The official podcast companion to Out & Back, a video series from KCTS 9 and Crosscut that explores the ways diverse communities are engaging with the outdoors. Hosted by Alison Mariella Désir
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Join Mariella Frostrup as she sits down with some of the biggest names in entertainment, sport and politics to discuss their latest endeavours, career highlights and early beginnings; to find out how they became who they are today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hear about the books that have shaped the lives of globally celebrated movers and shakers, as Mariella visits them in their homes, hotels and dressing rooms to find out why their reading matters.
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This series is a guidebook to love, life and law. We’ll be busting myths, revealing risks – and finding out if it’s legal to force your husband to do the washing up. Relationships can be complex and our changing world has affected every aspect of them. And the law isn't always quite what you'd expect. We’re here to help. To read more please visit www.modern-relationships.co.uk
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You might know my special guest today as the pint-waving Brexiteer known as the pub landlord, but that hardly scratches the surface of his list of achievements. He’s a comedian, writer, podcaster, one-time political candidate and historian. His latest project is a documentary series called ‘Why Does Everyone Hate the British Empire?’ where he trave…
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In 2010, the BBC voted him the fourth-best guitarist of the last 30 years while NME honoured him with their "Godlike Genius" award. His new book ‘Marr’s Guitars’ tells the story of his life through his guitar collection - alongside a new “best-of” album featuring two brand new singles. I caught up with Johnny Marr earlier, and asked whether 4th bes…
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Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae looks back upon her three critically acclaimed albums and discusses her new 'art' album Black Rainbows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rick Astley has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and his songs from the 80s have more than a billion views on YouTube. The singer is back with a bang with his new album called ‘Are we there yet?’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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One of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation and talented TED talker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins to speak about her new conquest in literature: Children's books. As a feminist speaker and writer she is used to covering contentious topics but wrote her latest book ‘Mama’s sleeping scarf’ for her daughter. Hosted on Acast. Se…
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Lord Blunkett was Britain's youngest councillor, and in 1997 became the first blind cabinet minister. He has struggled with childhood poverty and was told his best chance in life was to become a piano tuner yet became education secretary under Tony Blair - and is continuing to fight for education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf…
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The nation's PE teacher talks about giving free signs-ups to teachers for The Body Coach app, the difficulties he experienced during childhood and whether he supports home-schooling. Plus, he dives into whether he will be moving his family across the pond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Professor Green joins Mariella to reflect on his childhood and how he found tranquillity through music despite his struggles with mental health. Professor Green is a mental health advocate and patron of the suicide prevention charity CALM, and speaks about how poverty can worsen mental health conditions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m…
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Duran Duran's Andy Taylor is back with a banging single and a new album to boot, despite his ongoing battle with cancer. We discuss why staying alive is a full time business and how its healed old musical wounds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ruth Wilson shot to stardom with her first role out of drama school as Jane Eyre, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Now, she stars in the imminent BBC genre bender, ‘The Woman In The Wall’ - a gripping tale centered on a mentally struggling survivor of a Magdaelene Laundries mother and baby home. Hosted on Acast. See acast…
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Neil Jordan's many books include Night in Tunisia, winner of both the Somerset Maugham and Guardian Fiction prizes. He joins me to discuss his new book - The Well of Saint Nobody - a gripping and lyrical tale about the different people we become over the course of our lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Sacha Dhawan on Wolf, the nail-biting crime thriller from the makers of Sherlock, and adapted from the acclaimed Jack Caffery crime novels by Mo Hayder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Acclaimed Irish actor Colm Meaney has given the entertainment world some of its most beloved roles in films like the Barrytown trilogy and The Journey, he spoke to me about how a career in acting might have prevented him from a life of political activism and whys he’s sharing a bedroom with his grown up daughter…. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri…
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The Booker Prize winner Ben Okri’s new book Tiger Works is a campaigning environmental story set in the far future, 20k years hence; an anthology of human writing illustrating our woeful disregard and ignorance about imminent global catastrophe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Broadway legend Chita Rivera is letting us see behind the curtain in her first memoir, Chita. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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British author, lyricist, conservationist and academic Robert Macfarlane is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language which have won countless awards. I speak to Robert about what's occupying his restless imagination at the moment... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Blur is recording their first new album in eight years ‘The Ballad of Darren’. Bassist Alex James tells me how the band has been preparing for a series of gigs this summer where fans will get to hear their new tunes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor has released her seventh solo album, Hana, a record loosely inspired by a family trip to Japan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Succession's Justine Lope filling me in on what it was like to be the initially bit part girlfriend who lasted the entire four series, and how scary it was to feel the power of Logan Roy, on set and off… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The multi award winning supernova Cate Blanchett on her latest role, playing a traumatised red wine glugging nun in The New Boy who takes in a young aboriginal boy with magical abilities. Warwick Thornton’s story of an eight year old aborigine boy dumped on the doorstep of a remote mission is loosely based on his own experience and was such a passi…
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A a literary patron, film producer and restaurateur whose brand of reporting also happened to influence a generation of journalists, Graydon Carter is teaming up with Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav to host a dinner for what promises to be one of the most lavish of parties during the Cannes Film Festival.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for …
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WILL POULTER has established himself as one of the great young actors of his generation through his work with many of the best filmmakers in the business. He speaks to me about playing Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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15 years after starting his career on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival star of comedy Jack Whitehall talks to me about his new tour and his podcast ‘Safe Space’ - where he invites people to share their most embarrassing stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mika, world renowned for his glam pop anthems and iconic falsetto-to-baritone vocals, is frequently praised as one of the best singer-songwriters of his generation, most recently, he captured the heart of the nation appearing in Channel 4’s The Piano, alongside Claudia Winkleman and classical pianist Lang Lang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac…
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Cheryl Baker saw the UK soar to victory at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 with her band Bucks Fizz. She talks to me about the 40th anniversary of the pop group as herself and fellow bandmates Mike Nolan and Jay Ashton have reunited for a special reunion performance at the O2’s Indigo venue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…
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#1 New York Times Bestseller Colson Whitehead discusses his latest book Crook Manifesto, his Harlem saga in a powerful novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Line of Duty star Daniel Mays discusses his role as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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As the government announce that women going through the menopause can now get a year’s supply of the pills, patches or gels for less than twenty pounds - I speak to the menopause campaigner Davina McCall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The bestselling American author Bret Easton Ellis reflects on coming back from being ‘cancelled’ and on his chaotic teenage years growing up in LA – the subject of his new book The Shards. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Felix Kammerer, the young star of one of this year’s hotly tipped films, All Quiet on the Western Front, who’s been catapulted overnight from the theatre stage in Austria to the global stage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Path for the Next Generation with Chelsea Murphy
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As a kid, Chelsea Murphy felt she didn’t belong outside. Now the Leavenworth-based founder of She Colors Nature is making sure her daughters do. The outdoors in America have a long history as an unwelcome place for Black men and women and children of all ages. Decades of violence and intimidation have made activities like hiking and camping, which …
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Rewriting the Narrative with Denice Rochelle
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The founder of the Bronze Chapter has thrived in the outdoors all her life. She wants other people of color in the PNW to feel the same way. Denice Rochelle doesn't just want to see more people like herself adventuring outdoors. She wants to see more people like herself leading those adventures. When she created the Bronze Chapter, Rochelle wanted …
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The Freedom of Fly Fishing with Giancarlo Lawrence
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The angler known as The Black Stonefly was raised in the city. But now he's on a mission to get more Black people into the outdoors. Fly fishing changed Giancarlo Lawrence’s life. He says it has healed him and inspired him to become more self-sufficient. And, he says, he believes it can do the same thing for Black people like him, who are currently…
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The British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber was born into one of the country's most famous musical families, winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music at just sixteen years old. He went on to sell hundreds of thousands of records, playing in some of the world's greatest orchestras until his career was cut short due to an injury in his neck. N…
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Running on Coffee with Ian Williams and Amir Armstrong
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The Deadstock Run Club is giving people of color in Portland a place to come together, connect and get moving. As home to one of our most storied track and field destinations, one of the most celebrated runners in American history and arguably the greatest sneaker brand in the world, Oregon is a natural place to start a running club. That Ian Willi…
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Activism on the Run with Rosalie Fish
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First drawn to the sport for health benefits, athlete Rosalie Fish hit her stride advocating for missing and murdered Indigenous women and two-spirit people. Rosalie Fish is best known for the red handprint often painted on her face. First a runner in high school and now a collegiate athlete at the University of Washington, Fish runs with the handp…
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QPOC Hikers started as a place for people to bond over the outdoors. It’s become so much more. The outdoors transformed Jas Maisonet’s life. But when they went looking for people to join them on outdoor adventures, they ran into a problem. As a non-binary person of color, they had trouble meeting people outside of happy hour meet-ups. To meet more …
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Farming as Healing with the Black Farmers Collective
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Agriculture is a fraught industry for descendants of enslaved people. Yes Farm is working to move beyond that trauma. The relationship between Black people and agriculture in the United States has long been dominated by one obvious and ominous image: Black Americans working the land as enslaved people. But a different image is being formed at Yes F…
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Riding for Equity with Peace Peloton’s Doc Wilson
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Peace Peloton started in Seattle as a single protest ride in 2020. Now it fights for social justice nationwide. Reginald “Doc” Wilson loves his bike. So in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police in May 2020, his bike became a tool to reclaim space and fight for social justice under the name Peace Peloton. Since the first ride on Ju…
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All Paces, All Faces with Ashley Davies and David Jaewon Oh
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Meet the Club Seattle Runners Division, the group that helped Alison Mariella Desir find her place and her people in the PNW. Housing discrimination and restrictive covenants shaped Seattle in ways that are still being felt today. The most obvious of these is the neighborhood segregation it created and the way that it affected Black people’s abilit…
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Meaning Through Movement: An Introduction
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Meet host Alison Mariella Désir as she tells her story of reclaiming the outdoors in New York before she and her family moved to the PNW. Désir is a runner, an activist, a mother and an author; a lover of the outdoors; and a student of history. And now, with a new video series and this accompanying podcast, she gets to highlight other BIPOC folks i…
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Sir Mark Rylance is a renowned actor on both stage and screen; from the BBC’s Adaptation of Wolf Hall, to Dunkirk, the BFG and what’s been described as the most acclaimed play of the century - Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem.He also played an eccentric billionaire in the environmental satire Don’t Look Up, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo Di Cap…
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In the eighties, Maurice Saatchi and Josephine Hart were one of London’s most illustrious power couples. She was a beloved writer and poet, and he was a world renowned advertising mogul instrumental in bringing his heroine, Margaret Thatcher, to power. For several decades they enjoyed a blissful marriage until a routine GP appointment led to Joseph…
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Graham Norton is a man of many talents. He has captured the UK’s hearts with his charisma, humour and warmth, interviewing the most glitzy and glamorous guests in showbiz, from that red sofa, in a hugely popular chat show that has been running for more than 30 series. That’s not to forget his Virgin radio show, books podcast – AND his own successfu…
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What’s the power in telling a good story, and telling it well? Neil Gaiman is the man to ask. A leading purveyor of fantasy across comics, novels, TV and cinema, he is above all a storyteller. Whether he’s turning death and dream into flesh-and-blood characters, as with his 1989 genre-busting comic book “The Sandman”, which has just been adapted by…
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The trope of the Italian "nonna", spending hours in the kitchen perfecting her own secret ragu recipe might seem like the stuff of stereotypes, but for chef and restaurateur Gino D’Acampo, it could not be more real. Gino grew up in southern Italy in a house full of women, intent on bringing their best home cooking to the centre of family life. His …
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Life sometimes feels relentlessly busy. After the stress of a long day, cooking a nice meal can feel like the last thing you have the energy to do. Michelin Star Chef Tom Kerridge new cookbook “Real life recipes” aims to fit into our busy days – so meals are ‘one less thing to stress about’. Tom knows a thing or two about being busy…. Running the w…
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Belinda Carlisle gained worldwide fame as the lead singer of the band The Go-go’s, one of the most successful all female bands in history. Incredibly, they are still the only female band who write their own music and play their own instruments to have reached the top of the US album charts. Belinda went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist…
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The photo of a teenage girl lying nearly naked on a bed of red rose petals was an iconic shot in the cult classic, Oscar-winning film American Beauty. It was a cultural watershed: a witty takedown of the American dream; a male midlife crisis and as one critic has put it a “suburban burlesque”. MENA SUVARI was only 19 when she was cast as the angeli…
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My next guest is one of the great economic brains in this country. Minouche Shafik’s career has spanned policy and politics, and she has worked at some of the best known national and international institutions. She was the youngest ever Vice President of the World Bank, and has served as Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund a…
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