Our conversations…
Eva Hamilton
Eva Hamilton has spent most of her life turning around the lives of some of the most marginalised members of society including inner city youth, the homeless, war veterans, young offenders and with those at risk of offending…
Sonia Jones
Sonia Jones who is one of the top backing vocalists and vocal coaches in the music industry. Sonia sang the title track to Monty Python’s Life of Brian when she was only sixteen years old, she was the lead in…
Chris White
Saxophonist Chris White played with Dire Straits for 10 years. He has also recorded and played with many other top artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Aretha Franklin, Robbie Williams…
Jeff Rawle
Actor, narrator, screenplay writer and author Jeff Rawle talks about how he fell into acting, his time at drama school, landing the lead in a new television comedy Billy Liar just two days out of drama school, working with…
Rageh Omaar
Rageh Omaar has covered and reported from some of the most hostile places on earth. His career has spanned the BBC, Al Jazeera and ITN. He is a reporter, a documentary maker, author, newscaster…
Louis Prima Jr.
Louis Prima Jr. is an incredible singer, songwriter, trumpeter and bandleader. With his band “Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses,” Louis Prima Jr. continues his father’s legacy performing all the Prima hits plus new songs…
Santa Montefoire
Santa Montefiore is a no 1 bestselling author on the Sunday Times Best Sellers list and each and every book she publishes immediately shoots into the top ten. She writes sweeping…
Kevin Richardson
Kevin Richardson is a world-renowned wildlife conservationist and self-taught animal behaviourist. He provides a caring home to rescued lions, leopards, hyenas and other predators…
Ian Haworth
Canada, 1978 and Ian Haworth goes on a stop smoking course. Within three days he has given the organisation all his money and has handed in his resignation at work…
Paul Booth
Paul Booth is one of the greatest saxophonists of his generation. At the age of 16 he won a place at the Royal Academy of Music becoming their youngest student on a degree course..
Neil Laughton
Neil Laughton is an expeditioner extraordinaire. He has summited the highest mountains on each and every continent. He has skied his way to the North and South Poles, he piloted the first ever road-legal…
John Altman
John Altman has composed, arranged, conducted, produced and directed countless music for television and film including Titanic, Little Voice, Goldeneye, Leon, Peake Practice. As an arranger…
Chris Difford
I was unbelievably lucky to have the chance to talk to Chris Difford of Squeeze. Chris formed Squeeze in 1974 by putting an advert in a shop window and Glen Tilbrook was the only person…
Tony Remy
I’m very excited to be releasing my conversation with one of the world’s greatest and most versatile guitarists, Tony Remy. Annie Lennox, Simply Red, Gary Barlow, Jack Bruce, Craig David, Glenn…
Tony Klinger
Tony Klinger is an award-winning international maker of inspiring documentaries, rockumentaries and films. He has made over 100 films worldwide with stars from the film and music industries such as The Who, Michael Caine, Lee Marvin…
Loretta Ferrucci
What do you most want to be able to do in your life? What are you longing to achieve or create? Would you like to better understand your character and personality traits, your path in life and discover your true potential? Would you like to find…
Lucy Walker
I had the most fascinating conversation with film director Lucy Walker. Lucy talks about how she became a multi-award-winning documentarian, about the craft of making documentaries, what it was like to climb a peak in the Himalayas with a group of…
Jimmy Mulville
Jimmy Mulville is the co-founder and managing director of Hat Trick Productions, one of the country’s leading producers of comedy, drama and entertainment. He’s also a comedian, comedy writer, actor and television presenter. He has written…
David Yarrow
What do Cindy Crawford, Bill Nighy and a polar bear have in common? They have all been photographed by David Yarrow, one of the most celebrated photographers in the world. David Yarrow’s photographs are on the walls of celebrities…
Prasanna Puwanarajah
Prasanna has appeared in multiple TV series, films and theatre productions; ‘The Crown’, ‘Patrick Melrose’, ‘Line Of Duty’, ‘Defending the Guilty’, ‘Ten Percent’ to name but a few. Onstage he has further acting credits with the RSC…
Guy Fletcher
Guy Fletcher is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, engineer and producer. He has performed, recorded, toured and worked with artists including Dire Straits, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Roxy Music, Tina Turner and Mick Jagger…
Gyles Brandreth
In no particular order, Gyles Brandreth was an MP in John Major’s government, is a writer of novels, biographies, autobiographies and stageplays, is a broadcaster, a podcaster, a television presenter and an accomplished speaker. He has set up a teddy bear…
Madeline Bell
Madeline Bell is a world class jazz, pop and soul singer who has contributed to some of the greatest music of ALL time. She has released numerous solo albums revealing an array of styles and…
Patricia Chadwick
Patricia grew up in a Catholic Cult that separated young children from their parents then siblings then friends. At the age of seventeen she leaves and, with very little knowledge of the outside world, embarks on a career…
Lior Raz
Lior Raz did his mandatory service in the Israeli Special Forces before becoming an actor. Together with longstanding friend Avi Issacharoff, they created the world-renowned and award-winning…
Danny Clifford
Danny Clifford is arguably the best Rock ‘n’ Roll photographer of ALL time. He has led the most extraordinary life. From a tough childhood where he…
Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale is one of this country’s best loved novelists. He has written 20 sparkling books to date. His novels are achingly beautiful. They cover many aspects of life…
Ingrid Oliver
Ingrid Oliver: One half of the comic double act Watson & Oliver; comedian, actor and writer. Ingrid talks about her journey from student to drama school to casting to having her own comedy…
Sir Christopher Hampton
Sir Christopher Hampton is a playwright, screenwriter, translator, adaptor, director and lyricist. He is an Oscar and Tony Award winner. His French teacher described him as “quite simply one of the most brilliant…
Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse is an international best-selling and multi-award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and short stories, playwright, broadcaster and champion for women’s creativity. She has sold more than 8 million..
Richard Lissack
My guest today is Richard Lissack who is a nationally and internationally recognised barrister and is one of the handful of practitioners listed as a “Star of the Bar”. Richard talks about his highly unusual…
Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis is one of the most talented, sought after and highly acclaimed actors of all time, both in the UK and America. He is a multiple award winner and nominee. Among many things, Damian talks about how…
Tara Fitzgerald
Tara Fitzgerald is a star of both the stage and screen. Tara talks about everything from her experiences at drama school to her early roles co-starring with Peter O’Toole, Ewan MacGregor, Hugh Grant, Joseph Fiennes, Ralph Fiennes…
Sally Phillips
Sally co-created, wrote and acted in Smack the Pony, a double Emmy Award- winning comedy show, for which she was nominated for best female newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards. She has starred in countless films, television series, comedy…
Jason Watkins
Jason Watkins is one of the leading actors of our generation. He won the BAFTA for best lead actor in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, he played Prime Minister Harold Wilson in The Crown. He played the biographer of a serial killer in Des…
Sir Ivor Roberts
Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG FCIL served in the British Diplomatic Service for nearly forty years. He served his country in Lebanon, France, Luxembourg, Australia, Vanuatu, Spain and served as British Ambassador to Yugoslavia during the Balkans war…
Bonnie Garmus
‘Lessons in Chemistry’ is a multi-million copy bestselling novel, it’s in over 40 countries and has won far too many awards to list here. Such is its success it has been made into a series on Apple Plus, starring Brie Larson. My aunt sent it to me to cheer me up after…
Bagawire
Bagawire is the new band to look out for. Its band members are Steve Overland and Tony Remy, both legends in the world of music. Steve Overland is a singer, songwriter & guitarist who has headlined all over Europe and America. He is best known as….
Ben Goldsmith
Ben Goldsmith has been dealt cards of both privilege and tragedy. In our conversation, Ben covers his upbringing, his time at Eton, his love of nature, the tragic loss of his daughter Iris and the organisation he has set up in her memory; ‘The Iris Project’…