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Bernardine Evaristo
Season 2 Episode 64
When Bernardine Evaristo was in her thirties she decided she wanted to win the Booker Prize. After breaking away from her career in theatre, Evaristo…
5 years ago
Waheed Arian
Season 2 Episode 63
Waheed Arian spent his childhood fleeing the war zones of Afghanistan. After recovering from an almost fatal illness at a Pakistan refugee camp as a …
5 years ago
Angela Rayner
Season 2 Episode 62
The Deputy Leader of the Labour party was brought up by a parent who could not read or write. After getting pregnant and leaving school aged 16, Ange…
5 years, 1 month ago
Joe Mulhall
Season 2 Episode 61
In the run up to the 2016 Trump election, Joe Mulhall of Surrey, England managed to convince the American white supremacist terrorist group, the Ku K…
5 years, 1 month ago
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 …
5 years, 1 month 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 Bre…
5 years, 1 month 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 rang…
5 years, 2 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 b…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 3 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 teach…
5 years, 3 months ago