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This week on the podcast, HAIM s us to chat about their latest single Summer Girl and striking an unlikely friendship with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. Katy Brand also drops by to chat about new book: I Carried A Watermelon which is part-memoir and part-homage to the iconic movie, Dirty Dancing Plus Rhianna Dhillon will be giving us her picks for what to watch this week, Dr Hannah Fry brings you The Maths Of Life, and there’s more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

On the podcast this week, Kid Creole chats about his musical influences growing up, being a firm fixture at Studio 54 and working with both of his sons on his brand new single, Checkin' My Colonies, Dr Hannah Fry brings you The Maths Of Life, and looks into confirmation bias and breaks down the term Déjà vu! Rhianna Dhillon gives us her TV and Film picks including BBC drama The State of the Union, Netflix’s gripping new show, Unbelievable and new film, Hustlers Finally there’s more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

This week on the podcast, Mark Strong drops by to chat about new Sky One drama Temple Eno Williams of Ibibio Sound Machine s me to talk about latest album Doko Mien and the band's forthcoming autumn tour Writer and illustrator Oliver Jeffers tells us all about his latest book The Fate of Fausto We also have Rhianna Dhillon’s TV and Film picks including horror sequel, It: Chapter Two, Sasha Baron Cohen's new Netflix drama, The Spy and BBC One's The Capture Dr Hannah Fry brings you The Maths of Life, and looks into why some people think the earth is flat, and asks, just how big is the earth? Finally there’s more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

This week on the podcast, Iggy pop talks about his brand new album and why he chose to name it 'Free' Little Simz and Ashley Walters drop by to chat about the hotly anticipated return of Top Boy on Netflix, Richard Ayoade gets into the meaning behind his new book, Ayoade on Top, and Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey tells us all about the forthcoming adaptation of the hit show. Plus Rhianna Dhillon will be giving us her picks for what to watch this week, Dr Hannah Fry brings you The Maths Of Life, and there’s more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

Mercury Prize-nominated Anna Calvi s me to talk about scoring the latest series of Peaky Blinders. Director Peter Webber tells us about his latest film, the reggae documentary Inna De Yard, and comedian Sara Pascoe explores some of the fascinating facts about the human anatomy in her new book Sex Power Money. In The Maths of Life, Dr Hannah Fry gets into super-smellers, Einstein and Columbus, and we’ve got more of your House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

Rhianna Dhillon reviews Kathy Burke’s new TV show ‘All Woman’, the Seth Rogen comedy ‘Good Boys’ and Netflix docudrama ‘The Family’. In the Maths of Life, Dr. Hannah Fry explains how you can make two ends of a tunnel meet in the middle, and exactly what would happen if you drilled through the centre of the earth.

On the podcast this week, Rhianna Dhillon reviews Channel 4 comedy This Way Up, new Tarantino film Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, and the new series of female wrestling drama, Glow on Netflix. In the Maths of Life, Professor Sophie Scott looks into why things make us laugh, and explains the reasons science simply doesn’t yet have an answer for why a dolphin would play with a jellyfish. We also have more of your House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

David and Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax, chat about their Despacio soundsystem at the Nile Rodgers curated Meltdown Festival. Rhianna Dhillon reviews new film Animals, which looks into the complexity of the female friendship, BBC series Fosse / Verdon and the latest Netflix thriller, The Red Sea Diving Resort. In the Maths of Life, Professor Sophie Scott goes deep into the science of dogs and language, and we have more of your House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

Chrissie Hynde chats to Mark Radcliffe about her new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’. Plus Rhianna Dhillon reviews channel 4’s Female Led Anthology series 'I Am… Nicola, Kirsty, Hannah', the new Horrible Histories movie and 'Typewriter' on Netflix. Finally, Dr Hannah Fry explains weather forecasting and the story of mathematician Ramanujan, who inspired 'Good Will Hunting'.

DJ Shadow chats to Nemone about his new collaboration with De La Soul and his new album. Plus Dr Hannah Fry explains the algorithms that decide what we like and why some singers are more successful than others.

On the podcast this week, Rhianna Dhillon reviews dark comedy A Simple Favour on Netflix, the fifth and final series of Poldark on BBC and documentary The Brink. There’s the Maths of Life with Dr Hannah Fry and actor John Malkovich s us to talk about his new play, Bitter Wheat Finally, there’s more of your House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

Rhianna Dhillon reviews the psychological thriller Midsommar , new BBC wildlife show Serengeti and the return of Stranger Things on Netflix. Gruff Rhys s us to talk about his brand new album Pang!, and David Nicholls drops by to talk about his new coming-of-age tale Sweet Sorrow Plus it’s the return of Dr Hannah Fry in The Maths of Life, who gets into the maths of tennis and sisters and there’s more of your House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

Last weekend we were live from Worthy Farm, and went on a big walk across the site, picking up some friends along the way. We were ed by Slowthai, Kate Tempest, Johnny Marr and Sharon Van Etten.

On the podcast, Brittany Howard chats about her new single 'History Repeats' and forthcoming album 'Jamie'. Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim drops by to talk about his new project 'Ibiza: The Silent Movie'. Elsewhere, Professor Sophie Scott brings you The Maths of Life, Rhianna Dhillion has This Weeks Watchlist and there’s more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

On the podcast, Richard Curtis and Himesh Patel talk about their new film Yesterday, which is set in a world where the Beatles next existed. Karen O drops by to chat about her latest collaboration with Dangermouse, and Michael Kiwanuka chats about his new single, Money. Elsewhere, Professor Sophie Scott brings you The Maths of Life and there’s more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

On the podcast this week, Matt Berry s to talk about his new Victorian police comedy, Year of the Rabbit. In This Week’s Watchlist, Rhianna Dhillon chats about the hotly anticipated return of Killing Eve, plus the talk show comedy, Late Night at the cinema and the return of Black Mirror. In The Maths of Life, it’s an intuition special with Professor Sophie Scott delving deep into our gut instincts and body language. And we bring you more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

Professor Sophie Scott looks into how we're affected by smell, and asks the profound question - how do we know where we are? In This Week’s Watchlist, Rhianna Dhillon reviews high school comedy, Booksmart, new apocalyptic series Good Omens and Professor Brian Cox’s new show The Planets. Plus we bring you more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.

This week we were invited down by Michael and Emily Eavis to see how things are going ahead of this year’s Glastonbury, which is returning after a fallow year in 2018.

In the Maths of Life Prof. Sophie Scott talks about how culture shapes the way we see the world and how language affects our perceptions. On this week's Watchlist, Rhianna recommends David Welsh's new cinema release Beats, BBC One's Gentleman Jack as well as dystopian drama series Years and Years. Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend s us to talk about the new album Father of The Bride and the band's tour of the UK.

Bill Nighy chats about his new film Sometimes Always Never, which is also the directional debut of Carl Hunter from The Farm. Jarvis Cocker chats about his his brand new track Must I Evolve, which is from his latest project JARV IS… Rhianna Dhillon will be giving us her picks for what to watch this week, Professor Sophie Scott brings you The Maths of Life and there’s more House Music – the everyday objects playing pop hits.