on loneliness, spirituality and how family, when it works, is the matrix of humanity.