Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston
Actor Adjoa Andoh has a list of TV, theatre and film credits as long as your arm. She's best known worldwide as Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, and is due to direct - and star in the title role - in a new ...
24 Jan 202327min
Comedian Chris McCausland on Kurt Cobain
"‘For me, it’s all about his authenticity’. Chris McCausland Kurt Cobain, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Nirvana became the voice of a generation and is to this day considered one o...
17 Jan 202327min
Roger Deakin, wild swimmer and author of Waterlogged
Matthew Parris travels along the Thames to meet Nick Hayes - illustrator and author of The Book of Trespass - to discuss the life of Roger Deakin. They also enjoy a naked swim. Joining them, in his pa...
9 Jan 202327min
Minette Batters on Henry Plumb
"I was born an Englishman but I'll die a European." Those are the words of Henry Plumb, Lord Plumb, a farmer who was President of the National Farmers Union in the 1970s and who became the first Brit...
3 Jan 202327min
Bob Harris on Sir Matt Busby, Manchester United manager
The voice behind The Old Grey Whistle Test and Radio 2’s country music show, Bob Harris, tells us why Manchester United Football Club manager Sir Matt Busby is his Great Life. Bob and Matthew hear how...
27 Dec 202227min
Noddy Holder on Chuck Berry
In 1972 Chucky Berry was onstage in Coventry. Seeking some audience participation Chuck launched into a cover of an unusual novelty record called 'My Ding-a-Ling'. One of the men who can be heard in ...
20 Dec 202227min
Olivia Laing on Christopher Lloyd, Gardener and Writer
Known to his friends as Christo, Lloyd spent his whole life, from childhood until his death aged 85, at work in the same garden: Great Dixter in East Sussex. He wrote a weekly column for Country Life ...
13 Dec 202227min
Olia Hercules on Alla Horska, Ukrainian painter
"Cooking is like therapy to us. I grew up where my big extended family would come together in summer under the walnut tree. The adults would drink and we’d eat, stories would be told and we'd break in...
9 Dec 202227min
