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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien — 347 episodes
Francis Fukuyama: The End of History author on democracy under threat
Jay Rayner: Why Trying to Be Liked Is a Recipe for Failure
Robert Harris: From Tony Blair’s Inner Circle to Hollywood’s Conclave
Alexei Sayle: I never thought we’d end up here
Amelia Dimoldenberg: How Chicken Shop Date became a global phenomenon
Dr Ranj Singh: “I Was Outed To My Parents”
Tim Booth: The Story of James, Sit Down and Laid
Tom Kerridge: “Being a Chef is Nothing To Do with Food”
Ravi Singh: The man who runs towards disaster
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Baroness Beeban Kidron: “Democracy is no longer representative. It is bought.”
Cressida Cowell: It wasn’t cool to be enthusiastic about books!
From The Vault: Andy Burnham, MP for Makerfield and Mayor of Greater Manchester
DJ Fat Tony: “I had one tooth left in my head - I wasn’t sane”
Nina Conti: The Ventriloquist Who Found Her Voice
Russell T Davies: Doctor Who Was There From the Very Start
Fern Britton: “I Never Wanted to Be Famous”
Russell Kane: “Today’s the Day I Change My Life”
Philippa Perry: “I could not wait to grow up.”
Emma Grede: What it really takes to build a brand with the Kardashians
Michael Whitehall: My mother couldn’t accept who we really were
Marcus Brigstocke: I was fourteen when they threatened to wire my jaw shut
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Natalie Cassidy: I grew up on EastEnders before I knew what fame was
Eric Schlosser: The Shocking Truth Behind Fast Food and Corporate America
Jeremy King: The Restaurateur Behind The Ivy, Le Caprice and The Wolseley
Billy Idol: The Punk Rock Icon who "Should Be Dead"
Naz Shah: Forced Marriage, Family Secrets and Her Mother’s Murder Conviction
Gary Lineker | Live Q&A: Politics, World Cups and the Changing Game
Gary Lineker LIVE! “It’s Hard Not to Get Involved”
Arthur Smith: I got arrested for breach of the peace and possession of a megaphone
Sadiq Khan: You Cannot Be Popular Every Single Day in Government
Mark Constantine: Homeless at 16 to Founding LUSH
Jonathan Pryce: I was told for years that I was worthless
Rutger Bregman: What are we actually doing with our lives?
From The Vault: Daniel Radcliffe
From The Vault: Dawn French
Full Disclosure 2025: The Year Reviewed
Martin Shaw: The Professionals was a monster that swallowed my career
Sir Gareth Southgate: There were days I didn’t want to get out from under the duvet
Jan Ravens: “I lived with a nameless dread”
Hal Cruttenden: Divorce blew my mind- it hits harder than losing parents
Stephen Mangan: When Mum died, I knew I couldn’t waste life being a lawyer- I had to act
Toby Jones: I never wanted to feel desperate about acting
John Lloyd: Blackadder, Spitting Image, QI and a life in search of meaning
Jimmy Wales: The man who built Wikipedia
Charles Dance: From builder’s labourer with a stammer to Tywin Lannister
Alexander Armstrong: My default setting is fear- I expect the worst of people
Jack Thorne: “I was allergic to moving - the doctor said, ‘This might be forever.’”
Cor Hutton: The Quadruple Amputee Who Found Her Feet
Jamie Oliver: “I’d gone from being skint to having a lot of money, I felt like a fake.”
Leo Varadkar: Former Prime Minister of Ireland on Power and Letting Go
Dr Richard Shepherd: Lessons from 23,000 Postmortems- including Hungerford, Hillsborough and Princess Diana
Arabella Weir: At nine my mum said, “I can’t bear the sight of you”
Natalie Haynes: Greek Myths, Medea and the Comedy of Classics
From The Vault: Brian Cox
From The Vault: Miriam Margolyes
Cariad Lloyd: Talking About Grief Changed My Life
Kevin Rowland: Beyond Come On Eileen
Irvine Welsh: We’re More Addicted Now Than in Trainspotting
David Lammy: I’ve had imposter syndrome my whole life- until now
Grace Dent: Almost Everything I’ve Done, I’ve Been Told No First
Graham Fellows: Playing John Shuttleworth Came at a Cost
Jon Culshaw: The Impressionist Who Fooled the Prime Minister
Michael Lewis: America Is Run by Bullies
Amber Rudd: I resigned because I couldn’t defend the indefensible
Jameela Jamil: Getting hit by that car changed everything
Larry Lamb: Damaged people are dangerous because they know they can survive
Jimmy Anderson: Behind the Bowler
Christiane Amanpour: From Global Crises to Personal Truths
Laura Bates: Misogyny, Machine Learning and The Manosphere
Christian O’Connell: I had everything I ever wanted, and I was falling apart
Brian Conley: “I made everyone laugh, that was my defence mechanism.”
Kenneth Roth: Tyrants Trust Sycophants, I Challenge Them with the Truth
Ash Atalla: The Office, The IT Crowd, and the Unlikely Road to Comedy Success
Steven Frayne: I Had To Kill Dynamo To Be Steven
Carol Vorderman LIVE! Numbers, Politics, and Finding Her Voice
Jon Ronson: “It's good training for a journalist, being bullied at school.”
David Harewood: "I was not 'black' enough, I didn't know where I fit in"
Alistair McGowan: My friends laughed when I said I was doing comedy
KT Tunstall: “I lost my hearing, it didn’t come back.”
Matt Forde: Doctors said I would never walk again
Zoe Lyons: My mum screamed about me..."I can't cope anymore"
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee: This breathing exercise will save your life!
Full Disclosure is taking a short break, but we will be back!
Best of... Full Disclosure 2024
Rob Brydon: Rejection, manifesting success & meeting Steve Coogan
Shaun Keaveny: "I have self-doubt and massive amounts of imposter syndrome"
Alex James: 'Modern Life is Rubbish' was our last chance at success
Baroness Lola Young: From foster care to the House of Lords
Dan Snow: I'd die if my kids said they wanted to be broadcasters
Rupert Everett: “I stuck out like a sore thumb in Hollywood"
James Rebanks: The shepherd who tells the stories of ordinary, extraordinary people
Hanif Kureishi: A freak accident left me paralysed - and it broke me
Michel Roux: Cooking for presidents, kitchen battles and continuing the family legacy
Sir David Jason: "I’m addicted to an audience"
William Dalrymple: A life shaped by history
Graeme Park: How I accidentally became a resident DJ at the Hacienda
Jon Sopel: The Making of a News Agent
From The Vault: Angela Rayner
From The Vault: Sir Keir Starmer
Tony Blackburn: Escaping school, life at sea and landing the biggest job in radio
Jordan Stephens: Heartbreak, hitting rock bottom and finding my way back from self-destruction
Former Met Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu: I spent a year in therapy to get over what happened in my career
Paul Sinha: How I went from GP to award-winning comedian and Chaser
Martin O'Neill: Trophies, titles and missing out on the FA Cup
Robin Askwith: The legendary actor with a life you couldn't make up
James Graham: The playwright with the Midas touch
Russell Watson: From factory worker to performing for the Emperor of Japan
Joe Pasquale: All I ever wanted to do was make my mum laugh
Midge Ure: Hit singles and world tours meant nothing until I was in my own band
Nick Lowles: Why I've spent the last 35 years fighting Nazis
Sally Lindsay: Fighting for working-class women in telly
Helen Lederer: "I've never been on the winning team when it matters"
Danny Wallace: How I got sucked into the conspiracy rabbit hole...
Frank Skinner: "People will forgive you for anything but success"
Salman Rushdie: When I die, I know there will be nothing
Zeinab Badawi: Setting the record straight on African history
Julie Hesmondhalgh: How good telly and theatre can change the world
Angela Hartnett: One of the UK's top chefs shares her recipe for success
Caroline Lucas: Being Britain's first and only Green MP
Bassem Youssef: Egypt's Jon Stewart on Palestine, the press and Piers Morgan
James Timpson: The secrets to running a successful business and making money
Bryony Gordon: My OCD made me think my family would die
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby: Finding my faith amidst hangovers, beatings and abuse
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean: From Nottingham council estates to winning gold at the Olympics
Humza Yousaf on Islamophobia and toxicity in politics
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi: "I don’t enjoy politics. There’s a lot of bullsh*t.”
Gary Stevenson: Why I gave up making millions as a City trader to fight wealth inequality
Bernie Sanders
Jason Watkins
Sir Ed Davey
Dame Sheila Hancock
James Blunt
Nick Wallis: Exposing the Post Office scandal
Stephanie Beacham
Full Disclosure is taking a short break for Christmas... We'll be back in January 2024!
Fatima Whitbread
Dominic Grieve
Chris Packham
What To Listen To Next - The News Agents
Omid Scobie
Emily Maitlis interviews James O'Brien on his book 'How They Broke Britain'
Miles Jupp
Chris McCausland
From The Vault: Dame Prue Leith
From The Vault: Steve Coogan
Tim Peake
Mary Beard
Susie Dent
Naomi Klein
Gabby Logan
Clive Myrie
Sebastian Faulks
Mark Gatiss
Dawn Butler
Polly Toynbee
Dale Vince
Best of Full Disclosure
Shaparak Khorsandi
Alan Titchmarsh
Rob Rinder
Wendell Pierce
Dexter Fletcher
Joan Bakewell
Mark Steel
Alastair Campbell
Evie Meg
Introducing: Unprecedented
Jack Whitehall
Stephen Flynn
Liam Thomas
Jason Arday
Eddie Izzard
Hugh Laurie
Lucy Easthope
Mehdi Hasan
Fred Sirieix
Carol Vorderman
Phil Wang
Amanda Abbington
Neil Kinnock
Terry Christian
Sir Tony Robinson
Matthew Collins
George Takei
Tracy Brabin
Alan Johnson
Lisa Nandy
Maria Ressa
Dr Gabor Maté
Brian Cox
Derren Brown
Martin Kemp
Introducing: Sweeney Talks
Adrian Chiles
Noel Fitzpatrick
Sara Pascoe
Amanda Owen aka The Yorkshire Shepherdess
David Dimbleby
Andy Burnham
Ian McEwan
Emily Maitlis
John Cleese
Michael Rosen
Figen Murray
Professor Brian Cox
Mick Lynch
Miriam Margolyes
Chris Bryant
Chris Patten
Wes Streeting
Simon Callow
Robert Lindsay
The Secret Barrister
Ed Byrne
Andy Hamilton
James Wong
Eddie Marsan
Omid Djalili
Tom Walker aka Jonathan Pie
Mark Drakeford
Curtis Stigers
Caroline Criado Perez
John Simpson
Keir Starmer
Christiane Amanpour
Beverley Knight
Adil Ray
Charlotte Church
Feargal Sharkey
Stewart Lee
Johnny Vaughan
Sue Perkins
Bill Bailey
Les Dennis
Alan Cumming
Fiona Hill
Michael Holding
Jimmy Carr
Kim Leadbeater
Joe Tracini
Bernardine Evaristo
Waheed Arian
Angela Rayner
Joe Mulhall
Brian May
Jolyon Maugham
Anthony Horowitz
John Amaechi
Joe Lycett
Lucy Kellaway
Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green
Mary Portas
Salman Rushdie
Peter Oborne
Owen Jones
Professor Corinne Fowler
Nish Kumar
Reverend Richard Coles
Robert Webb
Harlan Coben
David Harewood
Elizabeth Day
Nicky Campbell
Eliot Higgins
Sathnam Sanghera
Tim Roth
Rachel Clarke
Jack Monroe
Richard Osman
Tom Kerridge
Grenfell: Where are we now?
Introducing Hunting Ghislaine with John Sweeney
Lionel Barber
Dawn French
Piers Morgan
James O'Brien!
Joe Wicks
Introducing ‘What Next?' with Lionel Barber
Ruby Wax
Monty Don
Margaret Atwood
David Baddiel
Martin Lewis
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
Ralf Little
Jess Phillips
Janey Godley
Caitlin Moran
Hassan Akkad
Kathy Burke
Lili Pohlmann
Dom Joly
Matty Healy
Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special
Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special
Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special
Full Disclosure: The Coronavirus Special
Message from James O'Brien
Daniel Radcliffe
George The Poet
Sharon Horgan
John Bercow
Ed Miliband
Hashi Mohammed
Matthew Parris
Tom Watson
Full Disclosure Christmas Break Until Jan 2020
John Sweeney
Lord Michael Heseltine
Lesley Manville
David Mitchell
Nazir Afzal
Ross Noble
Gulwali Passarlay
Lemn Sissay
Lenny Henry
Romesh Ranganathan
Michael Morpurgo
Bonus Episode - International Podcast Day
Russell Howard
Malcolm Gladwell
Ben Elton
Michael Palin
Timothy Spall
Danny Baker
Adam Kay
Rory Stewart
Chris Moyles
Paloma Faith
Katherine Ryan
Interview with James O'Brien on his book 'How To Be Right In A World Gone Wrong'
Frank Skinner
Bill Nighy
Billy Bragg
Ian Hislop
Steve Coogan
Prue Leith
Kenneth Clarke
Brian Wood
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Deborah Meaden
Simon Amstell
Ricky Gervais
Tony Blair
Trailer - Full Disclosure with James O'Brien