Cole Moreton's Can We Talk?
How are you? I’m curious. That’s why I go around asking a lot of questions, watching the responses and listening to the answers from people who are rich or powerful, famous or infamous or who have remarkable stories to tell. We all have those, if the truth be told, even when we feel like we don’t.
I like to listen and to learn because I want to connect with whoever is in front of me: whether that’s Scarlett the Hollywood superstar hiding out in a hotel bar in Manhattan on the day her marriage disintegrates. Or Tiger, the greatest sportsman of all time, mired in scandal and using silence as a weapon as he strides through a crowd, unaware that the truth will pop up anyway, against his will.
Those are just two of the stories I’d like to tell you.
Then there’s Nelson, the former political prisoner now lying in state as the late president of his country, his oceanic soul having flown. There are things to be learned from each of these people and I’d like us to learn together.
I hope you’ll take pleasure in the way the stories are told. They are new and original pieces, written to entertain and for the joy of the telling, using an original interview as a jumping off point. Each stands alone, but together they build into a bigger story. Can We Talk? is about people striving to make sense, striving to be understood, striving to connect.
Acclaim for Can We Talk?
‘Cole proves in this series how we all need stories in our lives. Proper stories. Well told. In a world of clips and clicks ad shortening attention spans, this hits just the right spot’
Fi Glover, co-host of Fortunately … With Fi and Jane.
‘A brilliant, sensitive storyteller, Cole Moreton produces perfectly formed mini epics that are both thought-provoking and hugely entertaining’
Bestselling author and broadcaster Anita Anand
Series One is available now and includes pieces about encounters with Scarlett Johansson, Tiger Woods, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, the Queen and a refugee called Zahra.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Sherelyn
Kensington.
You may not have heard of Sherelyn but there are millions like her: good, hard-working people who have been forced to come to food banks for help in these difficult times.
In this episode…
Jacqueline Wilson
The Cuckmere Valley.
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Jacqueline Wilson who made up stories and dreamed that one day she would be interviewed as a famous writer. In this story Cole go…
Vera Lynn
Ditchling, Sussex.
Cole tells the story of an encounter with a real legend: Dame Vera Lynn, giving her last major interview at the age of 97. The Forces Sweetheart, an inspiration to so many during …
Clive James
Cambridge.
Never meet your heroes they say, but sometimes they’re wrong. Cole tells the deeply moving story of his encounter with Clive James, the great Australian writer, critic and television star,…
Mo Farah
London 2012.
What does it mean if a hero is not who he said he was? This spine-tingling story explores that question by taking you from the low point of a terror attack on London to the euphoria of …
Susan Sarandon
Atlanta, Georgia.
Hollywood legend and human rights campaigner Susan Sarandon is the subject of the first in a new series of intimate, compelling and true short stories by Cole Moreton. She speaks f…
Zahra
The English Channel
Zahra looked like any other teenager, with her trainers and black jeans, hoodie and nose ring. But the story she told about the epic journey she had made, leading to a crossing of…
HM The Queen
The Tower of London
Hold your loved ones tight
This story is all about the ways we see ourselves, the ties that bind and the truths that linger long after we’re gone. My Mum gets to meet the Queen; but…
Nelson Mandela
South Africa
Forgive and be forgiven
This is what it is like to meet a man after he has died. Not just any man but Nelson Mandela. Staring at the body, I realised that miracles were still happening ar…
Desmond Tutu
The West Bank and Johannesburg.
The chance to interview a man I really admired – a living saint to many – was thrilling. Here was someone who really understood how humans long for connection and what…
Tiger Woods
Times Square
We’ve all got things deep down that need to be said, even if we barely know it. This is the story of a tense, tightly controlled encounter I had with the greatest golfer of all time in t…
Scarlett Johansson
The Carlyle Hotel, New York City
Fifteen minutes is all you get with a Hollywood star, usually. So I was astonished to find myself alone for ages in a Manhattan bar with one of the world’s most famou…
Welcome to Cole Moreton's Can We Talk?
How are you? I’m curious. That’s why I go around asking a lot of questions, watching the responses and listening to the answers from people who are rich or powerful, famous or infamous or who have re…