The BBC College of Journalism is holding an Art of the Interview season, celebrating the on-air conversations that have shaped opinions and changed lives. We've highlighted some of the most notorious exchanges on TV and radio over 52 years...

1959
Robin Day/Japanese Foreign Minister, ITN
Day confronts minister with Japanese ball bearings, copied from British ones

1960
John Freeman/Gilbert Harding, Face to Face, BBC TV
Harding cries when asked about the death of his mother

1968
David Frost/Kenneth Tynan and David Irving

1971
Michael Parkinson/Muhammad Ali

1976
Michael Parkinson/Emu

1976
Bill Grundy/Sex Pistols Today, ITV
Drunken mayhem

1977
Hugh Stephenson and James Bellini/Sir James Goldsmith, The Money Programme: Goldsmith accuses presenters of effectively lying in a previous programme. "Will you stand by what your reporters said last week?"

1977
David Frost/Richard Nixon

1981
Russell Harty/Grace Jones, BBC
She slaps him

1982
Diana Gould (Nationwide viewer)/Margaret Thatcher, BBC1
Roasting over the sinking of the Belgrano

1982
Robin Day/John Nott
Nott walks out

1985
Melvyn Bragg/Francis Bacon The South Bank Show, ITV
The pub crawl

1987
Brian Redhead/Nigel Lawson, Today, BBC Radio 4
Lawson accuses Redhead of bias

1987
Gordon Wilson – Enniskillen

1993
Oprah Winfrey/Michael Jackson
"The most watched interview ever"

1994
Melvyn Bragg/Dennis Potter, Channel 4
Potter's final interview, in which he reveals he has named his cancer after Rupert Murdoch

1994
Paula Yates/Michael Hutchence, The Big Breakfast, Channel 4
Is this when they fell in love?

1995
Martin Bashir/Princess Diana, Panorama, BBC1

1997
Jeremy Paxman/Michael Howard, Newsnight, BBC2
"Did you threaten to overrule him?"

1999
Peter White/Christopher Reeve, No Triumph No Tragedy, BBC Radio 4

1999
Jenni Murray/Monica Lewinsky, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4

2003
Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein, CBS

2003
Jon Snow/Alastair Campbell, Channel 4 News

2003
Ruby Wax with Jim Carrey, BBC1
At the Dorchester, acting the fool

2003
Michael Parkinson/Meg Ryan, BBC1
Awkward

2005
Oprah Winfrey/Tom Cruise
Couch jumping

2008
Adam Boulton/George and Laura Bush, Sky News

2008
Katie Couric/Sarah Palin, CBS
Palin can't name a single newspaper she reads

2009
Becky Milligan/Anthony Steen, The World at One, BBC Radio 4
On MPs’ expenses. "You know what it’s about? Jealousy."

2009
Jenni Murray/Sharon Shoesmith, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4

2009
Kirsty Young/Morrissey, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4

2009
Fern Britton/Tony Blair, Fern Britton Meets, BBC1
"I would have invaded Iraq anyway."

2009
Baroness (PD) James/Mark Thompson, Today, BBC Radio 4<

2010
Jeremy Vine/Gordon Brown, BBC Radio 2
"She was just a sort of bigoted woman."

2010
Jon Snow/Zac Goldsmith, Channel 4 News
"A complete travesty of the truth."

2010
Jeremy Paxman/Mark Thompson, Newsnight, BBC2
Skippy on BBC4

2010
Piers Morgan/Cheryl Cole, Life Stories, ITV1
Real tears or fake?

2010
Adam Boulton/Alastair Campbell, Sky News

2010
Paxman Meets Hitchens
A Newsnight Special

2011
Sian Williams/PC David Rathband, Broadcasting House, BBC Radio 4

2011
Owen Bennett Jones/Michael Caine, The Interview, BBC World Service

2011
Tom Bradby/William and Kate, ITV News

2011
John Wilson/Bob Geldof, Meeting Myself Coming Back, BBC Radio 4

2011
Graham Norton/Lady Gaga, The Graham Norton Show, BBC1

2011
Victoria Derbyshire/Ken Clarke, BBC Radio 5 Live
Clarke gaffe over "serious rape"