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John Simpson
Season 2 Episode 82
He was nearly shot on one of his first jobs as a 25 year old, and throughout his illustrious career, John Simpson has continued to dice with death, r…
4 years, 7 months ago
Keir Starmer
Season 2 Episode 81
The Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer has had a meteoric rise from his humble beginnings in a small Surrey town. The Starmer household was a…
4 years, 8 months ago
Christiane Amanpour
Season 2 Episode 80
Known across the world for fearlessly holding dictators to account, Christiane Amanpour, as a young staffer at CNN found herself kicked off the netwo…
4 years, 8 months ago
Beverley Knight
Season 2 Episode 79
Born to Jamaican parents, Beverley Knight grew up in a dedicated Pentecostal household where church attendance and music performance were inextricabl…
4 years, 8 months ago
Adil Ray
Season 2 Episode 78
As the younger son, Adil Ray was given more freedom to pursue his creative instincts than his older, more academic sibling. Before moving into the ma…
4 years, 8 months ago
Charlotte Church
Season 2 Episode 77
Charlotte Church was catapulted into the spotlight at the age of 11 after singing down the line on television show, This Morning. Within two years Ch…
4 years, 9 months ago
Feargal Sharkey
Season 2 Episode 76
When ‘Teenage Kicks’ by The Undertones was released in 1978, legendary DJ John Peel took the unprecedented step of playing it back to back on Radio 1…
4 years, 9 months ago
Stewart Lee
Season 2 Episode 75
Despite being named by The Times as the best current English-language comedian in the world, Stewart Lee insists that nobody really knows who he is. …
4 years, 9 months ago
Johnny Vaughan
Season 2 Episode 74
Realising there was nothing he could not do, Johnny Vaughan left school and did nothing. Before becoming the presenter of the Big Breakfast and the d…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sue Perkins
Season 2 Episode 73
When Sue Perkins was asked by her manager to present a programme about competitive baking, she declined the offer on multiple occasions. After lots o…
4 years, 10 months ago