Phil Wang, comedian.
My guest today is the British-Malaysian stand-up comedian and comedy writer Phil Wang. Born in the UK, when he was one week old his parents moved to Malaysia, where he attended school until the age of...
13 Mars 20231h 5min
Shahid Ahmad, former director, Sony PlayStation.
Shahid Ahmad was a schoolboy living on a London council estate when he sold his prized BMX bike to raise money for programming books and taught himself to write computer games. After several knock-bac...
6 Mars 202354min
Phil Fish, creator of Fez.
My guest today is the reclusive designer of one of the greatest video games yet made. He studied game design in Montreal and, after a brief stint working at Ubisoft, left to begin work on a game of hi...
27 Feb 20231h 8min
Heather Anne Campbell, comedian, screenwriter (Rick and Morty).
My guest today is an Emmy-nominated writer, sketch comedian, voice actor and performer. As a teenager she studied improv comedy at the famous ImprovOlympic studio in her home city of Chicago, training...
20 Feb 20231h 4min
Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress.
My guest today is the American co-creator of one of the longest-running and most popular independent games yet made. In high school he and his older brother Zach designed adventure games based on fant...
14 Feb 20231h 6min
Dara Ó Briain, comedian.
My guest today is a stand-up comedian, television presenter and Irish national treasure. He studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University College, Dublin, where during a debate, he cracked...
7 Feb 202359min
Ashly Burch, actor (Mythic Quest, The Last of Us, Horizon).
[Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of addiction to prescription pain medication and fatal overdose.]My guest today is an American writer and performer who stars in Apple TV’s Mythic Qu...
31 Jan 20231h 6min
Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle.
My guest today is a software engineer who, in 2021, released a word game that soon became a global obsession. He grew up in a Welsh farming village, attended the Royal Holloway University, then moved ...
24 Jan 202359min
