Matthew Bannister on
Jamal Edwards, the young music entrepreneur whose YouTube channel supported the careers of grime and rap stars like Dave, Skepta and Stormzy.
P.J. O’Rourke, the conservative American satirist who applied his barbed wit to reporting from the world’s trouble spots.
Romaine Hart, whose Screen on the Green cinema gave a platform to ar ... Show More
Aug 22
Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter
John Wilson on: Actor Terence Stamp, the Oscar nominated 60s screen icon who went onto play many villains in his later film career Baroness Stephanie Stamp, the pioneering computer scientist and founder of her own software companyKay Dunbar who founded the Ways with Words literac ... Show More
27m 37s
Aug 15
Jim Lovell, Biddy Baxter, Razia Jan, Iris Williams
Matthew Bannister onJim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.Biddy Baxter, the editor who left an indelible stamp on the children’s TV show Blue Peter. Sarah Greene pays tribute.Razia Jan, the Afghan/American who founded a school for girls in Afghan ... Show More
27m 53s
Aug 8
Dame Stella Rimington, Sylvia Young, Sir Jamie McGrigor, Joan Anderson
Matthew Bannister onDame Stella Rimington, the first woman to be Director General of MI5, who made the service more open and accountable.Sylvia Young, whose drama school turned out countless stars of stage, screen and music.Sir Jamie McGrigor, the Conservative Member of the Scott ... Show More
27m 51s
Dec 2021
Playwright James Graham on Best of Enemies; Lamb film review; The Belarus Free Theatre; remembering actor Antony Sher
Britain’s foremost writer of political drama, James Graham, has written a new play ‘Best of Enemies’, about the television debates in the US in 1968 between the right wing thinker William Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal, the left wing writer. When they began yelling at each other rati ... Show More
41m 50s
Nov 2023
Gladiator Circus World (Side B)
"It's a gladiator f**king circus.”—yasiin bey
Hosted by: Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, and Dave Chappelle
Featuring the world premiere of original Black Star music
Featuring, in order of appearance: Questlove, Radio Rahim, Lamorne Morris, and Jon Hamm
Contains audio clips featuring Al ... Show More
21m 42s
Feb 2016
Trumbo, Ma Rainey's Black Botton, Vinyl, Martin Parr at Hepworth Wakefield, When Breath Becomes Air
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's acclaimed career came to a crushing halt in the late 1940s when he and other Hollywood figures were blacklisted for their political beliefs. Starring Bryan Cranston as Trumbo, Jay Roach's film tells the story of the Oscar winning writer's relationship ... Show More
41m 55s
May 2021
How to Inspire (Side A)
“How do you keep a despondent person alive?”—Dave Chappelle
Hosted by: Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, and Dave Chappelle
Featuring, in order of appearance: Radio Rahim, Mo Amer, Chris Rock, Donnell Rawlings, Jarobi White, and Questlove
Contains audio clips featuring Robin Williams and ... Show More
23m 56s
Sep 2022
Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 1
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry.
Gavin Bain was one half of Silibil N’ Brains, a Californian rap duo on the cusp of greatness.
But there was a problem - the story of these hip hop stars was fake. Gavin’s never even been to America. Film clips: The Mask/Chuck Ru ... Show More
49m 39s