Dua Lipa: At Your Service

After 11 episodes featuring powerful, funny, moving, and motivational interviews with some amazing guests, I thought it might be fun to turn the microphone around on myself for a change. We recorded this episode backstage at my Cardiff Arena show, just before soundcheck.

I wanted to look back and share some of my takeaways from this series, and answer some of the great questions you’ve been kind enough to send in to [email protected]. I’m also pulling back the curtain on the recording process and sharing some behind-the-scenes goss! So join me for an episode filled with insider secrets, reflections, and the lessons I’ve learned whilst always remaining At Your Service.

Dua x

This week’s Dua Lipa: At Your Service guest is actor, musician, activist, and (very!) recent Oscar winner Riz Ahmed. Their all-encompassing conversation explores Riz’s journey from Wembley to Hollywood with detours through Afghanistan and Pakistan; the unexpected parallels for a young Muslim man between the audition room and airport security; and how he snuck a music video into the Academy Awards nominations and came out a winner.

In 2014, this week’s ‘At Your Service’ guest, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, was a young woman of 21, when at the height of the ISIS caliphate in Northern Iraq, ISIS surrounded her Yazidi community in the Sinjar region. Her brothers and mother were killed in a mass slaughter. Nadia and her sisters were abducted into sexual slavery. After she managed a remarkable and daring escape, she channeled her trauma to incredible effect, today advocating for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. She tells her story on this week’s episode, joined by her legal counsel, barrister Amal Clooney.

Trigger warning: the material in this episode is powerful and inspiring, but it can also be disturbing and quite hard to hear. If you are sensitive to content about physical and sexual violence, or if you believe that you might find the discussion to be triggering, this episode may not be right for you.

From planning their promised matching tattoos to breaking bread over their mutual love of Subway sandwiches (really), Bowen Yang and Dua Lipa have one of the funniest ‘At Your Service’ conversations yet. Touching on everything from the ‘Saturday Night Live’ star’s rise to fame to the radar he’s learning to hone when it comes to accepting new work, this week’s episode is as illuminating and warm as it is laugh-out-loud hilarious. Come for the laughs, and stay to learn how Bowen and Dua first met and bonded, as well as which up-and-coming comedians he's obsessed with right now.

In an illuminating and incredibly heartfelt conversation, Dua Lipa is joined by comedian, actor, YouTube star, and author Russell Brand, who tells all about sobriety. From asking for help to surrounding himself with a group of mentors he can turn to for wisdom, to now being a position where he too can offer guidance and resources to those in need, Russell opens up about the role that ego – the sort that a life in the public eye necessitates – can play when it comes to navigating a healthy, wholesome, and fulfilled life in the spotlight. Stay tuned for his tips to those ready to embark on the journey of sobriety, as well as his personal favourite podcasts.

Dua Lipa’s friendship with Elton John needs no explanation – look only to the charts to see how the whole world has embraced their hit 2021 single, “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)” – but listeners of this week’s At Your Service will now get a coveted seat at the table while the pair talk shop. From tales of wild nights at Studio 54, to how some of his most memorable songs and moments came about because he’d been in the “right place at the right time,” Elton has some of the most unmissable stories at his fingertips, and he’s sharing them with all of you.

This week, Dua is At Your Service with the best-selling novelist and T Magazine editor-in-chief Hanya Yanagihara, who wrote the hugely successful A Little Life in 2015, and released her third book, To Paradise, in early 2022. Dua and Hanya discuss everything from the role criticism plays (or doesn’t!) in one’s work, to the responsibility that comes with storytelling in all forms, to finding success in a field “later in life.” Hanya also reveals her favourite writers of all-time.

Listen up, Hotties! Houston’s very own Megan Thee Stallion is this week’s Dua Lipa: At Your Service guest.

With a sizzling new Megan and Dua track and music video (“The Sweetest Pie”) to discuss, they talk collaborating for the first time, as well as the importance of upending and dismantling the misogyny still rampant in hip-hop and the music industry by supporting and making space for other women.

Megan also speaks about using her platform to promote the protection of black women, and shares with listeners her favourite Houston hotspots.

On today’s episode of Dua Lipa: At Your Service, Dua is joined by British Vogue editor-in-chief and European editorial director of Condé Nast, Edward Enninful.

Throughout their wide-ranging conversation, Edward and Dua explore the media mogul’s rich fashion background, his journey to the top, the lessons he’s learned at every step of his journey, what it’s been like being “the first” (the first man, the first Black man, and the first gay man to take the reins at British Vogue) – and even his favourite fashion photographers.

Tune in for a rare peek inside the mind of one of the world’s most exciting creatives.

CL is a K-pop superstar who first started her skyrocketing career as a member of the girl group 2NE1 in 2009. Today, she joins Dua Lipa for a new episode of Dua Lipa: At Your Service to discuss her long-awaited 2021 debut solo album, Alpha, and what it took for her to finally release a body of work all her own, touching down on issues like finding your voice, telling your own story, and speaking up for yourself when others ask you to compromise. The pair also discuss CL’s favourite South Korean meals and restaurants, and what it’s like to toggle between a character and your authentic self when performing.