Podcast Episodes

Dwayne Fields, explorer

Dwayne Fields is an explorer and broadcaster who was appointed the UK’s Chief Scout in 2024. He is the first black Briton to reach the Magnetic Nort…

21 hours ago

Roula Khalaf, journalist

Roula Khalaf is a journalist and the first woman to serve as editor of the Financial Times in its 138‑year history. She joined the paper in 1995 as N…

1 week ago

Richard Young, photographer

Richard Young is a photographer who was once known as the “king of the paparazzi”.

His portfolio is a who’s who of some of the biggest stars in film, …

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Tahra Zafar, costume and effects designer

Tahra Zafar is a costume and creature effects designer.

She designed the Paddington Bear puppet featured in the hit West End production Paddington: T…

3 weeks ago

Professor Michele Dougherty, scientist

Professor Michele Dougherty is President of the Institute of Physics and Professor of Space Physics at Imperial College London. She was appointed As…

4 weeks ago

Kemi Badenoch MP, leader of the opposition

Kemi Badenoch is the Conservative MP for North West Essex and the Leader of the Opposition.

Since winning her seat in 2017, she has held cabinet pos…

1 month, 1 week ago

Adeel Akhtar, actor

Adeel Akhtar is an award-winning actor whose breakthrough role came in 2010 when he starred in Chris Morris’s black comedy Four Lions.

He won his fi…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Jojo Moyes, writer

Jojo Moyes, writer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.

2 months ago

Kate Winslet, actor

Kate Winslet is an actor who achieved global fame playing Rose DeWitt Bukater, opposite Leonard DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, in the 1997 James Cameron ep…

2 months, 1 week ago

Lee Child, writer

Lee Child is a writer who is best known for his series of bestselling novels featuring Jack Reacher. Reacher is an enigmatic 6ft 5in, 17-stone ex-mi…

2 months, 2 weeks ago