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20 Questions With

Matt Stadlen
Fashion
British Vogue
East India Company
Parkinson's
BBC
Paris
Designer Labels
Men’s Fashion
Social Media
Theatre
Identity
Prospect Magazine
The Guardian
Notre Dame
Sustainability
Jonathan Pie
Sir Thomas Smythe
India
Dutch East India Company
Sophie From Romania

I’m Matt Stadlen and for 20 years I’ve been talking to and interviewing public figures from around the world. In this series I’ll be interviewing famous names from every walk of life and with a broad range of views, politics and perspectives. Every guest will get 20 questions, and the plan is for you to have a better sense of each of them by the end of their interview.

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Entrepreneur, manufacturer, style icon, sportsman and a star of The Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick Grant talks fashion, business, TV, men's clothes, representing Scotland at rugby, growing a beard, keeping trim, barely drinking, ageing, mortality,... more

Justine Picardie, author of the new book, Fashioning The Crown, reveals the role fashion has played in the British monarchy; describes spending personal time with the late Queen Elizabeth II; explores the power of women when men still ruled the world... more

Sir John Curtice, Britain's most famous polling expert and stalwart of BBC election nights, is at risk of becoming a national treasure. Here he offers his insights into the fragmentation of British politics; the rise of Reform under Farage and of the... more

Guardian columnist Zoe Williams pushes back against Reform UK, addresses questions of a split on the left of British politics, wishes that Starmer would improve, suggests an humane approach to asylum seekers, offers her view of national identity, cha... more

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Patrick Grant
Entrepreneur, businessman, clothing manufacturer; star of The Great British Sewing Bee
Cookson & Clegg; Community Clothing
Episode: 20 Questions With Patrick Grant
Justine Picardie
A long-standing journalist, author, and editor, known for her work in fashion journalism and writing biographies of iconic figures in fashion.
Episode: 20 Questions With Justine Picardie
Sir John Curtice
A legend of polling, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, and senior research fellow at the National Centre for Social Research
Episode: 20 Questions With Sir John Curtice
Zoe Williams
Columnist at The Guardian and writer of various books
The Guardian
Episode: 20 Questions With Zoe Williams
Julia Bradbury
Television presenter known for her work in outdoor and health-related programming.
Episode: 20 Questions With Julia Bradbury
Sir Richard Eyre
Prominent British director known for his work in theatre, television, and film.
Episode: 20 Questions With Sir Richard Eyre
John Sergeant
Veteran broadcaster, former chief political correspondent at the BBC, and known for his role on Strictly Come Dancing.
Episode: 20 Questions With John Sergeant
Ray Mears
Survival expert and bushcraft enthusiast
Episode: 20 Questions With Ray Mears
Ian Hislop
Editor of Private Eye and prominent satirist.
Private Eye
Episode: 20 Questions With Ian Hislop

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Matt Stadlen
Host of the podcast series and lead interviewer.

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 58 ratings
  • Always engaging, always learn something

    Even when I think I dislike someone or thoroughly disagree with their politics (Rees-Mogg, John Redwood) Matt Stadlen always conducts a civil interview that makes you want to listen, and you always come away better informed. Just recently very much enjoyed Otto Scott and Jeremy Hunt. Really good stuff. Loved the run of interviews with cricketers and commentators. A joy.

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    Great interview with Martin O’Neill.

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    Soorian
    United Kingdom3 years ago

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Civil and insightful interviews even with controversial figures.
Host conducts thoughtful, informative conversations.

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20 Questions With Patrick Grant
Q: Earlier you talked about different experiences that had helped add up to enabling you to be the businessman, the entrepreneur, the manufacturer you are today. You've taken some really chunky risks, haven't you, financially, in your career?
He discusses risk tolerance, pragmatic problem-solving after setbacks like Debenhams' collapse, leveraging prior successes with Hammond & Co., and the mindset of resilience and selective risk-taking that allowed him to rebuild through Cookson & Clegg and Community Clothing.
20 Questions With Patrick Grant
Q: Okay, So I got to ask you about manufacturing and entrepreneurship and sewing bee and so forth as we go through this podcast. But I want to start by asking you about your accent, because you were born in Edinburgh.
The guest explains his accent shifts with where he lives, noting he grew up in Edinburgh, studied in Durham and Oxford, and that his Scottish accent occasionally resurges when in Scotland, while acknowledging how his voice has evolved through education and movement.
20 Questions With Julia Bradbury
Q: What do you really, really love doing?
I love spending time with my children and appreciate how precious those moments are.
20 Questions With Julia Bradbury
Q: Did your cancer diagnosis change you in some way, change the way you looked at the world?
It made me change the way I look at health and encouraged me to explore new ways of understanding my body and fitness.
20 Questions With Zoe Williams
Q: Do you feel exposed to the political threat of these ideas?
Yes, but I don't feel the same kind of pressures that right-wing commentators experience to conform or escalate their views.

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2. Justine Picardie
3. Sir John Curtice
4. Zoe Williams
5. Julia Bradbury
6. Sir Richard Eyre
7. John Sergeant
8. Ray Mears

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