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Countercurrent: conversations with Professor Roger Kneebone

Roger Kneebone

A podcast for people who like the unexpected. Join the surgeon and academic Professor Roger Kneebone in conversation with unorthodox people whose careers defy traditional boundaries and who...

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Nic Madge in conversation with Roger Kneebone

A first career as a human rights lawyer led to Nic becoming a district judge in the civil courts, then a circuit judge hearing criminal case...

01:22:03Oct 12, 2026

Lord Robert Salisbury in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, has had a long career as a Conservative politician. He represented South Dorset in the Hou...

01:05:56Oct 1, 2026

Lauren Petritz-Watts in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Lieutenant Colonel Lauren Petritz-Watts is Principal Director of Music (Army) - the most senior position in this branch of the Army. In this...

01:20:23Sep 16, 2026

Tim Goode in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Tim Goode is Residentiary Canon at York Minster. In this podcast we explore how his own experience of disability has shaped his role in the...

01:01:08Aug 31, 2026

Sebastian Kraemer in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Sebastian Kraemer is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. His first degree was in philosophy. He then qualified in medicine before specialis...

01:42:52Aug 17, 2026

Andy Stirling in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Andy Stirling is emeritus professor in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. His many interests centre around issues...

01:13:43Aug 3, 2026

John Law in conversation with Roger Kneebone

John Law is a pianist and composer who works across multiple genres. Initially trained as a classical musician, he studied at the Royal Acad...

01:00:56Jul 20, 2026

Andrew McPherson in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Professor Andrew McPherson, Chair in Design Engineering and Music at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. He h...

01:11:02Jul 6, 2026

Simon Wallace in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Simon Wallace is a pianist, composer and record producer. As a performer he collaborates with many other jazz musicians, including the singe...

01:34:56Jun 22, 2026

Finn Macpherson in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Finn Macpherson is race engineer at Hitech Grand Prix. An engineer by background, Finn has coached promising young racing drivers from their...

01:28:13Jun 8, 2026

David Gordon in conversation with Roger Kneebone

David Gordon is a composer, harpsichordist, jazz pianist, improviser, teacher and much else besides. He has played with many of the world's...

01:33:10May 25, 2026

Gary Bridgewood in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Gary Bridgewood has been making and restoring stringed instruments for over forty years - from violins and cellos to historic instruments su...

58:16May 11, 2026

Antranig Basman in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Dr Antranig Basman is a mathematician and computer scientist who studied at Cambridge University. After completing a PhD in Computer Vision...

01:38:00Apr 27, 2026

Geoff Brown in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Geoff Brown is Education Services Coordinator at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court in central London. He trained as an actor befo...

01:23:46Apr 13, 2026

Lucy Skilbeck in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Lucy Skilbeck studied drama in Australia before coming to the UK in the 1980s and establishing herself as a director and teacher. For ten ye...

02:05:14Mar 30, 2026

Angus McCullough KC in conversation with Roger Kneebone

The distinguished barrister Angus McCullough KC has over 35 years of experience in public and private law. He has played a prominent role in...

01:20:00Mar 16, 2026

Hamish Brown in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Hamish Brown is a pianist, composer and arranger with many strings to his bow. I first encountered Hamish in his capacity as collaborative p...

01:33:36Mar 2, 2026

Nick Gold in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Nick Gold is managing director of the speaker bureau Speakers Corner . He works with clients to provide suitable speakers for corporate even...

01:14:05Feb 23, 2026

David Juritz in conversation with Roger Kneebone

David Juritz started playing the violin at the age of five. After winning the Royal College of Music's top award he joined the English Chamb...

01:38:34Feb 9, 2026

Rob Ryan in conversation with Roger Kneebone

Rob Ryan studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic and specialised in printmaking at the Royal College of Art in London. For many years he has w...

59:56Jan 26, 2026