Radio Times Podcast

To launch series five of the Radio Times Podcast, host Kelly-Anne Taylor is joined by the double-Bafta winning TV chef Big Zuu. Born Zuhair Hassan to a mother from Sierra Leone and a dad from Lebanon, he grew up on the Mozart Estate in West London. He started cooking aged nine to, as he says, ‘help around the house’ when his mother fell pregnant with his younger brother. It was whilst he was study...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week Follow our hosts on Twitter (@KA1_Taylor and @FrostReporter) and Instagram (@kellyannect and @frostreporter)  You can get in touch with our hosts on either their soical media, or via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  ....

Join us on the Radio Times Sofa every Tuesday, where we’ll be sitting down with celebrity guests to talk all things telly. What’s the view from their sofa? What do they watch? And who do they watch with? Kicking off our series we have the double-Bafta winning TV chef Big Zuu – which will be available on the 31st Oct. Don’t forget to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad cho...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week Follow our hosts on Twitter (@KA1_Taylor and @FrostReporter) and Instagram (@kellyannect and @frostreporter)  You can get in touch with our hosts on either their soical media, or via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  ....

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week Follow our hosts on Twitter (@KA1_Taylor and @FrostReporter) and Instagram (@kellyannect and @frostreporter)  You can get in touch with our hosts on either their soical media, or via email (podcast@radiotimes.com) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode.  SH...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week SHOW NOTES: TV: The Reckoning, BBC One Payback, ITV Lessons in Chemistry, Apple TV+ Big Brother, ITV Big Little Journeys, BBC2 FILM: Licorice Pizza, BBC2 FROM THE ARCHIVE: Gosford Park, Amazon Freevee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week SHOW NOTES: TV: Partygate, Channel 4  Portrait Artist of the Decade, Sky Arts Beckham, Netflix  The Deepest Breath, Netflix RADIO: Young Again – Kirsty Young, Radio 4 FILM: Ali and Ava, BBC2 FROM THE ARCHIVE: The West Wing, Channel4.com The Thick of It, BBC iPlayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week SHOW NOTES: TV: Long Shadow, ITV Delhi Crime, Netflix  Black Snow, BBC4 and Amazon Prime Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons, Netflix  Who Killed Jill Dando, Netflix FILM: Woman King, Now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For our series finale Kelly-Anne Taylor is joined by the restaurant critic and MasterChef regular, Grace Dent. Grace is the host of the chart-topping podcast Comfort Eating – in which she invites celebrity guests to talk about their lives through the prism of food. Now, she gifts us a book – Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody’s Watching – which as well as talking about everyone’s favourite fo...

Caroline Frost chats to David Brown about the best things coming up on the box this week SHOW NOTES: TV Strictly, BBC Neighbours, Amazon Freevee It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Netflix Chris Packham: is it Time to Break the Law?, C4 The Super Models, Apple TV+   FROM THE ARCHIVE Frasier, C4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s guest is one of the QI Elves behind the hit podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish – it is Dan Schreiber! In this episode Dan sits down with Kelly-Anne Taylor to discuss how he broke into the TV industry and why he moved to London at 19 after receiving a letter from Richard Curtis. Plus, they speak about being starstruck, encouraging your inner weirdo and why it’s good to be in the wrong pla...

Caroline Frost chats to David Brown about the best things coming up on the box this week SHOW NOTES: TV Wilderness, Amazon Prime Living Next Door to Putin, BBC1 Celebrity Race across the World, BBC1 Your Mum, My Dad, ITV1 The Royle Family: Down the Back of the Sofa, Gold   FROM THE ARCHIVE The X-Files, Disney + Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joining Kelly-Anne Taylor in the studio this week, is the author and journalist, Caroline O’Donoghue. In 2018, Caroline launched the podcast Sentimental Garbage – with the tagline, Justice for dumb women. What started out as a chick-lit podcast – grew into a podcast that celebrated guilty pleasures – deep-diving, unpicking, examining everything from Gilmore Girls to Little Women to Taylor Swift. I...

Caroline Frost chats to David Brown about the best things coming up on the box this week. SHOW NOTES: TV Love & Death, ITVX Top Boy, Netflix Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, BBC Two Martin Clunes and Mel Giedroyc Explore Britain by the Book, ITV RADIO The Reunion, Radio 4 FROM THE ARCHIVE Thunderbirds, Talking Pictures TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s guest is Capital Breakfast’s radio host, Roman Kemp. Breaking intro broadcast aged 21, he has forged an intimate relationship with listeners – often thanks to his oversharing and unfiltered conversation! In this episode, he discusses growing up as the ‘famous kid’ (his dad is Spandau Ballet singer Martin Kemp and his mother is Shirlie Holliman) and what his upbringing taught him about...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week. Show notes:  David Hockney: A Celebration, Sky Arts Starstruck, BBC3,  The Woman in the Wall, BBC1 Midsomer Murders, ITV1 Madonna Night, BBC2   Film of the week:  She Said, Now Radio Recommendation:  This Cultural Life, Radio 4   From the archive:  Parkinson at 50, BBC iPlayer   Learn more about your ad...

This week’s guest is the comedian, Rose Matafeo. Having made a name for herself on the UK comedy scene, she has successfully turned her hand to television. She writes and stars in the BBC rom-com series Starstruck which follows a young woman named Jessie who has a one-night stand with a celebrity. In this episode she talks to Kelly-Anne Taylor about gender parity in comedy, how she managed to brea...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week Show notes: Women’s World Cup Final, BBC1 The Reunion, ITVX Star Wars: Ahsoka, Disney+ Tommy Jessop Goes To Hollywood, BBC1 London Bridge: Facing Terror, C4 Film of the Week: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Paramount+ and Channel 4 Streaming Service From the Archive: Hornblower, ITVX The Last of Us, Now Le...

This week Kelly-Anne Taylor is joined by Sky’s special correspondent, Alex Crawford. They discuss Alex’s 30-year broadcast career – over the course of which, she has reported from Myanmar’s Rakhine State and was the first journalist in Tripoli after rebel forces took over the Libyan Capital. Plus, how growing up in Zimbabwe primed Alex for a career in foreign correspondence, why certain stories ar...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week Show notes: Sandition, ITVX The Ipcress File, ITV1 Oppenheimer (Documentary), BBC4 Henpocalypse!, BBC2 Archive on 4: Growing up with Madonna, Radio 4 Film of the Week: Ammonite, BBC2 From the Archive: Hullraisers, Channel 4 Catch-Up Middlemarch, BBCiPlayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

This week’s guest is a hallmark of British TV – it’s national treasure, David Tennant. He sits down with Kelly-Anne Taylor to talk about his first TV memory – watching Doctor Who, and witnessing Jon Pertwee turn into Tom Baker – and how he can’t wrap his head around how things ultimately panned out. Plus, we talk about Good Omens, Christianity and why Michael Sheen isn’t the ying to David’s yang....

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week Show notes: Annika, Alibi This Cultural Life: Sally Wainwright, BBC4 Alone, C4 Only Murders in the Building, Disney+ Drops of God, Apple TV  Radio Recommendation: Stirring It Up Podcast Film of the Week: The Worst Person in the World, C4 From the Archive: Silent Witness, BBC iPlayer Learn more about your...

This week’s guests are the mother-daughter duo dominating the broadcast world, Andi and Miquita Oliver. We discuss their broadcast careers, why both of them needed to take a step away from the industry, why if your dreams don’t scare you they are not big enough – and how despite having a challenging relationship with food in the past, it has become the backbone of their success. Learn more about y...

Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week Show notes: Sixth Commandment, BBC iPlayer Wolf, BBC One Heartstopper, Netflix The Kitchen Cabinet, Radio Four Our Guy in Colombia (Guy Martin), C4 Blur Night, BBC Two A Bit of Fry and Laurie, BBC Two   Film of the Week: The Silent Twins, NOW From the Archive: Appropriate Adult, ITVX Learn more about you...

This week, joining Kelly-Anne Taylor, on the Radio Times sofa, is the comedian who has been a staple on our televisions for almost two decades – Jack Whitehall. He broke into telly, aged 19, while presenting E4’s Big Brother’s Big Mouth – but he soon became a household name as a panellist on the likes of Would I Lie To You, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Mock the Week. His stand-up career has been glistenin...