Jack Thompson, Former lawyer, "anti-video-game activist."
My guest today is former lawyer who gained recognition in the late nineties and early 2000s as an "anti-video game activist", criticizing the content of violent video games and their alleged effects o...
25 Mar 20241h 15min
Abhi Swaminathan, gamemaker (Venba).
My guest today is a game developer and founder of Visai Games. At the age of twelve he moved to Canada from Southern India, then, hoping to enter the games industry, studied Computer Science at the Un...
18 Mar 20241h 13min
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 Mar 20241h 7min
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 Mar 20241h 20min
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 Feb 20241h 5min
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 Feb 20241h 18min
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 Feb 20241h 18min
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 Feb 20241h 19min
