Dinner Party Guests

In case any of my first choices were unavailable I would have reserve list of Robert Burns, Alvar Aalto, Agatha Christie and Nadihya Husseien.

Nadihya would be first reserve in the hope thatvshe would bring a cake.

Leonardo da Vinci, Gregor Mendel, Queen Victoria, Voltairine de Cleyre, Neil Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, Shirley Williams, Serena Williams

If I were having a ladies who lunch it would be
Sandi Toksvig
Barbara Castle
Betty Boothroyd
Joanna Lumley (or Jack lumpy as Jennifer Saunders calls her)
Nell Gwynn
Germaine Greer
Mary Seacole
Rebecca Front

we wouldn't run out of conversation

On another occasion I would invite Alexander Skarsgard, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Will Smith, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, Jake Gyllenhaal and Aiden Turner.

Shallow? Moi? Definitely!

First would be the caterers.
My guests would be used to a lot better than my cooking
rubylady agree with Agatha Christie
Also
Alan Turing and any others from Bletchley (open house to them)
Any of our spies (who are now out in the open)
Ian Fleming
Alexander Fleming (just to say thanks)
Rebus ( think might have to make do with Ian Rankin)
Taggert (Mark McManus for bit of balance)
Rennie Macintosh
Oh and Robert the Bruce (a distant relative according to family legend)

If caterers any good will have them back for my 'Comedy' dinner party

Alice Roberts, Brian Cox, Sir David Attenborough, Iain Stewart (geologist), Mary Warnock, Lisa Jardine, Charles Darwin, Mary Beard. The equality of the sexes wasn't deliberate.

Prof Brian Cox
David Attenborough
Chris Packham
Paul Merton
Andy Hamilton
Tony Blackburn as DJ
Zach my eldest grandson of 5 and his magic act.
Stevie Wonder(and piano/harmonica)

Peter Sellers
Peter Ustinov
Oliver Reed
Rufus Sewell
Disraeli
Charles the Second
Anthony Valentine
Alan Rickman

of course no other women just me!!!

Well, put it this way, rubylady, I have never complained about endless repeats of The Great Escape. Those blue eyes....

Which Steve McQueen Maggie?

Actually, I'm now thinking of sending them all home after the starters, Indinana. All except Steve McQueen - he can stay just as long as he likes.

Ellen DeGeneres, James Corden, Barack Obama, Paul Murton (not Merton), Eddie Izzard, Hilary Clinton, Adele and Hugh Jackman.

Freddie Mercury, Peter Kay, Paul Merton, Micky Flanagan, Anne Boleyn, Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, Billy Byrne (DIY SOS), Agatha Christie.

Though I think Brian might have to go home after the starters, or nobody else will get a word in.

That's precisely why I didn't pick Oscar Wilde or Stephen Fry Maggiemaybe! They've figured a number of times on here but, frankly, if they were dinner guests there'd be no point inviting anyone else!

Elizabeth I, Victoria Wood, Leonardo da Vinci, Brian Blessed, Elvis, Alfred Hitchcock, Emmeline Pankhurst and Steve McQueen.

Though I think Brian might have to go home after the starters, or nobody else will get a word in.

nanasam Keef's Destert Island Discs was a great listen. I bet he has some tales to tell. I must get his book.

Marco Polo, Sarah Millican, Charlton Heston, Michael Palin, Charlotte Bronte, Peter Blake, Grayson Perry and my Grandma Mary

Elvis,Judy Dench,Joanna Lumley,Charles Dickens,Margret Mitchell ,Micheal Portello,Geronimo and Mark Twain.

Dalai Lama, Placido Domingo, Elvis, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Gates, Malala (? spelling) the young lady who won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Brian May, Mick Jagger, Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Bob Monkhouse, Les Dawson, Dame Judi Dench, Prince Harry.

I want to have a FUN dinner party, with a lot of laughter .

grumppa Yes Oscar Wilde and Stephen Fry, between them the conversation would be hilarious and also I think Oscar Wilde would probably be the only person who could get Stephen Fry to shut up

Stephen Fry. Muhammad Ali. Nelson Mandela. Rob Brydon. Jackie
Kennedy. Victoria Wood. Susan Sarandon. Jemima Khan.

Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth 2nd, Gene Kelly, Jane Austen and Marilyn Monroe.

Mind you, like your choice KatyK, I could catch up with Keef after 50 years!

Richard Osman and Alexander Armstrong. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Stephen Fry and Alan Davies. Nothing too heavy to give us indigestion - we'd be laughing our socks off.