Charlie Gladstone speaks with maverick member of the church and libertarian Peter Francis who currently runs Gladstone's Library, a centre of liberal thought and Britain's only residential library. They talk about Peter's long campaign for women's rights in the church, about his current work and about film, family and books.

Charlie Gladstone speaks with his friend and festival co founder Cerys Matthews in front of several hundred people at The Good Life Experience 2017. The talk musical children, talent, radio, success, family and the audience join them in a sing-along.

Charlie Gladstone talks with Jim Estill, a successful and truly maverick man who has donated 1.5 million dollars of his own money to rehouse Syrian refugees in his hometown in Canada. What started as a quiet attempt to make a difference to a massive humanitarian crisis has -it seems- become all-consuming for him, his family and 800 volunteers.

Charlie Gladstone speaks with Professor Gavin Screaton -Dean of The Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London (and soon to move to head the Department of Medicine at Oxford University)- about his mission to eliminate dengue fever, a disease that infects 400 million people each year. They also talk business, cycling and collecting eccentric tools.

This is a Mavericks Podcast Special. It's the second batch of recordings that I made at The DO Lectures in West Wales in July 2017 and includes chats with DO Lectures founder and environmentalist Andy Middleton, author, baker and all round good guy Tom Herbert and finally Instagrammer and musician Ella Grace Denton.

Charlie Gladstone speaks with Nigel House, owner of one of world's most well-loved chains of record stores, Rough Trade. They talk music, passion, the importance of independent record shops and some of Rough Trade's more surprising customers.

Charlie Gladstone chats with playwright, novelist, activist and founder of The Fun Palaces movement, Stella Duffy. They talk about Stella's childhood, her writing methods, her community work and loads more.

This is a Mavericks Podcast Special Edition from the July 2017 DO Lectures in West Wales. In it I talk to inventor Dominic Wilcox, publisher Miranda West and a number of DO attendees as well as featuring some bits of my own talk at the event.

Charlie Gladstone talks to chef, gin mogul and restless polymath Valentine Warner. They talk about failing at school, working in professional kitchens, television, books, making gin and loads more.