My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights.


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Val McDermid, crime writer, Booker Prize judge.

Val McDermid, crime writer, Booker Prize judge.

My guest today is a Scottish crime writer. Born into a working-class family in Fife, she studied English at St Hilda’s College Oxford, where she was the first student to be admitted from a Scottish st...

11 Maalis 20241h 7min

Patrick House, neuroscientist and writer.

Patrick House, neuroscientist and writer.

My guest today is an American neuroscientist and writer. Born in New York, he earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University in 2014, researching Toxoplasma gondii, the single-celled feline...

4 Maalis 20241h 20min

Yoshinori Kitase, director & producer (Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger).

Yoshinori Kitase, director & producer (Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger).

My guest today is a Japanese video-game director, producer, and executive officer of Square-Enix. Born in 1966 in Fussa City in the suburbs of Tokyo, he studied filmmaking at Nihon University. After g...

26 Helmi 20241h 5min

Rod Fergusson, SVP Blizzard Entertainment (Gears of War, Bioshock Infinite, Diablo IV).

Rod Fergusson, SVP Blizzard Entertainment (Gears of War, Bioshock Infinite, Diablo IV).

My guest today is Senior Vice-President of Blizzard Entertainment and General Manager of the Diablo video game series. After attending the University of Ottawa for Computer Science, my guest joined Mi...

19 Helmi 20241h 18min

Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (Writers, H is for Hawk, Prophet).

Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (Writers, H is for Hawk, Prophet).

My guests today are co-authors of the techno-thriller novel Prophet. Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the University of Cambridge. Their 2014 boo...

12 Helmi 20241h 18min

Iain Lee (broadcaster, comedian, counsellor).

Iain Lee (broadcaster, comedian, counsellor).

My guest today is an English broadcaster, writer, television presenter and stand-up comedian. Born in Slough, he began working as a comic in the early nineties, soon landing a gig as co-host of Channe...

6 Helmi 20241h 19min

Gary Whitta, screenwriter (The Book of Eli, Star Wars: Rogue One).

Gary Whitta, screenwriter (The Book of Eli, Star Wars: Rogue One).

My guest today is a British author and screenwriter for film and video games. Born in London, he began his career as a writer for the games magazine Commodore User, then joined the team that founded P...

30 Tammi 20241h 20min

Best of 2023 (Part 2).

Best of 2023 (Part 2).

Another selection of some of our favourite clips from My Perfect Console's amazing line-up of guests from 2023.Cast in Order of AppearanceHenk RogersDylan CuthbertCharles CecilJörg TittelEllie GibsonD...

8 Tammi 20241h 11min

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