Mariella Meets

By The Times

Join Mariella Frostrup as she sits down with some of the biggest names in entertainment, sport and politics to discuss their latest endeavours, career highlights and early beginnings; to find out how ... more

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December 10, 2021 Jamie Oliver
He’s saved many a Christmas dinner and we’ll see him on our screens again this Christmas. I am of course talking about celebrated British Chef JAMIE OLIVER. Since he graced our screens in The Naked Chef, Jamie has fronted 30 television series, published 33 books, cooked for the Queen and been awarded an MBE. With book sales of over £174.5 million, he is the UK’s second-biggest selling author of all time, trailing only J K Rowling. This season he’s not just on a festive mission to ensure your sprouts aren’t soggy and the turkey isn’t dry. It’s a mission that brought him to fame decades ago: to ensure school meals across the country are nutritious. According to new data, school food standards aren’t being enforced in an estimated 60% of schools and child obesity rates are at a record high: with to 25.5% of children in year 6 classes as obese.
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31min
December 10, 2021 Nirmal Purja
When Nirmal Purja, or ‘Nims’, told the world he wanted to beat the world record for climbing the 14 highest mountains in the world in succession, it was met with disbelief.
The previous record holder had done it in 7 years, 10 months and 6 days. This Former Gurkha and special forces soldier wanted to knock them all off in just 7 months. To put that in perspective: in terms of total height ascended, this was the equivalent of climbing vertically from sea level to space – into a time frame shorter than a football season. It was not humanly possible, people told him. That didn’t stop him. New Netflix film 14 Peaks documents Nirmal’s journey to push the boundaries of human limits, in what he named: ‘mission possible’.
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29min
December 10, 2021 Ben Elton
Ben Elton is a stand-up comedian, novelist, playwright, actor and writer who is best known for his work on 1980s sitcoms The Young Ones and Blackadder, and as the popular face of the decade's "alternative comedy" boom. His recent Shakespearean BBC sitcom Upstart Crow was a huge success which he adapted into West End Play. He is also a highly respected author and has published sixteen novels, six of which became number one bestsellers. Widely known for his writing for the stage, he’s written three hit West End plays and the global phenomenon We Will Rock You based on the music of Queen. Now he is set to return to his first love and is bringing his stand up show to the London stage later this month.
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26min
December 03, 2021 Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson OBE is an actor and director who became a household name when he played the part of Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The show, which earned him two Baftas, ran for six series. He came to acting in his late twenties, training at RADA after completing national service in the army and working as a hospital lab technician. He later won plaudits for roles in the acclaimed 1987 series Tutti Frutti, and in the long running BBC series Merlin. Richard has also become one of the country’s most respected directors with extensive credits including plays at the Royal Court, National and Sheffield theatres. He is currently directing “Peggy for You”, Alan Plater’s play about the formidable theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay, which opens at The Hampstead Theatre on December 10th.
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29min
December 03, 2021 Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s most renowned historians. He's the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and has held positions as professor of history at Harvard, New York University and Oxford. He is also known as one of the more vocal critics of ‘modern academia' and is one of the founders of a new ‘fiercely independent’ University in Austin, Texas.
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28min
November 26, 2021 Jacqueline Gold
In a career spanning three decades Jacqueline Gold has revolutionised both British business and British sex.

As Chief Executive Officer of Ann Summers she is one of the UK’s most successful and high profile businesswomen. Her infamous Ann Summers parties brought vibrators into the sitting rooms of middle England but they also gave women a chance to earn their own money and take control of their lives.

She is an activist for women in business, championing female entrepreneurs and, through sharing her own experiences, aims to better the working environment for women.
This Friday she can be seen in a BBC 2 programme “Womanhood“ in which six successful women from different walks of life spanning different age ranges, backgrounds and experiences come together to tackle some of the most hotly contested issues facing women today.

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26min
November 26, 2021 Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the author of a staggering twenty-five internationally bestselling novels, including The Storyteller, Small Great Things, and My Sister's Keeper which moved millions to tears and was later made into a film starring Cameron Diaz.

Her latest novel “Wish You Were Here” is out this Thursday and follows Diana, an ambitious young appraiser at Sotheby's in New York.
She's about to go on a long-awaited holiday, where she knows Finn, her surgeon boyfriend, will propose and the next stage of her carefully planned life will begin. But it is Friday the 13th of March 2020. And we all know what happens next… the virus hits
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31min
November 19, 2021 Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing is a multi-Emmy and Tony award winning actor- best known for playing Rizzo in the film Grease and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in The West Wing. She is currently on stage at Hampstead Theatre in North London in Night Mother, a tense two-hander that takes place over the course of a single evening between a daughter Jessie, played by Rebecca Knight, and Thelma, her mother, played by Stockard. The Pulitzer prize-winning play, written by Marsha Norman, had its UK premiere at the Hampstead theatre in 1985.

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29min
November 19, 2021 Nadiya Hussain
Since winning The Great British Bake Off six years ago, Nadiya Hussain has surpassed becoming a household name to an international star - The likes of Hollywood’s finest Arnold Schwarzenegger is a self professed fan and health advocate Cheslea Clinton has been obsessing over Nadiya’s strawberry shortcake cupcakes in a social media frenzy.

Her latest cookbook ‘Fast Flavours’ is accompanied by a new BBC programme, airing Thursdays, focusing one everyday cooking
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30min
November 12, 2021 Ed Balls
Ed Balls is certainly used to rolling up his sleeves when it comes to the world of politics, but for a special programme for the BBC he’s been applying that elbow grease to the Care sector. Inside the Care Crisis sees the former shadow chancellor, whose mother has severe dementia, spend two weeks working in a care home to understand the gruelling reality faced by staff.
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30min

FAQs about Mariella Meets:

How many episodes does Mariella Meets have?

The podcast currently has 91 episodes available.