The Modern Mann

Olly Mann

Olly Mann brings you a monthly selection of incredible life stories, tests out the latest trends, and answers your relationship questions - with Alix Fox, Ollie Peart and guests. 'Best Interview Podcast', British Podcast Awards. New episodes on the 10th. Reach out or buy us a beer at https://modernmann.co.uk.

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Dec 13, 2016 · 51 min
The Queen's Stunt Double (Season 3, Ep 8)
Hollywood stunt-man Gary Connery has played them all: Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones. But it's for his role as Queen Elizabeth II, parachuting out of a helicopter in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, that he will...
Dec 6, 2016 · 51 min
Let's Go Brown-Signing (Season 3, Ep 7)
Amanda Hone has a 'hobby that got out of hand': traversing the UK, visiting myriad miscellaneous landmarks designated by brown signs. In this interview, she explains to Olly how an initial visit to an otter and owl sanctuary made her put down...
Nov 29, 2016 · 55 min
I Was An Islamic Extremist (Season 3, Ep 6)
What's it like to be radicalised? How do young British men set out to murder their fellow citizens in the name of 'jihad'? And, once committed to that course, can there ever be a route back?
Nov 22, 2016 · 38 min
The World's Most Productive Man (Season 3, Ep 5)
Productivity guru Chris Bailey spent a year experimenting upon himself in a variety of productivity experiments. What can he teach us?
Nov 15, 2016 · 46 min
The Gentleman Bank Robber (Season 3, Ep 4)
Down on his luck, and under pressure to maintain his lifestyle, Radcliffe Royds decided to rob a bank.
Nov 8, 2016 · 40 min
Part Time Hero (Season 3, Ep 3)
The RNLI lifeboats don’t just save lives at sea - they also rescue people on rivers. London’s Thames is teeming with party-boats, where drunken misadventure can lead to injury. Meanwhile, troubled ‘jumpers’, suffering from poor mental health, all too...
Nov 1, 2016 · 42 min
How To Cure Insomnia (Season 3, Ep 2)
Dr Guy Meadows, founder of The Sleep School, is a man on a mission. He wants you to sleep better.
Oct 25, 2016 · 44 min
The Last British Bullfighter (Season 3, Ep 1)
Frank Evans, the Mancunian Matador.
Jun 7, 2016 · 51 min
The Man Who Lives In The Woods (Season 2, Ep 10)
Daniel Pike is, technically, homeless - but he has a home, which he built himself, in woodland near Watford. He made it from clay and reclaimed wood, and it's amazing. Now, the landowners want to evict him. In this extraordinary interview, Olly M...
May 31, 2016 · 48 min
How to Win at Shopping (Season 2, Ep 9)
What makes you buy a product? The look? The smell? The layout of the store? In today's cut-throat business world, none of that is left to coincidence: behavioural science is influencing the design of high street shops, supermarkets and online empo...
May 24, 2016 · 46 min
Top Gear's Rory Reid (Season 2, Ep 8)
How did Rory Reid get his dream job, presenting one of the biggest TV shows on Earth? Despite many years as a motoring and tech journalist, he had only a few months to adjust to flying around the world driving supercars.
May 17, 2016 · 50 min
Strip Club Etiquette (Season 2, Ep 7)
How should you behave in a 'gentleman's club'? Stripper Edie Licious should know - from grinding the stage at super-sized American strip bars to working the pole in humble East End pubs, she's played 'em all. In this frank an...
May 10, 2016 · 41 min
Going Incognito (Season 2, Ep 6)
Is your smartphone spying on you? Just how secure is the dark web? And is your 'Private Browsing' time actually, you know... private?Buzzfeed's James Ball was just 23 when Julian Assange thrust a USB stick with nearly 400,000 confident...
May 3, 2016 · 48 min
How To Be A Dad, Part 2 (Season 2, Ep 5)
Comedians Stuart Goldsmith and Tom Price reunite with Olly Mann to compare notes, three months after all spawning sons. What has having a baby done to their time management, sleep routines and sense of self-worth? Which gadgets would they recommend to...
Apr 25, 2016 · 43 min
Let's Build a Theme Park (Season 2, Ep 4)
Imagine designing rollercoasters for a living. That's what Bradley Wynne, lead creative artist at Merlin Magic Making, gets to do. A life-long adrenalin junkie, he's now heading up the team for Thorpe Park's biggest ever launch, Derren B...
Apr 19, 2016 · 41 min
Britain's Best Barista (Season 2, Ep 3)
How DO you make the perfect cup of coffee? Do you grind? Do you press? Do you froth? One man who knows is 'Coffee Masters' champion Ben Morrow, of Melbourne-based coffee roasters St. Ali.In this episode, Olly meets him at Hackney Coffee Com...
Apr 12, 2016 · 44 min
Shooting A War Zone (Season 2, Ep 2)
Photojournalist Alison Baskerville was serving in Iraq when she began documenting the lives of her fellow soldiers. She now independently produces astonishing images from the front line across the world, including Afghanistan, Mali, Israel/Gaza and the...
Apr 5, 2016 · 49 min
How To Be A Male Model (Season 2, Ep 1)
Charlie Gilmour dangled from the Cenotaph during the student protests of 2010, and became tabloid enemy #1. Now he's a writer and, since being scouted at a Xmas party, a male model.
Dec 29, 2015 · 50 min
How to Survive Prison
Shaun Attwood survived a 9½ year sentence in the prison with the highest rate of death in America. Here he tells his Olly his sensational story, from Liverpool to Phoenix, taking in his initial career playing the stock market to his millions earned...
Dec 22, 2015 · 36 min
Being Santa Claus
What's it like being Santa Claus? In our Christmas Spectacular episode, Olly meets actor Nigel Harvey, who makes a living playing Father Christmas all year round, and hears about the highs and lows of life in that iconic red-and-white outfit....