Polly Toynbee
17 August 2023 - 1 hour 2 minsWhen Polly Toynbee arrived at The Observer in the late 1960s, she quickly concluded that she'd make a poor news reporter. Hailing from a long line of well-heeled and highly educated liberals and social reformers, Polly surmised that she didn't know enough about the country she'd grown up in. Since then, Polly has worked in factories, hospitals and care homes, shedding light on the nature of work and class. Now regarded as one of the country’s best journalists, her latest book, An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals tracks her genealogy and takes a deep dive into what it means to be privileged in Britain.
Series Episodes
Alexander Armstrong: My default setting is fear- I expect the worst of people
53 mins
17 October Finished
Jack Thorne: “I was allergic to moving - the doctor said, ‘This might be forever.’”
explicit1 hour 6 mins
10 October Finished
Jamie Oliver: “I’d gone from being skint to having a lot of money, I felt like a fake.”
1 hour 3 mins
3 October Finished
Leo Varadkar: Former Prime Minister of Ireland on Power and Letting Go
1 hour 5 mins
26 September Finished
Dr Richard Shepherd: Lessons from 23,000 Postmortems- including Hungerford, Hillsborough and Princess Diana
1 hour 1 min
19 September Finished
