From Prison to Playwriting with Ric Renton
Ric Renton shares how reading the dictionary in prison aided his writing career. Following a school life, he describes as “absent” and a violent childhood involving drugs, Ric requested a dictionary...
20 Mar 48min
My Husband Died Alone at Dignitas with Lottie Clarke
Lottie Clarke shares her husband's story and explains why she thinks UK law on assisted dying should change. The couple were happily married for 19 years, but were apart at the moment he died. After...
13 Mar 52min
Fatphobia and Weight Loss Jabs with Billie Bhatia
Fashion writer Billie Bhatia talks about her experiences of living in a bigger body, fatphobia and the cultural, social and personal impact of weight loss jabs. Billie talks to Emma about dating, navi...
6 Mar 54min
Art, Pain, Womanhood with Tracey Emin
Dame Tracey Emin discusses love, feminism, and making art after losing her bladder to cancer, ahead of the opening of her largest ever exhibition. Emin is one of the UK’s foremost visual artists, ha...
27 Feb 52min
My Breast Cancer Surgeon Mutilated Me with Deborah Douglas
Deborah Douglas is one of the many victims of disgraced Birmingham surgeon Ian Paterson, who maimed many of his patients. After a breast cancer diagnosis in 2003, Deborah thought she was in the best...
20 Feb 49min
My Brain Surgery with Maribou State’s Chris Davids
Chris Davids of electronic duo Maribou State discusses suffering from a rare brain condition, how it affected his passion for making music and the surgery and experimental procedure that led to his re...
13 Feb 46min
Postpartum Psychosis with Laura Dockrill
Writer Laura Dockrill discusses the extreme delusions and psychotic breakdown that she suffered after her son's birth. She shares how she got beyond them and how she is today. Just weeks after becom...
6 Feb 54min
Surviving a Daughter's Death with Jason Watkins
On the morning of New Year's Day 2011, actor Jason Watkins' two-year-old daughter Maude died. He and his wife had taken her to hospital the previous day, but only after an inquest did they come to the...
30 Jan 51min
