Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Decade
440 episodes
Phil Scraton on watching a poor boy punished in assembly and knowing it was wrong
Edna Adan Ismail on delivering the first baby at her own maternity hospital
James MacMillan on leaving a Young Communist League conference to attend Mass
Siddhartha Mukherjee on his grandmother’s seven articles of clothing and one daily meal
Jane Francis on accidentally making antifreeze instead of ice cream in Antarctica
Jayne-Anne Gadhia on feeling like Dementors had come into the room with postnatal depression
Carlo Rovelli on writing physics equations under a tree in a commune
Stella McCartney on her children telling Paul McCartney to shut up while he played guitar
How a chess game at age 11 made Demis Hassabis ask if we're wasting our minds
Amanda Levete on stripping off to sunbathe on the roof of the Science Block
Katherine Grainger on the day she failed to make the senior rowing team despite being convinced she would
Gareth Malone on the painful moment he couldn't sing, with his father and teacher joining in
Philip Craven on seeing wheelchair basketball just two days after his accident
Nicola Adams on winning her first boxing bout in a smoke-filled working men's club
Yotam Ottolenghi on his grandmother sipping espresso and making semolina gnocchi