Welcome to another Best Of Before the Lights. We’ve got some great guests lined up but before those new episodes come out there’s time to dive into the podcast archives and re-live some of our favourite moments.

For this batch of highlights we’ve picked out some moments when the world of sport has collided with film and TV; from getting ready to play world famous athletes, to helping Will Ferrell take the piss out of motorsport we’ve covered quite a lot of sporting ground on the show.

Join Olivia Cooke, Craig Roberts, Kaya Scodelario, Harris Dickinson and NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson to take you on a rollercoaster of sporting triumph and failure on and off set.

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Welcome back to another special episode of Before the Lights, where we look back on some of our favourite moments from the show over the last four series. 

This time, we’re focussing on something we come across a lot in our line of work; injuries on set.

We could have made this episode about three days long but we've cherry-picked stories about wild allergic reactions, rupturing spleens on Holby City and how it's possible to sprain your ankle when you're not even moving from Paapa Essiedu, Sophie Cookson, Jonah Hauer-King and Ed Bluemel.

There are almost 50 episodes to go back through if you any those stories have peaked your interest. We’ll be back with new guests soon.

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After three years, almost 50 episodes and more and more people finding our show, we thought it was a good time to take a look back at some of the highlights over the last four series of Before The Lights and uncover some hidden gems you might have missed along the way.

We're starting our dive into the archives with some of incredible, and at times slightly worrying, stories about nightmare auditions with help from a sweaty post-cycle James Norton, the panicked screams of Sacha Dhawan, Izzy Laughland's impromptu dance and a wardrobe mishap for the ages courtesy of Henry Aston.

We'll be back soon with more highlights, but in the meantime if any of these titbits have caught your attention then feel free to take a scroll through our feed for SO many more.

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Sometimes we say "this episode covered some serious ground", but this chat with Gwyneth Keyworth (Death Valley, Lost Boys & Fairies) might just have covered the MOST ground, or at least the entirety of Wales.

From her career start iin Aberystwyth to why she's always two minutes late and early (and continuing) ambitions of being a vampire there really is something for everyone in this conversation, including the undead.

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A Before The Lights podcast alumni returns as Olivia Cooke joins us for a catch up about life on set and stressful house renovations.

Olivia Cooke makes her second appearance on the podcast for a catch up about life on the set of Game of Thrones spin-off House Of The Dragon, keeping healthy in down time and stressful house renovations.

The British actor discusses her relationship with body image, the challenges of staying physically and mentally fit during rigorous press tours and what happens when “Rihanna comes calling” with a Savage X Fenty modelling job.

She also looks at how the culture of looking after cast and crew on set is “getting much healthier” in the film world with the introductions of roles like intimacy coordinators but that there are still certain elements that need attention to stop actors “hyper-fixating on how we look”.

There is also of COURSE time for Olivia to tell us about stacking it in public, which left her foot looking “like it was pulled out The Thames”.

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We welcome our first musician of the series in the form of producer, singer-songwriter and all round bloody lively guy SG Lewis.

He joins Dave, George and his actual brother and Before the Lights trainer Josh Lewis for a deep dive into his career so far and where he's heading next.

Along the way they discuss the highs and lows of life in music and the journey he's been on mentally and physically to balance the extremes of life on the road.

Expect home truths, inspirational teachers and stories about falling off stage in front of thousands of people.

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You might know Siobhán McSweeney from Derry Girls, The Great Pottery Throw Down, Amandaland, Ru Paul's Drag Race or (soon) Traitors Ireland... Basically, she's bloody everywhere and now she's added the Before The Lights podcast to that illustrious list of career highlights.

In this discussion about her time on and off screen Siobhán explores her route to success, being "so proud" of herself after recovering from a life-changing injury and entertainment's role in creating stereotypes of who "is allowed to be in love" on screen.

She tells us about the cast of Derry Girls had "no idea" the show would be such a big success, and absolutely NOTHING about the upcoming series of Traitors Ireland.

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Ever wanted to know how to convincingly walk backwards for your role in a Christopher Nolan blockbuster? Of course you have.

Then look no further than our conversation with Tenet, Yesterday and Don't Look Up actor Himesh Patel for that incredibly niche advice and so much more wisdom from a career which started as a teenager in EastEnders.

We discuss his journey from soaps to Hollywood, his hopes that more actors can follow the same route and how it feels to practice being hit by a bus.

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We take a detour from our usual world of film and TV to welcome a NASCAR legend (a term he's still getting used to) Jimmie Johnson to the show.

Along the way we discuss how he kept a winning mindset to become one of the sport's all-time greats, life after full-time racing and how an elite American athlete ended up in a gym full of actors in London.

He also talks us through his brief run-in with Hollywood and his work with Will Ferrell on the NASCAR parody Talladega Nights.

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This week we welcome British broadcasting legend (our words not his) Greg James to the show to discuss his relationship with health, wrecking balls and not taking life too seriously.

Greg looks back at an early - and continuing - fascination with Micheal Palin which got him into running and how a new-found enjoyment of exercise has helped him in pretty much every aspect of his life.

He also explores his career at Radio One, being honest and open with your audience and his admiration for people like Paul Mescal who make it clear that we can't, and more importantly shouldn't, all look like superheroes.

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