The guest roster included figures as diverse as John Kenneth Galbraith, Garry Wills, Aaron Copland and Oliver Sacks.
Singers and show people, perhaps drawn to its soundproofing, were especially prominent on the guest roster.
And Nathan finds that his name is not on the guest roster, because he's down as Nathan C. Cones, rather than Cone.
The guest roster will include people with Brooklyn connections and the program will visit some of the sights and neighborhoods of the borough.
Lady Gaga, Gwyneth Paltrow and Geoffrey Rush head the guest roster on "The Graham Norton Show," at 10, followed by the Season 3 premiere of "The Inbetweeners," at 11.
Because Mr. Tamburri knew of Mr. Macal's firm intent, next year's expanded guest roster may contain candidates to succeed him.
The Metropolitan Opera has taken some criticism for the difficulty it has had in attracting internationally renowned conductors to its guest roster.
Unofficially, partygoers looked for the secret logic behind the guest roster, and worried that they were on the B, C, or D list.
She has also assembled an eclectic guest roster: the composer Annie Gosfield, the actor Steve Buscemi and the playwright and director Young Jean Lee will contribute to one of her shows, called "Stories," which she described as a series of jump cuts that will "link stories in a voice that is, hopefully, unexpected".
The BBC has introduced a quota system to try to raise the number of women appearing on these shows, but that does little to address the essential laziness of the programme-makers, who shouldn't need to be told that their guest roster should reflect their audience (ie, not just white men in the their twenties with artfully tousled hair).
