Proverbs with Daisy Maskell

Jess Buchanan was working as an aid worker in the Eastern horn of Africa when, in October 2011, her and her colleague Poul Hagen Thisted were kidnapped by Somali pirates. By the time she and her colleague were kidnapped by the US Navy's SEAL Team Six, she had been kept as a hostage for 93 days whilst negotiations for millions of pounds in ransom ultimately failed. Daisy Maskell sits down with Jess...

On July 20th 2020, 18 year old Grant Solomon was tragically killed in an unexplained accident in Gallatin, Tennessee. His father Aaron - who had a history of alleged assault against his mother Angie and his sister Gracie - was the only witness. The evidence didn't match Aaron's police report, but despite this the case was closed without investigation. It was later uncovered that Grant was planning...

Anna & Jonathan Saccone Joly have racked up over 8M followers across their numerous social media platforms; they have spent the past decade raising their family in front of the world. However, in recent years, they have faced intense scrutiny and divided the internet on issues such as the posting of videos of their young children and documenting their trans daughter's journey. Daisy Maskell si...

Travis Frain is one of a few (although, sadly, a growing number of) people who can say that they have survived a terrorist attack. When he was 19 years old, on a university trip to London, he was attacked on Westminster Bridge in an attack which injured more than 50 people, killing four. The attacker mounted the pavement, driving his van into pedestrians before crashing his car into the fence of t...

February 14th 2018 is the day that everything changed for Aalayah Eastmond. Whilst in her Holocaust History class at High School (the now infamous Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida), what she first thought was a prank turned out to be her worst nightmare as a shooter had breached campus. Minutes after first hearing gunshots, her classroom became a target for the shooter. Wi...

Hippos are amongst the deadliest animals in the world, and few know the risk better than Paul Templer. Whilst leading a safari along the Zambezi River in Africa, Paul was attacked multiple times by a hippo - including being swallowed, head first, up to his waist. His colleague, Evans Namasango, died during the attack. The fact that Templer survived is remarkable in itself; that he later canoed the...

Timothy Cho was born in North Korea and by the age of 17 he knew that he had to get out - but doing so could have deadly consequences. Growing up, his parents had fled, leaving him behind to a life on the streets as an enemy of the state. After his first failed attempt resulted in his incarceration in a North Korean prisoner camp, Cho successfully made it to Shanghai and then onto the UK. Cho's st...

On January 13th 2012, Ian Donoff was just days into his honeymoon when his life (and that of thousands of others on-board the now infamous Costa Concordia) was put at risk. Having struck a rock near the coast of Isola del Giglio in the Mediterranean, the cruise ship he was holidaying on started tilting... eventually tilting 70 degrees and cutting power from the engines. His survival story is as in...

In 2014, at the height of the ISIS reign of terror, Tareena Shakil travelled to Turkey before fleeing, on foot, to Syria. The decision culminated years of turmoil, and months of online grooming, for the "Towie Jihadi" as the newspapers named her, who later became the first British woman to be jailed for joining the terrorist caliphate. How and why did a girl from Birmingham, aware of the atrocitie...

What would you do if you were falsely accused of kidnapping a loved one? That is Chad Hower (also known as Kudzu)'s story. He has been "in hiding" in the Caribbean and wanted by the FBI and Interpol for 16 years for allegedly kidnapping his son in a dispute with his ex-wife, with his son being listed by Missing People for the majority of that time. Armed with evidence in his defence, Kudzu is tryi...

Dimple Thakrar is one of the world's leading life coaches and an expert in all things manifestation. She claims that manifestation has not just helped her and her clients achieve life-changing accomplishments, but that it also saved her from losing the love of her life. Dimple has been featured on the BBC, The Times, Huffington Post and more. Her book "The Roadmap to Purpose" is out now: https://w...

Anthony Broadwater serviced 16 years in prison for a crime he did not commit - the brutal rape of best-selling author Alice Sebold. After he was released from prison in 1998, he then spent another 23 years as a registered sex offender. On Monday November 22nd 2021, a New York State Supreme Court judge vacated Anthony's conviction, thanks to the work of film producer Timothy Mucciante, who after wo...

Encina Severa has lived with dissociative identity disorder (known as 'DID') for her entire life, with eleven alter personalities that were formed as a coping mechanism in response to childhood trauma. DID (previously known as multiple personality disorder) is a complex medical disorder where a person presents multiple distinct personalities, which can display in their voice, physical body languag...

Tabby Chapman is a survivor of the NXIVM cult, an American cult that has been exposed as engaging in trafficking, forced labour and racketeering. The cult advertised itself as a self-help development service whilst recruiting women for a secret society called "DOS" in which women were abused. In early 2018, NXIVM's founder, Keith Raniere, and his associate, actress Allison Mack, were arrested and...

Did you know you could learn to be psychic? That's what Emily Lewis - also known as Emily The Mystic - specialises in, helping normal people tap into their natural psychic gifts. The 27 year-old old psychic from Philadelphia had a strong interest in mysticism from a young age, but it wasn't until she grew older that she discovered tools that would enable her to connect with the deceased and read i...

For over 10 years, Julie McFadden has worked as a nurse - first working in Intensive Care Units and, more recently, working in end-of-life care (also known as palliative care) in hospices, where her role is to ensure that patients have the most comfortable end to their life. Using the pseudonym "Hospice Nurse Julie", Julie has taken to TikTok and Instagram over the past year, racking up nearly 1M...

For nearly 20 years, Angel Long has been one of the UK's most loved porn stars, more recently also moving into directing and producing adult films. She's worked for all the major franchises and her videos have been seen millions of times. More recently, Angel has launched her own podcast, The Angel Long Podcast , available on all podcast platforms. In this interview, Daisy speaks to Angel about th...

Just days after his 18th birthday, Jesse Crosson was sentenced to 32 years - twice the maximum of sentencing guidelines - after having been convicted of robbery and unlawful wounding. He was released on a pardon in 2021 after having served 19 years behind bars, some of which were spent sharing a cell with a serial killer. After his release, Jesse took to TikTok to share his story and to advocate f...

Theresa Cheung is an expert of all things spirituality, dreams and the paranormal having received a Masters degree from Kings College Cambridge in Theology and English and having released several international bestselling books, including two Sunday Times top 10 bestsellers. Her Dream Dictionary from A to Z (Harper Collins) regularly bounces to Number 1 in its Amazon category and is regarded as a...

Nick Pope is a British journalist and former civil servant. From 1985 to 2006, he worked at the British Government's Ministry of Defence; from 1991 working in Secretariat (Air Staff) Sec (AS) 2a more commonly known as the "UFO desk", where his duties included investigating reports of UFO sightings, to see if they had any defence significance. In 2016, upon leaving the Ministry of Defence, Nick Pop...

Gabby Garcia was born a conjoined twin; at 8 months old went under highly risky surgery to separate her from her twin, Kayla. 13 years later, the mesh that was used to separate them caused complications - resulting in Kayla's death, just one day after Gabby had been cleared to leave hospital herself. Gabby now dedicates her time to sharing and educating others about the risk surgery she went under...

Chris Lemons has been a deep sea diver for over 14 years, but a freak accident in 2012 nearly cut things short. His umbilical cord providing him with breathing gas, light and heat being severed - leaving him on the dark sea bed alone with only 3 or 4 minutes of emergency gas to keep him alive. It took his heroic rescuers over 40 minutes to come back and fetch him and his miraculous survival story...

Proverbs is a podcast all about extraordinary people and extraordinary stories. TV and radio host Daisy Maskell sits down with guests - from those who have had near-death experiences to UFO encounters, decades spent in prison and more - for a conversation to explore how their past has impacted their mantra for life. Daisy Maskell hosts the KISS Fresh Breakfast Show every morning and fronts the BBC...