Danny Wallace, writer & broadcaster (Yes Man, Assassin's Creed series).
My guest today is the award-winning humourist, writer, and presenter Danny Wallace. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he published his first professional video game review at the age of thirteen while conduct...
14 Okt 20241h 6min
Nainita Desai, composer (Immortality, Call of Duty, Tales of Kenzera: Zau).
My guest today is Nainita Desai, the British composer for film, television and video games. Born and raised in London by her Indian parents, she earned a degree in mathematics, then studied sound desi...
7 Okt 20241h 14min
Eugene Jarvis, gamemaker (Defender, Robotron: 2084, Smash TV).
My guest today is the American video game designer and programmer Eugene Jarvis. Born in California, he studied computer science at Berkeley, where, in the basement of the physics laboratory, he playe...
30 Sep 20241h 16min
Uwe Boll, film director (House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Postal).
My guest today is the German filmmaker Uwe Boll. Born in Wermelskirchen he decided he wanted to direct films at the age of ten, after seeing Marlon Brando star in Mutiny on the Bounty. It wasn’t until...
23 Sep 20241h 13min
Derek Yu, gamemaker (Spelunky, UFO 50).
My guest today is the American video game artist and designer, Derek Yu. Born in Pasadena, California in the early eighties, he started mapping out games on graph paper when he was still a child. Afte...
16 Sep 20241h 11min
Correspondence Special #4: Clickbait?
In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence and answers your questions.Hear Simon discuss the recent, headline-making episode with former PlayStation ...
13 Sep 202435min
Chris Deering, former President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
My guest today is an American businessman and the former and first president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Chris Deering. Raised in Boston, Massachusetts to immigrant parents, my guest had a ...
9 Sep 20241h 14min
Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat.
My guest today is Eliot Higgins, a British citizen journalist and founder of Bellingcat, a website that specialises in open-source intelligence. In 2012, while unemployed, he became involved in online...
2 Sep 20241h 12min
