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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...
Dr Antranig Basman is a mathematician and computer scientist who studied at Cambridge University. After completing a PhD in Computer Vision...
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...
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...
The distinguished barrister Angus McCullough KC has over 35 years of experience in public and private law. He has played a prominent role in...
Hamish Brown is a pianist, composer and arranger with many strings to his bow. I first encountered Hamish in his capacity as collaborative p...
Nick Gold is managing director of the speaker bureau Speakers Corner . He works with clients to provide suitable speakers for corporate even...
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...
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...
Roberto Trotta is Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, where he direc...
Dr Elisa Cunial trained as a psychotherapist and practised for many years in London. She now works in Trieste, Italy as a counselling psycho...
Taslim Martin is an artist whose work takes many forms, including portraiture, design and site-specific works for public spaces. He lives an...
Sarah Hart is a mathematician whose research focuses on group theory. She is Professor Emerita at Birkbeck and Provost of Gresham College. I...
Neal Peres Da Costa is Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he founded the Historical Performanc...
Per Palmgren is Associate Professor in Medical Education at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden where he is the director of doctoral s...
Professor Ian Walmsley is Provost of Imperial College London and Chair in Experimental Physics. He has a distinguished career as a researche...
Dr Deborah Safron is a sociologist and independent scholar who was brought up in America. As part of her research she is documenting the now...
Dave Stachowiak is an expert in leadership. He established and directs the Coaching for Leaders Academy in the USA, drawing on his experienc...
Charles Hayter is a radiation oncologist, author and playwright. After an early career studying and teaching drama, Charles changed directio...
Rachel Vickery is a human behaviour and high performance consultant. Initially an international gymnast on the New Zealand National Team, sh...
Sophie Yates is a distinguished harpsichordist - recitalist, broadcaster, recording artist and teacher. We first recorded a Countercurrent c...
Ashley Solomon is Head of Historical Performance and Professor at the Royal College of Music. He is a baroque flute and recorder player who...
The Very Rev Dr Mark Oakley is Dean of Southwark. He has held many ecclesiastical roles, including Rector of St Paul's Covent Garden, then C...
Stephen Kovacevich is one of the most celebrated concert pianists of his generation. Since his Wigmore Hall debut in 1961 he has been known...
Michael Booth is Chief Library Assistant at the London Library, where he has worked for forty years. One of his remarkable skills is an abil...
Toby Purser is Head of Conducting at the Royal College of Music in London. His musical interests encompass symphonic, operative and contempo...
Wayne Meeten is a distinguished craftsman whose work builds on ancient Japanese metalworking techniques and is profoundly influenced by Tai...
Dr Janis Wong is Data and Technology Law Policy Advisor at The Law Society of England and Wales. She holds a PhD in computer science and is...
Howard Phipps is an artist and print maker, well known for his wood engravings which often focusing on the natural world, with haunting imag...
The portrait artist Adele Wagstaff trained at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Fine Art. She has been shortlisted for the Jerwoo...
Helen Leek is a pianist who has won many prizes, including the International Young Concert Artists Competition and the Brant International P...
Dame Eleanor Sharpston KC served as an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union from 2006 to 2020, before being remove...
Steven Appleby is an artist, illustrator and cartoonist who has created cartoon strips for The Guardian, The New Musical Express and many ot...
Graham Scott is one of only twenty Premier League football referees. In this podcast we explore the challenges, pressures and satisfactions...
Stephen Akinsanya is a barrister who focuses on defence work in many areas of criminal law. He has a particular interest in defending young...
Professor Allan Hamilton is a neurosurgeon, radiation oncologist, author, academic, horse whisperer, television scriptwriter and pioneer in...
Sharon Weldon is Professor of Healthcare Simulation and Workforce Development at the University of Greenwich. After overcoming serious illne...
Paul Jakeman is a sculptor and stone carver, whose work ranges from creating new designs to restoring historic statues. He is also Stone Car...
Thomas Schlich is the James McGill Professor in the History of Medicine and Charie of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill...
Annmarie Adams is Stevenson Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science, including Medicine, at McGill University in Montreal. An arc...
Nina Baker was one of my first Countercurrent guests. In 2014 she described her varied career, from being the first female deck officer in t...
After a five year apprenticeship as a wood and stone carver Bradford's (a leading London workshop) in the 1950s, Tony worked at the firm for...
Professor Misha Perouansky is a consultant anaesthetist and experimental neuroscientist in Madison WI, USA. He first took part in Countercur...
Dr Emma Barker is an art historian and academic who teaches and researches at the Open University. She specialises in eighteenth-century Fre...
Anne Desmet RA is a distinguished wood engraver, print maker and Royal Academician. Fascinated by the idea of metamorphosis, her imaginative...
The immunologist Andrew George is Professor Emeritus at Imperial College London. In addition to his immunological research, Andrew plays a l...
Sir Christopher Le Brun PPRA is widely known as a painter, though he also works in other media. From 2011 until 2019 he was President of the...
Quassim Cassam is professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is well known for his work examining terrorism, political extremi...
Peter Openshaw CBE is a respiratory physician and mucosal immunologist at Imperial College London, where he is Professor of Experimental Med...
Dr Dan Dworkis is a board-certified emergency physician and Adjunct Professor at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern C...
Matt Bishop is a writer, journalist, novelist and communications expert with a lifelong passion for motor sport. In this podcast we explore...