

Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake
BBC Radio 5 Live
Nihal Arthanayake presents in-depth interviews with headline guests across entertainment, sport, culture and politics.
Episodes
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May 24, 2018 • 29min
Ash
Tim Wheeler, Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray talk to Nihal about their new album, Islands and look back on more than 25 years in the charts.

May 17, 2018 • 42min
Akala
The poet, rapper, and activist talks to Nihal about his new book; Natives - Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.

May 10, 2018 • 39min
Ronan Farrow
The Pulitzer prize-winning reporter talks to Nihal and guest presenter Dermot O’Leary about his investigation into Harvey Weinstein and his new book, War on Peace, which charts the decline of American diplomacy.

May 2, 2018 • 26min
Plan B
Ben Drew on parenting, politics and the making of his new album Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose.

Apr 26, 2018 • 24min
John Newman
“I got myself in a bit of a dark place”: John talks to Nihal and Maya Jama about coming back from illness to make new music “in a totally different mindset”.

Apr 23, 2018 • 29min
Brett Anderson
Suede frontman Brett Anderson on his life, ‘Cool Britannia’ and his autobiography Coal Black Mornings.

Apr 19, 2018 • 34min
Manic Street Preachers
"There's nothing worse than feeling you are screaming into a void" James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on Manic Street Preachers’ 13th album Resistance is Futile.

Apr 12, 2018 • 19min
Sir Elton John
One of the biggest selling artists in music history tells Nihal why he’s focusing on fatherhood, why he wishes some artists would “write better songs” and explains what is was like working with the likes of Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga on his latest album, Revamp.

Apr 5, 2018 • 30min
Ruth Jones
The ‘Gavin & Stacey’ creator talks to Nihal Arthanayake and Amber Davies about her first novel ‘Never Greener’, the legacy of Nessa and why Wales is a creative powerhouse.

Mar 29, 2018 • 43min
Paddy Considine
The actor, writer and director talks to Nihal about his latest movie, ‘Journeyman’ and how a late diagnosis of Asperger’s changed his life.


