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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…
3 years, 7 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 st…
3 years, 7 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 …
3 years, 7 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 m…
3 years, 7 months ago
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 …
3 years, 7 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago