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Brian May
Season 2 Episode 60
For 20 years, Queen guitarist and astrophysicist, Brian May had been too busy to realise that he didn’t belong to a record label. Then at the height of lockdown he decided to reissue his 1992 solo al…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Jolyon Maugham
Season 2 Episode 59
After leading a series of successful challenges to the Brexit process, Jolyon Maugham QC was thrust into the limelight and depicted by right-wing Brexiteers as an out of touch, elitist, Remainer. But…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Anthony Horowitz
Season 2 Episode 58
Aged 10 and deeply unhappy, Anthony Horowitz OBE realised that he was a writer. Since then he has been difficult to pin down. His diverse oeuvre ranges from Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War, to the b…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
John Amaechi
Season 2 Episode 57
When John Amaechi OBE was a boy, his white grandfather would lean out of the car window to shout racist abuse at other drivers whilst he sat in the back. He went on to become the first British NBA st…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Joe Lycett
Season 2 Episode 56
Joe Lycett, the comedian formerly known as Hugo Boss has no discernable backstory of trauma to speak of. He has ‘a tendency to do just enough’ and is frustrated with himself when he accepts the offer…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Lucy Kellaway
Season 2 Episode 55
Having separated from her husband, Lucy Kellaway quit her full-time, high-status job as a journalist at the Financial Times to become a trainee teacher at a secondary school. In Re-educated, Lucy sho…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green
Season 2 Episode 54
Before the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 a pandemic, scientists Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green had already started developing a vaccine against the vir…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Mary Portas
Season 2 Episode 53
Mary Portas made her name transforming the luxury retailer, Harvey Nichols into a destination. But as the high street crumbles, and as the earth continues to buckle under the pressure of consumerism,…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Introducing 'Ive Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan'
Season 2
Hi, Full Disclosure listener, We’ve got another brand new podcast we think you’ll enjoy. ‘I’ve Been Thinking’ is a new weekly show hosted by Peter Frankopan. As well as being a best-selling a…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Dr Waheed Arian
Season 2 Episode 52
At 15, Waheed fled Afghanistan. Arriving in Britain on a false passport, he was imprisoned in a young offender institution. Now, he's a Cambridge qualified doctor supplying war torn countries with me…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago