Olly Mann

13/10/2025

Matthew Cordle killed a man whilst drink-driving.
He then confessed to the crime on YouTube.

Twelve years later, after serving time in prison, he talks to me on ‘The Modern Mann’ about remorse, rehabilitaton - and what it means to take responsibility.

🎧 https://pod.fo/e/33b3f9

13/10/2025

Matthew Cordle killed a man whilst drink-driving.
He confessed to the crime on YouTube.

Twelve years later, after serving time in prison, he talks to me on 'The Modern Mann' about remorse, rehabilitaton - and what it means to take responsibility.

11/10/2025

I can't quite believe it, but it's been ten years since we began The Modern Mann.

Even in 2015, we knew that a magazine programme was, in essence, an anti-internet idea. But it's even more so now, in a world where increasing numbers of people think of 'podcasts' as celebrity videos on Instagram.

But I'm really proud of what we've achieved: some acclaim and some awards, yes, but also a devoted audience who entrust us to bring them something distinct, entertaining and challenging every month. And platforming some really important stories amongst the laughs.

Massive thanks Alix, Ollie, and Producer Matt - and, especially, to the Mann-Fans. Here's to the next ten years. x

10/10/2025

10th anniversary edition of The Modern Mann coming up tonight...
In the meantime, Captain Spronk has been at the AI again 🙈

Listen to Modern mAInn by Ollie Peart on

06/10/2025

Elastica, comedy focus groups and the complex legacy of Beadle's About: here's my delightful natter with Dom Joly about the 25th anniversary of Trigger Happy TV👇
(begins at 2hr8min):

https://www.thetimes.com/radio/show/20251005-31191/2025-10-05

02/10/2025

Happy 75th Birthday to 'Peanuts'!

On October 2nd, 1950, Charles Schulz's iconic comic strip debuted, forever changing the landscape of sequential art.

While Snoopy might have been a later addition, the revolutionary spirit was there from day one!

In today's 'Today In History with the Retrospectors ', we dig into how Schulz's unique approach set the standard for comics for decades to come.

26/09/2025

Me telling Helen & Martin about the absolute WORST thing to befall Britain since they emigrated

🎧 https://answermethispodcast.com/episode410

21/09/2025

What an ace trio of guests in today's 'culture hour': Nigel Planer, John Suchet & Neil Hannon!
I adored chatting to them all; you can listen back on the free Times Radio app by tapping on today's Drive show in 'catch up' and then fast-forwarding to the final hour...

20/09/2025

Times Radio are marking my stint hosting Drive this weekend with my sexy new Blue Steel headshot.
It's a look that says, "I will genially yet sceptically guide you through the news, whilst covering my belly fat".

14/09/2025

Hard to be certain but it's just possible that the cars we feature in this months Modern Mann may be *even more* glamorous than us...

11/09/2025

Priscilla Coleman has been sketching criminal trials for five decades, sitting ten feet away from the likes of Rose West, Ian Huntley, Harold Shipman and Gary Glitter. She's covered phone hacking, the Libor scandal, Wagatha Christie...

It was a pleasure to meet her for this month's edition of The Modern Mann. I genuinely had no idea, before chatting with her, that courtroom artists like her are not actually allowed to sketch inside the courtroom in Britain. If they do, it's contempt. They also aren't guaranteed a seat in the courtroom, and their pics are often hurriedly drawn from memory on the kerb outside...

courtroom images © Priscilla Coleman/MB Media

30/08/2025

avoid the Drivetime show on Times Radio this weekend if you can't abide this schmuck