Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake

BBC Radio 5 Live
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 2, 2018 • 26min

Plan B

Ben Drew on parenting, politics and the making of his new album Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose.
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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”.
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Apr 23, 2018 • 29min

Brett Anderson

Suede frontman Brett Anderson on his life, ‘Cool Britannia’ and his autobiography Coal Black Mornings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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