The veteran chat show host speaks with Bob Hoskins, Lisa Stansfield and Hugh Laurie

Michael Aspel's relaxed manner and engaging, light-touch interview style are in full effect in this 1991 episode of his panel-based chat show, Aspel & Company. Joining Aspel are guests Hugh Laurie, Lisa Stansfield and Bob Hoskins.

Laurie, already established as a comedian thanks to appearances in Blackadder and as half of a comedy duo with Stephen Fry, yet years away from his dramatic reinvention as the lead of the TV series House, here discusses his and Fry's television adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster comic stories, and his relatively "dull" life compared to that of his comedy partner.

Stansfield, at the peak of her fame after achieving global success with her hit single, 'All Around the World', and receiving the Brit Award for Best New Artist, performs the Billie Holliday song 'Good Morning Heartache' and speaks about, among other things, the incongruous mismatch between her soulful singing voice and her broad, Lancashire accent.

Finally, Hoskins joins the panel after returning from a year away from public appearances following the intense film shoot for the live action / animation hybrid film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. After working 16 hours a day for 8 months, acting against animated characters that would only be drawn into the film during post-production, he explains that he was left bruised, and "completely barmy". After a year's holiday in the West Indies with family, he returns with a starring role alongside Cher in the family comedy, Mermaids.

Given the make-up of the panel of guests, class and regional accents become inevitable topics of conversation, with the working-class backgrounds of Hoskins and Stansfield jarring against Laurie's coming-of-age in the hallowed halls of Eton and Cambridge. When Aspel jokes that Stansfield could show Laurie "the real life", she suggests they go out for chips, peas and gravy - "and a buttered muffin, love."