60: The Woman Who Walked The World: Angela Maxwell
today on the show is Angela Maxwell, who walked 20,000 miles or 32,000 kilometres around the entire globe. It took her the best part of six years to do so, and she learned about as much about life as ...
5 Jul 20211h 5min
59: John McWhorter: F**k, s**t, c**t and the truly unspeakable
Leading linguistics professor at Columbia University John McWhorter talks about his brilliant book Nine Nasty Words, and the origin of swearing. Why are some words profane, and others not? How has it ...
28 Jun 20211h 4min
58: Working undercover in Amazon warehouse - James Bloodworth
Today’s guest, James Bloodworth, is an intrepid journalist who went undercover to work in an Amazon warehouse and expose the torrid conditions within. His acclaimed book Hired details his journey back...
21 Jun 20211h 14min
57: Make all drugs legal & abolish prisons: Chris Daw QC
Top barrister Chris Daw QC talks about how more and more people are being incarcerated with tougher sentences. Being tough on crime is a vote winner – it appeals to our primal urges as well as our sen...
15 Jun 20211h 20min
56: 'I survived football paedo Bennell to become top cop'
Gary Cliffe is one of the 800 survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of former football coach and paedophilic serial offender Barry Bennell. Bennell terrorised children in the late 80s and 90s, ...
7 Jun 20211h 5min
55: I lost my arm in movie stunt gone wrong: Olivia Jackson
Olivia Jackson is one of the most talented and impressive people I’ve had on the show. She is a South African Muay Thai champion, kickboxer and stunt performer who has worked on huge films like Guardi...
31 Mai 20211h 6min
54: Saving Bletchley Park: Computer Scientist Dr. Sue Black
Today, I talk to Professor Sue Black about how she helped to save Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers during the Second World War. She tells some fabulous stories about the people who worked ...
24 Mai 20211h 3min
53: I survived plane crash & had to eat my friends
Meet Coche Inciarte, the most marvellous and loveliest man, who tells me about what it was like to survive a plane crash and live for 72 days in the most awful conditions imaginable. Eventually, he an...
17 Mai 202147min
