Snowcast

The award-winning screenwriter and playwright, Jack Thorne, joins Jon to discuss his work, passions, activism and politics.

They discuss Jack's new TV show, Best Interests, (starring Sharon Horgan an…

Journalist, broadcaster and best-selling author, Tim Marshall, joins Jon to talk about the power and politics of the new space race.

Tim's new book - The Future Of Geography - looks at how the develop…

The Reverend Richard Coles left two major institutions within the same year; The BBC and The Church, but he cannot and will not sit still.

Richard joins Jon to discuss his fascinating life and career…

David Harewood is an actor, director, author and activist. He was born in Birmingham, trained at RADA, and made a name for himself on the stage, with big roles that included Othello and Martin Luther…

Dame Joan Bakewell is a broadcaster, journalist, author and Labour Party peer. Her broadcasting career spans six decades and she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Royal Television Society…

Hannah is a Professor of Mathematics at University College London. She is an expert in algorithms, who studies the patterns in human behaviour – particularly in an urban setting.

Hannah is also a br…

The comedian and writer Phil Wang was born in Stoke-on-Trent and spent his childhood in Malaysian Borneo, before moving to Bath at the age of 16. 

Phil successfully combined engineering with comedy at…

When not playing Lady Danbury, in the huge Netflix series Bridgerton, Adjoa is a renowned stage actor. Celebrated for her performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, and Th…

Alastair Campbell started out in journalism and became Political Editor of the Mirror, before entering the political fray and helping return Labour to power, with a landslide victory in 1997.

He rema…

Dr Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor, and best-selling author. Who spent a decade, working as a journalist, before deciding to change careers.

She took her science A-Levels, studied in the ev…

Richard Curtis is an award-winning writer and director, who spends a great deal of his time trying to change the world.

He's best-known for his work with Comic Relief but Richard campaigns on many is…

Doreen was born in Clarendon, in Jamaica, and moved to London in 1962. She worked as a bank clerk before marrying and settling happily into family life. But on the 22nd April 1993 her eldest child St…

As fans around the world follow the fourth and final season of Succession, we seized the chance to spend time with the brilliant actor Brian Cox.

This award-winning series has captured the public ima…

When she was 16, Mikaela Loach decided to go vegan, boycott fast fashion and start a blog. She learned more about the climate crisis, became involved in the movement, and began to communicate her pas…

This week's guest is the award-winning journalist and sociology professor Gary Younge.

From Mandela’s election campaign, to Obama’s presidency, Gary’s had a ringside seat, for some of the biggest sto…

This week's guest is the witty and politically astute writer and director Armando Iannucci.

After a week dominated by headlines about the government's immigration policy, Gary Lineker, the BBC and im…

This week's Snowcast has a preview of Jon's new book, The State Of Us, which shares a few of the things he's learned about politics, humanity and the world. 

The first chapter takes Jon back to North …

Robert Harris started out in journalism, became political editor of The Observer, and had a ringside seat for the rise of New Labour. But, after striking gold with Fatherland, Robert launched a secon…

Munya Chawawa is a British-Zimbabwean satirist, who rose to fame with his DIY video sketches.

He and Jon first met in 2017 - when Munya snuck into the ITN building - to interview him about Stormzy’s …

Sophie Scott is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL and an award-winning lecturer, whose TED talk, Why We Laugh, has been watched over 5 million times.

Her new book, The Brain, features ten …