S6E3 - Bill Laurance - Composer & Snarky Puppy Pianist

S6E3 - Bill Laurance - Composer & Snarky Puppy Pianist

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to composer, collaborator and Grammy award-winning pianist Bill Laurance.  Bill is a classically-trained multi-instrumental (whoa) musician, a member of the renowned jazz fusion and funk band Snarky Puppy, and CEO of London-based record label Flint Music. Bill tells Ali why his mates got banned from his first ever gig in an Italian, how much he loves reggae, and why no one took his photo at the Grammy's.

S6E2 - Kiran Millwood Hargrave - Author, Playwright, Poet

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to author, playwright and poet, Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Kiran is best known for her award-winning children's fiction which includes her debut novel The Girl of Ink & Stars, Leila and the Blue Fox and The Island At The End of Everything. Her debut book for adults, The Mercies, was subject to a 13-way auction and called ‘unquestionably the book of the 2018 London Book Fair’ by The Bookseller. Kiran tells Ali how she's received the best and worst news on trains, how she knows when an idea is a winner, and why burnout is a real thing.

S6E1 - Jason Bell - Former NFL Player & Broadcaster

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to broadcaster and former NFL player, Jason Bell. Jason was a cornerback in the NFL league for the Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans and New York Giants. He’s also a wealth management professional who has been hailed as one of the top footballers on Wall Street by Business Insider. These days, Jason also presents the NFL Show and the Jason and Osi Podcast. Casual. Jason tells Ali why good people are at the heart of whatever he does, and why Strictly Come Dancing was one of the scariest things he’s ever done.

S5E6 - Helen Glover - Rower

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to British rower, Helen Glover MBE. Ranked the world's top female rower in 2015-2016, Helen is a double Olympic champion, three-times world champion, and easily one of the most decorated athletes in the GB Rowing Team. She's also a mum and co-author of a new book with her husband Steve Backshall - Wildlings. Helen tells Ali how she made the GB Team despite missing a couple of inches in height, why she nearly said no to her biggest break, and how she got to Tokyo from her living room in lockdown. This WDIAGR episode is sponsored by YunoJuno Freelance Marketplace.

S5E5 - Dr Waheed Arian - Doctor & WHO Expert

Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to a British doctor and radiologist, Dr Waheed Arian. Waheed was born in Afghanistan, lived as a refugee in Pakistan, and is the founder of telemedicine charity Arian Teleheal which links up local doctors in warzones with medical experts around the world. Waheed tells Ali how his own tuberculosis diagnosis as a kid led him to becoming a doctor, why we should ignore the odds, and why he once couldn't believe people talk about washing their dogs. This WDIAGR episode is sponsored by YunoJuno Freelance Marketplace.