Michael Aspel speaks with actress Vanessa Redgrave, broadcaster Danny Baker and Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall

Michael Aspel is joined by an eclectic panel of guests in this 1992 episode of his easygoing chat show, Aspel & Company.

Ginger-maned Mancunian singer Mick Hucknall, front man of the pop group Simply Red, makes his first UK talk show appearance and performs the hit single 'For Your Babies'. Then, Hucknall looks back over the group's rise to stardom and the unprecedented success of their multi-million-selling 1991 album, Stars.

Motormouth pop culture pundit Danny Baker, Aspel's former colleague on the London Weekend Television magazine programme The Six O'Clock Show, discusses the passion of football fandom and the importance of using plain speech when talking about the sport, tying in with his phone-in football radio show on the newly-launched BBC station, Radio 5 Live.

Star of stage and screen Vanessa Redgrave, a member of the legendary Redgrave acting dynasty, speaks about her career treading the boards and starring in films such as Howards End, for which she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Aspel & Company's format of adding each new guest to a growing conversation, combined with the host's perceptive and personable interview manner, often teases out intriguing and unlikely connections between panellists. Here, Redgrave at first appears to be reserved, even nervous, compared to the brash blokeyness of her fellow guests. However, there proves to be one area of crossover: football, with Hucknall and Baker sharing the frustrations of attending Manchester United and Millwall matches as famous fans, while Redgrave remembers her youthful obsession with Queens Park Rangers' star centre foward of the '60s and early '70s, Rodney Marsh.