Siobhan Reddy, co-deputy chair, BAFTA.
My guest today is Siobhan Reddy, a video game executive and the co-deputy chair of BAFTA. Born in South African to Irish and Australian parents, at the age of four she moved to Campbelltown, New South...
8 Apr 20241h 13min
Correspondence Special #1: Revisiting Jack Thompson.
In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin explores feedback from the recent episode with Jack Thompson, reads out listeners' correspondence, answers questions, and offers at least one ...
4 Apr 202438min
Wes Fenlon, senior editor, PC Gamer.
My guest today is Wes Fenlon, a San Francisco-based writer and senior editor at the video game publication PC Gamer. Having graduated from The University of Georgia with a degree in journalism and mag...
1 Apr 20241h 22min
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
