Where Did It All Go Right?

S6E3 - Bill Laurance - Composer & Snarky Puppy Pianist

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to composer, collaborator and Grammy award-winning pianist Bill Laurance. 

Bill is a classically-trained multi-instrumental (whoa) musician, a member of the renowned jazz fusion and funk band Snarky Puppy, and CEO of London-based record label Flint Music.

Bill tells Ali why his mates got banned from his first ever gig in an Italian, how much he loves reggae, and why no one took his photo at the Grammy's.

S6E2 - Kiran Millwood Hargrave - Author, Playwright, Poet

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to author, playwright and poet, Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Kiran is best known for her award-winning children's fiction which includes her debut novel The Girl of Ink & Stars, Leila and the Blue Fox and The Island At The End of Everything. Her debut book for adults, The Mercies, was subject to a 13-way auction and called ‘unquestionably the book of the 2018 London Book Fair’ by The Bookseller.

Kiran tells Ali how she's received the best and worst news on trains, how she knows when an idea is a winner, and why burnout is a real thing.

S6E1 - Jason Bell - Former NFL Player & Broadcaster

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to broadcaster and former NFL player, Jason Bell. Jason was a cornerback in the NFL league for the Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans and New York Giants. He’s also a wealth management professional who has been hailed as one of the top footballers on Wall Street by Business Insider. These days, Jason also presents the NFL Show and the Jason and Osi Podcast. Casual.

Jason tells Ali why good people are at the heart of whatever he does, and why Strictly Come Dancing was one of the scariest things he’s ever done.

S5E6 - Helen Glover - Rower

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to British rower, Helen Glover MBE. Ranked the world's top female rower in 2015-2016, Helen is a double Olympic champion, three-times world champion, and easily one of the most decorated athletes in the GB Rowing Team. She's also a mum and co-author of a new book with her husband Steve Backshall - Wildlings.

Helen tells Ali how she made the GB Team despite missing a couple of inches in height, why she nearly said no to her biggest break, and how she got to Tokyo from her living room in lockdown.

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S5E5 - Dr Waheed Arian - Doctor & WHO Expert

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to a British doctor and radiologist, Dr Waheed Arian. Waheed was born in Afghanistan, lived as a refugee in Pakistan, and is the founder of telemedicine charity Arian Teleheal which links up local doctors in warzones with medical experts around the world.

Waheed tells Ali how his own tuberculosis diagnosis as a kid led him to becoming a doctor, why we should ignore the odds, and why he once couldn't believe people talk about washing their dogs.

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S5E4 - Tim Dunn - Railway Historian & TV Presenter

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to British railway historian, travel editor & TV presenter Tim Dunn. 

Tim tells Ali about the teacher who he'll never forget, how he found his niche and why he wants Britain to fall back in love with our railways.

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S5E3 - Kit de Waal - Novelist

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to writer Kit de Waal, whose bestselling novel My Name Is Leon is behind the recent BBC feature film of the same name. 

Kit tells Ali how she always hated reading as a kid, never entertained being a writer until she was in her mid-forties (after a career as a magistrate), and why she thinks it's important for everyone to find that thing that makes us feel alive - whether it's singing or flower arranging.

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S5E2 -Dina Litovsky - Photographer

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to documentary photographer Dina Litovsky. Born in Ukraine, Dina is based in the States and describes her photography as visual sociology. Her work has been featured in the likes of the New York Times, National Geographic, Time Magazine and The Atlantic.

Dina explains how she can be cool as a cucumber photographing Jake Gyllenhaal, why she religiously listens to two hours of music a day and how she confronts her own prejudices through photography.

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S5E1 - Dan Gillespie Sells - Singer-Songwriter

Ali Jones is back talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to singer-songwriter Dan Gillespie Sells. Dan is best known as the frontman of The Feeling but is also the musical mind behind the BAFTA nominated Everybody's Talking About Jamie .

 

Dan talks to Ali about how far he's come from playing piano in his dad's living room, the importance of surrounding yourself with people who push you, and how The Feeling boys have remained his musical family in many guises.

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S4 Episode 6 - Weruche Opia - Actress - Terry in I May Destroy You

Ali Jones is back talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to Nigerian-born actress Weruche Opia. Weruche stars as Terry in Michaela Coel's hit drama I May Destroy You, for which she has won the UK Entertainment Award for Best Actress. She's  been named as one of the Best Performances of 2020 by The New York Times and one of the Best Breakthrough Performances of 2020 by IndieWire. Weruche has also starred in Bad Education, Top Boy and on stage in The Royal Court's Liberian Girl. This WDIAGR episode is sponsored by Pearson.