Crisis What Crisis?
with Andy Coulson

Lessons on Shock

Robert Paylor was living the dream - a star rugby player at UC Berkeley competing for a national championship with his future mapped out perfectly. Then an illegal tackle shattered his spine and left him paralysed from the neck down. A powerful story of recovery.

PARALYSED TO POWERFUL ROBERT PAYLOR

Robert Paylor was living the dream - a star rugby player at UC Berkeley competing for a national championship with his future mapped out perfectly. Then an illegal tackle shattered his spine and left him paralysed from the neck down. A powerful story of recovery.

How do you cope when crisis is your career? In this powerful episode, legendary BBC war reporter Jeremy Bowen shares the highs, horrors, and healing from decades spent covering conflict. (Audio only)

WAR CORRESPONDENT JEREMY BOWEN

How do you cope when crisis is your career? In this powerful episode, legendary BBC war reporter Jeremy Bowen shares the highs, horrors, and healing from decades spent covering conflict. (Audio only)

What can years on the political front line teach you about staying calm, making tough calls, and holding your nerve when the world turns upside down?

MICHAEL GOVE

What can years on the political front line teach you about staying calm, making tough calls, and holding your nerve when the world turns upside down?

In this gripping episode, forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd reveals the hidden toll of a career spent working with the dead. (Audio only)

FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST RICHARD SHEPHERD

In this gripping episode, forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd reveals the hidden toll of a career spent working with the dead. (Audio only)

What does it take to lead – in war, in politics, and in your own mind? In this raw and revealing episode, we learn how Johnny faced devastating trauma in Afghanistan and a childhood shaped by OCD and self-doubt.

WAR VETERAN AND FORMER MINISTER JOHNNY MERCER

What does it take to lead – in war, in politics, and in your own mind? In this raw and revealing episode, we learn how Johnny faced devastating trauma in Afghanistan and a childhood shaped by OCD and self-doubt.

How do you lead a high-flying life while surviving the kind of grief that would floor most of us? Lindsay Nicholson’s story is a powerful lesson in grace, grit, and the quiet courage it takes to keep going when everything falls apart.

EDITOR LINDSAY NICHOLSON

How do you lead a high-flying life while surviving the kind of grief that would floor most of us? Lindsay Nicholson’s story is a powerful lesson in grace, grit, and the quiet courage it takes to keep going when everything falls apart.

How do you lead from the front when your past is full of hidden scars? In this extraordinary conversation, Rupert Soames reveals for the first time the trauma that shaped his fearless approach to business and crisis.

CHURCHILL’S GRANDSON RUPERT SOAMES

How do you lead from the front when your past is full of hidden scars? In this extraordinary conversation, Rupert Soames reveals for the first time the trauma that shaped his fearless approach to business and crisis.

From trading floors to a prison cell and now the Supreme Court. Tom Hayes’ story is a gripping account of downfall, diagnosis, and defiance in the face of one of the biggest financial scandals in history.

JAILED CITY TRADER TOM HAYES

From trading floors to a prison cell and now the Supreme Court. Tom Hayes’ story is a gripping account of downfall, diagnosis, and defiance in the face of one of the biggest financial scandals in history.

This beloved Coronation Street and EastEnders star lost her father at four, then her partner died suddenly at the gym. The shock nearly destroyed her family.

ACTRESS JILL HALFPENNY

This beloved Coronation Street and EastEnders star lost her father at four, then her partner died suddenly at the gym. The shock nearly destroyed her family.

These three fathers never wanted to meet, but the shocking suicide of their daughters – Sophie, Beth, and Emily – brought them together for an extraordinary mission.

THREE DADS WALKING – ANDY, MIKE & TIM

These three fathers never wanted to meet, but the shocking suicide of their daughters – Sophie, Beth, and Emily – brought them together for an extraordinary mission.

Six tours in the most hostile environments – including four in Afghanistan – left this Royal Marine Commando broken by PTSD and survivor’s guilt. War shattered his mind, but he found an unexpected path to healing.

NICK GOLDSMITH

Six tours in the most hostile environments – including four in Afghanistan – left this Royal Marine Commando broken by PTSD and survivor’s guilt. War shattered his mind, but he found an unexpected path to healing.

From a charmed life surrounded by celebrities to a devastating cancer diagnosis in just six hours. The shock of lymphoma changed everything she thought she knew.

JOURNALIST SARAH STANDING

From a charmed life surrounded by celebrities to a devastating cancer diagnosis in just six hours. The shock of lymphoma changed everything she thought she knew.

This West End legend brought Hamilton to London and produced Oscar-winning Les Misérables, but the shocking helicopter death of his father at 15 shaped his approach to crisis. (Audio only)

THEATRE PRODUCER NICK ALLOTT

This West End legend brought Hamilton to London and produced Oscar-winning Les Misérables, but the shocking helicopter death of his father at 15 shaped his approach to crisis. (Audio only)