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Tim Marlow meets best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin at the National Galleries of Scotland in his home town of Edinburgh. Most famous for his award winning Inspector Rebus novels, Rankin talks openly about his life and career through his chosen works. These include a Francis Bacon piece and work from Scottish artists Eduardo Paolozzi and Douglas Gordon.

A team of 10 young disabled people test their strength and spirit to the limit with a 400km trek across the snow-capped Andes over four weeks. With a variety of walking difficulties, speech and hearing impairment and manual dexterity problems, they must negotiate the treacherous Napo River, the main tributary of the mighty Amazon, to get across the mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

CEOs from six of Australia's biggest companies go on the ultimate undercover mission, working incognito in entry-level positions within their own organisations.

This week's guest on Talking Heads is Kerry Armstrong. In this enlightening interview Armstrong reveals to Peter Thompson that after a career ranging from The Sullivans, Dynasty, films such as Lantana, two AFI awards and a Logie, she is rethinking the future of her acting career.

Tim Marlow meets ex-Monty Python Terry Jones at the National Gallery of Art, London, as they talk about his life through his six chosen artworks. Jones is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of middle-aged and screechy-voiced women in the parody series - but his writing and directing skills saw him branch out to writing books and presenting documentaries after his Python days were over.

Casino, The Hunt for Red October, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Exorcist, and The Silence Of The Lambs are some of the most famous movies in the world. But are these movies purely the imagination of the writers or are they based on fact? True Stories, a new five-part series, looks behind the glamour of these cinema legends and unravels fact from fiction to expose the real heroes and villains. Featuring dramatic reconstruction and exclusive interviews, the stories that inspired the films offer an entertaining and fascinating watch.

In A Quiet Word With Carrie Fisher, comedian and recovering Star Wars fan, Tony Martin, leads actress, writer and the one-time Princess Leia on a rambling conversation that takes in her entire career.

This week on Talking Heads Peter Thompson is joined by Lambis Englezos, the amateur historian responsible for solving one of the great mysteries of the First World War.

Few musicals can claim to capture the mood of a historical period as well as the 1972 classic film Cabaret. Liza Minnelli's unforgettable portrayal of singer Sally Bowles, and the film's stylish recreation of the era have become defining images of Weimar Berlin. The Real Cabaret pays tribute to the magic of the original film and explores the fascinating and often shocking reality of the people and stories that inspired it.

Tonight another of our Enough Rope 'on the road' specials, where we visit the Queensland mining town of Mt Isa, and Andrew talks to three of the locals.

A creative writing student from Sydney with a love of vampires, a mother and public servant from WA, and a blind social worker from Armidale with an inspiring story take to the Strictly Speaking stage.

CEOs from six of Australia's biggest companies go on the ultimate undercover mission, working incognito in entry-level positions within their own organisations.

This week on Talking Heads Peter Thompson's guest is singer, songwriter Leo Sayer. A shy, dyslexic child, Sayer had always dreamed of becoming a painter and even went to art school in Britain where he was taught briefly by David Hockney. But by the time he was 22, he had thrown it all away to pursue a career in music. And things happened fast. Suddenly the boy from Shoreham-by-Sea in County Sussex was an international pop phenomenon.

Andrew's special guest on the final Enough Rope for 2006 is expat Australian author and art critic for The New York Times, Robert Hughes.

In this week's competition, a law student with a passion for politics, a disability worker who never writes down her speeches and a chef to the stars serve up some discourse on Strictly Speaking.

CEOs from six of Australia's biggest companies go on the ultimate undercover mission, working incognito in entry-level positions within their own organisations.

Peter Thompson talks to dancer Shay Stafford, who has just returned to live in Australia with her family after 12 years dancing as a Paris showgirl at the Moulin Rouge and the Lido de Paris on the Champs-Elysees.

Are there common factors that lead to success and happiness? Peter Thompson is joined by Michael Carr-Gregg, one of Australia's leading psychologists who specialises in childhood and adolescence. Together, Thompson and Carr-Gregg look back at the formative years of some this year's most extraordinary guests and explore their paths to success. After being diagnosed with cancer at 19, and being told he had eight weeks to live, Carr-Gregg went on to found the Canteen charity for teenagers with cancer. Now among the numerous activities Carr-Gregg is currently involved in, is the role of an official ambassador for the National depression initiative 'Beyond Blue', and of 'MindMatters', one of 16 youth suicide prevention programs run by the Federal Government.