

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray
BBC Radio 5 Live
Colin talks to interesting people with fascinating life stories. No rules, no soundbites, just in-depth conversations with some incredible people.
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Mar 19, 2021 • 7min
Goodbye 'At Home'... Hello 'Midnight Meets'
It's all change and Colin Murray is here to share a little more info about what you can expect.

Mar 16, 2020 • 1h 6min
At Home: S3E12 - Michael O'Neill
In the last At Home of the series, Colin Murray visits the home of a man who has helped create many sporting memories for him personally, Michael O’Neill. The Northern Ireland and Stoke City manager talks about his moving from being a player to management, bringing success to the Northern Ireland in Euro 2016, and how Stoke City is the first team he’s ever managed with its own training ground.
This At Home was recorded the week before elite football was suspended due to coronavirus.

Feb 28, 2020 • 1h 4min
At Home: S3E11 - The Brownlee Brothers
Alistair and Jonny Brownlee have won all there is to win in triathlon, in fact they shared the podium at back to back Olympic games in London and Rio.They discuss the lengths they’ve been to keep their anonymity and, as the youngest, how Jonny felt getting his brother's hand me downs. Plus, find out who wins a special head to head of rock, paper, scissors, a thumb war and higher or lower.

Feb 21, 2020 • 1h 10min
At Home: S3E10 - Richard Riakporhe
Richard Riakporhe talks to Colin Murray about growing up with gang culture, how he survived a stabbing as a teenager, to becoming a boxing champion with hopes of challenging for a world title.Warning: This programme contains a description of a stabbing with some graphic detail you may find disturbing.

Feb 14, 2020 • 1h 12min
At Home: S3E09 - Steve Davis
Colin Murray invites Steve Davis to his place, to talk about his domination of snooker in the 1980s, his record collection and other obsessions, to his new career as an electronic musician and DJ.

Feb 7, 2020 • 1h 15min
At Home: S3E08 - Nadia Nadim
Colin visits Danish international footballer Nadia Nadim in Paris and talks about her journey from Afghanistan to Denmark as a refugee with her family after her father was killed. She discusses how her football career has since taken her to the USA, Manchester City and now Paris Saint-Germain. And Nadia also reveals why she’s holding off the final months completing her studies to become a surgeon.

Jan 31, 2020 • 1h 1min
At Home: S3E07 - Chris Wilder
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder talks to Colin about his journey with the club, Sir Alex Ferguson, fireworks, his upbringing, football heroes and why he still goes to his local boozer.

Jan 24, 2020 • 1h 13min
At Home: S3E06 - David Weir
Colin Murray sits down with multiple Paralympic Gold and London Marathon winner David Weir at his place, for a no-nonsense chat. Covering his career across over 20 years from how he started out, his love of music and DJing, to his big rivalries across track and road races.David also talks frankly about how he has dealt massive success at London 2012, alongside the frustration of Rio 2016. And how he is preparing and racing, now aged 40, ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Jan 17, 2020 • 1h 7min
At Home: S3E05 - Ian Holloway
Ian Holloway talks to Colin Murray about his family and life in football as both a player and manager.

Jan 10, 2020 • 57min
At Home: S3E04- Ellery Hanley
Rugby league legend Ellery Hanley talks to Colin Murray about his career, childhood, playing the piano, washing the dishes and valuable lessons.