Crisis What Crisis with Andy Coulson

SIR RICHARD DEARLOVE: The Making of a Spymaster

Sir Richard Dearlove is one of the world’s greatest living spymasters. He joined MI6 in 1966 at the age of 21, and over nearly four decades ran agents under intense Cold

RICHARD COLES'S CRISIS COMPASS

Reverend Richard Coles has lived multiple lives — pop star, priest, broadcaster, novelist. But the greatest crisis of his life came in the form of someone he loved deeply

REVEREND RICHARD COLES: Beginning Again When the Life You Knew Is Taken Away

Few people have lived as many lives as Richard Coles. In the 1980s he was the keyboard-playing half of the Communards, whose “Don’t Leave Me This Way” was the biggest-sel

JO TUTCHENER SHARP'S CRISIS COMPASS

Jo Tutchener Sharp is the founder of fashion brand Scamp & Dude. In 2015, with two young boys at home, she suffered a brain haemorrhage and was told she needed major, lif

JO TUTCHENER SHARP: I faced the pearly gates and felt regret

Recorded live at BizFest in Essex, this is the story of how a near-death moment became a £16 million business. Jo Tutchener Sharp had built a successful career – running

MIKE SOUTAR'S CRISIS COMPASS

Mike Soutar is an entrepreneur, publishing titan and the forensic interviewer familiar to millions from BBC’s The Apprentice. In this bonus episode of Crisis What Crisis

MIKE SOUTAR: The Apprentice star on the real ingredients for success

Millions know Mike Soutar as the forensic interviewer on The Apprentice, the Scottish voice across the boardroom table for the last 15 years. But long before the televisi

UNDERSTANDING PERSPECTIVE: How to Find It When You Need It Most

Perspective is one of the most useful tools we have in crisis – a way of taking pressure out of a difficult moment, stepping back and working out what really matters. In

UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY: Why It Isn't the Enemy

In this country, one in six of us will experience significant anxiety at some point in our lives. It's an epidemic that doesn't care about class, wealth, gender, age or r

ERIN BAKER'S CRISIS COMPASS

Most guests give me their Crisis Compass looking back on a crisis they've survived. Erin Baker is different. Her partner died just 12 weeks before this recording, and she

ERIN BAKER: “I'm sick and tired of being resilient”

This is a very unusual episode. It is rare that we would choose to have someone join us on the podcast so close to their crisis – usually our guests come to these convers

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER'S CRISIS COMPASS

Julian Lloyd Webber spent half a century as one of the world's great cellists — and then had to discover who he was without the instrument that had defined his existence.

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER: The Day the Music Stopped

Julian Lloyd Webber is undoubtedly one of the country's greatest living musicians – the man who, perhaps more than anyone of his generation, took classical music out of t

FRANK GARDNER'S CRISIS COMPASS

Frank Gardner has lived, by his own description, two very different lives — and found a way to carry the best of the first into the second. Twenty years on from the attac

FRANK GARDNER: The day I should have died

On June 6th 2004, Frank Gardner was in Riyadh filming what was meant to be a routine piece of background footage when an Al-Qaeda cell opened fire. His cameraman, Simon C

UNDERSTANDING SHOCK: The body's crisis handbreak

Shock is a fundamental part of almost any crisis. It's a state of complete operating system override which, when left unacknowledged, can turn into something far more dam

JEREMY KING'S CRISIS COMPASS

Jeremy King is the legendary restaurateur behind Le Caprice, The Ivy, The Wolseley and Simpson's on the Strand. His is a story of extraordinary gambles, of rooms that bec

JEREMY KING: “Let them take your money but never your soul”

In April 2022, after a bruising auction battle with his own investors, Jeremy King lost the company that carried his name. He walked back into the Wolseley – the restaura

JEREMY HUNT'S CRISIS COMPASS

Over 20 years in frontline politics, Sir Jeremy Hunt held three of the great offices of state – Health Secretary, Foreign Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He s

JEREMY HUNT: Frontline politics is poisonous and I'll never go back

In October 2022, the British economy was in freefall. Liz Truss's mini-budget had sent the pound into a nosedive, mortgage rates were climbing at a terrifying speed, and