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Former Met Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu: I spent a year in therapy to get over what happened in my career
Season 2 Episode 200
"When I signed up to the police my friends said, 'Why on earth are you joining a corrupt and racist organisation?'"
Neil Basu joined the police force…
1 year, 6 months ago
Paul Sinha: How I went from GP to award-winning comedian and Chaser
Season 2 Episode 199
Paul Sinha never really had a life plan and yet, somehow he's ended up with a career that's way beyond anything he could have imagined. He originally…
1 year, 6 months ago
Martin O'Neill: Trophies, titles and missing out on the FA Cup
Season 2 Episode 198
Raised in an Irish Catholic family as one of nine siblings, Martin O'Neill was brought up with Gaelic football but he dreamt of becoming a profession…
1 year, 6 months ago
Robin Askwith: The legendary actor with a life you couldn't make up
Season 2 Episode 197
A chance encounter with the director Lindsay Anderson changed Robin Askwith's life forever. It led to his first acting job, playing the schoolboy Kea…
1 year, 6 months ago
James Graham: The playwright with the Midas touch
Season 2 Episode 196
James Graham is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter for TV and film. His plays include Ink, This House and Dear England, about the struggles…
1 year, 7 months ago
Russell Watson: From factory worker to performing for the Emperor of Japan
Season 2 Episode 195
"I had this inner feeling that something would happen to take me away from my mundane life".
The first twenty years of Russell Watson's life were ver…
1 year, 7 months ago
Joe Pasquale: All I ever wanted to do was make my mum laugh
Season 2 Episode 194
When Joe Pasquale was just seven years old, his mum was involved in a car accident that left her with concussion and epilepsy. She struggled to look …
1 year, 7 months ago
Midge Ure: Hit singles and world tours meant nothing until I was in my own band
Season 2 Episode 193
“I’m a Walter Mitty who’s actually done it.” Growing up in a tenement on the outskirts of Glasgow, Midge Ure dreamt of being a rock star, even though…
1 year, 7 months ago
Nick Lowles: Why I've spent the last 35 years fighting Nazis
Season 2 Episode 192
Nick Lowles is chief executive of HOPE not hate, the UK's largest anti-racism and anti-extremism movement. For the last 35 years, he has tirelessly f…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sally Lindsay: Fighting for working-class women in telly
Season 2 Episode 191
Actor and writer Sally Lindsay has always loved the spotlight. She made her TV debut aged 7 when her school choir performed their No.1 single There’s…
1 year, 8 months ago