Different with Nicky Campbell
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Different with Nicky Campbell
What does it mean to be different? Is it how we think? Or how we act? In this BBC podcast, Nicky Campbell explores just that with guests who are extraordinarily different.
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Our Day in Court: The Brownlee Trial
At school Nicky, along with many other pupils of Edinburgh Academy, was the victim of vicious abuse from teacher John Brownlee. Nicky didn’t think Bro...
AI Ghosts
Jarren Rocks tells Nicky about creating Seance AI, a programme that allows us to speak to people we have lost. They discuss the rise of grief tech - h...
A Dad's Revenge Killing
Jody Plauché joins Nicky to tell him a remarkable story of survival, revenge and family. At 11 Jody was groomed then kidnapped by his karate teacher J...
Despite - Radio Times Moment of the Year Nominee
In the first series of Different Nicky spoke to journalist Alex Renton about the abuse that he saw and experienced at his school, the Edinburgh Academ...
A Trans Dad’s Experience
Journalist Freddy McConnell sits down with Nicky to talk about making his documentary Seahorse, how the trans conversation has changed in the UK and w...
Celebrity Surgeon Scam
Benita Alexander is an Emmy winning NBC journalist who was sent to interview a surgeon to the stars. Dr Paulo Macchiarini was rumoured to be up for a...
Scientific Ghostbuster
Noah Leigh is an epidemiologist by day, with an unusual hobby: he runs not-for-profit the Paranormal Investigators of Milwaukee. PIM use scientific m...
Rwandan Genocide - 30 Years Later
Consolee Nishimwe was 14 when the civil unrest in Rwanda reached boiling point, Consolee’s father and three younger brothers were murdered, and she wa...
Against Adoption
When Arun Dohle was weeks old he was adopted by a wealthy German couple, who took him from his home country of India. As an adult he began a search fo...
Evangelical Christian to Science Writer
When author Tracy King was 12 her father was killed on the streets of their Midlands council estate, this lead her family to be further seduced by bor...
Is our world real?
Nicky talks to Dr Melvin Vopson as Associate Professor in Physics at the University of Portsmouth. Melvin explains why he believes things like nature'...
Serving Time
Author, ex East End gangster and convicted murderer meets Nicky to tell him about surviving prison, how the justice system needs to change and why she...
The Female of the Species
Author and evolutionary biologist Lucy Cooke tells Nicky what the world of science got wrong because it was looking at the world through a patriarchal...
Dippy: Unmasked
Dr Anna Colton tells Nicky about her work assessing potential reality TV contestants for shows like The Voice and My Mum, Your Dad. They talk about re...
The Man with No Fear
Jordy Cernik was an up and coming TV and radio presenter when a rare disease called Cushing Syndrome started wreaking havoc on his life. After a strin...
A Survivor Changes the Law
WARNING this episode contains strong language and descriptions of sexual violence.
Suzy Angus tells Nicky how she joined forces with two other w...
The Orgasm Teacher
Holistic sex educator and tantric yoga teacher Jenny Keane meets Nicky to chat misconceptions about sex, being a sex educator in Ireland and why sex e...
The Barber of Old New York
Nicky meets Joseph Paris, a man who spent several decades making wigs for Frank Sinatra. He tells Nicky what kind of man Frank was, what New York was...
Different Selection Box
A New Year selection box including…
Nicky’s conversation with Tony King, promoter to some of the most famous bands ever - including Queen and th...
The Elf Whisperer
Nicky Campbell meets Elf Whisperer Bryndis Bryndis Fjóla Pètursdóttir, who describes herself as a seer and horticulturalist. She talks to Nicky about...
My Father the Terrorist
Zak Ebrahim was 7 when his father went to prison, initially for the attempted assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane, while there it was discovered he had...
Born into a Cult
Katy Morgan-Davies was born in a nondescript house in Lambeth in London, but thirty years later the world would discover she, and the other occupants...
"Edgar": An Investigation
Nicky first spoke about the abuse he witnessed and suffered at Edinburgh Academy on this podcast, now more than a year later Panorama has released an...
Laundering for the Cartel
Robert Mazur was once the go-to money launderer for Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel - but it was all a ruse, Robert was undercover and it led to one o...
Big Questions
Pastor Clement Okusi, biblical scholar Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou and geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford join Nicky for a far reaching conversation...
The Criminal Surgeon
Sarah Jane Downing was a victim of the now imprisoned surgeon Ian Paterson.
Ian Paterson specialised in breast cancer operations, and between 1...
The Iceman Cometh
Wim Hof is an extreme athlete who held the record for swimming under ice, prolonged full body contact with ice and completing a half marathon barefoot...
Hunting Killers
In 1984 college student Angela Samota was found dead in her Texas apartment, her murder went unsolved for more than 30 years. Nicky speaks to Angela’s...
Captive
Michael Scott Moore is an American journalist living and working in Berlin - in 2012 he was reporting on the court case of a group of Somali pirates b...
A Record Player
This week on Different Nicky meets Tony King, a record promoter who worked with John Lennon, the Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury and remains a close f...
Something in Her Style
This week on Different Nicky explores the band which changed his life, with two people who were there while the music was being made - Pattie Boyd and...
No Plan to Die
In 2013 Bryan Johnson sold his company to Paypal for $800 million, since then he’s founded two new companies, and began Project Blueprint - the regime...
Walking in God’s Sandals
Journalist and author AJ Jacobs tells Nicky about his year long mission to understand the bible better - by following every rule it sets. From not sh...
Flames in the Cockpit
Jamie Hull had left the SAS when he went to America to train as a pilot - part of his longer plan to work as a commercial airline pilot. In his final...
Psychopathic Behaviour
What’s it like to be a psychopath? Nicky finds out with diagnosed psychopath ME Thomas. They talk about guilt, love and why most serial killers are to...
I Found it At Bruce’s
Bruce Findlay ran legendary Edinburgh record story Bruce’s before going on to manage band Simple Minds. He tells Nicky about meeting the biggest names...
Family Secrets
Nicky talks to Martin Davidson, a historian who discovered as an adult that his Grandfather was a mid ranking SS Officer in the Nazi party - and had j...
Understanding Evil
Nicky talks to forensic psychiatrist and author Dr Gwen Adshead about working with violent offenders, psychopaths and the dangers of certainty.
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The Deliverance Man
Jason Bray, a minister in the Church of Wales talks about his job as a deliverance minister - explaining why if you think you're possessed you definit...
The Nose
Nicky learns how the power of super-smeller Joy Milne has been harnessed to make a new test to diagnose Parkinson’s. They discuss her ability, how she...