Their guests have included Tracey Emin, David Hare, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hugh Bonneville, Gilbert & George and countless heavy-weights in the Arts world.
Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Okri, Rose Tremain and Barbara Taylor Bradford represent the breadth of the writers whom Metcalf has enticed onto the podcast.
In 2017, Metcalf broke the first Harvey Weinstein story in the British press when she interviewed Lysette Anthony for a Sunday Times exclusive.
[1] Metcalf's documentary Schoolgirl Killer,[2] made for BBC Television in 1999, exposed the story of Aberash Bekele, a 14-year-old girl abducted and raped into marriage.
The documentary also included Aberash's older sister, Mestawet, who was on the point of leaving Ethiopia and taking her place as a runner in the Olympic Games, when she was abducted into marriage.
An indefatigable lawyer on the case, Meaza Ashenafi, is one of the characters in a story based on a similar tragic theme, which was made into a drama feature in 2014, called DIFRET and executive produced by Angelina Jolie[3] Metcalf has also made many films for the United Nations and for clients including Tesco, Unilever, the Labour Party, the International Olympic Committee and art galleries such as Philip Mould, Osborne Samuel and Robilant + Voena.