This Life of Mine with James Corden

Kerry Washington is an Emmy award winning actor whose career is vast and varied. She’s starred on Broadway, she's been in countless movies, some our favourite movies, including Save the Last Dance, Ray, The Last King of Scotland, Django Unchained. She's instantly recognizable from playing everybody's favourite fixer, Olivia Pope on Scandal.   Kerry’s Picks: Place- Being in the water Film- Into the...

Barry Keoghan is an actor hailing from Ireland, who is surely one of the most in-demand names in the industry right now.  His work on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of A Sacred Deer introduced him onto the global stage, but it was his Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning turn in The Banshees of Inisherin that really catapulted him to fame, and the leading role in the m...

Denzel Washington is a Tony Award winner, a two time Academy Award winning actor, producer, director, and quite frankly, a Hollywood icon.  He has starred in some of the biggest movies of the past 35 years, including American Gangster, Philadelphia, The Pelican Brief, and The Equalizer Trilogy. His films have grossed over $3bn .  There's also his extensive work on the stage, including Fences, The...

Niecy Nash-Betts is an actor, TV host, author, producer, director, and kitchen beautician.    After years spent playing comedic roles in The Bernie Mac Show and Reno 911!, it was in her 40s that she finally landed the dramatic roles she’d spent years working towards, in films such as the Oscar nominated Selma, TV shows Getting On, and When They See Us.    Now in her 50s she’s really coming into he...

Kris Jenner sits at the helm of a dynasty that dominates TV, social media, fashion, skincare, Tequila, and so much more. She is one of the most successful, influential, and powerful figures in the media industry, featuring in and overseeing multiple television shows, managing the careers of five of the planet's biggest stars, and still finding time for an afternoon martini.   She's shared pretty m...

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and one of the most successful non-fiction authors of recent times. His books have sold over forty-five million copies, and fans of his work include some of the most powerful people on the planet. When he’s not writing bestsellers and influencing global conversations, he’s a history lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished R...

Brandi Carlile is a singer, song-writer, and producer, whose voice and musicianship has won her critical acclaim as well as ten Grammys. It could have been such a different story – aged four her heart stopped multiple times while she was in a coma after contracting meningitis. When she finally left hospital her family knew she was saved for a reason… Perhaps that’s why she hasn’t only used her voi...

Minnie Driver is an Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominated British actor, who first appeared on our screens in 90s classics such as Circle of Friends, Sleepers, and Good Will Hunting. She’s also an author, releasing her excellent memoir Managing Expectations in 2022, and has a podcast based on Proust’s Questionnaire called Minnie Questions, with guests including Courtney Cox, Debbie Harry, and Ci...

In the aftermath of Jeremy Renner’s horrific snow-plough accident he sits down with James to reflect on his road to recovery and the new perspective on life earned from being so close to death. In this episode the actor famous for roles in The Hurt Locker, Dahmer and playing Hawkeye in The Avengers looks back at childhood memories in Yosemite, a film which is guaranteed to improve your mood and ge...

Bryan Cranston spent the first 20 years of his career acting in commercials, TV soaps, playing guest roles on iconic shows such as Matlock, Baywatch and Seinfeld. It wasn't till his 40s when he started to see real success, when he was cast in the role of Hal on the much loved family comedy Malcolm in the Middle. But it was in his 50s that he took on the character that would raise his career to a w...

Today we’re sharing an episode from Wiser Than Me, when Julia sits down with the iconic Ina Garten.  Over the course of her 76 years, Ina has lived a few lives: she worked on nuclear policy at the White House, ran the beloved food store Barefoot Contessa, and went on to write best-selling cookbooks and host her own hit TV shows. But what’s always defined her isn’t just the food—it’s the way she br...

Today we’re sharing an episode from Fail Better with David Duchovny, featuring filmmaker and writer Judd Apatow. Together, they trace the arc of Judd’s career, from Anchorman and Bridesmaids to Superbad and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, before diving into his new visual memoir, Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures. Throughout their conversation, Judd reflects on what’s driven him al...

Michael Bublé is a five-time Grammy winning singer-songwriter. He’s become synonymous with ‘the most wonderful time of the year’, ever since his Christmas LP became one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century. A musical outsider, he has carved a path that is very much his own, one that few would have seen coming for someone who’s first career was as a commercial fisherman.   Michael’s Picks...

If you’ve seen a celebrity or a super-model’s face looking incredible at the Oscars or Met Gala, or on the cover of Vogue or Vanity Fair, the chances are that Charlotte Tilbury had a hand in it. Today she is best known as a business mogul whose eponymous makeup line has become one of the most successful luxury brands in the world and as a makeup artist she has worked with some of the world’s most...

Kim Kardashian is a pop culture phenomenon who famously has a habit of breaking the internet but she is also so much more than that. She's been named one of the hundred most powerful women in business Kim is at the helm of a multi-billion dollar corporation her ability to shape Popular culture is astounding and she continues to dream big as she takes on a second career to transform something in Am...

David Beckham is one of the planet’s best known and best loved sporting icons. His natural gift and childhood soccer obsession led him from the East End of London to global fame. He’s played for some of the world’s best clubs including Manchester United, Real Madrid, AC Milan, LA Galaxy, and Paris Saint-Germain – becoming the first English player to win league titles in four different countries. H...

Cynthia Erivo is an actor and singer who is just an Oscar away from the most prestigious of the performing accolades, an EGOT. Her achievements become even more remarkable when you learn that she only arrived in the US 9 years ago, and made her film debut in 2018. Outside of acting she’s written a children’s book, founded her own production company, and was recently appointed vice-president of pre...

Jay Shetty became a monk when he was 18, which prompted him to give up all his worldly possessions, move to a different continent, and return home three years later with a completely new outlook on life. His mission now to ‘make wisdom go viral’ has led him to become a #1 New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning podcast host of his show On Purpose, he’s the Chief Purpose Officer of the...

Mark Duplass is a writer, producer, director, actor and musician. You might know him as lead singer of the indie rock band Volcano, I’m Still Excited!!, or as one half of the Duplass Brothers, the creative power houses behind incredible indie movies such as Puffy Chair, Safety Not Guaranteed or The One I Love or perhaps from his Golden Globe & Emmy nominated turn on Apple TV’s hit series The Morni...

Joining James on this episode is a giant of the fashion world, known for transforming the fortunes of Gucci in the 90s, before setting up his own eponymous fashion brand in the 2000s. That label became hugely successful, not only financially, but also in terms of its impact on popular culture. Daniel Craig insisted on getting 007 suits made by him. Michelle Obama wore one of his designs to meet th...

Welcome to This Life of Mine.  To kick off the podcast James Corden is joined by a guest who’s been described as one of the most important cultural icons in recent American history. He first found success along with Ice Cube and Eazy E in the genre defining group N. W. A., and later experienced unparalleled success as a solo artist before becoming, without question, one of the most successful prod...

Julianne Moore is an actor who’s starred in over 80 movies. The range of her work is vast and always interesting, and includes classics like Hannibal, Magnolia, The Hunger Games, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, and Still Alice for which she won her Academy Award. In this episode of This Life of Mine, Julianne chats to James about her love of interior design, why she finds music distracting and th...

When it comes to the artists that inspire us, James Corden has always been fascinated by the stories of how they became who they are. His new podcast, This Life of Mine, digs into exactly that. Each week, James sits down with extraordinary people — Dr. Dre, Julianne Moore, David Beckham, Cynthia Erivo, Tom Ford, Anna Wintour, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, and many more — who open up in ways you’ve ne...