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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien — 340 episodes

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Tom Kerridge: “Being a Chef is Nothing To Do with Food”

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Ravi Singh: The man who runs towards disaster

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Full Disclosure: back soon!

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Baroness Beeban Kidron: “Democracy is no longer representative. It is bought.”

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Cressida Cowell: It wasn’t cool to be enthusiastic about books!

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From The Vault: Andy Burnham, MP for Makerfield and Mayor of Greater Manchester

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

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Nina Conti: The Ventriloquist Who Found Her Voice

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

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Fern Britton: “I Never Wanted to Be Famous”

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

28

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

38

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

39

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"

108

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

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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.”

122

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

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Bernie Sanders

124

Jason Watkins

125

Sir Ed Davey

126

Dame Sheila Hancock

127

James Blunt

128

Nick Wallis: Exposing the Post Office scandal

129

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

132

Dominic Grieve

133

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

138

Chris McCausland

139

From The Vault: Dame Prue Leith

140

From The Vault: Steve Coogan

141

Tim Peake

142

Mary Beard

143

Susie Dent

144

Naomi Klein

145

Gabby Logan

146

Clive Myrie

147

Sebastian Faulks

148

Mark Gatiss

149

Dawn Butler

150

Polly Toynbee

151

Dale Vince

152

Best of Full Disclosure

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Shaparak Khorsandi

154

Alan Titchmarsh

155

Rob Rinder

156

Wendell Pierce

157

Dexter Fletcher

158

Joan Bakewell

159

Mark Steel

160

Alastair Campbell

161

Evie Meg

162

Introducing: Unprecedented

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Jack Whitehall

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Stephen Flynn

165

Liam Thomas

166

Jason Arday

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Eddie Izzard

168

Hugh Laurie

169

Lucy Easthope

170

Mehdi Hasan

171

Fred Sirieix

172

Carol Vorderman

173

Phil Wang

174

Amanda Abbington

175

Neil Kinnock

176

Terry Christian

177

Sir Tony Robinson

178

Matthew Collins

179

George Takei

180

Tracy Brabin

181

Alan Johnson

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Lisa Nandy

183

Maria Ressa

184

Dr Gabor Maté

185

Brian Cox

186

Derren Brown

187

Martin Kemp

188

Introducing: Sweeney Talks

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Adrian Chiles

190

Noel Fitzpatrick

191

Sara Pascoe

192

Amanda Owen aka The Yorkshire Shepherdess

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David Dimbleby

194

Andy Burnham

195

Ian McEwan

196

Emily Maitlis

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John Cleese

198

Michael Rosen

199

Figen Murray

200

Professor Brian Cox

201

Mick Lynch

202

Miriam Margolyes

203

Chris Bryant

204

Chris Patten

205

Wes Streeting

206

Simon Callow

207

Robert Lindsay

208

The Secret Barrister

209

Ed Byrne

210

Andy Hamilton

211

James Wong

212

Eddie Marsan

213

Omid Djalili

214

Tom Walker aka Jonathan Pie

215

Mark Drakeford

216

Curtis Stigers

217

Caroline Criado Perez

218

John Simpson

219

Keir Starmer

220

Christiane Amanpour

221

Beverley Knight

222

Adil Ray

223

Charlotte Church

224

Feargal Sharkey

225

Stewart Lee

226

Johnny Vaughan

227

Sue Perkins

228

Bill Bailey

229

Les Dennis

230

Alan Cumming

231

Fiona Hill

232

Michael Holding

233

Jimmy Carr

234

Kim Leadbeater

235

Joe Tracini

236

Bernardine Evaristo

237

Waheed Arian

238

Angela Rayner

239

Joe Mulhall

240

Brian May

241

Jolyon Maugham

242

Anthony Horowitz

243

John Amaechi

244

Joe Lycett

245

Lucy Kellaway

246

Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green

247

Mary Portas

248

Salman Rushdie

249

Peter Oborne

250

Owen Jones

251

Professor Corinne Fowler

252

Nish Kumar

253

Reverend Richard Coles

254

Robert Webb

255

Harlan Coben

256

David Harewood

257

Elizabeth Day

258

Nicky Campbell

259

Eliot Higgins

260

Sathnam Sanghera

261

Tim Roth

262

Rachel Clarke

263

Jack Monroe

264

Richard Osman

265

Tom Kerridge

266

Grenfell: Where are we now?

267

Introducing Hunting Ghislaine with John Sweeney

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Lionel Barber

269

Dawn French

270

Piers Morgan

271

James O'Brien!

272

Joe Wicks

273

Introducing ‘What Next?' with Lionel Barber

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Ruby Wax

275

Monty Don

276

Margaret Atwood

277

David Baddiel

278

Martin Lewis

279

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

280

Ralf Little

281

Jess Phillips

282

Janey Godley

283

Caitlin Moran

284

Hassan Akkad

285

Kathy Burke

286

Lili Pohlmann

287

Dom Joly

288

Matty Healy

289

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

293

Message from James O'Brien

294

Daniel Radcliffe

295

George The Poet

296

Sharon Horgan

297

John Bercow

298

Ed Miliband

299

Hashi Mohammed

300

Matthew Parris

301

Tom Watson

302

Full Disclosure Christmas Break Until Jan 2020

303

John Sweeney

304

Lord Michael Heseltine

305

Lesley Manville

306

David Mitchell

307

Nazir Afzal

308

Ross Noble

309

Gulwali Passarlay

310

Lemn Sissay

311

Lenny Henry

312

Romesh Ranganathan

313

Michael Morpurgo

314

Bonus Episode - International Podcast Day

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Russell Howard

316

Malcolm Gladwell

317

Ben Elton

318

Michael Palin

319

Timothy Spall

320

Danny Baker

321

Adam Kay

322

Rory Stewart

323

Chris Moyles

324

Paloma Faith

325

Katherine Ryan

326

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

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Frank Skinner

328

Bill Nighy

329

Billy Bragg

330

Ian Hislop

331

Steve Coogan

332

Prue Leith

333

Kenneth Clarke

334

Brian Wood

335

Sanjeev Bhaskar

336

Deborah Meaden

337

Simon Amstell

338

Ricky Gervais

339

Tony Blair

340

Trailer - Full Disclosure with James O'Brien