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LORD PETER HAIN: Growing up in crisis, letterbombs and a Kafka-esque plot
Season 7 Episode 79
Former Secretary of State Lord Peter Hain’s remarkable life was forged in crisis.
His parents’ peaceful but determined activism against apartheid – an…
2 years, 9 months ago
TIMBALAND'S CRISIS COMFORTS
Season 7 Episode 78
As regular listeners will know, at the end of all our conversations we ask our guests for their three crisis comforts; their go-tos for inspiration a…
2 years, 9 months ago
TIMBALAND: Addiction, depression and why he's kept the bullet inside him
Season 7 Episode 77
Our guest for this episode is music legend Timbaland. With more Top Ten hits than Elvis, Tim is one of the world’s most successful super producers, p…
2 years, 10 months ago
STEVE GALLANT: His journey from murderer to hero
Season 7 Episode 76
If you pitched the story we discuss in this episode as a fictional film script you’d be laughed out of the room … so shocking, so unlikely is this ta…
2 years, 10 months ago
TOM FLETCHER: The Israeli crisis, avoiding assassination and the art of diplomacy
Season 7 Episode 75
Our guest this week is Tom Fletcher, former Ambassador to Lebanon, Downing Street Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to three successive Prime Min…
2 years, 11 months ago
POLITICAL HISTORIAN: Managing tragedy, the resilience crisis and political failure | Sir Anthony Seldon
Season 7 Episode 74
In this episode I’m joined by the eminent and progressive educator, renowned author and political historian Sir Anthony Seldon. As a Headmaster, he h…
2 years, 11 months ago
Trailer - Featuring former guests
Season 7 Episode 73
In this short trailer you can hear snippets of our compelling conversations with previous guests on the podcast, including – Richard Bacon, Fergal Ke…
3 years ago
ANDY COULSON: Regrets, resilience and recovery
Season 7 Episode 72
In today’s episode we revisit a conversation from three years ago, when I swapped seats and let my friend, the journalist and broadcaster Jane Moore …
3 years ago
MEDIA MOGUL SAAD MOHSENI: Losing colleagues to terror and running a media business in Taliban ruled Afghanistan
Season 7 Episode 71
Surviving crisis is one thing. Building a business empire in the midst of one is quite another. In this episode we are joined by media mogul Saad Moh…
3 years ago
Bonus Episode: Victoria Milligan & Henry Scowcroft's Crisis Comforts
Season 7 Episode 70
This Crisis Comforts episode features previous guests Victoria Milligan and Henry Scowcroft. Victoria, who joined us early in Series One, described h…
3 years, 1 month ago