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Welcome to Unfiltered: The inimitable James O’Brien’s new interview show. Subscribe now for a revealing and candid one hour conversation with a mystery special guest every week, featuring th...
My guest today is one of the most recognisable rugby coaches in the world. A Rugby Union player turned coach, and only man to have won the m...
My guest today likes to describe herself as “just an old bird with an iPhone”. But there’s no need to be so humble. From Countdown to drawin...
To call him, simply, an ‘internet prankster/comedian’ would be accurate, but perhaps a disservice. He ran for London Mayor, competed in Mr U...
You can’t tell the story of UK Rap without mentioning Dizzy Rascal, Wiley, Stormzy and my guest today. Born and raised in a street that woul...
As a footballer, his record speaks for itself. But, his career as player-turned-manager is a knot of competing narratives. A Romford-boy-don...
From his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, to the stage of BoomTown, UK, my guest today is an international, billboard top ten charting musicia...
My guest today is the Green Party’s highest-profile member, serving both as a member of the European Parliament and then, in 2010, as the Gr...
My guest today was, by his own admission, an unexceptional student from an unexceptional suburb. But, at age 43, he’d achieve the extraordin...
It was at Capital FM - on the show he's helmed for seven years - that my guest met his best friend and producer Joe Lyons, who tragically to...
My guest today has had his finger on the pulse of British men’s fashion for over a decade. From the suburbs of Fetcham to the front row of L...
My guest today takes us on a journey to where time and space end, the heart of a black hole. He's been described as a rockstar of theoretica...
My guest today is the great-great-grandson of a Baronet and the great-nephew of a Lord, who once had a posh-off with Jack Whitehall and Fran...
My guest today is a comedian, whose regular appearances on Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week turned him into a household name before his...
My guest today is a boxer. By 17, he was an Olympic silver medallist; by his mid-twenties, he was a world champion, fighting in Vegas and ea...
My guest today was a politician. His CV reads like the diary of an eccentric colonial administrator and, while a member of the House of Comm...
My guest today is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, whose coverage of the most significant moments in 21st century US history...
My guest today is an international drag sensation, who's won hearts and minds during their multiple TV show appearances in Australia, the UK...
My guest today is a footballer. Born in Leeds and raised in poverty by his mother and grandmother while his father spent recurring stints in...
My guest today is a fighter. Born in Atherton, he started learning traditional martial arts aged seven. Now, standing at six foot five, weig...
When her career began in Holland, aged just 14, she was too young to sign the contract herself. Since then, she’s become the all-time leadin...
A comedian and author, the product of a Catholic upbringing in Ireland, whose memoir Trouble is equal parts tender, humorous, and raw, while...
The son of a bus driver, the son of an immigrant, but that’s as far as the political clichés go. One of 8 children, he would go on to become...
By her thirties, she was a successful comedian, making regular TV appearances. But, away from the public eye, she was searching for answers:...
A world class striker, he won the golden boot at the 1986 World Cup. 80 caps for England. Today, he is the longest serving - and most outspo...
Born in Mullingar, Ireland, in 1993 his life was normal. By the age of 16 he was one of the most famous people in the world, part of the big...
New host, same brilliant conversations. Unfiltered's back and better than ever. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
After 50 fantastic episodes, James O’Brien’s time at the helm of Unfiltered is sadly coming to an end.In this special episode with BBC Radio...
You probably know Gina Miller as the woman who took the government to court for attempting to implement Brexit without a vote in Parliament,...
Former editor-in-chief of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger joins James O’Brien for a fascinating interview about the extraordinary stories and t...
Legendary film director Spike Lee joins guest host David Lammy for a fascinating interview about his extraordinary career, his latest effort...
David Lammy steps into the interviewer’s chair while James is on holiday for a very special interview with Idris Elba. The pair chart Idris’...
Poet and two-time Mercury Prize-nominated rapper Kate Tempest joins James O’Brien for a deep and fascinating interview about art, poetry, tr...
Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder joins a starstruck James O’Brien for a rock ’n’ roll rollercoaster of an interview. We jo...
He’s a DJ, a record label boss, a producer and an entrepreneur, but Steve Aoki is really only interested in one thing: building a community....
It’s a laugh-packed interview this week! James O’Brien chats to comedian Mark Steel about growing up in a town that was boring by design, th...
James is away finishing his new book, so we’re doing things a little differently this week. Yes, it’s a ‘Best Of’, but it’s the best of the...
What happens when you just say ‘yes’ to everything? What happens when you ask random people to join you, when you’ve no idea what you’re ask...
In the world of Christian music, Vicky Beeching was one of its biggest stars, but she had a secret, something she’d hidden away for over 20...
Caitlin Moran has a lot to say. Some of it is rib-crackingly funny. Some of it is eye-opening and jaw-dropping. Not all of it is related to...
Novelist, journalist and top-notch conversationalist Howard Jacobson joins James O’Brien for a gloriously sprawling interview, exploring eve...
In the late 1980s, something was happening in Manchester. A melting pot of music, art and culture was bubbling away, ready to explode, and D...
You may know Simon Thomas from his work on Sky Sports and Blue Peter, but the devastating loss of Simon’s wife Gemma brought him to a promin...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow normally asks the questions, but this time he’s in the hot seat. In this sharp and incisive i...
Rapper, poet and scholar Akala joins James O’Brien for a scintillating interview, in which they discuss two issues that run to the heart of...
In her time working with and for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle Lyons was witness to nearly 300 executions, and though s...
More than almost any other Unfiltered guest so far, you know exactly who Jamie Oliver is. Except, you don’t. In a revealing and impassioned...
Before he was Plan B, a young man called Ben Drew was growing up in London’s Forest Gate. With a guitar and the music of Smokey Robinson to...
You know comedian Shappi Khorsandi from Live at the Apollo and her legendary shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, but Shappi was learning how to m...
Arguably the best rugby union referee in the world, known for his witty one-liners and no-nonsense attitude, Nigel Owen’s career highs came...
In one of the funniest Unfiltered interviews to date, James O’Brien meets the whirlwind that is comedian Russell Kane who, as you’re about t...