Netflix say The Queen's Gambit has broken all records for the most watched limited series, with 62 million households gripped by their seven-part drama. But the story behind it is just as fascinating.
Co-creator & executive producer Allan Scott bought the rights to the Walter Tevis book in the eighties & tells Helen the trials & tribulations behind trying to get studios interested in the story of orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon. Chess being the blocker.
Allan, who brought us iconic films like Don’t Look Now starring Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie and the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, jokes he thought he was hallucinating when he watched the first episode air from his hospital bed!
Actor Vicky McClure shares her determination to shine a light on dementia
Best-selling author & broadcaster Tim Marshall gives context to the war in Ukraine
Helen meets TikTok star The Hebridean Baker on the Isle of Seil
Helen chats to actor Neil Morrissey about almost everything!
Helen discusses the Ukrainian refugee crisis with the founder of Indigo Volunteers
Afghan news presenter Shabnam Dawran on standing up to the Taliban
Melanie Sykes shares her relief at being diagnosed with autism
Entrepreneur Alessandro Savelli shares the story of creating Pasta Evangelists
Helen chats to ARTAH founder & nutritional therapist Rhian Stephenson
Actor Peter Wight on his upcoming BBC drama & film Cyrano
Film writer/director & mentor Fredi Nwaka talks about his new comedy
Simson Uri-Khob talks about his life saving black rhinos in Namibia
Helen chats to brand strategist & FLEX author Annie Auerbach
Post COP26, Helen talks to California’s Secretary for Environmental Protection
Helen chats to master jewellery artist Sabine Roemer
Triple amputee & Pride of Britain winner Mark Ormrod MBE shares his incredible story
Helen chats to musicologist & BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Dr Hannah French
AVM Harv Smyth, Britain’s first Director Space, talks about building the UK’s space programme
Helen talks to meteorologist & broadcaster Clare Nasir about our climate change crisis
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