Gillian Tett is a bestselling writer, journalist and chairman of the US editorial board at the Financial Times. She has a PhD in social anthropology and it’s this anthropological perspective that has played such a key part in her award-winning journalism and inspired her brilliant new book, Anthro Vision. She’s best known for predicting the […]
Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano on music, cancer and “balls of steel”
Sarah Connolly talks about rejection, what she learnt about power from playing men’s roles and the “balls of steel” she developed in her childhood.
Guy Spier, investor and bestselling writer on money, markets and shame
Guy talks about his journey from wannabe Gordon Gekko to reflective “value investor” via Jungian analysis and some big bumps in the road
Phil Jones, editor of The Jeremy Vine Show on broadcasting in the age of Covid
Phil talks about his brush with mortality after Covid, broadcasting during a pandemic and fighting the culture wars
Floods, pestilence – and the new lexicon of power
We haven’t got locusts. I suppose we should be grateful that we haven’t got locusts, or at least that we haven’t got them yet. But we have got pestilence, in the shape of what may soon be a global pandemic, and we have got floods. And we have Boris Johnson as our Prime Minister. Thousands […]
Happy Brexit day? Enjoy your spotted dick
Friendships turned sour. Relationships turned sour. Our country turned sour, and still is. The Labour Party, which had elected as its leader a man who seemed to want to turn the country into Venezuela, decided to copy the country and tear itself apart. Racism? We can do that! Division? Bring it on. Xenophobia and protectionism from a bunch of bullying old dinosaurs? My name’s Len. How can I help?