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22/08/2026

Jeanette Winterson celebrates her 67th birthday on August 27th. On September 13th Jeanette is hosting an event about creativity and A I at the Southbank Centre. This interview was recorded when Jeanette was a 20 something brand new literary force and a CD was cutting edge technology. I remember this...

22/08/2026

This archive interview dates back to March 2014. Jim Lovelock was in his mid nineties' I was delighted to interview him. As I said at the time for me it was like meeting Elvis! He was energetic, effervescent and wise. His wife Sandy was in the front row and he shone with contentment. When the conver...

15/08/2026

It is five years since the Taliban regained control in Afghanistan. Science is one of the many things they disapprove of. Religion is believed more than evident truth. All over the globe there are powerful politicians who have taken to denying scientific facts to further their own ambitions. This to...

05/08/2026

The new war that is happening now and the the appalling inhumanity still happening in the world makes this conversation distressingly relevant. There is the thought that some people are less human then others. Some people in power seem to think that bombs and missiles provide an answer. The Universa...

30/07/2026

Joe Boyd is a man about music, record producer, a film producer and author. He arrived in London in 1964 with Muddy Waters and a host of blues musicians who played to sold out UK audiences when they were unappreciated in their US homeland. In England Joe Boyd is remembered as a producer associated w...

29/07/2026

Kind of Blue is the most successful jazz LP ever made. It was recorded over two sessions in New York in 1959 and is still revered as a masterpiece. The session was lead by Miles Davis who was born 100 years ago. Ashley Kahn told David Freeman the story behind a historic music event.

14/07/2026

Simon Nicol was one of the founder members of Fairport Convention in 1967. Fifty nine years ago. He talks about being a member of the ground breaking Folk Rock band who still draw a capacity crowd at the Cropredy Festival. The thoughts and memories of a musician who started his career in the legenda...

11/07/2026

David Sedaris now fills arenas with enthusiastic fans but when I interviewed him in 2000 he was almost unknown. His book 'Me Talk Pretty One Day ' was just published. There is a new collection of Sedaris writing just published - this conversation gives context and back story.

07/07/2026

Harry talks to me about his book which tells of the harsh life lived by gladiators, but also extends to the ideas and philosophies that defined Roman life. This is not fiction. It's an account written using evidence from the time. A gripping read. Some of the events told are hideous to us, but we ha...

29/06/2026

It is very easy to get very troubled by the current US administration . Who could have predicted that the American Vice President would have thought it part of his task to question the Pope's understanding of theology? Who could have predicted that Donald Trump would think it a good idea to read par...

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