Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDame Edna Everage
Rosie Goldsmith profiles Dame Edna Everage, one of entertainment's most colourful characters . Dame Edna stepped into the public spotlight in 1950s a…
13 years, 9 months ago
Jimmy Wales
Claire Bolderson profiles the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, who is working as an unpaid advisor to the UK Government helping open up policy maki…
13 years, 10 months ago
Francois Hollande
Chris Bowlby profiles the Socialist Party candidate for the French presidential elections, Francois Hollande. He's not a man well known to people in …
13 years, 10 months ago
Imran Khan
As two men begin life sentences for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Andy Denwood profiles Imran Khan the lawyer who helped the teenager's family in t…
14 years ago
Michael Acton Smith
Once described as the 'rock star version of Willie Wonka', Michael Acton Smith is emerging as one of the major players in Britain's high tech industr…
14 years ago
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
Emily Buchanan profiles the Archbishop of Canterbury and examines his long struggle to stop the Anglican Church from fragmenting. Rowan Williams was …
14 years ago
Peter Higgs
Profile this week looks at the physicist Peter Higgs who in the 1960s predicted the existence of the so-called "God Particle" which scientists think …
14 years, 1 month ago
Newt Gingrich
Samira Ahmed profiles Newt Gingrich, the American former Speaker of the House who is now a leading contender for the Republican nomination to run aga…
14 years, 1 month ago
Youssou N'Dour
Profile this week takes a look at the Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour who has surprised many by announcing he is to quit music for a career in polit…
14 years, 1 month ago
Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
With Parliamentary elections due next week, Chris Bowlby charts the career of 76 year old Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the key figure in Eg…
14 years, 1 month ago