Podcast Episodes

Monica Dolan, actor

Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier award winning actor. She is equally at home playing a wrongfully accused postmistress in Mr Bates Vs the Post Of…

7 months ago

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Gustavo Dudamel is a Venezuelan conductor, violinist and composer. He is known for bringing humour and joy to the podium. He is currently director …

7 months, 1 week ago

Ash Atalla, producer

Ash Atalla is a television producer whose first hit was the BBC sitcom The Office, starring Ricky Gervais. He followed it up with the IT Crowd, Peopl…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Carol Klein, gardener

Carol Klein is a gardener, broadcaster and longtime contributor to BBC Gardeners’ World. She is a six time Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner, a…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Sir Gregory Doran, director

Sir Gregory Doran is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He spent a total of thirty five years with the RSC directing fi…

8 months ago

Norma Percy, film-maker

Norma Percy is a documentary film-maker. She has been making programmes for over three decades and her productions have featured a range of politica…

8 months, 1 week ago

Lord Alf Dubs, politician and campaigner

Lord Alf Dubs is a Labour peer and former MP. He came to the UK from Prague in 1939 on one of the Kindertransport trains organised by Sir Nicholas W…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Professor Lucy Easthope, emergency planner

Professor Lucy Easthope is an adviser on disaster recovery and planning.

She’s an expert in planning for and reacting to major incidents: natural di…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Romesh Ranganathan, comedian and broadcaster

Romesh Ranganathan is a comedian and BAFTA-winning broadcaster who has been a fixture on British television screens for the past decade. In addition…

9 months ago

Abdulrazak Gurnah, writer

Abdulrazak Gurnah is emeritus Professor of Post-Colonial Literatures at the University of Kent and the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature.

Born …

9 months, 1 week ago