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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.


Different with Nicky Campbell

What does it mean to be different? Is it how we think? Or how we act?
For this new podcast Nicky Campbell explores just that with guests who are extraordinarily different.

Welcome to Different

For his first guest Nicky travels to a remote cottage in the Highlands to meet Tonks, a witch. They talk spells, religion and being menaced by the celtic gods...

The Old Gods

Nicky meets Richard, a man who found himself trapped in a cult. Richard tells him what it’s like to be under the spell of a charismatic cult leader.

Total Control

Nicky meets professional dominatrix Zara, and enters the world of sex, pain, power and fetish.

Pleasure and Pain

What’s it like to see the worst crime scenes imaginable? To catch a killer, a solve a murder? Nicky finds out with one of the world’s best forensic scientists.

In the Blood

Nicky sits down with an evangelical Christian and a Satanist to discuss God, the devil and eternal damnation.

The Devil’s Greatest Trick

We hear what it's like to grow up as the only person of colour in an English village from author and ultra marathon runner Sabrina Pace-Humphreys.

Black Sheep

Dial 6 for UFOs. Nicky speaks to the former civil servant who was assigned to investigate UFO sightings in Britain. He didn't believe then...he does now.

Are they already here?

Nicky hears a documentary exposing abuse in public schools, realises his school is named, and that he knows the abuser. Now he’s on a mission to bring Edgar to justice.

If you’ve been affected by the topics discussed, you can find more information and support on the BBC Action Line website: http://bbc.co.uk/actionline

Edgar

Finn Mackay has been called “the author hoping to end the gender wars”. Nicky finds out how and why the trans conversation has become so heated.

The Two Gender Situation

Dr Jill Bolte Taylor is an author and neuroanatomist who used her own stroke to better understand how her brain perceives reality. She tells Nicky about that experience, about how her brother’s schizophrenia inspired her to start her career, and they explore which bits of the brain do what.

Stations of the Mind

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