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NICK ROBINSON: Political crisis, cancer and the long-tail of grief
Season 5
Nick Robinson is a man who for more than 25 years has had a seat in the front row of so many political crises. First as a news producer and then in f…
4 years, 7 months ago
ELLIS WATSON: The search for his Mum, success from crisis and how to spot a bad billionaire
Season 5
For our first outdoor episode media business leader and one of a kind motivational speaker Ellis Watson joins me for a walk in the Scottish Highlands…
4 years, 7 months ago
JUNIOR DOCTOR: Grief, betrayal and Boris | Roopa Farooki
Season 5
In this week’s Shortcut episode, we are joined by award-winning author and junior doctor, Roopa Farooki.
In February 2020, Roopa - who is the daughter…
4 years, 7 months ago
PSYCHIATRIST: How to train your brain for crisis | Professor Steve Peters
Season 5
In this episode we have something different as I’m joined by the brilliant psychiatrist Prof. Steve Peters, author of the best-selling The Chimp Para…
4 years, 8 months ago
PARISH PRIEST: Adoption, authenticity, and unanswered questions | Peter Owen Jones
Season 5
Peter Owen Jones is the former ad man who gave it all up to become a parish priest. By the late 1980s, the former farm boy had carved out a successfu…
4 years, 8 months ago
POST OFFICE SCANDAL: Injustice, scandal and survival | Pauline Stonehouse
Season 5
Pauline Stonehouse found herself at the centre of what is one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice. Between 2000-2015, the post office bullie…
4 years, 8 months ago
PUTIN'S ENEMY: Murder, guilt and living with fear | Bill Browder
Season 5
Bill Browder describes himself, with justification, as Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy. His best-selling book Red Notice – an autobiography that re…
4 years, 9 months ago
GUY HANDS: Fortune, failure and the fear of the ‘Under Toad’
Season 5
In this first episode of our fifth series I talk to Guy Hands - a man who Tom Wolfe would have described as ‘A Master of the Universe’. A private equ…
4 years, 9 months ago
FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: A career immersed in crisis, his unravelling and why Brits are so bad at death | Dr Richard Shepherd
Season 4
Dr Richard Shepherd (Dick) is an Expert Forensic Pathologist who has conducted over 20,000 post-mortems throughout his illustrious career. Many of th…
5 years ago
SHORTCUTS - 15 minutes with author Henry Scowcroft
Season 4
Henry Scowcroft is an award-winning science writer for Cancer Research UK. In 2016, his girlfriend of six years, Zarah Harrison was diagnosed with an…
5 years ago