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…

9 months, 2 weeks 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 …

9 months, 3 weeks 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…

9 months, 4 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…

10 months 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…

10 months, 1 week 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…

10 months, 2 weeks 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…

10 months, 3 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…

11 months 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…

11 months, 1 week 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 …

11 months, 2 weeks ago