Category: Talk - Culture & Arts Last Update: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:00:11 -0800 One to One - A series of interview programmes in which well respected broadcasters follow their personal passions by talking to the people whose stories interest them most
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One to One:12 Feb 13 John McCarthy talks to a refugee. Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) John McCarthy concludes his series talking to those who live outside maninstream UK society,by talking to Afghan refugee, Rafi.
OnetoOne: 05Feb13 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) John McCarthy talks to a woman who, due to domestic violence, felt herself outside mainstream UK society.
OnetoOne: 290113 John McCarthy talks to Rachel Denton Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:17:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) John McCarthy talks to those who find themselves by design or destiny, to be outside maninstream British Society. Today he talks to hermit, Rachel Denton, in her home in Lincolnshire.
OnetoOne: 220113 Martin Wainwright talks to Malcolm Bowden Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:30:00 +0000 (6.5 Mb) Malcolm Bowden is a creationist and holds many other views that are contrary to mainstream thinking. He sees it as his duty to keep promoting his beliefs.
OnetoOne: 150113 Martin Wainwright talks to Paul Lambert Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:30:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) Paul Lambert lost his youngest brother in 1980, when the bulk carrier MV Derbyshire sank in a typhoon off Japan. He has campaigned tirelessly for safety for bulk carriers ever since.
OnetoOne: 080113 Martin Wainwright talks to Lindis Percy Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:30:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) Peace Campaigner Lindis Percy has been arrested over five hundred and times in pursuit of her course. Now a grandmother she plans never to give up but to hand the baton on to the next generation.
OnetoOne: Olivia O'Leary talks to Mick Fitzgerald Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) Olivia O'Leary talks to former jockey, Mick Fitzgerald.
OnetoOne: Olivia O'Leary talks to author, John Banville Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) Olivia O'Leary talks to Booker Prize winning author, John Banville.
OnetoOne: Olivia O'Leary talks to Vladimir Ashkenazy Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) In a new series of One to One, Olivia O'Leary speaks to people who've reached the peak of their careers about how growing older affects their approach to work.
In this first programme, Olivia speaks to one of her heroes - the great Russian-Icelandic pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy. He left the Soviet union in the sixties, and has played a vast repertoire of the greatest piano music on stages all over the world. Ashkenazy is now conductor laureate with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
OnetoOne: 161012 Fear 2 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Kate Silverton explores how our fear of failure can limit life choices and talks to businesswoman, Kate Hardcastle.
OnetoOne: 091012 Fear Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:10:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Kate Silverton talks to Composer Raymond Yiu about how fear of failure can impact on the choices we make
OnetoOne: Sarfraz Manzoor speaks to Elizabeth Wurtzel Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Over the course of three interviews the journalist Sarfraz Manzoor has been exploring the risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it public, something he’s done in a memoir, and throughout his journalism. This week he meets Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of what was considered to be the first ever misery memoir, 'Prozac Nation'.
OnetoOne: Sarfraz Manzoor meets Liz Jones Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Sarfraz Manzoor explores the risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it public. This is something he's done in his book ' Greetings from Bury Park' and within his journalism where he's written - amongst other topics - about his mixed-marriage and the experience of being a new father. He's intrigued by both the process and the ramifications of revealing private thoughts and experiences.
As he prepares to adapt his memoir into a screenplay, Sarfraz speaks to others who have mined their own lives for creative purposes. This week he meets the best known of all the confessional columnists, Liz Jones, from The Mail on Sunday's 'You' Magazine
OnetoOne: Sarfraz Manzoor meets author Judith Kerr Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.5 Mb) Journalist and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor explores the risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it public. This is something he's done in his book 'Greetings from Bury Park' and within his journalism where he's written - amongst other topics - about his mixed-marriage and the experience of being a new father. He's intrigued by both the process and the ramifications of revealing private thoughts and experiences. This week he is in conversation with children's author, Judith Kerr, whose famous children's book 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' was based on her own experience of escaping the Nazis in the 1930s
OnetoOne: Paddy O'Connell speaks to Lisa Cherry Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Paddy meets Lisa Cherry, whose childhood was spent in the Care System.
OnetoOne: Paddy O'Connell speaks to Sir Al Aynsley-Green Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Paddy O'Connell has taken over the One to One interviewer's microphone to explore a subject that reflects his own experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family life.
When Paddy was 11 his father died, and in this week's programme -- in order to explore what impact this can have -- he meets Sir Al Aynsley-Green who, at the age of 10, lost his own father. Almost immediately he decided that, when he grew up, he would become a doctor so that other children "didn't have to lose their mummies and daddies".
OnetoOne: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:30:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Paddy O’Connell has taken over the One to One interviewer’s microphone to explore a subject which reflects his own experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family life. Paddy lost his father when he was 11, and he was raised by his mother, a widow. In this programme he meets Chantal, a widow who was left to bring up three children when her husband died suddenly in 1995.
OnetoOne: 21/08/2012 Razia Iqbal talks to Sonia Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Razia speaks to 'Sonia', a French Muslim, about the discrimination she's faced since wearing a muslim headscarf.
OnetoOne:14/8/12 Razia Iqbal talks to Hilal Sezgin Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:46:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Razia Iqbal talks to the German journalist and writer, Hilal Sezgin about what it means to be a European Muslim post 9/11.
OnetoOne:7/8/12 Razia Iqbal talks to Hanif Qadir Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:30:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Razia Iqbal talks to Hanif Qadir about what it means to a Muslim in Europe post 2012.
OnetoOne:12/06/12 Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Charles Hanson Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Mary Ann Sieghart concludes her series of interviews with people who have taken someone else's life, by talking to Charles Hanson, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife.
One to One:05/06/12 Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Andrew Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Mary Ann Sieghart continues her series of interviews with people who have taken another life, by talking to Andrew, who killed a young mother in a driving accident.
OnetoOne:29 May 12 Mary Ann Sieghart: Chantelle Taylor Tue, 29 May 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Mary Ann Sieghart explores what it means to take another person's life. In this first programme in the series she talks to Chantelle Taylor, the first know British female soldier to kill in combat.
One to One: 22 May 12: Fi Glover talks to Tom Allason Tue, 22 May 2012 10:00:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Fi Glover continues to talk to the start up entrepreneurs of Silicon Roundabout in Hackney, London. Here she meets Tom Allason.
OnetoOne:15 Apr 2012 Fi Glover talks to Alice Taylor Tue, 15 May 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Fi Glover talks to the tech start up entrepreneur, Alice Taylor.
One to One:08 May 12: Fi Glover talks to Dan Crowe Tue, 08 May 2012 10:00:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Fi Glover talks to the start up entrepreneurs of Silicon Roundabout in Hackney, London. Here she meets Dan Crowe, a veteran of Silicon Valley.
OnetoOne: Samira Ahmed talks to the actor Murray Melvin Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:45:00 +0100 (6.5 Mb) In today’s One to One, Samira Ahmed speaks to Murray Melvin, best known for his role alongside Rita Tushingham in the controversial, ground-breaking film, A Taste of Honey.
OnetoOne: 20 03 12: Samira Ahmed meets Konstanty Gebert Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) Samira Ahmed meets Konstanty Gebert one of Poland's best-known and most respected journalists. During Poland's Communist dictatorship, he operated underground; laboriously hand-printing documents which were secretly distributed; avoiding the police who would constantly follow his movements. In One to One he recalls those years, and describes what it was like when he and his colleagues were eventually able to join a free press. He makes comparisons with journalists in Arab spring countries, and discusses what they could possibly glean from his experiences.
OnetoOne: 13 02 12: Samira Ahmed talks to Lucy Mathen Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) The journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed is taking over the One to One interviewer's microphone for the next three weeks.
Her first guest (former Newsround presenter, turned opthalmologist)
Lucy Mathen, tells a tale of charitable endeavour, with a surprising twist.
OnetoOne: 6-03-2012: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown talk to Megan Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.4 Mb) For personal reasons, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, has chosen to explore the impact of divorce on families. This week she speaks to Megan, a young woman whose parents split-up when she was six years old.
OnetoOne: 28.2.12 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown talks to Louis de Bernieres Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) For personal reasons, the journalist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, has chosen to explore the impact of family breakdown for 'One to One'.
Yasmin divorced over twenty years ago, and - although happily re-married - often contemplates the fall-out of divorce, and the resulting emotional ripples which inevitably reach further than the separating couple. In these programmes she's hearing the stories of a grandparent, a parent and a young person who have all lived through a family break-up.
Last week Yasmin spoke to a grandmother who hasn't seen her granddaughter for four years, and this week she speaks to the author Louis de Bernieres. He talks from the position he holds as patron of the charity Families Need Fathers, but also from the very personal point of view of a father of two children, who has now separated from their mother.
OnetoOne: 21.2.12 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown talks to a grandmother who hasn't seen her grandchild for years. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) The journalist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has chosen, for personal reasons, to explore the impact of divorce on families.
Yasmin divorced over twenty years ago, and - although happily re-married - often contemplates the fall-out of divorce, and the resulting emotional ripples which reach further than the separating couple. Over three editions of One to One, she's hearing the stories of a grandparent, a parent and a young person who have all lived through a family break-up
In this, the first programme, she speaks to Jane, a grandparent who hasn't seen her 11 year old granddaughter for four years. When her son divorced he maintained a relationship with his ex-wife which allowed contact with his daughter - Jane's granddaughter. But eventually that contact was withdrawn, resulting in what Jane describes as a living bereavement.
OnetoOne: 14 Feb 12 Dianna Bowles Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) Bridget Kendall talks to plant biochemist, Prof Dianna Bowles about her second string.
One to One: 07 Feb 12 Alexander McCall Smith Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) Bridget Kendall talks to author Alexander McCall Smith.
OnetoOne: 27th December 2011 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) Bridget Kendall talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams about Doestoyevsky.
OnetoOne: 20 Dec 11: Sir Peter Moores Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) Lucy Kellaway talks to Sir Peter Moores about the complexities of having considerable personal wealth.
OnetoOne:13 Dec 11: Jeremy Middlton Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) Lucy Kellaway talks to entrpreneur Jeremy Middleton about the complexities of having considerable personal wealth.
OnetoOne: 6/12/11 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) Lucy Kellaway explores the complexities of being personally wealthy by talking to those who've made the rich list. For Anne money has brought some deep soul searching.
OnetoOne: 29 Nov 11 Elliot Castro Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) Evan Davis talks to Elliot Castro whose relationship with the truth landed him in jail.
OnetoOne: 22 Nov 11 Steve Henry Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:46:00 +0000 (6.5 Mb) Evan Davis pursues his exploration of deception by talking to those who have cause to be economical with the truth. He talks to ad man Steve Henry
OnetoOne: 15 Nov 11 Penny Gadd Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.6 Mb) Evan Davis talks to transexual, Penny Gadd about how she chose to be economical with the truth in her dealings with those close to her and herself.
OnetoOne: 08 Nov 11 Rob George Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) Evan Davis talks to Prof Rob George, consultant in palliative care, about when he needs to be economical with the truth.
OnetoOne: 01 Nov 11: Rangina Hamidi Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000 (6.7 Mb) In a moving interview, Lyse Doucet speaks to Rangina Hamidi, an Afghan woman whose father - The Mayor of Kandahar - was recently killed in a suicide bomb blast.
OnetoOne: Nader Nadery Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:06:00 +0100 (6.7 Mb) Wearing a wrist-watch bearing the image of Gandhi, and citing Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Nader Nadery is working for peace and human rights in Afghanistan. In his 30s, he has never known his country at peace. At the age of 8 his primary school was destroyed by the Mujahideen, in his twenties he was arrested and tortured by the Taliban. He could escape.. he could live in the Netherlands or Germany or the UK… but he has chosen to remain – at great personal risk – and remains optimisitic about the future of Afghanistan. Lyse Doucet in conversation.
OnetoOne: 18 Oct 11: Saad Mohseni Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:32:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Lyse Doucet speaks to Saad Mohseni who has become known as Afghanistan's answer to Rupert Murdoch. Until recently he would have accepted that as a huge compliment, perhaps no longer. But, either way, Mohseni is a big player. Running his media empire out of offices in Dubai and Kabul, he's revolutionised TV and Radio broadcasting in Afghanistan by
introducing local versions of international hits like Afghan Star (a singing competition in the X-Factor mould) and controversial radio programmes where male and female broadcasters are in studio together.
OnetoOne: 11 Oct 11: Masood Khalili Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:03:00 +0100 (6.6 Mb) Lyse Doucet talks to Masood Khalili, Afghanistan's Ambassador to Spain and the only survivor of an Al Quaeda bomb attack on September 9th 2001 in Takhar.