Podcast Episodes

Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron has become France's youngest-ever President at the age of 39. He created a new political movement out of nothing and defeated the pop…

8 years, 6 months ago

Leo Varadkar

Mark Coles looks at the life of Leo Varadkar, head of Fine Gail, the country's governing centre right party and the newly appointed Taoiseach (Prime …

8 years, 7 months ago

Arlene Foster

Arlene Foster's Democratic Unionist Party now holds the balance of power, after elections this week. Some people have suggested that all the parties …

8 years, 7 months ago

Cornelia Parker

Mark Coles profiles sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker, this year's official election artist. Parker's work has involved spectacular ac…

8 years, 7 months ago

David Lynch

Mark Coles profiles the director David Lynch, whose classic TV series Twin Peaks has just returned to the screen after 25 years.

Obsessed with drawin…

8 years, 7 months ago

Robert Mueller

Mark Coles profiles Robert Mueller who's just been appointed as special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian interference in the US elec…

8 years, 7 months ago

Kelvin MacKenzie

Former editor and columnist of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie is to leave the paper after comparing Everton footballer Ross Barkley to a gorilla. It's not …

8 years, 8 months ago

Jean-Claude Juncker

The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has been called 'the chief Eurocrat' by the British press and accused of looking to bu…

8 years, 8 months ago

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin has won hearts - and 18 Grammy awards - with her astonishing voice. But this week a bust up with another iconic singer revealed her s…

8 years, 8 months ago

Sam Warburton

Welsh rugby union star Sam Warburton has been given perhaps the game's most prestigious role - captain of the British & Irish Lions - for a second ti…

8 years, 8 months ago