Peter Molyneux O.B.E., video game designer (Populous, Theme Park, Fable).
My guest today is an English video game designer and programmer. In 1984 he designed The Entrepreneur, a simulation game about running a start-up company. When it sold just two copies, however, my gue...
4 Sep 20231h 14min
Frank Lantz, founding chair, NYU Game Center.
My guest today is a game designer and Founding Chair of New York University’s Game Center. An influential writer, speaker, and thinker on video games he has taught generations of emerging young design...
28 Aug 20231h 16min
Stella Wisdom, digital curator, British Library.
My guest today is Digital Curator for Contemporary Collections at The British Library. After graduating from Aberystwyth University with a degree in Library Studies and Art History, my guest was award...
21 Aug 20231h 5min
Sam Barlow, game director (Silent Hill, Her Story, Immortality).
My guest today is a game director who has pioneered new forms of nonlinear storytelling that blend film and games. After twelve-year stint at the British development studio Climax, where he directed S...
14 Aug 20231h 12min
Joseph Mackertich, editor, Time Out.
My guest today is editor-in-chief of Time Out London. After graduating from SOAS University with a degree in religion and the history of art, he moved to China for a few years, then struck out as a fr...
7 Aug 20231h 12min
Paul Chowdhry, actor, comedian.
My guest today is multi-award-winning stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Born in Edgware London, to a Punjabi Sikh family, he was in his mid-twenties when he first tried stand-up. Five years later ...
31 Jul 20231h 9min
Dominic Armato, food critic & voice actor (The Curse of Monkey Island, Sea of Thieves)
My guest today is an American food critic and voice actor. Born in Chicago in the late seventies, he began performing in public as a young child after he joined the chorus for a production of the oper...
24 Jul 20231h 17min
Chella Ramanan, narrative designer (Tales of Windrush; Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora)
My guest today is a writer and narrative designer for independent and blockbuster video games. Born in London she studied English Literature at Kingston University, then completed her postgrad in jour...
17 Jul 20231h 6min
