

Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake
BBC Radio 5 Live
Nihal Arthanayake presents in-depth interviews with headline guests across entertainment, sport, culture and politics.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Mar 26, 2020 • 28min
Harlan Coben
Nihal Arthanayake speaks to the author Harlan Coben about his new book; The Boy From The Woods, how Coronavirus is impacting his work and how he helped Netflix adapt his best-seller The Stranger.

Mar 12, 2020 • 37min
Stacey Dooley
Nihal speaks to Stacey Dooley about her new documentary, Strictly Come Dancing, and life in the public eye.

Mar 4, 2020 • 50min
Professor Brian Greene
Nihal meets the theoretical physicist to talk about his book Until The End Of Time and to ask some of the big questions about the nature of time, the future of the universe and whether we’re all living in a simulation of reality.

Feb 25, 2020 • 35min
Eleanor Conway
Nihal talks to the comedian Eleanor Conway about her hilarious, and brutally honest, new show You May Recognise Me From Tinder, in which Eleanor talks frankly about why she’s been single for more than a decade.

Feb 24, 2020 • 51min
Bob Geldof
The music legend talks, in depth, to 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayke about his new book; Tales of Boomtown Glory, and the new studio album from the Boomtown Rats.

Feb 19, 2020 • 41min
Tracey Thorn
Geoff Lloyd talks to the Everything But the Girl singer about her second autobiography Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia.

Feb 12, 2020 • 42min
Ben Bailey Smith
The actor, singer and author on his starring role in the new BBC legal drama “The Split”

Feb 11, 2020 • 37min
Frances Barber
The star of Prick Up Your Ears, Doctor Who and Silk talks to Nihal about starring in the Pet Shop Boys cabaret ‘Musik.'

Feb 5, 2020 • 43min
Blossoms
Joe, Tom and Myles talk relationships, hot sauce and their new album “Foolish Loving Spaces”.

Feb 4, 2020 • 40min
Ben Watt
Ben talks about songwriting, Everything But The Girl and having a very low-key wedding.


