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Jack Whitehall
Season 2 Episode 136
His first stand-up gig was at the tender age of 16. It was not critically well received. But Jack Whitehall quickly became a firm favourite on our screens, dominating the television comedy circuit an…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Stephen Flynn
Season 2 Episode 135
At 34 years old he's the SNP's youngest ever leader in Westminster, moving at breakneck speed from supermarket checkout boy to Rishi Sunak's political adversary at PMQs. With Nicola Sturgeon's shock …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Liam Thomas
Season 2 Episode 134
For more than a decade, Liam Thomas worked as an undercover detective in the Metropolitan Police’s Covert Surveillance Unit, mixing with dangerous criminals and eventually investigating corrupt offic…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Jason Arday
Season 2 Episode 133
On paper, a professorship at Cambridge is not an obvious outcome for a person who cannot read or write by the age of 18. It is also not what we might expect for an eleven-year-old boy who cannot spea…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Eddie Izzard
Season 2 Episode 132
Her career contains stand-up, marathon-running, acting and campaigning; all of which tend to reappear in no obvious or particular order. Now Eddie is trying her hand at doing everything all at once: …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Hugh Laurie
Season 2 Episode 131
Brought up in a household where showing off was effectively banned, an acting career was perhaps the antithesis of what Hugh Laurie's parents expected of him. He did, for a short period follow in the…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Lucy Easthope
Season 2 Episode 130
Emergency Planner and Disaster Expert Lucy Easthope has advised on everything from plane crashes and tsunamis to pandemics and terror attacks. Lucy speaks to James about the Government’s decision-mak…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Mehdi Hasan
Season 2 Episode 129
As with The Beatles, Adele and James Corden, Mehdi Hasan is one of the rare British talents to crack America. But he's profoundly depressed by the state of his adopted nation. The journalist speaks t…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Fred Sirieix
Season 2 Episode 128
He's the nation's most loved maitre d and the first face seen by singletons looking for love of Channel 4's First Dates. But behind the friendliness and warm exterior is a man serious about service a…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Carol Vorderman
Season 2 Episode 127
She's best known for starring in Countdown, one of Britain's longest-running television game shows. But Carol Vorderman has managed to fit twice as much into her life as most of us. She speaks to Jam…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago