The Modern Mann

I Want My Kids Back

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Karina Graham’s children were removed from her care, social services did not step in with support.  Instead, she was left to recover from her...

Playback: I Need To Lie Down

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Professional dancer Raquel Meseguer had back surgery at the age of thirty, to treat chronic neuropathic pain. But, it didn’t alleviate her symptoms....

Trapped In The Rubble

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An earthquake of 6.9 magnitude rocked Morocco’s Atlas Mountains in September 2023, causing around 3,000 fatalities. For six hours, British tourist ...

Playback: Serving The Super-Rich

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There are more billionaires than ever. Rockstars. Oil tycoons. Internet entrepreneurs. And all of them - all of them - employ private staff. The age ...

The Banker, The Billionaire and The Big Lie

10 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Alok Sama was a high-flying CFO who fraternized with the world’s richest men.  But he wasn’t immune from intimidation. Anonymous letters sent to...

❄️ CHRISTMAS 🎁 Spectacular 🔔 2025!!! 🍽️

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are the perfect ingredients for a stress-free Christmas? How do you render the Arctic in song? And what does it sound like when we drink from eac...

Playback: Don't Google Me

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Guy Babcock is not paedophile. He is not a sociopath, or a racist, or a ‘deadbeat’. He has not served time in prison. And yet, if you search his ...

Did I Kill The British Sitcom?

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jimmy Donny Cosgrove co-wrote one of the decade’s biggest comedy flops: BBC 1 sitcom ‘Warren’, starring Martin Clunes. Lambasted on social media...

Playback: The Unlucky Ones

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate our tenth anniversary, we're replaying Producer Matt's favourite interview from our extensive back catalogue. Jo and Steve Peck suffered...

The Confession That Went Viral - Matthew Cordle

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drink-driving one night, Matthew Cordle caused a head-on collision that killed 61-year-old Vincent Canzani.  His confession on YouTube - ‘I Killed...

Playback: The Two Billion Dollar Man

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In his 20s, yet running a $50billion book, Kweku Adoboli had worked his way up the trading floor at the very point the market crashed. His actions wi...

Drawn To Justice

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Gary Glitter to Rose West; Prince Harry to Harold Shipman… courtroom artist Priscilla Coleman has sketched them all, over five decades document...

How To Be A Dad - On Holiday

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Price and Stuart Goldsmith return for their annual catch-up with Olly, comparing notes on the pleasures and pitfalls of parenthood. With their bo...

Playback: The Theme Park Designer

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Theme parks have transformed from the travelling fairs of the fifties and Disney-inspired family resorts into playgrounds for adrenalin junkies of all...

I Survived A Plane Crash

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Perry Burns was just 13 when his once-in-a-lifetime trip on an RAF plane ended in a devastating crash. It left him with burns over nearly half his bod...

Playback: My Trans Journey (with update)

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the reality of male-to-female transitioning on the NHS? Lexi Perry-Weston says the online resources she found didn’t relate to her experi...

A Good Divorce

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Nick Coffer’s marriage fell apart, the breakup was a battlefield. Embroiled in high conflict, overwhelming stress, and crushing legal fees, he ...

Playback: After The Car Crash

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Finch’s life changed forever when his car flipped over in a devastating accident that left him with multiple neurological issues. He developed ...

No More Magnolia

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After witnessing bleak conditions inside a mental health unit, artists Tim A. Shaw and Niamh White decided to take action.  Drawing on their backgro...

Playback: Mr & Mrs... & Mrs

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It began as a threesome, arranged through dating app Feeld. But soon, Maggie and Cody realised their connection to Janie was more than sexual…  N...

Revenge Of The Gig Worker

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Armin Samii signed up to deliver food for Uber Eats, his intentions were to explore his city, and help pay off his new bike. He soon realised th...

Playback: The Inseminator

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sperm donors are anonymised in British clinics. Recipients don’t even get to see a photo of the man who will father their child. Donor-conceived kid...

Holding The Line: Fighting Wildfires

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

California wildfires ripped through L.A. this year, killing 29 people, destroying more than 18,000 buildings, and putting wildland fires back into the...

Playback: Lost At Sea

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Falling overboard following a fit of food poisoning, Brett Archibald survived 28 hours alone in the Indian Ocean. In this extraordinary interview w...

Naked and Exhausted

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine building a brand from scratch, and running your business for fifteen years - only to be told by a global corporation that your name isn’t yo...

PLAYBACK: A Restaurant Ruined My Life

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With zero experience running a professional kitchen, home cook Robert Maxwell poured his life savings into his passion project: a gastropub-inspired T...

The Last Supper

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why are so many restaurants closing down? Across Britain, the hospitality industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Twelve months ago, it was the t...

☃️ Christmas 🍷Spectacular 🦌 2024!

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Olly Mann and the gang for our bumper festive extravaganza… Featuring: 🎶 Live music from Sons of Town Hall – the Victorian-inspired duo fr...

Playback: The Brothel Brothers

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Being a landlord means trusting strangers to live in your house.  Try as you might, you can't know everything about them. Sometimes, you just have to...

What Happened To My House?

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trashed rooms. Plastic sheeting. Dodgy ductwork. When Mike Senior returned to his rental property in Cambridge, he uncovered a scene straight out of a...

Playback: My Dad's Assisted Death

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Medically assisted dying is legal in Canada, where over 10,000 people end their lives through euthanasia each year, and over 80% of applications are a...

Speaking In Tongues

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah McCammon’s upbringing was steeped in evangelical culture—raised as a Charismatic Christian in Kansas City, Missouri, she asked God for salva...

Playback: Exposing Psychic Fraudsters

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Private Investigator Bob Nygaard specialises in bringing psychics to justice. Fortune-tellers, offering palm-reading for as little as ten dollars, ar...

When People Disappear

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a missing persons investigation, the initial hours and days are crucial.  Establishing a relationship with the missing person’s family, absorbin...

PLAYBACK: How To Be A Dad, part 1

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scratch mittens, strained relationships and GP-sanctioned fingering Nine years ago, comedians Stuart Goldsmith and Tom Price joined Olly to discuss t...

How To Be A Dad, part 10

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Playing with knives, navigating the ‘Dad Race’ at Sports Day, and getting a ‘backstreet assessment’ for dyslexia are on the conversational men...

Playback: Micronesia's Got Talent ⚽

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Watson realised he would never play football for England - so attempted, instead, to be recruited by the worst international team in the world. ...

I ₿ought A Football Club

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter McCormack, Bedford’s ‘budget Ryan Reynolds’, is on a mission to take his local team all the way to the Premier League ⚽️ When he boug...

Playback: Meet Wes Streeting

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of the Brexit referendum in 2017, Wes Streeting had only been an MP for two years... and had won two elections in as many years. In this m...

Negotiating Nudity: The Intimacy Coordinator

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sex scenes are a feature of modern filmmaking, yet require meticulous planning and sensitive handling in a post-#MeToo world.  Enter intimacy coordin...

Playback: The Man Who Stole My Year

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like when the person you’re closest to in the world isn't who you think they are? Elizabeth* spent a year dating a man who provided only...

This... is The Modern Mann

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amazing, original true stories, trends and relationship advice from the multi-award winning podcaster Olly Mann. Plus a record of the month. What's no...

My Real Identity

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia never knew her birth parents. And she didn’t care to: adopted by a white family in Toronto, she felt awkward and embarrassed when people pe...

Playback: The Diver Who Got In Too Deep

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Smuggling marijuana from Thailand to Alaska; trading illicit fuel in Nigeria; evading the law in France - Robert Stone did it all. From one small fish...

I Was A Drug Dealer

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stu Otten was raised on a tough Liverpool estate, where drug-taking was rife, and established crime families enacted violent retribution. Aged 17, he...

Playback: My Head Is Killing Me

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Stuart Farrimond was a disillusioned Junior Doctor. Night-shifts, the grim reality of hospital life and emotional exhaustion were all taking their ...

Am I Autistic?

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lexi struggled to ‘read’ faces. She walked on her toes. She craved routine. She didn’t like her food to touch on a plate, and she was sensitive ...

Playback: The Gentleman Bank Robber

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Extreme highs, extreme lows, and a bungled bank robbery Radcliffe Royds had it all - a private education; a job in the City; a wife and kids. So, how ...

Our Conviction

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sue Beere’s husband, John, was jailed for his role in a £53 million drug-smuggling plot.  He’s spent time in a maximum-security prison. He’s l...

Playback: CEO at 22

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Raising $1m in venture capital whilst still at Uni; starting a business seemed like child's play for James Routledge. His start-up attracted 50m pag...

Veganuary: Planting The Seed

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yorkshire couple Matthew Glover and Jane Land created Veganuary at their kitchen table.  Inspired by Movember, their concept of challenging the nati...

🎄 Christmas 🥂 Spectacular 2023! 🎅

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Olly, Alix and Ollie are under the mistletoe for our annual festive ding-dong, with sensational live music, a feelgood Christmas task, and a bucketloa...

Hearts And Minds

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Caz Jaine faced danger, isolation and even assault when she took a foreign office role in Basra during the ‘reconstruction’ phase of the Iraq war....

Return To Sender: The Post Office Scandal Revisited

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After twenty years, Kamran Ashraf is still seeking justice. Wrongfully sent to prison by the Post Office, he and his family are one of 700 subpostmast...

The Private Prosecutor

10 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Britain’s shoplifters fear David McKelvey. His companies, TM Eye and My Local Bobby, have brought over 1,200 private prosecutions - and never lost a...

How To Be A Dad, Part 9

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Price and Stuart Goldsmith return to the show to compare notes with Olly on raising their now seven-and-a-half year-old boys. Can they now swear ...

The Snake Man of South Wales

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Since encountering a grass snake at the age of eight, Dr Rhys Jones has felt a profound connection with reptiles. He has rescued them, toured the cou...

Sex, Sobriety and Rock & Roll

10 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Booze, drugs and music are deeply intertwined - from the beers given to bands in their ‘riders’ to the excessive consumption facilitated by festiv...

The 24 Weekers

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine Gregersen was 24 weeks pregnant when her waters broke. Having endured sickness throughout her high-risk pregnancy, she and husband Mark had not...

Mike, Inc

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine delegating your decisions to a group of people online, some of whom are total strangers. Imagine sharing the most intimate parts of your life ...

Why I Make Porn

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rosie Hodsdon was struggling to make ends meet on a pHD stipend. Then she hit Record and began to make sex videos from her student flat, indulging her...

Challenge Ian

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Mudge was a teenage punk, whose exploits included chucking chairs out of a train window.  He became a teacher, whose unconventional methods and ...

Adventures In Microdosing

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ketamine and magic mushrooms are notorious for their damaging side-effects, including paranoia, depression and other ‘bad trips’. But the process ...

Christmas Spectacular 2022

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Olly, Alix and Ollie gather round the podcasting chimney for a festive knees-up, with musical guest Ashley Singh and entrepreneur Jules Parker. There ...

Inside Strangeways

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent 11 years as a prison officer at HMP Manchester - better known as Strangeways, one of Britain’s most notorious jails. Build...

Contrast, Colour, Texture, Tone

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vanessa Potter lost her sight in just 72 hours - the result of a rare condition that doctors struggled to diagnose.  In this interview with Olly, she...

The Countdown

11 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Medically assisted dying is legal in Canada, where over 10,000 people end their lives through euthanasia each year, and over 80% of applications are a...

How To Be A Dad, Part 8

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Videogames, testosterone and triage - it’s all in day’s work when you’ve got a six year old boy, as Olly explores with fellow Dads Tom Price a...

Out of the Fog

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When adults adopted as children feel lost or incomplete - even if they had a happy childhood - they often describe themselves as ‘being in the fog’...

The Blueprint

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Reggie Nelson grew up on an East London council estate to alcoholic parents. With drugs and violence all around him, he underperformed academically, a...

How To Run A Food Truck

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pippa Till gave up her job as a TV edit assistant to follow her dream of selling food at festivals, in her very own food truck. But she had no food, ...

The Fatal Blow

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Henry’s brother Alex was just 20 years old when he was charged with murder, attempted murder and GBH for a gang-related incident that last...

Bowie, Chastity Belts and Speed-Eating

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How did the credit card come to be invented? Who was the first man to be cryogenically frozen? And have you heard of the experimental drug club where ...

Beneath The Avalanche

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After surviving an incredible 200ft plunge from the Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, multi-sport athlete Adam Campbell thought his mountaineering...

Taking The Credit

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Getting a screenplay into production is notoriously tough. Writer Jack Barth came closer than most - scripting an episode of The Simpsons, and attract...

After The Car Crash

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Finch’s life changed forever when his car flipped over in a devastating accident that left him with multiple neurological problems. He developed...

Christmas Spectacular 2021!

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Olly, Alix and Ollie head to Bournemouth for their annual festive special, joined by young troubadour Thomas Headon and surprise special guests.It’s...

Don't Google Me

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Guy Babcock is not a paedophile. He is not a sociopath, or a racist, or a ‘deadbeat’. He has not served time in prison. And yet, if you search hi...

Military Surplus

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ken, Kevin and Martin are armed forces veterans. They were discharged from the military; their comrades never discovering why. This Remembrance Sunday...

An Abortion

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pippa spent eight months struggling to conceive her second child. Then, on the brink of beginning IVF, she discovered she was pregnant. But, at ten we...

The Knock On The Door

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Teaching English in Beijing seemed like a great opportunity for Welsh graduate Glen Williams, who’d previously spent time studying in China. He coul...

Why Do I Collapse When I Laugh?

10 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Living with narcolepsy - a rare condition that can cause you to fall asleep wherever you are, or whatever you’re doing - required Antonia Gentile to...

How To Be A Dad, Part 7

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bedtime stories, ‘social stalking’ and sugar-rationing are on the menu as Olly reunites with comedy podcasters Tom Price and Stuart Goldsmith to c...

Please Don't Eat Me, Mr Crocodile

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When Rosie Mitchell went canoeing on a dam in Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, she thought she’d soak up the views, and soon be back on shore to t...

The Truth About Fur

10 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As chief executive of the British Fur Trade Association, Mike Moser was the face of the UK’s fur industry. He met with politicians in China and Russ...

Mr & Mrs & Mrs

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It began as a threesome, arranged through dating app Feeld - but soon Maggie and Cody realised their connection to Janie was more than sexual.  No lo...

My Dad, The Stranger

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Olivia hardly knew her father. Her parents divorced when she was two, and she was brought up by her Mum. Sent to boarding school at the age of eight, ...

Trouble in Paradise

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sun, sea and €1 drinks lure thousands of backpackers to Andrew’s hostel in a typical year. But 2020 was not a typical year.Confronting a doomed Su...

Christmas Spectacular 2020!

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ho ho ho! In this bumper Christmas special, our three households unite (at an appropriate social distance, of course) for a festive mix of songs, remi...

The Family Liaison

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a sudden and violent death, the Metropolitan Police will dispatch a member of their ‘Family Liaison' team to the deceased person’s relatives...

Justice By Numbers

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Seeking a secure investment, newlyweds Sara and Ali sank their savings into a dependable, government-backed business - a branch of the Post Office. Th...

What To Expect When You're Transitioning

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the reality of male-to-female transitioning on the NHS? Listener Lexi Perry-Weston says the online resources she found didn’t relate to her...

The Kinetic Effect

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The British Army is recruiting gamers, 'phone zombies', and 'selfie addicts' as it broadens its skills for modern military ops. But who are the young ...

I Invented Friends Reunited

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Four years before Facebook, long before anyone knew what ‘social networking’ was, Julie Pankhurst had an idea... What if, without trawling through...

The Night Before The Meeting

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lottie Woods was in her early twenties when she was sent, alone, to meet a powerful buyer for a high street fashion brand in Guangzhou, China. They we...

How To Be A Dad, Part 6

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Comedians Tom Price and Stuart Goldsmith reunite with Olly Mann to compare parenting notes - this time, in lockdown...Can they turn mundane household ...

In The Crowd

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Blaine Harrison, lead singer of Mystery Jets, is also a ‘property guardian’, who lives and works in the capital’s empty commercial premises. For...

My Dad Was Defrauded

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scammers took £160,000 from Nick’s father in just eighteen months.  He believed, in return, they’d send him gold, or stocks and shares, or even...

The Candidate

01 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Layla Moran MP is fighting to keep her seat. There are trolls, there are threats, there are hostile journalists. And throughout the journey, as she ca...

The Mum Who Gave Up Drinking

01 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Clare Pooley gave up a booze-fuelled job in advertising - complete with a bar in the office and a massive expenses budget - when she became a full-tim...