Carol Vorderman
She's best known for starring in Countdown, one of Britain's longest-running television game shows. But Carol Vorderman has managed to fit twice as much into her life as most of us. She speaks to Jame...
9 Mars 20231h 19min
Phil Wang
Comedian Phil Wang has decided he's got to start being silly in response to a world which he thinks is getting serious. Born in Stoke on Trent to an English mother, Wang moved to Malaysia where his fa...
2 Mars 20231h 2min
Amanda Abbington
Actress Amanda Abbington, star of Sherlock and Netflix thriller Safe, speaks to James about her misdirected early attempts at dancing, the moment she realised she was an actor and the adrenaline rush ...
23 Feb 20231h 1min
Neil Kinnock
He is credited with reestablishing the Labour Party as a mainstream, centrist political force after a period of hard-left internal conflict. Sound familiar? The former leader of the Labour Party speak...
9 Feb 20231h 5min
Terry Christian
Broadcaster Terry Christian grew up in a large Irish Catholic family in Manchester where not attending mass or university was out of the question. After dropping out of a chemistry course he didn't wa...
2 Feb 20231h 11min
Sir Tony Robinson
Blackadder legend Tony Robinson talks to James about the state of British politics, the power of meditation and the return of Time Team.
26 Jan 20231h 3min
Matthew Collins
Content warning: this episode contains descriptions of racial violence, racial slurs and suicidal feelings. By the time Matthew Collins was 15 years old, he was enthralled by the far-right and had joi...
19 Jan 20231h 11min
George Takei
The internment of Japanese Americans across the U.S. during World War II is not an obvious subject on which to develop a musical, however it is exactly what George Takei, Star Trek legend and social m...
12 Jan 20231h 5min
