Series 7

March 17, 2023. Series 7. Episode 60

Sarah Standing on chemo, dodging Dr Google and life at full throttle

“Cancer not only makes the person going through it appreciate every nuance of life, it also make the people who love you speak their minds.”

In this ep...
March 3, 2023. Series 7. Episode 59

Special episode – Slavery at home

In this special episode, which is brought to you in partnership with the Centre for Social Justice, we’ll be shining a light on the crisis of modern slavery, an...
February 17, 2023. Series 7. Episode 58

Andy McNab on being tortured, facing an execution squad and the upside of being a psychopath

“I’ve got the ability to kill people and not sort of worry about it too much.”

In this episode, I’m joined by the former SAS soldier, hugely su...
February 3, 2023. Series 7. Episode 57

Crisis Cures – Richard Bacon & Ruby Wax

The two guests joining us in this Crisis Cures episode have both enjoyed stellar careers in broadcasting, but it’s not been a straightforward journey at all...
January 20, 2023. Series 7. Episode 56

Professor Robert Winston on grief, guilt and the truth about fertility

“You start wondering if your own life is worth continuing. It’s obvious that you think about that. But what do you learn? I don’t know. I think peop...
January 6, 2023. Series 7. Episode 55

Lisa Squire on Libby, loss and legacy

This is one of the most difficult crisis conversations we’ve had to date and some will find this episode distressing. It’s a discussion about unimaginable...
December 16, 2022. Series 7. Episode 54

Crisis Cures – Roopa Farooki & Virginia Buckingham

In this Crisis Cures episode we hear from two remarkable women who faced down two very different challenges.  For Roopa Farooki, that took the form of facing dow...
December 2, 2022. Series 7. Episode 53

Nile Rodgers – Crisis Cures

Legendary musician Nile Rodgers has endured and managed dramatic crises for him and his loved ones throughout his life. Here he gives us his three top Crisis Cure...
November 19, 2022. Series 7. Episode 52

Col. Andrew Milburn on Putin’s big mistake, addiction to crisis and grief

Andrew Milburn is the British educated would-be lawyer who became a decorated US Marine Colonel. A 31year career spent in the midst of crisis in Afghanistan, Iraq...
November 4, 2022. Series 7. Episode 51

Fergal Keane on addiction, PTSD and why he will never go back to the frontline

Fergal Keane is the multi-award-winning BBC Foreign Correspondent and author – a man who through the very nature of his job has spent much of his 33-year ca...
October 22, 2022. Series 7. Episode 50

George Osborne on Truss, Boris and the Tories’ self inflicted crisis

In what is possibly our most topical episode to date our guest is the former Chancellor George Osborne. Talking on the day after Liz Truss’s resignation, George...
October 17, 2022. Series 7. Episode 49

Britain’s lockdown shame – the story of the Forgotten 500k

In this special episode we reveal the ongoing crisis being endured by the Forgotten 500,000 … those British people whose compromised immune systems mean they li...