Podcast Episodes

Jeremy Paxman nominates Lord Shaftesbury

What makes a brilliant politician? What should motivate them? Does having a faith help?

Broadcaster and writer Jeremy Paxman chooses the seventh earl…

6 years, 5 months ago

Lee Miller, war photographer and model

In the early summer of 1945, Lee Miller sent a telegram back to London about what she had seen in the Nazi death camps. “I implore you to believe thi…

6 years, 5 months ago

Just William / Richmal Crompton proposed by Peter Oborne with Martin Jarvis

"It's absolutely joyous, one of the highlights of my career!" Peter Oborne on being joined by Martin Jarvis, the man who brings Just William to life.…

6 years, 5 months ago

Constance Agatha Cummings-John

The author Chibundu Onuzo nominates the first elected female in Africa, Constance Agatha Cummings-John.

Chibundu discovered the remarkable story of Co…

6 years, 7 months ago

Comedian Sindhu Vee on Prince

Comedian Sindhu Vee has loved Prince ever since she was a young girl in India - when her sister gave her illicit cassettes recorded from US radio.

A …

6 years, 8 months ago

Fiona Shaw nominates the actress Eleonora Duse

Fiona Shaw - BAFTA award-winning star of BBC TV's Killing Eve - explores the life of one of history's most remarkable and forgotten actresses, Eleono…

6 years, 8 months ago

Philippa Perry on the Italian educator Maria Montessori

Psychotherapist Philippa Perry nominates the Italian educator and doctor Maria Montessori, who revolutionised children's education.

Montessori school…

6 years, 8 months ago

First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald

Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's first Prime Minister, is chosen by Shaun Ley.

In 1931 Ramsay MacDonald went to see the king in order to resign. George V pe…

6 years, 9 months ago

Caroline Quentin nominates Sir John Vanbrugh

4 Extra broadcast to mark the 300th Anniversary of the death of Sir John Vanbrugh.

From acting in TV's Men Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek to resto…

6 years, 9 months ago

Laura Marling on Lou Andreas-Salome

Laura Marling nominates the first female psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Folk singer-songwriter, Laura has been unravelling the mysteries of Russia…

6 years, 9 months ago