Ali Jones is talking to our best-loved creatives about how they caught their breaks. This week Ali chats to writer Kit de Waal, whose bestselling novel My Name Is Leon is behind the recent BBC feature film of the same name.
Kit tells Ali how she always hated reading as a kid, never entertained being a writer until she was in her mid-forties (after a career as a magistrate), and why she thinks it's important for everyone to find that thing that makes us feel alive - whether it's singing or flower arranging.
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S3 Episode 1 - Guy Chambers - Songwriter, Producer & Musician
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S2 Episode 6 - Saira Khan - TV Presenter & Personality
S2 Episode 5 - Tom Swarbrick - LBC Presenter & former Head of Broadcast at Number 10
S2 Episode 4 - Maddy Anholt - Actress, comedian, writer, broadcaster
S2 Episode 3 - Kate Clanchy - Poet
S2 Episode 2 - Oliver Holt - Chief Sports Writer of The Mail on Sunday
S2 Episode 1 - Flo & Joan - Musical Comedy Duo
Ep 30 - Henry Moeran - Reporter & Producer for BBC Test Match Special
Ep 29 - John Metcalfe - Composer, arranger, producer and violist
Ep 28 - Tom Croft - Artist
Ep 27 - David Malinowski
Ep 26 - Jo Cotterill - Children's and Young Adult Author
Ep 25 - Tim Harford - Economist, Author and Presenter
Ep 24 - Al Murray - Comedian, writer, presenter and drummer
Ep 23 - Chris Lintott - Astrophysicist and Broadcaster
Ep 22 - Andrew Dawson - Comedy writer
Ep 21 - Bob Harris - Broadcaster
Ep 20 - Maureen Lipman - Actress, comedian, director, writer and more
Ep 19 - Cassian Harrison - Controller of BBC4
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