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Estimated from 36 chart positions in 36 markets.
By chart position
- 🇬🇧GB · Documentary#47100K to 300K
- 🇦🇺AU · Documentary#6730K to 100K
- 🇨🇦CA · Documentary#1555K to 30K
- 🇺🇸US · Documentary#1765K to 30K
- 🇮🇹IT · Documentary#3230K to 100K
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
151K to 509K🎙 Weekly cadence·399 episodes·Last published 3w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
302K to 1.0M🇬🇧29%🇦🇺10%🇮🇹10%+33 more - Active Followers
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90K to 305K
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Cartoonist Naji al-Ali
Jun 2, 2026
27m 36s
Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams
Jun 1, 2026
27m 48s
Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny
May 19, 2026
27m 09s
Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer
May 19, 2026
27m 54s
Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface
May 19, 2026
27m 40s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/2/26 | ![]() Cartoonist Naji al-Ali✨ | cartooningArab world+4 | Mona ChalabiMartin Rowson | — | — | Naji al-Alicartoonist+7 | — | 27m 36s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Cleopatra picked by Kate Williams✨ | Cleopatrapolitics+5 | Kate Williams | Cleopatra | — | CleopatraKate Williams+5 | — | 27m 48s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Ade Edmondson on singer Sandy Denny✨ | musicbiography+3 | Ade Edmondson | BBC Studios | — | Sandy DennyAde Edmondson+3 | — | 27m 09s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Tony Garnett picked by Harry Bradbeer✨ | social realismfilm production+4 | Harry Bradbeer | BBC Radio 4BBC Studios+4 | BirminghamBath | Tony GarnettHarry Bradbeer+7 | — | 27m 54s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Peter Cook picked by Jon Harvey aka Count Binface✨ | satirecomedy+3 | Jon Harvey | Private EyeBBC Studios+4 | — | Peter Cooksatire+5 | — | 27m 40s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Coco Khan picks Edith Garrud, the jujitsu fighting suffragette✨ | suffragettemartial arts+3 | Dr Naomi Paxton | — | — | Edith GarrudSuffrajitsu+5 | — | 27m 44s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() William Gladstone, four-time PM✨ | politicshistory+4 | Trevor LyttletonDr Ruth Windscheffel | Re-EngageYork St John University | — | William Gladstonepolitics+6 | — | 27m 20s | |
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Alistair McGowan on HE Bates✨ | literatureshort stories+3 | Vicky WicksRichard Bates | Darling Buds of MayFair Stood the Wind for France | — | HE BatesAlistair McGowan+6 | — | 27m 24s | |
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Beverley Knight on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll✨ | music historyrock and roll+3 | Beverley Knight | BBC Radio 4Shout, Sister, Shout! | — | Sister Rosetta TharpeBeverley Knight+3 | — | 27m 31s | |
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Daisy Dunn on Marcus Agrippa, ancient Rome's king of cement✨ | ancient Romemilitary history+3 | Daisy DunnShushma Malik | Cambridge UniversityThe Missing Thread | — | Marcus Agrippaancient Rome+3 | — | 27m 18s | |
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| 2/23/26 | ![]() Dr Sian Williams nominates Anna Freud✨ | psychoanalysischild psychology+3 | Dr Sian Williams | Hampstead Nurseries | ViennaLondon | Anna FreudSigmund Freud+4 | — | 27m 43s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Pianist and broadcaster Keelan Carew nominates Russian composer Nicolai Medtner✨ | classical musicRussian composers+3 | Keelan Carew | Maharajah of Mysore | — | Nicolai MedtnerKeelan Carew+5 | — | 27m 43s | |
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Comedian Helen Lederer on Joan Rivers✨ | comedyinterviews+3 | Helen LedererJoe Queenan | BBC Radio 4BBC Studios | — | Joan RiversHelen Lederer+5 | — | 27m 33s | |
| 2/10/26 | ![]() John Cooper Clarke on Johnny Green, road manager of The Clash✨ | punk culturemusic history+3 | Johnny GreenPolly Broad+1 | The ClashRadio 4+2 | — | Johnny GreenThe Clash+3 | — | 27m 29s | |
| 1/28/26 | ![]() Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival✨ | historybiography+3 | Charlotte Cooper-Davis | BBC StudiosThe Book of the City of Ladies | ItalyParis | Christine de PizanHelen Carr+3 | — | 27m 19s | |
| 1/19/26 | ![]() Alex Wheatle, the Bard of Brixton✨ | biographyliterature+3 | Lemn SissayVanessa Walters | BBC StudiosBBC Radio 4+1 | — | Alex WheatleBrixton+7 | — | 27m 33s | |
| 1/12/26 | ![]() Spitfire pilot Jeffrey Quill picked by astronaut Tim Peake✨ | aviation historytest pilots+3 | Tim PeakeDr Victoria Taylor | — | — | SpitfireJeffrey Quill+5 | — | 27m 44s | |
| 11/3/25 | ![]() Oliver Postgate✨ | children's televisionanimation+4 | Andrew Davenport | SmallfilmsBBC Radio 4+3 | — | Oliver Postgatechildren's shows+7 | — | 27m 39s | |
| 10/27/25 | ![]() Sylvia Plath✨ | Sylvia Plathmental health+3 | Lucy Jones | MatrescenceDaddy+1 | — | Sylvia PlathLucy Jones+4 | — | 27m 06s | |
| 10/20/25 | ![]() Elizabeth Day on Hatshepsut | "One of the things that she claimed was that her mother had been impregnated by the sun god Amon-Ra." Elizabeth Day's interest in the female pharaoh Hatshepsut was sparked by a trip to Egypt less than a year ago. What intrigued her was how this woman survived and thrived as ruler in a traditionally male role. Joining her in discussion is Professor Joyce Tyldesley, recent winner of archaeologist of the year. She says that Hatshepsut changed her life when she wrote her biography. Matthew Parris presents.Elizabeth Day is the author of six novels and host of How to Fail. The producer for BBC Studios in Bristol is Miles Warde | 27m 40s | ||||||
| 10/13/25 | ![]() Comedian Stewart Lee on Derek Bailey | "The area I mostly work in is generally known as free - the free music area. And free is one of those four letter words, like rock or jazz or punk maybe. It started out meaning something." Derek BaileyBorn in 1930 in Sheffield, Bailey worked as a session musician in dance bands and orchestras before turning his back on that world. Free improvisation was where he made his name, and he took inspiration from whatever he heard. Stewart Lee first heard him in the 1990s and spoke at his funeral in 2005."Are there any parallels between his approach and yours?" "There probably are ... in that I've copied him."Also contains the voices of Ian Greaves and Tim Fletcher, a brief clip of Mastermind, and a recording of Derek Bailey's collaborator in the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, Gavin Bryars. Stewart Lee is a comedian and writer, the presenter is Matthew Parris and the producer for BBC Studios is Miles Warde. We regret that this description barely scrapes the surface of the wonder of this episode - the ideas, the music, the archive, the brief row. | 30m 43s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 | ![]() Jock Stein, first British football manager to win the European Cup | Jock Stein, first British football manager to win the European Cup, picked by composer Sir James MacMillan and aided by Jock Stein’s biographer, Archie MacPherson. Jock Stein was manager of Celtic FC when they won the European Cup in Lisbon in 1967. He later died while managing Scotland in a world cup qualifier against Wales – the date, September 1985, exactly forty years ago."I saw in my grandfather and my father certain characteristics that I saw in Jock Stein." Sir James MacMillanIncludes archive of Jock Stein, Gordon Strachan and Billy Connolly, a big fan of the European Cup winning Celtic team.Archie MacPherson is the author of Jock Stein: The Definitive Autobiography, and a familiar face to viewers of Scottish football in the eighties and nineties and beyond. The presenter is Matthew Parris and the producer for BBC Studios is Miles Warde | 27m 41s | ||||||
| 9/29/25 | ![]() Benjamin Franklin | Matthew Parris heads to the house where Benjamin Franklin lived for almost 17 years to meet banker and philanthropist John Studzinski.Franklin was born in Boston when it was still a part of the British empire, ran away to Philadelphia and lodged near Charing Cross at 36 Craven Street in London for over a decade. He was an agent for the Pennsylvania assembly, and also an ambassador to Paris where he helped persuade the French to join the breakaway American states in their war against the British. His nominator John Studzinski is chair of the board that runs the Benjamin Franklin House in London and says that he would have loved to have been the great man's apprentice. Joining the conversation is Professor Kathleen Burk who admires Franklin the enlightened writer but is less sure about his treatment of his wife. Kathleen Burk is author of Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning.The producer for BBC Studios Audio in Bristol is Miles Warde | 26m 59s | ||||||
| 9/22/25 | ![]() Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country | "I find his novels extraordinarily beautiful .. and they're an excellent length."Miles Jupp picks an author he loves, but knows little about. JL Carr was born in Yorkshire and was a teacher, mapmaker, and an eccentric. Joining the comedian in studio to discuss Carr is a man who knew him well - DJ Taylor - who paints a picture of a man who hated London literary parties and knew how to have fun with anyone sent to interview him. A delightful episode that includes archive of Carr himself, plus Kenneth Branagh reading from his biography, God's Englishman by Byron Rogers. Carr's novel - A Month in the Country - was shortlisted for the Booker and turned into a film starring Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth and Natasha Richardson in 1987.The producer for BBC Studios in Bristol is Miles Warde | 27m 28s | ||||||
| 9/15/25 | ![]() Helen Castor on Richard II | Today's great life is possibly more famous as a Shakespearean character - King Richard II who was deposed by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke in 1399. He's been chosen by historian Helen Castor, author of The Eagle and the Hart, who shines a light on what really happened towards the end of his reign. Also helping is Professor Emma Smith who explains why the play was a hit two hundred years later under Elizabeth I. With archive of John Hurt as Richard and David Suchet as his cousin and usurper, Henry Bolingbroke.The producer for BBC Studios Audio in Bristol is Miles Warde | 27m 37s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
38 placements across 36 markets.
Chart Positions
38 placements across 36 markets.
