Podcast Episodes

Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin was born in the foothills of the Himalayas; her Indian father and English mother met as teachers in Iran and married in Mumbai. By the a…

4 years, 5 months ago

Katherine Parkinson

Actress, comedian and playwright Katherine Parkinson shares her favourite music with Michael Berkeley.

Two years out of drama school and heavily in de…

4 years, 5 months ago

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Dame Stephanie Shirley arrived in Britain from Vienna as a five-year-old, without her parents. It was 1939, and she was one of 10,000 Jewish children…

4 years, 5 months ago

David Nutt

Professor David Nutt is an expert on drugs, and how they work on the brain. He trained as a psychiatrist, and for almost 50 years his research has fo…

4 years, 6 months ago

Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff waited until she was 45 to write her first novel, How I Live Now, the story of a passionate love affair between young teenage cousins, set…

4 years, 6 months ago

Valentina Harris

Over the last 40 years, Valentina Harris has done more than anyone else to convince the British public that there is a lot more to Italian food than …

4 years, 6 months ago

John Cleese

John Cleese has been making us laugh for more than 50 years. Back in the 1970s, he became a comedy legend in Monty Python and in Fawlty Towers, and h…

4 years, 7 months ago

Hayley Mills

In a warm and frank interview, Hayley Mills talks to Michael Berkeley about the joys and difficulties of growing up in Hollywood as a child star and …

4 years, 7 months ago

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair describes himself as an urban prophet: in book after book, he has walked through London, recording the graffiti, the rubbish, the elect…

4 years, 7 months ago

Nick Lane

Nick Lane is a scientist who peers down microscopes at incredibly small cells in order to ask really big questions. How did life on Earth begin? Why …

4 years, 7 months ago