Who would be the ideal guests for Robert and Eddie?

Robert Peston and Eddie Mair's new gig as Radio 4 late-night chat show hosts has got off to a storming start. They’ve had fascinating conversations with Booker prize-winner Julian Barnes, television heroine Esther Rantzen and comedy-writing legend, Denis Norden.

In the show each presenter takes it in turn to surprise the other with a guest whom they then jointly interview; that means one of them is always completely unprepared. If we could surprise them with literally anybody from history, here’s who we'd pick.

Peston and Mair may be the Burton and Taylor of Radio 4 (we’re declining to say which we think is which), but they are not yet on the level of the original explosive couple. Burton said “You can't keep clapping a couple of sticks of dynamite together without expecting them to blow up.” We await the fireworks.

Peston is, of course, a genuine expert in economics - he's the Economics Editor for BBC News. An interview with John Maynard Keynes, the 20th Century economist who came up with measures intended to deal with recessions and depressions, would play to his strengths, especially as Peston's father wrote a biography of the great man. And while Peston gets to the bottom of Keynesian economics, Mair can shout at him for leaving his mobile phone turned on.

Peston and Mair know that no couple is perfect. Having recently gone through "conscious uncoupling" with ex Chris Martin, so does Gwyneth Paltrow. She can advise the pair on macrobiotic diets and steaming their genitalia. Which might just leave them grateful they have each other after all.

There is certainly something in Freud's psyche that needs unpicking, and we think Peston and Mair are up to the job. If not, at least the father of modern psychology could help us establish once and for all what is responisble for the pair’s mutual antipathy - microphone size, perhaps?

Miss Piggy could talk frankly about her career and turbulent relationship with Kermit the Frog. Most of all, she could put both presenters in their place. “There's only room for one diva in Oz, and that is moi!”

In order to allow Peston’s verbosity full rein, the ‘master of silence’ could happily climb in and out of boxes and watch balloons float away while Peston rabbited on unencumbered by guest interrruptions.

If Peston's ideal foil is a silent star, Mair would meet his match with Dorothy Parker, the wittiest woman to have walked the Earth. The queen of the zinger would surely recognise a fellow traveller in a man who once described his editor’s pink shirt as so vibrant that "several members of staff have had to go home sick.” Mair may be more waspish than a wasp, but Parker could take out both presenters with the flick of an eyebrow. Which we'd certainly pay to see.

He may have hung up his interview mic, but for many Parkinson will always be the king of chat. Peston and Mair, however, are our crown princes, but these natural heirs could still learn a thing or two about their chat show ancestry. We're sure they could extract some exciting revelations from Parky along the way.

We’ll happily pass on any other suggestions you’d like to make to the pair themselves, and in the meantime, carry on enjoying the show.