Podcast Episodes

Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is a writer who likes to question established ways of thinking. In 2017 her novel The Power won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for fiction…

3 years ago

Beccy Speight

Beccy Speight has been the chief executive officer of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds since 2019. It is the UK’s largest nature conserv…

3 years, 1 month ago

Kit de Waal

Author Kit de Waal was brought up in a working class family in the Moseley suburb of Birmingham in the 1960s and 70s. She talks to Michael Berkeley a…

3 years, 1 month ago

Sarah Lee

Sarah Lee is a photographer, who was first given a camera on her 18th birthday. She taught herself how to use it by taking photographs for the studen…

3 years, 1 month ago

Mary-Ann Ochota

Mary-Ann Ochota is an anthropologist and broadcaster. She is fascinated by what it means to be human and why we behave as we do.

Her work has taken …

3 years, 1 month ago

Ben Watt

Musician and writer Ben Watt released his first single when he was just 19. In 1981, on his first day as a student at Hull University, he met Tracey …

3 years, 2 months ago

Isabel Wilkerson

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington DC. Her parents moved there in the Great Migration – when six million Afric…

3 years, 2 months ago

Libby Jackson

Libby Jackson is the head of Space Exploration for the UK Space Agency. She has turned a childhood passion for space into a wide-ranging career. She…

3 years, 2 months ago

Steve Rosenberg reveals his all-time musical highlights

Steve Rosenberg is the BBC’s Russia editor.

After studying Russian at university, he moved to Moscow in 1991 and since then has charted the transfor…

3 years, 3 months ago

Robert Powell

Robert Powell is one of our best-known actors, with a career that began in the late sixties and exploded into almost instant fame; since then, there …

3 years, 3 months ago