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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien — 326 episodes

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Mark Constantine: Homeless at 16 to Founding LUSH

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

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

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From The Vault: Daniel Radcliffe

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From The Vault: Dawn French

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Full Disclosure 2025: The Year Reviewed

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

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

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Jan Ravens: “I lived with a nameless dread”

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

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

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Toby Jones: I never wanted to feel desperate about acting

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

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Jimmy Wales: The man who built Wikipedia

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

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

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

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Cor Hutton: The Quadruple Amputee Who Found Her Feet

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

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

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

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

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

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From The Vault: Brian Cox

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From The Vault: Miriam Margolyes

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Cariad Lloyd: Talking About Grief Changed My Life

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Kevin Rowland: Beyond Come On Eileen

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

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

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

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Graham Fellows: Playing John Shuttleworth Came at a Cost

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Jon Culshaw: The Impressionist Who Fooled the Prime Minister

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Michael Lewis: America Is Run by Bullies

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

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Jameela Jamil: Getting hit by that car changed everything

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

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Jimmy Anderson: Behind the Bowler

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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.”

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

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

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Steven Frayne: I Had To Kill Dynamo To Be Steven

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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.”

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

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

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

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Matt Forde: Doctors said I would never walk again

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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!

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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William Dalrymple: A life shaped by history

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

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Jon Sopel: The Making of a News Agent

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From The Vault: Angela Rayner

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From The Vault: Sir Keir Starmer

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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Sally Lindsay: Fighting for working-class women in telly

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

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

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

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

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Zeinab Badawi: Setting the record straight on African history

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Humza Yousaf on Islamophobia and toxicity in politics

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

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

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Bernie Sanders

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Jason Watkins

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Sir Ed Davey

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Dame Sheila Hancock

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James Blunt

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Nick Wallis: Exposing the Post Office scandal

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Stephanie Beacham

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

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Fatima Whitbread

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Dominic Grieve

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Chris Packham

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What To Listen To Next - The News Agents

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Omid Scobie

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

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Miles Jupp

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Chris McCausland

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From The Vault: Dame Prue Leith

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From The Vault: Steve Coogan

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Tim Peake

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Mary Beard

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Susie Dent

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Naomi Klein

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Gabby Logan

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Clive Myrie

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Sebastian Faulks

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Mark Gatiss

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Dawn Butler

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Polly Toynbee

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Dale Vince

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Best of Full Disclosure

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Shaparak Khorsandi

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Alan Titchmarsh

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Rob Rinder

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Wendell Pierce

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Dexter Fletcher

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Joan Bakewell

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Mark Steel

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Alastair Campbell

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Evie Meg

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Introducing: Unprecedented

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Jack Whitehall

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Stephen Flynn

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Liam Thomas

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Jason Arday

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Eddie Izzard

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Hugh Laurie

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Lucy Easthope

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Mehdi Hasan

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Fred Sirieix

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Carol Vorderman

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Phil Wang

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Amanda Abbington

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Neil Kinnock

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Terry Christian

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Sir Tony Robinson

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Matthew Collins

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George Takei

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Tracy Brabin

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Alan Johnson

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Lisa Nandy

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Maria Ressa

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Dr Gabor Maté

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Brian Cox

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Derren Brown

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Martin Kemp

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Introducing: Sweeney Talks

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Adrian Chiles

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Noel Fitzpatrick

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Sara Pascoe

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Amanda Owen aka The Yorkshire Shepherdess

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David Dimbleby

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Andy Burnham

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Ian McEwan

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Emily Maitlis

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John Cleese

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Michael Rosen

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Figen Murray

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Professor Brian Cox

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Mick Lynch

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Miriam Margolyes

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Chris Bryant

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Chris Patten

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Wes Streeting

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Simon Callow

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Robert Lindsay

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The Secret Barrister

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Ed Byrne

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Andy Hamilton

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James Wong

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Eddie Marsan

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Omid Djalili

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Tom Walker aka Jonathan Pie

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Mark Drakeford

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Curtis Stigers

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Caroline Criado Perez

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John Simpson

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Keir Starmer

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Christiane Amanpour

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Beverley Knight

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Adil Ray

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Charlotte Church

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Feargal Sharkey

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Stewart Lee

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Johnny Vaughan

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Sue Perkins

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Bill Bailey

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Les Dennis

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Alan Cumming

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Fiona Hill

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Michael Holding

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Jimmy Carr

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Kim Leadbeater

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Joe Tracini

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Bernardine Evaristo

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Waheed Arian

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Angela Rayner

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Joe Mulhall

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Brian May

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Jolyon Maugham

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Anthony Horowitz

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John Amaechi

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Joe Lycett

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Lucy Kellaway

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Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green

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Mary Portas

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Salman Rushdie

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Peter Oborne

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Owen Jones

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Professor Corinne Fowler

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Nish Kumar

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Reverend Richard Coles

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Robert Webb

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Harlan Coben

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David Harewood

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Elizabeth Day

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Nicky Campbell

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Eliot Higgins

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Sathnam Sanghera

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Tim Roth

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Rachel Clarke

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Jack Monroe

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Richard Osman

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Tom Kerridge

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Grenfell: Where are we now?

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Introducing Hunting Ghislaine with John Sweeney

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Lionel Barber

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Dawn French

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Piers Morgan

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James O'Brien!

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Joe Wicks

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Introducing ‘What Next?' with Lionel Barber

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Ruby Wax

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Monty Don

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Margaret Atwood

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David Baddiel

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Martin Lewis

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Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

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Ralf Little

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Jess Phillips

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Janey Godley

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Caitlin Moran

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Hassan Akkad

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Kathy Burke

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Lili Pohlmann

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Dom Joly

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Matty Healy

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Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

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Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

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Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

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Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special

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Message from James O'Brien

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Daniel Radcliffe

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George The Poet

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Sharon Horgan

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John Bercow

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Ed Miliband

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Hashi Mohammed

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Matthew Parris

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Tom Watson

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Full Disclosure Christmas Break Until Jan 2020

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John Sweeney

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Lord Michael Heseltine

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Lesley Manville

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David Mitchell

293

Nazir Afzal

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Ross Noble

295

Gulwali Passarlay

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Lemn Sissay

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Lenny Henry

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Romesh Ranganathan

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Michael Morpurgo

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Bonus Episode - International Podcast Day

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Russell Howard

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Malcolm Gladwell

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Ben Elton

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Michael Palin

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Timothy Spall

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Danny Baker

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Adam Kay

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Rory Stewart

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Chris Moyles

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Paloma Faith

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Katherine Ryan

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

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Frank Skinner

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Bill Nighy

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Billy Bragg

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Ian Hislop

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Steve Coogan

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Prue Leith

319

Kenneth Clarke

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Brian Wood

321

Sanjeev Bhaskar

322

Deborah Meaden

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Simon Amstell

324

Ricky Gervais

325

Tony Blair

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Trailer - Full Disclosure with James O'Brien