# Nicola Thorp

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Al-Fayed: I’ve Got To Get Rid of You

On a winter’s day in 1990, Joanna Brittan’s boss beckons her off the street, and into a waiting limousine.  They take a long drive to a country estate outside of London, where they meet Mohamed Al-Fayed – the billionaire businessman who owns the iconic department store, Harrods.  Decades later, Joa…

Al-Fayed - Episode 3: Trafficking

As details emerged about the scale and systematic nature of Mohamed Al-Fayed’s crimes, he was compared to another notorious predator – Jeffrey Epstein.  Soon, survivors of Al-Fayed start describing their experiences using a term from Epstein’s case – trafficking. Their stories of being trafficked i…

Nicola Thorp on OCD, Maternity Leave & Investigating Mohamed Al-Fayed

Content note: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault and mental health. Please listen with care and skip any sections that aren’t right for you Nicola Thorp is a broadcaster, journalist and campaigner, dubbed the “Vigilante in Pink” for taking conversations directly to the people she …

Al-Fayed - Episode 4: What Does Justice Look Like?

Many survivors of Al-Fayed’s abuse stayed silent about their experiences for years. Now that silence is broken.  But speaking out isn’t enough. These survivors want meaningful action. Frustrated by the new police investigation, Operation Cornpoppy, they will fight to be heard, standing up for justi…

How to have (better) climate conversations - with Claire Brown from Larger Us

According to climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, the most important thing we can do to fight climate change is talk about it. But the reality, certainly for me, and if attendees on my Carbon Literacy courses are anything to do by, for others too, it isn’t easy. We worry that we don’t know all the f…

Al-Fayed - Episode 5: Power & Influence

In this bonus episode of Al Fayed: Who Looked Away?, we’re hearing from journalist Meirion Jones. Throughout his career Meirion has investigated and broken stories about powerful offenders. The kind of people who, like Mohamed Al-Fayed, had enough money and influence to silence victims and the med…

‘IT WAS MORTIFYING!’ | Angela Rayner opens up about her Stamp Duty mistake

In this first episode of Sense Check with Nicola Thorp; Angela Rayner insists she never consider walking away from frontline politics when she was forced to resign from the heart of government over her tax affairs. Opening up about the painful episode in her career, the Labour heavyweight said her…

'I found my 14-year-old son dying’ | A mother’s urgent warning | Sense Check

In this episode of Sense Check, host Nicola Thorp sits down with Ellen Roome, whose 14-year-old son Julian “Jools” Sweeney tragically died in April 2022. Ellen believes Jools's death is directly linked to the content he was viewing on social media. Now, she is on a mission to save other children…

ITV Undercover Sting: Why Farage Isn't Sacking Reform Candidates | Sense Check

This week on Sense Check, Nicola Thorp is joined by PoliticsJOE’s Ava Santina to unpack the fallout from ITV’s explosive undercover documentary on Reform UK. They dive into the troubling footage of canvassers, discuss the party's controversial vetting process, and examine Nigel Farage’s defense of…

Introducing Talking Common with Josh Connolly

Josh Connolly talks to Jordan Stephens, James Bloodworth, Nicola Thorp and more about the problems we can only solve together. Every Thursday from 5 November. What if self-help has taught us to look inward for answers to problems we can only solve together? Bestselling author and breathwork facilit…