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Toby Jones: I never wanted to feel desperate about acting
Season 2 Episode 260
From Truman Capote to Mr Bates, Toby Jones has built a career on disappearing- an actor whose transformations are so complete they can seem alchemica…
11 months, 1 week ago
John Lloyd: Blackadder, Spitting Image, QI and a life in search of meaning
Season 2 Episode 259
As the creative mind behind Blackadder, Spitting Image, Not the Nine O’Clock News and QI, John Lloyd has quietly shaped British comedy for more than …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Jimmy Wales: The man who built Wikipedia
Season 2 Episode 258
Long before it became one of the most visited websites on Earth, Wikipedia began as a radical idea from a curious boy in Huntsville, Alabama. Raised …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Charles Dance: From builder’s labourer with a stammer to Tywin Lannister
Season 2 Episode 257
Before he was Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones or the commanding presence of The Jewel in the Crown, Charles Dance was a boy from Worcestershire wh…
1 year ago
Alexander Armstrong: My default setting is fear- I expect the worst of people
Season 2 Episode 256
Before Pointless, Classic FM and comedy stardom, Alexander Armstrong was a restless kid growing up in rural Northumberland- lonely at boarding school…
1 year ago
Jack Thorne: “I was allergic to moving - the doctor said, ‘This might be forever.’”
Season 2 Episode 255
Growing up in Bristol, acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne was a shy, politically driven kid who believed he could change the world- fi…
1 year ago
Cor Hutton: The Quadruple Amputee Who Found Her Feet
Season 2 Episode 254
In 2013, businesswoman and mum Cor Hutton was given just a five percent chance of survival after contracting pneumonia that developed into sepsis. Sh…
1 year ago
Jamie Oliver: “I’d gone from being skint to having a lot of money, I felt like a fake.”
Season 2 Episode 253
Before he became one of the world’s best-known chefs, Jamie Oliver was a dyslexic kid growing up in his parents’ pub in rural Essex, learning the val…
1 year ago
Leo Varadkar: Former Prime Minister of Ireland on Power and Letting Go
Season 2 Episode 252
Before becoming Ireland’s youngest Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar was a Dublin GP with bold ambitions and a belief that politics could be a kind of medicine…
1 year, 1 month ago
Dr Richard Shepherd: Lessons from 23,000 Postmortems- including Hungerford, Hillsborough and Princess Diana
Season 2 Episode 251
Britain’s leading forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd has performed over 23,000 postmortems and given evidence in some of the most high-profile …
1 year, 1 month ago