Episodes

  • Jane Casey

    Jane Casey
    Sep 17 2024
    Jane Casey is a bestselling crime writer who was born and brought up in Dublin. She has written twelve crime novels for adults (including ten in the Maeve Kerrigan series) and three for teenagers (the Jess Tennant series). The Maeve Kerrigan series has been nominated for many awards. Her novel The Killing Kind was recently filmed for television.

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    24 mins
  • Gwynne Evans

    Gwynne Evans
    Aug 6 2024
    Paul Sloane interviews Gwynne Evans OBE about his childhood, his rugby playing days and his career in the Civil Service where he rose to a high rank in the Department of Education and worked with Margaret Thatcher among others.

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    22 mins
  • Maria Franzoni

    Maria Franzoni
    Jul 2 2024
    Maria Franzoni's parents were Italian immigrants who came to England. She has built a sucessful speaker agency business. She tells stories about her life, who she has met and lessons she has learnt.

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    23 mins
  • Dimis Michaelides

    Dimis Michaelides
    Jun 10 2024
    Dimis is an amusing and fascinating speaker. His talks involve creativity, innovation, humour and magic. He is the author of The Art of Innovation: Integrating Creativity in Organizations.

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    17 mins
  • Philip Anderson

    Philip Anderson
    Mar 23 2021
    Philip Anderson was highly successful in business and had a wonderful family life. He was struck down with a wasting condition in his muscles which has left him in a wheelchair and without the use of his limbs. His story is touching and uplifting. He died on October 28 2022. Some of his moving insights are expressed in his articles here https://www.independentliving.co.uk/philip-anderson/being-mortal/

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    30 mins
  • Farouk Massouh

    Farouk Massouh
    Mar 4 2019
    Interview with a doctor telling the story of his journey from a village in Syria via Moscow and Abu Dhabi to becoming a leading keyhole surgeon in England.

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    39 mins
  • Celia Delaney

    Celia Delaney
    Jan 23 2018
    Comedian, MC, songwriter and speaker Celia Delaney shares some stories about her journey from a Sheffield comprehensive school to Oxford University and the Edinburgh Fringe.

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    28 mins
  • Peter Dorling

    Peter Dorling
    Nov 10 2017
    Peter was on the staff of the BBC for 40 years. He began in the BBC’s overseas services with audiences of 100 million people when he read the news. He then transferred to BBC Television News where he spent 30 years as producer, reporter, interviewer, news presenter, and film-director. He shares some fascinating stories.

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    32 mins