The Jonathan Ross Show guests this week are Small Prophets star Michael Palin,and actors Catherine Tate and Anna Maxwell Martin, while there is music from singer-songwriter Myles Smith.

Monty Python legend Michael Palin has recently been on great form as one of the stars of the acclaimed Mackenzie Crook comedy Small Prophets. He has beeen back on his travels again and will be seen fronting a Channel 5 series later this year about the Philipines.

Anna Maxwell Martrin tells Jonathan that she wouldn't do Celebrity Traitors because it is past her bedtme: "I can see from the civilian one how late it gets on that show. That’s a Scottish summer and they’re not leaving that castle until it gets dark, that’s 11pm, 12am… if you’re a traitor it’s 1am… 2am… I want to be in bed by 8pm.”"

Whereas Catherine Tate says that she would do it as long as it was not on telly. "“I 100 percent would do it – if it wasn’t on the telly. If I could just go to the castle… I’d love to play the game.”

Catherine Tate is set to step into the title role in the West End production of the Tony Award-winning comedy Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre later this month.

Tate (Under the Blue Sky, Duke of York’s Theatre, Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory) will play Mary Todd Lincoln from 27 April to 18 July. Tate will takeover the role following the final performance of Mason Alexander Park on 14 March.

Anna Maxwell Martin also speaks to Jonathan about appearing in the acclaimed comedy Motherland alongside Diane Morgan and Lucy Punch: “Loved that show, all the cast, very close. Really proud of the girls. It’s just daft. I think people thought it was a comedy about parenting, which it isn’t really. It’s about adults behaving like children really. We had a real laugh.”

The Jonathan Ross Show, Saturday, April 11, 10pm, ITV1

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