Brits In The Wood Podcast
60 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFROM HOLLYWOOD Caroline Feraday and Claire Bullivant present an entertaining and informative weekly podcast, with a focus on interesting Brits in Hollywood – and Hollywood viewed THROUGH the eyes of interesting Brits.
Join us each week for a fresh perspective on what it’s like to be a complete fish out of water – a Brit…in the Wood (Hollywood, that is) as we greet fellow Brits and Anglophile Americans who have something to say on LA!
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60: Stephen Gee - Iconic Vision
July 09, 2018 05:00 - 58 minutes - 27.7 MBIt’s a big week for our guest today. After nearly ten years of research and dedication, his documentary – ‘Iconic Vision - John Parkinson, Architect of Los Angeles’ premiered on PBS and tells the story of a Brit who created over 400 of Los Angeles’ most iconic structures, including City Hall, The Coliseum, Union Station and Bullocks Wilshire. The son of an English mill worker, John Parkinson arrived in North America in 1883 with a toolbox and $5. When he died in 1935, he had inspired o...
59: Jeff Leach - Love, Lust & Laughter
May 28, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBMove over Russell Brand, there’s a new British comedy rock star taking over America. He pushes boundaries, he’s full of fun and has a lot to say. Jeff Leach is an award-winning actor, comedian, writer, TV host, podcaster, gaming superstar and has made some rather eye opening documentaries… He has a ‘no holds barred’ mentality and Brits may have seen his highly publicised BBC documentary Confessions of a Sex Addict - where he foraged through his own promiscuous dating history to unearth the ...
58: John Powell - The Musical Force Behind Solo: A Star Wars Story
May 14, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBJohn Powell has just finished the score for Solo: A Star Wars Story but has also composed the scores to over 70 feature films. If film composers were movie stars our guest today would be Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. They don’t get much bigger than John Powell. He is particularly known for his scores on animated films including: Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek, Happy Feet, Ice Age and How to Train Your Dragon - for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. But he has also scored many live-action fil...
57: Trish Kinane - The President of Entertainment Programming at FremantleMedia North America
April 30, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 37 MBTrish Kinane is the Executive Producer for U.S. reality juggernauts American Idol, The X Factor and America’s Got Talent. In the world of TV – they don’t come much bigger than Trish Kinane who is the President of Entertainment Programming at FremantleMedia North America. Before moving to LA from the UK, Kinane was President of Worldwide Entertainment for FremantleMedia and before that she was a producer at Granada Television where she produced many music programs including The Way They Were...
56: Kathleen Rose Perkins - The Episode with Carol from Episodes!
April 16, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBShe's everyone's favourite flawed TV executive on Showtime / BBC2’s brilliant TV series Episodes starring alongside Matt LeBlanc. The show is about a British husband-and-wife comedy writing team who travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series. Matt LeBlanc portrays a satirical version of himself after the success of Friends and Kathleen plays the super ambitious show executive who is second-in-command at the network. She also appeared in David Fincher’s huge box of...
55: Russ Kane - Flying High with Kaned Laughter
April 02, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 38.6 MBWho can forget Russ Kane and his little blue plane waking up London? 'Russ-Boy' as Chris Tarrant affectionately called him, was the morning voice of Capital FM’s ‘Flying Eye’ traffic-spotter plane for 20 years, as part of the behemoth Chris Tarrant Breakfast show. It was the most listened-to commercial radio show in the world, with an audience in excess of 4 million. However, life was not without tragedy for the on-air joker - whose wife died from cancer when their twins were just 5-year...
54: Brown & Gray - The Country Music Superstars
March 19, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBIn the words of Storme Warren himself, Brown & Gray - the collaboration between Kaci Brown and Sam Gray, serves as a bridge between the soul of country music in the US to the new boom of country in the United Kingdom. Building a link between the US and the exploding country music scene in the UK, this exciting project is just the beginning of a creative journey through the best both worlds have to offer, with the new single “Top Down” leading the way. Sam Gray is a highly acclaimed so...
53: Shazia Mirza - Dame for a Laugh
March 05, 2018 06:00 - 57 minutes - 33.9 MBShe recently survived a month living wild in Bear Gryll's Celebrity Island (C4) - which, she says, was no laughing matter. Comedian Shazia Mirza is a regular face on TV in the UK - appearing on The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV), Graham Norton (BBC), Top Gear (BBC), Loose Women (ITV), The Late Late Show (RTE), and she is a regular panelist on The Wright Stuff (Channel 5). However, growing up in Birmingham with strict Pakistani parents nearly saw Shazia's career take a different turn. Her fam...
52: Seann Walsh - The (Absolute Master) Comedian
February 19, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 36.9 MBSeann Walsh is a regular face on British TV. You’ll have seen him on Saturday night’s sports panel show Play To The Whistle and as team captain on comedy quiz show Virtually Famous. Other recent TV appearances include Live At The Apollo, the Jonathan Ross Show, Tonight at The London Palladium, Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Alan Carr: Chatty Man and Russell Howards Stand Up Central. This guy is everywhere! But there’s good reason for it. For however disheveled he may be, the ...
51: Billy Duffy - The Guitar God
February 12, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBIn his 40 years in music, Cult guitarist and songwriting virtuoso Billy Duffy has played with the best - Morrissey, Jagger, Iggy et al. However, it was teaming up with Ian Astbury that launched The Cult into the rock stratosphere hall of fame. With Billy’s songwriting skills and guitar wizardry The Cult enjoyed a streak of huge hits such as ‘She Sells Sanctuary’ and ‘Rain’ before calling it quits in the mid-90s and regrouping in the new millennium. Billy’s road to rock-stardom is inter...
50: Chris Turner - Move over Snoop Dogg - there’s a new freestyle rapper in town… and he’ll make you laugh too!
February 05, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBYou’ve heard of Jay-Z, Eminem and Tupac… well get ready to be amazed by Chris Turner – a middleclass, British white guy who is giving them all a run for their freestyle rapping money. Chris made his mark when his debut comedy show Pretty Fly won the ‘Amused Moose People's Choice Award’ for Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014. Since then he’s been picking up awards and impressing audiences in all corners of the globe with his sharply written gags and blisteringly quick improvised raps....
49: Chris Farrell - King of the Airwaves to Master of the Information Superhighway
January 29, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 35.6 MBChris Farrell is a well-known British Radio DJ who moved to California to make his dream come true. By creating his own website - ‘The Chris Farrell's Membership Site’ - he became one of the most respected and successful Internet marketers in the industry today. In just one 24-hour period he made over $1million in sales. Chris also has a great podcast called Setbacks and Success. Each episode showcases the highs and the lows of today’s business leaders, entrepreneurs and people doing amazi...
48: Alice Haig - Top Model to Top of the Bill
January 22, 2018 06:00 - 59 minutes - 33.9 MBAlice Haig has appeared in countless magazines and strutted down runways across the world for some of the most famous fashion designers. But she’s now starring in a host of new movies and the Amazon Prime original TV series - Jean-Claude Van Johnson with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Hailing from Australia, Alice graduated from the prestigious performing arts school – Sandringham College. However, being a stunning blond at six-foot-tall and playing basketball for her state, it wasn’t long bef...
47: Zoe Nauman - The Undercover Journalist
January 15, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBImagine infiltrating the BNP (British National Party) to crack a news story or going undercover to bring down a celebrity drug ring. This is all in a day’s work for internationally acclaimed journalist Zoe Nauman. Whether it’s breaking world exclusives on Olympic athletes caught in online extortion or dealing with the jilted mistress’ of famous footballers, Zoe, who has written for some of the most respected and high profile publications across the globe is often first to get the scoop...
46: Peter Bowes - The News Correspondent who has Mastered Aging
January 08, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBOur guest this week is the well known journalist and broadcaster Peter Bowes. He is seen and heard regularly on BBC television, radio and digital services breaking all the biggest news stories from the United States to the rest of the world. As far as broadcast journalists go, Peter is at the top of his game. He has covered everything from the Michael Jackson trial for the BBC to the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing, the Hillsborough football disaster and the Cleveland Child Abuse scandals. Howe...
45: New Year Mash Up Happy 2018!
January 01, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBWe’d like to thank YOU for being there for us in 2017. The very fact you’re reading this means you’ve helped us get off the ground in our first year of Brits in the Wood. Whether you’ve listened, shared or just interacted with us on social media - thank you! Thank you too to all of our wonderful guests who have been amazing. Their stories - each and every one of them - are so inspiring. In this episode we revisit some of those special stories – snippets from some of our most memorable guests...
44: The Christmas Special - Some of Our Favourite Moments So Far…
December 25, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBIt's the Brits in the Wood Christmas Special with Caroline Feraday and Claire Bullivant. We revisit some of our favourite moments on the show so far with guests such as Ross King, Leilani Dowding and Charlie Clapham. We also have a sing song with the one and only Chesney Hawkes, we discover how well Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley knows LA and Caroline gives Mr. C from the Shamen a run for his money singing Ebeneezer Goode… Happy holidays everyone! Brits in the Wood: http://www.brits...
43: Claire Fordham - The Plus One
December 18, 2017 06:00 - 52 minutes - 31.1 MBClaire Fordham is an LA based British writer, producer, journalist and podcaster who has worked for the BBC, ITN, SKY News and written a popular weekly column for Britain's top selling newspaper The Sun. Her podcast ‘The Chat with Claire Fordham’ sees her interviewing interesting and inspiring people who she says: “you may not have heard of but should.” Her acclaimed book ‘Plus One: A Year in the Life of a Hollywood Nobody,’ inspired the mockumentary ‘The Making of Plus One’ starring Jenni...
42: Bruce Lisker - The Innocent Man
December 11, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBImagine spending over a quarter of a century locked up for a murder you didn’t commit. Imagine too you’re technically still only a child when you’re convicted – just 17-years-old – and the victim was your own mother. This happened to our guest – the charismatic, handsome and inspiring Bruce Lisker. Three months shy of his eighteenth birthday Bruce was wrongly tried and convicted of murdering his own mother and forced to serve more than 26 years behind bars before evidence finally came to l...
41: Kris Lythgoe - Panto Casts Its Spell Across America… oh no it doesn’t… oh yes it does!
December 04, 2017 06:00 - 52 minutes - 30.1 MBThanks to a series of hugely popular productions staged by our guest Kris Lythgoe (son of Nigel - the British American Idol producer), America has now fallen for panto’s thigh-slapping mix of slapstick humour and classic fairytales. But the version which is now packing theatres in the States is a Disneyfied update featuring chart topping pop songs performed by casts including Hollywood superstars and top Broadway names. Like his famous dad, Kris Lythgoe has the magic touch for creating...
40: Jeff Cohen - It’s Chunk from the Goonies!
November 27, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBYou know Jeff Cohen as the 10 year old kid who played Chunk in Steven Speilberg’s 1985 blockbuster film The Goonies. It was a scene-stealing performance that should have sent him on the path to mega stardom. Instead Chunk became a hunk. He lost the weight, his voice started to change and the work dried up. “Puberty is the ultimate nemesis for a child actor – and puberty kicked me in the gut,” he says. “It felt like: ‘What am I going to do now? I’m going to be a has-been at 14 years old?’” B...
39: Lucy Davis - Solihull to Slough to the States… It’s a New Dawn
November 20, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBShe shot to fame playing Dawn Tinsley, the receptionist in the British version of ‘The Office’. But after switching Slough for the States, Lucy Davis is now rubbing shoulders with superstars AND superheroes in Hollywood. You’ll have seen her in a host of films and TV shows but perhaps the most exciting to date is this year’s blockbuster in which she stars along side Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman playing Wonder Woman’s best friend Etta Candy. Having grown up amongst show biz gods - her fath...
38: Owen Beiny - Life Thru a Lens with the Paparazzo Maestro
November 13, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBOur guest today is a pap - in fact he’s one of the most qualified and highest paid shooters in the business. He’s not only captured the world’s most famous stars in some of their most infamous moments - but his family also owns one of the biggest agencies (WENN) which sell the pics on to magazines and news networks across the world. No-one knows the paparazzi business OR the stars themselves like Owen Beiny. He’ll hand out $10,000 every morning to LA’s maître d’s and parking valets for...
37: Jay Davis - The Comedy King
November 06, 2017 06:00 - 53 minutes - 30.7 MBFunny man Jay Davis is a comedy promoter / producer second to none who hosts the hottest comedy shows in LA. His legendary nights always attract the biggest names in comedy such as Jim Jefferies, Dane Cook, Dave Chappelle, Adam Devine, Chris D’elia, Bill Burr, Lisa Lampanelli and Jamie Kennedy to name but a few – and often in front of star studded Hollywood audiences. A successful comic and actor in his own right, Jay has appeared on a host of TV favourites such as Boston Legal, Jimmy Kimm...
36: Deepak Verma - How Deepak Is Your Love?
October 30, 2017 05:00 - 59 minutes - 35.2 MBWe certainly all loved him when he played Sanjay Kapoor in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders – a role he played for five years which turned him into a household name. However, Deepak Verma is also a very successful writer, television producer, film producer and entrepreneur. In fact, earlier this year he was awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his services to the arts in the Queen’s Honours List – a distinction which reflects his incredible talen...
35: Woody, Kleiny and Brookelyn - The Internet Celebrities
October 23, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 35.9 MBThe millennial world of social media is a hotbed of breaking new talent and we have three of the frontrunners on this week’s pod. If you’re on social media – which let’s face it, who isn’t? – you’ll have probably seen Woody and Kleiny “Stick it in that old thing” and the gorgeous Brookelyn kissing strangers and stroking random men’s beards (much to their delight!). Our three guests today are social media superstars and their original comedic sketches, pranks and social experiments are enjoy...
34: Dan Robinson - Top Gun 007 Style
October 16, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBHow does a kid from Hartlepool end up in America, flying the world's most expensive fighter jet F22 stealth aircraft? Daniel Robinson did exactly that - he was the first British pilot qualified to fly the supersonic jet which pilots refer to as 'almost like God.' Putting it simply… he went to Top Gun and being the only Brit - of course his call sign was Bond. After the military he earned his MBA and moved to New York City to work in private wealth management. But a family tragedy calle...
33: Camilla Cleese - And now for something vaguely familiar…
October 09, 2017 05:00 - 58 minutes - 33.2 MBWhat’s it like growing up as the daughter of genuine comedy royalty - and to forge your own career on the comedy circuit? Camilla Cleese should know - she’s the daughter of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers legend - John Cleese. She’s now based in Los Angeles, and a comedian, writer and actor in her own right - but spills the beans on which Python is her favourite (clue…it’s not her dad!), and which of his films he’s least proud of - and the pranks they play on each other. At 6ft 1in and stu...
32: Nikki Lund - The Ultimate LA Multi Hyphenate
October 02, 2017 05:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBAs if growing up being Kim Kardashian’s BFF isn’t cool enough – these days Nikki Lund is also a singer / songwriter, has styled some of the world’s biggest celebrities, is head of her own global fashion empire and is also a new mother. In the age of multi hyphenates – Nikki Lund is leading the pack. An LA native, Nikki spent years honing her songwriting skills with Hollywood’s finest and has recently enjoyed a Billboard hit record and signed with Madonna’s label Maverick. However, the ...
31: Lady Victoria Hervey - The Lady Loves LA
September 25, 2017 05:00 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBLady Victoria Hervey is known for being a model, aristocrat, ‘It Girl’ and was the author of the popular party animal diary column 'Victoria's Secrets' in The Sunday Times, which gave readers an insight into the life of a London socialite. Daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol, Lady Victoria led a privileged life, was seen at all the best events and notably modelled for Christian Dior, However, in a bid to escape her non-stop party lifestyle, Lady Victoria moved to LA in 2004. These ...
30: Charlie Clapham - Soap Star to Movie Star – Swapping Leicester for LA
September 18, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 31.7 MBActor Charlie Clapham said goodbye to Channel 4 teen soap Hollyoaks earlier this year, in emotional scenes which saw him shed real tears. After four years playing lead character Freddie Roscoe, he left on a cliff-hanger and now Hollyoaks’ loss is Hollywood’s gain. Charlie swapped his home town of Leicester for Los Angeles, to fulfill his dreams of becoming a movie star. He's already partied with Will Smith and Jim Carrey and ignored Russell Brand at the urinals, as he reveals to ...
29: Plastic Jesus - Anonymous Artist with Something to Spray…
September 11, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBIn a city of sycophants, one man is calling us out for Keeping Up With The Kardashians and begging us to stop making stupid people famous. Plastic Jesus - dubbed the Banksy of LA - hit the international headlines when he built a wall around Donald Trump's Hollywood star of fame - but his work was familiar to many in the city before that... even if they didn't realise it. The British-born artist - who strongly guards his identity - is known for his renegade street art popping up all over ...
28: Victoria Summer Hollywood’s Next Big Thing
September 04, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBElegant, worldly and alluring, Victoria Summer has been turning heads in Hollywood over the last few years with her timeless look and undeniable talent. Victoria appeared as the iconic 'Julie Andrews' in Walt Disney's Saving Mr. Banks (2013) opposite Tom Hanks. Then shortly after, she won a supporting role in Paramount Pictures' Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) directed by Michael Bay. Last year she played the lead female role in Game of Aces (2016) opposite Chris Klein. Victoria ch...
27: Jim Tavaré - Escaping Death with Prince Charles’ Favourite Comedian
August 28, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBJim Tavaré is an internationally acclaimed actor and comedian with a highly distinguished career. He played Tom the Innkeeper in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and has the honour of being named as Prince Charles’ favourite comedian. He also holds the distinction of being the only overseas act ever to reach the final of NBC's ‘Last Comic Standing’ here in America. Earlier this year - just when Jim’s career was at an all time high - he had a horrific 'head on' car crash in Los Ange...
26: Michelle Collins - From the Square, to the Street, to the Wood…
August 21, 2017 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBMichelle Collins must have one of the most recognisable faces in the UK as over the last 30 years she’s had long, prominent and starring roles in two of the nation’s favourite soaps – AND with some of the juiciest story lines. First she was stalking the Square in EastEnders as bad girl Cindy Beale and then she was conquering the cobbles in Coronation Street as Stella Price, landlady of the Rovers Return. However, she’s also done a plethora of other TV, film and theatrical work including ba...
25: John Ferriter - TV’s Deal Shaker and Star Maker
August 14, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBHe’s an A-list manager, former agent and is behind some of the biggest shows and deals in television history. There is simply no-one bigger on the business side of TV and talent management than John Ferriter. Not only has John packaged some of the world’s most successful shows: The Biggest Loser, The Weakest Link, Project Runway and Keeping Up with The Kardashians – but he’s also managed some of the world’s biggest stars: Ryan Seacrest, Garth Brooks, Larry King, Jimmy Kimmel, Dic...
24: Kara Noble - Queen of the Airwaves and a Right Royal Scandal
August 07, 2017 05:00 - 59 minutes - 33.9 MBIf you lived in the UK between 1985-1999, you’ll recognise the unmistakable husky tones of Kara Noble. Kara was Queen of the radio airways - waking up 4 million Londoners on the radio every morning on Europe's most popular commercial radio station - 95.8 Capital FM - as the co-host of their Breakfast show, alongside the irrepressible Chris Tarrant. So how did it turn from Kara being the darling of the airwaves to the national press calling her a 'traitor' on their front pages and forci...
23: Sean Borg - The PR Guru
July 31, 2017 05:00 - 50 minutes - 28.9 MBLondon “It-boy’’ and PR superstar Sean Borg found success in Hollywood on shows such as TMZ and Hollywood 411. A leader in the field of entertainment and PR, Seancontinues to work with many well-known faces in the world of show business on both sides of the Atlantic. In the 90s Sean became a well known mover and shaker on the London social scene orchestrating the careers of British ‘It-Girl’ Tamara Beckwith, royal pal Tara Palmer-Tompkinson and Tamara Mellon (of Jimmy Choo) to name...
22: Jerry Corley - The Joke Doctor
July 24, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBComedian Jerry Corley has been performing standup for over 25 years. He was writing for Jay Leno and the Tonight Show for 8 years of those and is now teaching classes for those who want to do the same. Jerry’s ‘Stand Up Comedy Clinic’ is hands down the top comedy school in Los Angeles catering to standup comics and comedy writers from all over the world. He has an unmatched ability to break down the art of comedy into a science, imparting breakthrough comedy writing techniques and form...
21: Andy Newton-Lee - Hullywood to Hollywood (via Hollyoaks)
July 17, 2017 05:00 - 52 minutes - 30.1 MBBrits will know him from hit TV shows such as Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Casualty and possibly a well known Cheeky Girls music video. But these days Andy Newton-Lee, who has been living in LA for twelve years, is the mastermind behind Next Stop LAX – a fully bonded immigration company which helps stars from all over the world relocate tothe USA. However, the actor turned business mogul has now put on his TV producer cap and made his own ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ meets ‘The Office’ TV s...
20: Camilla Sacre-Dallerup - Strictly Successful
July 10, 2017 05:00 - 50 minutes - 29.1 MBCamilla Sacre-Dallerup is an author, life coach and mindful living expert. She is also a NLP master practitioner coach, certified hypnotherapist, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and a popular meditation teacher at both Unplug Meditation and The Den Los Angeles. Before she started her life coaching and motivational speaking business in the UK, she spent over 25 years as a successful competitive athlete in the world of ballroom dancing. Camilla was part of the origin...
19: Ross King - Entertainment King of LA
July 03, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBThe spectacular Ross King, originally from Glasgow, is a Scotsman who now happily calls LA home. In the UK you’ve seen Ross on the ITV morning shows ‘Good Morning Britain’ and ‘Lorraine’ as their LA correspondent. In the USA, he covers everything from the Oscars to daily happenings in Hollywood and was the Entertainment Anchor on KTLA’s Prime News snagging four Emmys and a Golden Mic Award to boot. Friend to the stars, in this episode Ross talks to Caroline and Claire about breaking in...
18: Brian Kiley - Our First American
June 26, 2017 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBBrian Kiley is the head monologue writer for Conan O’Brien and has been nominated for 16 Emmy awards. He is also an actor, a stand-up comedian and has appeared hundreds of times on national TV including The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and in his own ‘Comedy Central Presents’ special. Brian has a recurring role on Cartoon Network's ‘Delocated’ and his jokes have been quoted many times in Reader's Digest, GQ Magazine, Entertainment Weekly...
17: Sandro Monetti - Mr. Showbiz
June 19, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 35 MBSandro Monetti is THE ultimate Hollywood insider who has interviewed all of the A-list stars and can currently be seen sharing his pop culture expertise each week on hit Bravo TV series, ‘Then and Now.' He is an Entertainment Journalist of the Year nominee two years running and a regular contributor on CNN International. But this Brit in Hollywood, who has worked for major media outlets around the world, doesn’t just report on entertainment, he creates it as well. He enjoyed huge succes...
16: James Longman - The Man Behind James Corden
June 12, 2017 05:00 - 49 minutes - 28.3 MBEver wondered who thinks up all those brilliant comedy skits featuring James Corden with the likes of Matt Damon, Tom Cruise and Victoria Beckham on The Late Late Show? Well Caroline and Claire talk to the mastermind behind the funny - the show’s Comedy Segment Producer – James Longman. Essex boy James has come a long way and is now one of TV’s most successful producers having produced shows such as Xtra Factor, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Alan Carr: Chatty Man. In December 2015, Longma...
15: Jenny Pacey - It’s Wonder Woman
June 05, 2017 05:00 - 52 minutes - 29.9 MBJenny Pacey is the definition of fit and appears in this summer’s blockbuster movie - Wonder Woman with Gal Gadot. The athletic brunette’s impressive resume includes being one of the UK’s leading fitness experts, Olympic athlete, celebrity personal trainer, motivational speaker, model, television presenter, actress and writer. Formally known as ‘Enigma’ on the British version of TV show Gladiators, Jenny is also a successful businesswoman and runs her own business, Pace & Go, with her part...
14: Lisa I’Anson - Girl Power!
May 29, 2017 05:00 - 49 minutes - 28.2 MBYou’ll recognise her velvety dulcet tones anywhere, especially if you lived in the UK during the 90s. Lisa I'Anson was one of the original ‘ladettes’ and proponents of Girl Power. She was also THE presenter on Top of the Pops and BBC Radio 1 from 1995 until 1999. However, she was very publically sacked on air after failing to show up for her morning radio show after going missing after clubbing in Ibiza. It was THE news story of the year. So what happened in those missing hours? Lisa final...
13:Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only!
May 22, 2017 05:00 - 58 minutes - 33.5 MBChesney Hawkes was an overnight heart-throb at the age of just 19 when his 1991 debut single ‘The One And Only’ became a smash hit. His face was in every teen magazine and adoring young girls across the world had his picture on their bedroom walls. However, The One And Only proved to be an embarrassingly accurate title – because he never had another hit. Then when his record label dropped him and refused to take his calls; he suddenly discovered he was broke. But like a phoenix rising ...
12: Mr.C - Naughty, Naughty, Very Naughty
May 15, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBMr.C from The Shamen (or Richard West to his family) has been one of the most influential figures on the electronic sound for decades. From his humble beginnings as an MC in his home city of London, right through to present-day and his position at the head of Superfreq - one of dance’s most innovative labels - Mr.C has consistently pushed the envelope to give us some of the finest electronic music of the past thirty years. ‘The Shamen,’ for whom Mr.C performed as front man will be reco...
11: Carol Smillie - It’s Smiley Smiley Carol Smillie!
May 08, 2017 05:00 - 57 minutes - 32.8 MBTelevision presenter Carol Smillie started out on game show ‘Wheel of Fortune’ but it was the hit DIY series ‘Changing Rooms’ that made her a British household name. However, she’s gone from changing rooms to changing careers, and is now running her own business empire: ‘Pretty Clever Pants’ for Life’s Little Leaks! Download to listen to the very smiley, beautiful and entrepreneurial Brit in the Wood Carol Smillie as she talks to hosts Caroline and Claire about her genius IQ, disco...