Val McDermid, crime writer, Booker Prize judge.
My guest today is a Scottish crime writer. Born into a working-class family in Fife, she studied English at St Hilda’s College Oxford, where she was the first student to be admitted from a Scottish st...
11 Mars 20241h 7min
Patrick House, neuroscientist and writer.
My guest today is an American neuroscientist and writer. Born in New York, he earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University in 2014, researching Toxoplasma gondii, the single-celled feline...
4 Mars 20241h 20min
Yoshinori Kitase, director & producer (Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger).
My guest today is a Japanese video-game director, producer, and executive officer of Square-Enix. Born in 1966 in Fussa City in the suburbs of Tokyo, he studied filmmaking at Nihon University. After g...
26 Feb 20241h 5min
Rod Fergusson, SVP Blizzard Entertainment (Gears of War, Bioshock Infinite, Diablo IV).
My guest today is Senior Vice-President of Blizzard Entertainment and General Manager of the Diablo video game series. After attending the University of Ottawa for Computer Science, my guest joined Mi...
19 Feb 20241h 18min
Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (Writers, H is for Hawk, Prophet).
My guests today are co-authors of the techno-thriller novel Prophet. Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the University of Cambridge. Their 2014 boo...
12 Feb 20241h 18min
Iain Lee (broadcaster, comedian, counsellor).
My guest today is an English broadcaster, writer, television presenter and stand-up comedian. Born in Slough, he began working as a comic in the early nineties, soon landing a gig as co-host of Channe...
6 Feb 20241h 19min
Gary Whitta, screenwriter (The Book of Eli, Star Wars: Rogue One).
My guest today is a British author and screenwriter for film and video games. Born in London, he began his career as a writer for the games magazine Commodore User, then joined the team that founded P...
30 Jan 20241h 20min
Best of 2023 (Part 2).
Another selection of some of our favourite clips from My Perfect Console's amazing line-up of guests from 2023.Cast in Order of AppearanceHenk RogersDylan CuthbertCharles CecilJörg TittelEllie GibsonD...
8 Jan 20241h 11min
