Such is the party boy legend of Scotland’s literary icon Irvine Welsh that fans still slip him wraps of drugs at book signings. Whereas years ago he may have taken them all, these days he flushes them straight down the hotel loo.Life, underst

Maria Semple - Writer

Nov 30th, 2016 37m 29s

Whipsmart American writer Maria Semple does that rare and beautiful thing of making you cringe, laugh and cry in recognition - all at the same time. She reminds us how ridiculous, sad and lost we can become. All the while slowly revealing how u

Peter Martin - Rehab Pioneer

Sep 6th, 2016 25m 18s

Peter Martin CBE has been pivotal in helping hundreds of thousands of people in the UK beat their addictions over several decades. A former hardened user himself, as a young man growing up in the sixties Martin traveled the world, following t

Des Hamilton - Casting Director

Aug 16th, 2016 17m 41s

Casting director, Des Hamilton is the man that film-makers like Lars Von Trier, Andrea Arnold, Nicolas Winding Refn and Shane Meadows go to for original thinking on acting talent. He has cast some of the most outstanding films in modern cinema.

Shaun Leane - Jewellery Designer

Jul 28th, 2016 35m 14s

Jewellery designer Shaun Leane’s stunning collaborations with the late, great Alexander Mcqueen have become part of British cultural history. They are the fruits of a beautiful friendship and extraordinary meeting of minds that have come to de

Tony Garnett - Film and Television Producer

Jul 12th, 2016 37m 28s

“I did think - when I was young and arrogant - that we could make a film and change the world, and of course you can’t. What it might do though is change people’s consciousness so that they care more, understand more and demand political chang

Peter Tatchell - Activist

Jul 5th, 2016 44m 37s

Peter Tatchell has dedicated his life to fighting hate, bigotry and injustice. The human rights activist is anchored by the simple belief that everyone should be treated equally and fairly. Listening to him is inspiring, uplifting and inevita

George Shaw - Arist

Jun 28th, 2016 1h 1m

George Shaw is the most charming, smart, funny and straight talking death obsessive you’ll ever come across. He is also one of Britain’s most compelling contemporary artists and a wonderful mass of contradiction.George has spent two years wor

Henry Holland - Fashion Designer

Jun 21st, 2016 34m 11s

Henry Holland crashed into the fashion industry in his early twenties with a bag of T-shirts and no training. A rookie fashion writer, he switched from pitching feature ideas to editors to showing a catwalk collection at London Fashion Week wit

Susanna White - Film Director

Jun 13th, 2016 44m 36s

Susanna White is the softly spoken British movie director who made Hollywood sit up and take notice with the balls out war drama Generation Kill. As a film maker she can handle anything, whether it’s heaving corsets in Jane Eyre or double cros

Kim Chambers - Open water swimmer

Jun 7th, 2016 54m 35s

Kim Chambers danced as a ballerina before the accident that changed the course of her extraordinary life. Now she is one of the world’s leading open water swimmers and Kim is the first woman on the planet to have swum 30 miles through the shark

Clive Stafford-Smith - Death row lawyer and human rights activist

May 18th, 2016 1h 18m

The lawyer and human rights activist has represented over 300 prisoners facing the death penalty in the United States. Over the years he has prevented execution in all but six cases. As Clive talks to SOS about his ‘Saints’ - his heroes and in

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