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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, 4 months ago
Neil Kinnock
Season 2 Episode 124
He is credited with reestablishing the Labour Party as a mainstream, centrist political force after a period of hard-left internal conflict. Sound fa…
3 years, 5 months ago
Terry Christian
Season 2 Episode 123
Broadcaster Terry Christian grew up in a large Irish Catholic family in Manchester where not attending mass or university was out of the question. Af…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sir Tony Robinson
Season 2 Episode 122
Blackadder legend Tony Robinson talks to James about the state of British politics, the power of meditation and the return of Time Team.
3 years, 5 months ago
Matthew Collins
Season 2 Episode 121
Content warning: this episode contains descriptions of racial violence, racial slurs and suicidal feelings. By the time Matthew Collins was 15 years …
3 years, 5 months ago
George Takei
Season 2 Episode 120
The internment of Japanese Americans across the U.S. during World War II is not an obvious subject on which to develop a musical, however it is exact…
3 years, 6 months ago
Tracy Brabin
Season 2 Episode 119
Back in the day when she was best known as Tricia Armstrong in Coronation Street, Tracy Brabin did not shy away from national politics, appearing in …
3 years, 6 months ago
Alan Johnson
Season 2 Episode 118
From union General Secretary, to Home Secretary to award-winning writer. By his own admission, Alan Johnson has lived a charmed life. He speaks to Ja…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lisa Nandy
Season 2 Episode 117
A quick glance at Lisa Nandy's family tree shows that politics runs through her veins, but when she first arrived in the House of Commons it wasn't a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Maria Ressa
Season 2 Episode 116
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa's pursuit of the truth has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in her motherland: President Duterte…
3 years, 7 months ago