Susannah Constantine (18:30)

From rock stars to royalty and society to sobriety: Susannah Constantine made her name as a 'style guru' in the hugely popular What Not to Wear TV series, with Trinny Woodall, and her story is a tale full to the brim with extraordinary anecdotes: from lavatory dramas with Princess Margaret; behind-the-scenes power struggles between Thatcher and the Queen at Balmoral; to eye-opening sex-club etiquette with pop royalty. But appearances are deceptive and beneath it all, life had a darker side: her mother's bipolar disorder; her father's inability to cope and her own subsequent alcoholism. Somehow, she had to forge her own life, away from the expectations of others.

Told with gobsmacking honesty and great dollops of humour, Ready For Absolutely Nothing is essential reading for anyone who loves a good memoir but secretly just wants to read the naughty bits. Now a novelist, journalist, broadcaster and podcaster, Susannah lives in chaos on the edge of a wood in Sussex.

Sensational, juicy, honest, terrific - Graham Norton

In conversation with Fiona Armstrong

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