Podcast Episodes

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 cr…

2 years, 10 months ago

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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…

2 years, 10 months ago

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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…

2 years, 10 months ago

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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 expecte…

2 years, 10 months ago

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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 s…

2 years, 11 months ago

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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 st…

2 years, 11 months ago

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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 …

2 years, 11 months ago

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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 m…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Phil Wang

Season 2 Episode 126

Comedian Phil Wang has decided he's got to start being silly in response to a world which he thinks is getting serious. Born in Stoke on Trent to an …

2 years, 11 months ago

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Amanda Abbington

Season 2 Episode 125

Actress Amanda Abbington, star of Sherlock and Netflix thriller Safe, speaks to James about her misdirected early attempts at dancing, the moment she…

3 years ago

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