The Story Creators & Guests

Luke Jones is a presenter at Times Radio.

Jane Mulkerrins is an Associate Editor of The Times Magazine at The Times.

David Aaronovitch is an author, journalist, and television presenter.

Catherine Philp is a Times Diplomatic Correspondent.

Tania Joya is a former jihadi and current counter-extremism activist known for fleeing Syria after traveling there with husband John Georgelas to join Islamic State.

Dr. Guy Leschziner is a consultant neurologist, sleep physician, and author of The Nocturnal Brain.

David Charter is an assistant editor at The Times.

Roger Boyes is a journalist, author, and diplomatic editor for the London Times newspaper.

Samuel Altman is an entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.

Oleksiy Sorokin is a reporter. Currently, he is the political editor and chief operating officer of the Kyiv Independent.After university, Sorokin became a political writer at the Kyiv Post. He broke stories on government and judiciary topics and investigated the former president and the current Prosecutor General.Sorokin received his B.A. from the University of Toronto.

Hugh Tomlinson is a Washington correspondent at The Times and The Sunday Times..

Christopher Nolan is a film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Marc Bennetts is a foreign correspondent for The Times and Sunday Times.

Lara Spirit is a Red Box reporter at the Times.

Kate McCann is a journalist. She is the political editor of Times Radio.

Shabnam Chaudhri is a media consultant, speaker, and former Detective Superintendent.

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories.

Sarah Ditum is an English opinion columnist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, The Times, and UnHerd. She is based in Bath. Ditum's writing has covered issues including violence against women, gender identity, parenting, British parliamentary politics and cancel culture. She also writes regular book reviews. In 2021, Fleet acquired Ditum's book Upskirt Decade: Women, Fame and The Noughties, which is scheduled to be released in 2023.