All week Heart Breakfast have celebrated the olympics by sending Team GB corespondent, Mark Wright, to Paris! He's been speaking to medal winners all week and they're all on the Heart Breakfast Podcast!By Heart

On this weeks episode: Katy Perry takes a trip down memory lane to discuss THAT photo of her husband Orlando Bloom. The guys go Olympics mad with Mark Wright. And our alien expert mysteriously won't answer their phone...By Heart

Sean Walsh told Jamie and Amanda about being trapped in a room with Joe Swash for 24 hours. Danny Dyer reveals his favourite Olympic sport. And the guys found the hottest new sport on the calendar - the world stone skimming championships!By Heart

Steve Carrell joined us on Heart Breakfast to chat about the brand new Despicable Me 4 movie! James Cordon was also on and gave us a little tease to the new Gavin & Stacey Christmas special! + The the big showbiz quiz made a return...By Heart

This week on Heart breakfast: We got our very own Ashley Roberts to try some iconic british snacks! Jamie and Amanda got Lando Norris & Oscar Piastri to take on our very own driving theory test! And find out what happened when Jamie bumped into an A list celebrity whilst playing Golf...By Heart

Jamie Theakston was joined by Davina McCall and Amanda Holden this week! Rob Brydon popped in to talk about the finale of Gavin and Stacey and Jamie surprised Davina with her hero, the hardest geezer!By Heart

“Angel and Puppet: then, finally, the play begins” Bianca Stone in conversation with poet Peter Gizzi discussing Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Fourth Elegy,” (Edward Snow translation). We’re working our way though the entire Duino Elegies. In today’s episode we begin by discussing the elegy form and both Gizzi’s personal uses of the form, as well […]…

Perrie Edwards cries while chopping onions and singing her new single. Mark Wright teamed up with Olly Murs to provide us with a chant for the summer of football. And Jamie Oliver surprised a school teacher!By Heart

Davina McCall stepped in while Amanda is away and it's been a busy week! Ed Gamble told the guys about his favourite food stories, Ruth Jones revealed details about the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special and Davina was put through her paces in The Parent Trap!By Heart

Simon Cowell is on the search for the next One Direction and he needs Jamie and Amanda's help. David Walliams surprised an entire school. And the guys met the worlds best football player (sort of)By Heart

Eddie Hearn stepped into the Heart Breakfast ring. Rita Ora dropped off her new single and Jamie accidentally created his own replacement.By Heart

Bianca Stone talks with the poet Dara Barrios/Dixon about Rilke’s “The Third Elegy,” from his famous Duino Elegies. Exploring more directly the poem and its language, Barrios/Dixon and Stone look at the magnificent poetic devices Rilke uses in his unique way, such as questioning, pathetic fallacy and fungibility of pronouns in the direct address. J…

Jamie Oliver faced off against Gordon Ramsay and Gino D'Acampo to see who had the best (meat)balls in the business. David Walliams surprised a school live on the radio. And Jamie & Amanda invented a sandwich each before putting them up for sale in a shop to see who's was best.By Heart

John Krasinski told Jamie and Amanda about his new film IF. Teddy Swims popped by while touring the UK And Jamie Theakston accidentally scammed a Bristolian man.By Heart

Over the last three months, heart listeners across the country have been entering to win the biggest prize on the radio. On Friday the 10th of May Jamie and Amanda made history by giving away one million pounds live on Heart Breakfast. Hear everything that happened right here on the Heart Breakfast Podcast!…

Stephen Mulhern brought Jamie and Amands his new kids book. They spoke to the UK's most famous pub singer who played to a crowd of 14,000 people. And the guys helped the Ordnance Survey find a place called Slippery Hole.By Heart

Tom Kerridge's Pub In The Park is back! He told Jamie and Amanda all about it before playing a round of Snacksphrase! Sean Walsh popped in to talk about his new tour. And it turns out Watford Gap Services is the most famous in the UK!By Heart

Spencer Matthews played a special game of the Parent Trap with his wife Vouge. We met Cooper, the world champion Seagull Impersonator. And listener Freddie got the shock of his life when Prince William rocked up at his school!By Heart

Simon Cowell, Alicia Dixon and Bruno Tonioli spill all the secrets about how Amanda behaves at BGT. We ask an astronaut absolutely anything with Tim Peake. And Amanda pulls off the prank of a lifetime on Jamie!By Heart

Paul Rudd tells Jamie and Amanda about Anchorman, Ant Man and his new Ghostbusting role! Pete Wicks and Vicky Pattison put their reality tv knowledge to the test! And Amanda Holden tries a host of new hobbies, form life modelling to Goat Yoga!By Heart

We continue our series on Rilke’s Duino Elegies with Edward Snow’s translation of The Second Elegy, talking with poet Mark Wunderlich. Wunderlich, who is currently at work on a book on Rilke, is deep research into the biography, which give us rich insight into creation of “The Second Elegy.” Beginning with what Wunderlich calls the […]…

What happens on Married At First Sight when the cameras are turned off? Mel Shilling spills all and gave the guys a sneak peak at the new UK series. A brave couple takes on the Parent Trap, there's a strong performance on Wake Up and Win PLUS the best caterpillar cake is crowned, using SCIENCE!By Heart

Joe Wicks' has a new book out and it's all about keeping kits fit and healthy! He stopped by to tell Jamie and Amanda about his favourite parenting hacks. The guys also met some very talented pets - there's a dog that can do an Alan Carr impression and Cockatiel that can cover Earth, Wind and Fire! If you want to get in touch with Jamie and Amanda,…

Millie Bobby Brown tells Jamie and Amanda about her underwater engagement while facing the Heart Breakfast Dragon. Richard Hammond's daughter told us about his most recent car crash in The Celebrity Parent Trap. And the guys met a rescue dog who's about to become the star of Crufts!By Heart

Rainer Maria Rilke has been hailed as one of the most profound and genius poets of the 20th century. His Duino Elegies in particular, in tandem with the Sonnets to Orpheus, are seen as the pinnacle of his poetic achievements. Whole books could be written on each elegy. Here, Bianca Stone joins with guests to […]…

The 29th of February is the day when all traditions around proposals go out the window so the guys celebrated with three huge proposals all over the UK! Get the tissues ready, it's an emotional one!By Heart

Jamie and Amanda pranked Romesh Ranganathan and the results were HILARIOUS! Ant and Dec popped in to discuss the final series of Saturday Night Takeaway. And Jamie ate crickets!By Heart

Jamie Oliver told the guys his Valentines plans... only to find out his wife Jool's was listening at home! Jason Derulo and Michael Bublé popped by with their unlikely collaboration. And the most recognisable voice in Britain - Iain Stirling tried to nick Jamie's job!By Heart

Is Taylor Swift going to see Travis Kelce at the Superbowl? Jamie did the maths and found out. Daniel Beddingfield popped in to tell the guys about his new tour and they tracked down a missing Macaque!By Heart

What's the difference between Britain's Got Talent and America's Got Talent? Plus Sofia Vergara tells us about a Modern Family Reunion!By Heart

Kevin Hart thinks Blue Monday is a load of rubbish!! Joel Dommett told Jamie and Amanda what he does when he doesn't recognise a celeb on The Masked Singer and Heart listeners tried to stump The Chasers!By Heart

Alan Carr exposed the secrets of Alan and Amanda's Italian job, Sophie Ellis-Bextor gave her review of that scene in Saltburn and Jamie got a huge surprise from his best mate.By Heart

The whole of the country has gone darts mad so Jamie and Amanda got the man of the moment, 16 year old Luke Littler, to tell them all about his journey to the final of the World Darts Championships! Also Michelle Keegan revealed what Arg did in her downstairs loo (it wasn't pretty) and the guys spoke to loads of experts to help kickstart 2024 on th…

An incredible and in-depth conversation with Classical scholar, Stephanie McCarter about Ovid, Horace, greco Roman poetry, the tradition of translation, retelling of myth, and the movements of poetry across the ages. Ovid’s Metamorphoses continues to speak to our fundamental issues, but how, and why? What can this new translation tell us about not …

The Grinch came to the wrong studio to try and cancel Christmas. Jamie, Amanda and Heart Listener Abby saw him off. Mandy organised a special surprise for Jamie with the help of Magic Mike Live.By Heart

Olivia Coleman does something very uncharacteristic with a pebble, Jamie Oliver tells us how to get roasties like his on Christmas day and the guys made six year old Arlo's Christmas dreams come true!By Heart

Talking today about the work of creating a book from our private work on the self, reckoning with the most unbearable past; as it overlaps and interacts with the art in our lives, which in turn connects to the history of our relationship with art and others: Ed Steck, who spent much of his childhood […]…

The tallest guest in the history of Heart Breakfast, Richard Osman, joined Jamie & Amanda! There were huge celebrations on the 1st December as the nation took part in First Door Friday, the biggest advent calendar opening in the history of the universe! Alicia Keys dialled from New York, James Blunt unwrapped a few Christmas surprises and Rex the d…

Girls Aloud, Take That and Jamie Theakston - no this isn't an episode of Top of The Pop's from the early 2000's. Two of the UK's biggest bands reunited on Heart Breakfast this week. The guys also spoke to Jennifer Lee, the creator of Frozen and they celebrated Thanksgiving with our resident American, Ashley Roberts!…

What is the private space of a diary, what is the public space of a poem, and what does the psyche do in each? What is confession and what is memory in the poem, if it plays with the mechanism, or tone of Diary? How to explore and play the the personal expectations of those […]By Ruth Stone House, Bianca Stone

This week Jamie and Amanda got inside info on the I'm a Celeb camp from Boy George, Stephen Mulhern came by to talk about his new version of Deal or No Deal and Ne-Yo popped in to tell the guys about his new tour. More importantly, listener Abi answered five questions in 30 seconds and turned on Christmas!…

This week Jamie and Amanda spoke to Adam Kay, Joe Wilkinson and LeAnn Rimes! Plus they talked through the I'm A Celebrity camp, met a brussels sprout expert and discovered the UK's worst football team.By Heart

The guys celebrated spooky season by making Amanda answer some very scary questions. Joss Stone told Jamie and Amanda about her brand new musical. And Amanda is ready for Crispmas to begin!By Heart

Jamie's officially hit his mid-life crisis started training to get his motorbike license, so who better to help him than the Hairy Bikers?! There was also a HUGE surprise on Why am I Famous and the guys accidentally split the nation on what Pumpkin Picking actually is!By Heart

James Arthur joined Jamie and Amanda to tell them about his new single, and his kidney stone... The Wittering Whitehall's spilled all on their new grandson... and we played with the dark arts by bringing Britain's spookiest painting into the studio!By Heart

Dorothea Lasky and I discuss her newest collection of poetry The Shining, the deceptive nature of the “I” in poetry; the undiscovered language that haunts our very psyche–and of course a lot about Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining. Mactaggart Jewelry: use the code Psyche20 for 20% off! Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris Jung’s The […]…

Talking with the incredible poet and artist, Mathias Svalina, about language and space of dreams, as it mirrors and informs the poem. Working consistently within the epistolary form, and the “telling” of dream form, Svalina continues the work of looking and seeing the world through the lens of the surreal, pushing against the boundaries of […]…

Who knew Tyson Fury's romantic song of choice was Boys II Men? He was joined by his wife Paris who revealed all about the Heavyweight Champion of the World to Jamie and Zoe. The guys also met the owner of Tea Pot Island, the world's strongest 10 year old and Jacqueline Jossa caught them up on her summer!…

Calvin Harris played Jamie and Zoe his new song, Anne-Marie drank a very unhealthy smoothie and the guys met a Heart Listener who served burgers with Prince William!By Heart

In Paul Hlava Ceballos’s Banana [] is a stunning debut full length collection that explored the crushing reality of the violence of “the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants, family, and memory.” The title poem is part poetry and part reportage that traces the […]…