The Graham Norton Show

Sir Patrick Stewart reveals his love of jigsaws, Thandie Newton says lockdown is 100% playtime, Ricky Gervais says the reaction to After Life is fantastic and Christine and the Queens performs live from Paris.

Sir Patrick Stewart and his wife Sunny join Graham for a chat and reveal how they are passing the time at home.

Showing off a framed jigsaw puzzle, Patrick says, "It took weeks - it was very challenging. That's what I spend a significant part of each day doing."

Sunny interjects, "What I love about Patrick is his modesty." Patrick kisses her and says, "The last time I kissed someone on your show Graham, it was Ian McKellen!"

Talking more about what he is doing in lockdown, he says, "Two weeks ago one Saturday evening maybe after a glass of wine..." Sunny interjects, "Or three!"

"...I began to recite a Shakespeare sonnet I knew by heart and Sunny recorded it. It was fine and we posted it and the response was extraordinary. A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away! I plan to do one a day. I've done 27 so it's coming along."

Patrick gives a preview of his latest recording.

Thandie Newton joins Graham for a chat. Talking about the success of Westworld, she says, "It's great. I love that we keep trying new things and investigate the story more deeply and I love the character I play."

Revealing that during lockdown she has been creating her own action movies, she says, "It's not just me that's engaged in it. Whenever I mention a Nerf gun my six-year-old boy and the whole family join in. At night we have glow sticks and Nerf guns and hide in different parts of the house. It's bedlam - full 100% playtime every day."

Ricky Gervais joins Graham for a chat. Talking about his live Twitter broadcast each evening, he says, "The joke is that I'm like Churchill during the war and keeping up morale, but you know how much effort goes into a half-hour show - not this one! I turn it on, start drinking and it is an absolute shambles, but it kills the time!"

Asked how his girlfriend Jane [Fallon] is coping with having him around all the time, he says, "She always works from home, but I am usually out. I am playing stuff and singing so much, and she shushes me and says, 'Keep quiet darling' so affectionally but then she'll say, 'Shush for one hour now.' It must be like having a toddler home during the holidays!"

Talking about the return of After Life and the success of the first series, he says, "I've never had a reaction like it - it's the most watched thing I've done, but it's the emotional response that's amazing. You realise everyone's gone through something."

Asked about working with a dog in the show, he says, "Brandy is brilliant, and I love her. When I said goodbye to the cast and crew on the last day and I was hugging everyone - do you remember hugging? But, saying goodbye to the dog was when I nearly cried because she didn't know why she wasn't going to see me again. I probably overestimated how sad the dog was!"

Christine and the Queens performs I Disappear In Your Arms live from Paris.

And finally, Graham listens, sometimes rather briefly, to more foolhardy audience members brave enough to tell a 'Big Red Chair' story from their own homes.