Podcast Episodes

Lorna Dawson

Professor Lorna Dawson is one of the UK’s leading forensic scientists. She examines soil in order to solve crimes. For over thirty years her pioneeri…

2 years, 5 months ago

Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and writer with a mission: to make us look at and understand fungi. While we’re familiar with mushrooms, truffles and…

2 years, 5 months ago

Nina Stibbe

Nina Stibbe was fifty when she first became a published writer with Love Nina, a collection of letters she wrote to her sister in the 1980s about her…

2 years, 6 months ago

Johnny Flynn

Johnny Flynn is a polymath – as comfortable as an actor on stage and screen as he is writing and performing songs. You have perhaps seen him as Mr K…

2 years, 6 months ago

Dame Ottoline Leyser

Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser first realised plants are extraordinary and astonishing at school, when introduced to the round and wrinkled peas of G…

2 years, 7 months ago

Walter Murch

Walter Murch is a Hollywood legend. He’s won three Oscars for his sound and editing work on Apocalypse Now and The English Patient, and his credits i…

2 years, 7 months ago

Kevin O'Hare

Kevin O’Hare is the director of the Royal Ballet and he probably finds it hard to remember a time when dance wasn’t part of his life. He started youn…

2 years, 7 months ago

Mali Morris

The abstract painter Mali Morris is fascinated by colour and light, and has been exploring their possibilities in her work for more than 50 years.

S…

2 years, 8 months ago

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, honouring a career in which he’s written ten novels, and many short stories and essays.…

2 years, 8 months ago

Chris Addison

Chris Addison has built his career on laughter, as a stand-up comedian, a panellist on shows such as Mock the Week, and as an actor and director.

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2 years, 8 months ago