Podcast Episodes

Stephen Merchant, writer, comedian and actor

Stephen Merchant first came to fame with the TV sitcom The Office, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Ricky Gervais. He continued to work with Ge…

6 years, 3 months ago

Heidi Thomas, screenwriter

Heidi Thomas is a screenwriter and playwright best known for Call the Midwife. The BBC TV series, which began in 2012, was originally a six part ada…

6 years, 3 months ago

Professor Russell Foster, professor of circadian neuroscience

Professor Russell Foster is head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, professor of circadian neuroscience a…

6 years, 3 months ago

Asif Kapadia, film director

Asif Kapadia is an Academy Award-winning film director, renowned for his documentaries about the musician Amy Winehouse, the Brazilian motor racing s…

6 years, 3 months ago

Isabella Tree, writer and conservationist

Isabella Tree is a conservationist and writer of the award-winning book Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm, which tells the story of rew…

6 years, 4 months ago

Stephen Graham, actor

Stephen Graham is an actor, whose credits include key roles in films including This is England and The Irishman, and in TV dramas such as Boardwalk E…

6 years, 4 months ago

Lauren Laverne picks some of her favourite episodes

Hear stories & track choices from castaways including Len Goodman, Maya Angelou and Stephen Hawking.

6 years, 4 months ago

Kimberley Motley, lawyer

Kimberley Motley is an American attorney and the first foreign lawyer to practise in Afghanistan.

Born in 1975 to an African-American father and a Nor…

6 years, 4 months ago

Russell T Davies, screenwriter

Russell T Davies is one of the U.K.’s most successful television writers. He spent his teenage years learning his dramatic craft with the West Glamo…

6 years, 4 months ago

Wendell Pierce, actor

Wendell Pierce is an American actor best known for his role as Bunk Moreland in the television series The Wire. Since the series ended in 2008, he ha…

6 years, 5 months ago