A podcast for people hoping to live a simpler, more fulfilled life - and want to hear the wisdom others gained after facing life's challenges.
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson is one of Britain’s most successful athletes, having won 16 Paralympic medals, including 11 golds.Since retiring, she’s transferred her drive to a different arena, the House of Lords.
In part one of our wide-ranging conversation, we discuss where her positive attitude comes from and explore how she’s achieved such remarkable success throughout her life. We discuss how she has learnt not to react to the steady stream of prejudice she faces and she also refers to the action movie Under Siege, a first for the podcast...! -
Sir Trevor McDonald
Sir Trevor McDonald is one of our country’s most celebrated journalists and news presenters.
He rose from a poor childhood in Trinidad, to cover the biggest stories of our times - and become one of the most famous people in Britain while he was at it. It’s a unique story and in part one of our conversation we talk to Sir Trevor about what his childhood taught him and how an aspirational family environment prepared him for an extraordinary career. -
Pieces of Wisdom
As part of season three, this is a special compilation episode featuring guests from season one and two.
In the last couple of years we have had many inspiring conversations with people including Richard Curtis, the late George Alagiah, Amber Rudd, Sian Williams, David Baddiel and many more. You can listen to all of these episodes on our website - www.desperatelyseekingwisdom.com - or whereever you get your podcasts.
But to give you a taste of these conversations, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the most memorable insights from our guests. First-up, wisdom. What rules do each of these guests live by?
This compilation features the following people:
Matt Forde, George Alagiah, Isobel Hardman, Ruth Davidson, Reverend Richard Coles, John Simpson, Richard Curtis, Tanya and Nadim Ednan-Laperous, Sian Williams and Kenny Imafidon.
Meet your Host
During a successful career that has included editing the BBC's flagship news programmes and six years as the Director of Politics and Communications at No10 Downing St, Craig began to wonder if he was going about life in the right way. He thought he'd followed all the rules, but life felt more of a grind than a gift.
Craig realised millions of people felt the same way - but didn't feel able to talk openly about it. So he decided to read all he could on wisdom. Some of it was snake oil, some of it was revelatory. He wanted to pass on a lot of what he'd discovered - and came up with the idea for Desperately Seeking Wisdom, a podcast about people who have faced major challenges in life and learned some incredible lessons that could benefit everyone.