Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Actress Mina Anwar talks to Margaret about her Geography teacher Mr Simkins who not only inspired her to sing but also looked uncannily like a ginger Magnum PI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer, podcaster and downright comedy legend Richard Herring talks to Margaret about how, as a teenager, being both square and smelly cost him huge. He goes on to talk about how he went out with someone he had made a shrine to on national television and the importance of dealing with his own fans' crushes sensitively.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aussie stand up Heidi Regan remembers loving Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher from afar and harbouring a beautifully life-changing crush on Andrea Corr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor and writer Katy Wix talks to Margaret about her most memorable crushes - from Heathcliff to a boy in the canteen to King Kong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award winning writer and stand-up Sarah Kendall looks back on the crushes from her youth - from Alan Alda to Dustin Hoffman via a boy called Piccolo. She also talks about the challenges of coming out in her 40s and the deeper understanding she has gained of herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer, actor and executive director of Wrexham AFC, Humphrey Ker, talks to Margaret about his most ardent of crushes - from Sgt Callahan in Police Academy to Jennifer Aniston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Shaparak Khorsandi talks to Margaret about all her crushes; from the boy she knew as a teenager to the newsreader Jon Snow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No-one knows more about the power of the crush than comic, writer and actor Sara Pascoe who literally wouldn't exist without it - her mum camped out on her Dad's lawn until they got together. Sara also talks about her own crushes from boys at school to Robbie Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer performer Chris Neill talks about growing up gay in the 1980s; the lure of accountants, oboeists and pen and ink drawings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comic, writer and actor Isy Suttie talks about writing songs for her crushes at school and the art of the double crush; lusting after twins with her best friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Lucy Porter talks about crushing on indie bands and comedians as a teenager and her first crush of all time - a potentially surprising choice - Spike from Hi-Di-Hi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Jess Fostekew talks about her first uber crush, her English teacher Mr. Ray. She did what all right minded teenagers would do - write ‘I love him’ about 100 times on her hand and waft it in his face as she left the room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer and podcaster Deborah Frances White talks to Margaret about how she ignored the hottest guy in her class to gaze at her music teacher Mr Gilmour espousing the merits of Bach's rules of harmony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Margaret talks to writer and podcaster Dolly Alderton who admits she would find it difficult to deny some of her most outrageous lovesick behaviour as Margaret has witnessed most of it. Dolly talks about DMing her favourite celebrity crushes and remembers falling for her dance partner in a school production of West Side Story  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices