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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien — 334 episodes

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DJ Fat Tony: “I had one tooth left in my head - I wasn’t sane”

2

Nina Conti: The Ventriloquist Who Found Her Voice

3

Russell T Davies: Doctor Who Was There From the Very Start

4

Fern Britton: “I Never Wanted to Be Famous”

5

Russell Kane: “Today’s the Day I Change My Life”

6

Philippa Perry: “I could not wait to grow up.”

7

Emma Grede: What it really takes to build a brand with the Kardashians

8

Michael Whitehall: My mother couldn’t accept who we really were

9

Marcus Brigstocke: I was fourteen when they threatened to wire my jaw shut

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Full Disclosure: back soon!

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Natalie Cassidy: I grew up on EastEnders before I knew what fame was

12

Eric Schlosser: The Shocking Truth Behind Fast Food and Corporate America

13

Jeremy King: The Restaurateur Behind The Ivy, Le Caprice and The Wolseley

14

Billy Idol: The Punk Rock Icon who "Should Be Dead"

15

Naz Shah: Forced Marriage, Family Secrets and Her Mother’s Murder Conviction

16

Gary Lineker | Live Q&A: Politics, World Cups and the Changing Game

17

Gary Lineker LIVE! “It’s Hard Not to Get Involved”

18

Arthur Smith: I got arrested for breach of the peace and possession of a megaphone

19

Sadiq Khan: You Cannot Be Popular Every Single Day in Government

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Mark Constantine: Homeless at 16 to Founding LUSH

21

Jonathan Pryce: I was told for years that I was worthless

22

Rutger Bregman: What are we actually doing with our lives?

23

From The Vault: Daniel Radcliffe

24

From The Vault: Dawn French

25

Full Disclosure 2025: The Year Reviewed

26

Martin Shaw: The Professionals was a monster that swallowed my career

27

Sir Gareth Southgate: There were days I didn’t want to get out from under the duvet

28

Jan Ravens: “I lived with a nameless dread”

29

Hal Cruttenden: Divorce blew my mind- it hits harder than losing parents

30

Stephen Mangan: When Mum died, I knew I couldn’t waste life being a lawyer- I had to act

31

Toby Jones: I never wanted to feel desperate about acting

32

John Lloyd: Blackadder, Spitting Image, QI and a life in search of meaning

33

Jimmy Wales: The man who built Wikipedia

34

Charles Dance: From builder’s labourer with a stammer to Tywin Lannister

35

Alexander Armstrong: My default setting is fear- I expect the worst of people

36

Jack Thorne: “I was allergic to moving - the doctor said, ‘This might be forever.’”

37

Cor Hutton: The Quadruple Amputee Who Found Her Feet

38

Jamie Oliver: “I’d gone from being skint to having a lot of money, I felt like a fake.”

39

Leo Varadkar: Former Prime Minister of Ireland on Power and Letting Go

40

Dr Richard Shepherd: Lessons from 23,000 Postmortems- including Hungerford, Hillsborough and Princess Diana

41

Arabella Weir: At nine my mum said, “I can’t bear the sight of you”

42

Natalie Haynes: Greek Myths, Medea and the Comedy of Classics

43

From The Vault: Brian Cox

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From The Vault: Miriam Margolyes

45

Cariad Lloyd: Talking About Grief Changed My Life

46

Kevin Rowland: Beyond Come On Eileen

47

Irvine Welsh: We’re More Addicted Now Than in Trainspotting

48

David Lammy: I’ve had imposter syndrome my whole life- until now

49

Grace Dent: Almost Everything I’ve Done, I’ve Been Told No First

50

Graham Fellows: Playing John Shuttleworth Came at a Cost

51

Jon Culshaw: The Impressionist Who Fooled the Prime Minister

52

Michael Lewis: America Is Run by Bullies

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Amber Rudd: I resigned because I couldn’t defend the indefensible

54

Jameela Jamil: Getting hit by that car changed everything

55

Larry Lamb: Damaged people are dangerous because they know they can survive

56

Jimmy Anderson: Behind the Bowler

57

Christiane Amanpour: From Global Crises to Personal Truths

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Laura Bates: Misogyny, Machine Learning and The Manosphere

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Christian O’Connell: I had everything I ever wanted, and I was falling apart

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Brian Conley: “I made everyone laugh, that was my defence mechanism.”

61

Kenneth Roth: Tyrants Trust Sycophants, I Challenge Them with the Truth

62

Ash Atalla: The Office, The IT Crowd, and the Unlikely Road to Comedy Success

63

Steven Frayne: I Had To Kill Dynamo To Be Steven

64

Carol Vorderman LIVE! Numbers, Politics, and Finding Her Voice

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Jon Ronson: “It's good training for a journalist, being bullied at school.”

66

David Harewood: "I was not 'black' enough, I didn't know where I fit in"

67

Alistair McGowan: My friends laughed when I said I was doing comedy

68

KT Tunstall: “I lost my hearing, it didn’t come back.”

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Matt Forde: Doctors said I would never walk again

70

Zoe Lyons: My mum screamed about me..."I can't cope anymore"

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Dr. Rangan Chatterjee: This breathing exercise will save your life!

72

Full Disclosure is taking a short break, but we will be back!

73

Best of... Full Disclosure 2024

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Rob Brydon: Rejection, manifesting success & meeting Steve Coogan

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Shaun Keaveny: "I have self-doubt and massive amounts of imposter syndrome"

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Alex James: 'Modern Life is Rubbish' was our last chance at success

77

Baroness Lola Young: From foster care to the House of Lords

78

Dan Snow: I'd die if my kids said they wanted to be broadcasters

79

Rupert Everett: “I stuck out like a sore thumb in Hollywood"

80

James Rebanks: The shepherd who tells the stories of ordinary, extraordinary people

81

Hanif Kureishi: A freak accident left me paralysed - and it broke me

82

Michel Roux: Cooking for presidents, kitchen battles and continuing the family legacy

83

Sir David Jason: "I’m addicted to an audience"

84

William Dalrymple: A life shaped by history

85

Graeme Park: How I accidentally became a resident DJ at the Hacienda

86

Jon Sopel: The Making of a News Agent

87

From The Vault: Angela Rayner

88

From The Vault: Sir Keir Starmer

89

Tony Blackburn: Escaping school, life at sea and landing the biggest job in radio

90

Jordan Stephens: Heartbreak, hitting rock bottom and finding my way back from self-destruction

91

Former Met Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu: I spent a year in therapy to get over what happened in my career

92

Paul Sinha: How I went from GP to award-winning comedian and Chaser

93

Martin O'Neill: Trophies, titles and missing out on the FA Cup

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Robin Askwith: The legendary actor with a life you couldn't make up

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James Graham: The playwright with the Midas touch

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Russell Watson: From factory worker to performing for the Emperor of Japan

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Joe Pasquale: All I ever wanted to do was make my mum laugh

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Midge Ure: Hit singles and world tours meant nothing until I was in my own band

99

Nick Lowles: Why I've spent the last 35 years fighting Nazis

100

Sally Lindsay: Fighting for working-class women in telly

101

Helen Lederer: "I've never been on the winning team when it matters"

102

Danny Wallace: How I got sucked into the conspiracy rabbit hole...

103

Frank Skinner: "People will forgive you for anything but success"

104

Salman Rushdie: When I die, I know there will be nothing

105

Zeinab Badawi: Setting the record straight on African history

106

Julie Hesmondhalgh: How good telly and theatre can change the world

107

Angela Hartnett: One of the UK's top chefs shares her recipe for success

108

Caroline Lucas: Being Britain's first and only Green MP

109

Bassem Youssef: Egypt's Jon Stewart on Palestine, the press and Piers Morgan

110

James Timpson: The secrets to running a successful business and making money

111

Bryony Gordon: My OCD made me think my family would die

112

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby: Finding my faith amidst hangovers, beatings and abuse

113

Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean: From Nottingham council estates to winning gold at the Olympics

114

Humza Yousaf on Islamophobia and toxicity in politics

115

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi: "I don’t enjoy politics. There’s a lot of bullsh*t.”

116

Gary Stevenson: Why I gave up making millions as a City trader to fight wealth inequality

117

Bernie Sanders

118

Jason Watkins

119

Sir Ed Davey

120

Dame Sheila Hancock

121

James Blunt

122

Nick Wallis: Exposing the Post Office scandal

123

Stephanie Beacham

124

Full Disclosure is taking a short break for Christmas... We'll be back in January 2024!

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Fatima Whitbread

126

Dominic Grieve

127

Chris Packham

128

What To Listen To Next - The News Agents

129

Omid Scobie

130

Emily Maitlis interviews James O'Brien on his book 'How They Broke Britain'

131

Miles Jupp

132

Chris McCausland

133

From The Vault: Dame Prue Leith

134

From The Vault: Steve Coogan

135

Tim Peake

136

Mary Beard

137

Susie Dent

138

Naomi Klein

139

Gabby Logan

140

Clive Myrie

141

Sebastian Faulks

142

Mark Gatiss

143

Dawn Butler

144

Polly Toynbee

145

Dale Vince

146

Best of Full Disclosure

147

Shaparak Khorsandi

148

Alan Titchmarsh

149

Rob Rinder

150

Wendell Pierce

151

Dexter Fletcher

152

Joan Bakewell

153

Mark Steel

154

Alastair Campbell

155

Evie Meg

156

Introducing: Unprecedented

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Jack Whitehall

158

Stephen Flynn

159

Liam Thomas

160

Jason Arday

161

Eddie Izzard

162

Hugh Laurie

163

Lucy Easthope

164

Mehdi Hasan

165

Fred Sirieix

166

Carol Vorderman

167

Phil Wang

168

Amanda Abbington

169

Neil Kinnock

170

Terry Christian

171

Sir Tony Robinson

172

Matthew Collins

173

George Takei

174

Tracy Brabin

175

Alan Johnson

176

Lisa Nandy

177

Maria Ressa

178

Dr Gabor Maté

179

Brian Cox

180

Derren Brown

181

Martin Kemp

182

Introducing: Sweeney Talks

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Adrian Chiles

184

Noel Fitzpatrick

185

Sara Pascoe

186

Amanda Owen aka The Yorkshire Shepherdess

187

David Dimbleby

188

Andy Burnham

189

Ian McEwan

190

Emily Maitlis

191

John Cleese

192

Michael Rosen

193

Figen Murray

194

Professor Brian Cox

195

Mick Lynch

196

Miriam Margolyes

197

Chris Bryant

198

Chris Patten

199

Wes Streeting

200

Simon Callow

201

Robert Lindsay

202

The Secret Barrister

203

Ed Byrne

204

Andy Hamilton

205

James Wong

206

Eddie Marsan

207

Omid Djalili

208

Tom Walker aka Jonathan Pie

209

Mark Drakeford

210

Curtis Stigers

211

Caroline Criado Perez

212

John Simpson

213

Keir Starmer

214

Christiane Amanpour

215

Beverley Knight

216

Adil Ray

217

Charlotte Church

218

Feargal Sharkey

219

Stewart Lee

220

Johnny Vaughan

221

Sue Perkins

222

Bill Bailey

223

Les Dennis

224

Alan Cumming

225

Fiona Hill

226

Michael Holding

227

Jimmy Carr

228

Kim Leadbeater

229

Joe Tracini

230

Bernardine Evaristo

231

Waheed Arian

232

Angela Rayner

233

Joe Mulhall

234

Brian May

235

Jolyon Maugham

236

Anthony Horowitz

237

John Amaechi

238

Joe Lycett

239

Lucy Kellaway

240

Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green

241

Mary Portas

242

Salman Rushdie

243

Peter Oborne

244

Owen Jones

245

Professor Corinne Fowler

246

Nish Kumar

247

Reverend Richard Coles

248

Robert Webb

249

Harlan Coben

250

David Harewood

251

Elizabeth Day

252

Nicky Campbell

253

Eliot Higgins

254

Sathnam Sanghera

255

Tim Roth

256

Rachel Clarke

257

Jack Monroe

258

Richard Osman

259

Tom Kerridge

260

Grenfell: Where are we now?

261

Introducing Hunting Ghislaine with John Sweeney

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Lionel Barber

263

Dawn French

264

Piers Morgan

265

James O'Brien!

266

Joe Wicks

267

Introducing ‘What Next?' with Lionel Barber

268

Ruby Wax

269

Monty Don

270

Margaret Atwood

271

David Baddiel

272

Martin Lewis

273

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

274

Ralf Little

275

Jess Phillips

276

Janey Godley

277

Caitlin Moran

278

Hassan Akkad

279

Kathy Burke

280

Lili Pohlmann

281

Dom Joly

282

Matty Healy

283

Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

284

Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

285

Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

286

Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

287

Message from James O'Brien

288

Daniel Radcliffe

289

George The Poet

290

Sharon Horgan

291

John Bercow

292

Ed Miliband

293

Hashi Mohammed

294

Matthew Parris

295

Tom Watson

296

Full Disclosure Christmas Break Until Jan 2020

297

John Sweeney

298

Lord Michael Heseltine

299

Lesley Manville

300

David Mitchell

301

Nazir Afzal

302

Ross Noble

303

Gulwali Passarlay

304

Lemn Sissay

305

Lenny Henry

306

Romesh Ranganathan

307

Michael Morpurgo

308

Bonus Episode - International Podcast Day

309

Russell Howard

310

Malcolm Gladwell

311

Ben Elton

312

Michael Palin

313

Timothy Spall

314

Danny Baker

315

Adam Kay

316

Rory Stewart

317

Chris Moyles

318

Paloma Faith

319

Katherine Ryan

320

Interview with James O'Brien on his book 'How To Be Right In A World Gone Wrong'

321

Frank Skinner

322

Bill Nighy

323

Billy Bragg

324

Ian Hislop

325

Steve Coogan

326

Prue Leith

327

Kenneth Clarke

328

Brian Wood

329

Sanjeev Bhaskar

330

Deborah Meaden

331

Simon Amstell

332

Ricky Gervais

333

Tony Blair

334

Trailer - Full Disclosure with James O'Brien