Pat Cummins - 'My mother’s death taught me cricket isn’t as important as family'
Considered by many as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, the Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins is extremely well-placed to tell me how he wins but also how he’s been shaped by losing. B...
7 Elo 202441min
Elif Shafak - ‘There’s only one thing that scares me - and that’s indifference’
I could listen to Elif Shafak speak for HOURS. The eloquence of this woman! She speaks like most of us would aspire to write. I cannot get over it. Shafak, the Turkish-British author, combines ferocio...
31 Heinä 202444min
Danny O Donoghue - ‘I’m finished drinking, I’m finished smoking, everything’
Danny O’Donoghue is best known as the lead singer of The Script and a former coach on singing talent show The Voice. But the last year of his life has been overshadowed by personal tragedy: the death...
24 Heinä 202444min
Introducing How To Write a Book: Episode 1 - The Idea (Part 1)
In this first episode of How to Write a Book, Elizabeth Day’s new podclass series, hosts Sara Collins, Sharmaine Lovegrove and Nelle Andrew discuss coming up with ideas. Just where do ideas for boo...
22 Heinä 202434min
Sara Cox - ‘it made me feel a bit of a failed mum’
Sara Cox is a broadcaster and author. You might have grown up with her on Radio 1’s iconic Breakfast Show. You might remember her being one of the first so-called ‘ladettes’ (and if you do, we talk ab...
17 Heinä 202449min
Danny Dyer - 'I’m a f**king legend or I’m a f**king disgrace. I suppose I divide people'
We bonded over swearing. And, although I’m not one to brag: Danny Dyer said it suits me. DANNY F***ING DYER! I mean. I know this is a podcast about failure, but surely that’s a major life achievement?...
10 Heinä 202450min
Jesse Tyler Ferguson - ‘I was caught stealing gay porn'
This week: it’s Mitch from Modern Family! On screen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson brought to life one of the most beloved comic roles in recent years but he’s also a Tony-award winning theatre actor, not to m...
3 Heinä 202449min
Sadiq Khan - ‘Had I known what it involved, I can’t say I’d have gone into politics’
Q. What connects the grandson of Pakistani immigrants, the son of a seamstress and bus driver, one of eight children raised in a three-bedroomed council flat in Tooting, a human rights lawyer, former...
26 Kesä 202453min
