Theo Delaney's guest is Jimmy Mulville the founder and boss of Hat Trick, the hugely succesful and influential TV production house. A comedy writer and performer by background, Jimmy's acute comic sensibility is ever present as he talks through the goals of a life supporting Everton. This is part one of two.

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Sports presenter Katie Shanahan joins Theo Delaney to relive the goals of her life. The former England Hockey international is now a familiar voice and face to all football fans from her work on BBC, ITV, Talksport Sky, Amazon Prime, Stansports. and many more channels in the UK and abroad. A lifelong Arsenal fan her chosen scorers include Walcott, Cazorla, Yamal and Chloe Kelly. 

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Listener Koonal Shah made a generous donation to the suicide prevention. charity CALM during Life Goals's  recent participation in its Stay Tuned campaign and as a result he got to choose a goal with accompanying music and discuss it with Theo Delaney in this special mini Life Goals. The two Spurs fans' conversation ended up being a tribute the goalscorer, a special and perhaps under apprecited player of the modern Tottenham era...

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Theo Delaney is joined by Felix White of the legendary indie band The Maccabes who reformed this summer to rapturous acclaim. Felix also writes film scores, hosts the essential cricket podcast ‘Tailenders’ with bowling icon Jimmy Anderson and Radio 1’s Greg James and is a TV baseball presenter. Not only that, he fronts Fulham FC’s official podcast ‘Fulham Fix’ with Ivan Berry and his latest book  ‘Whatever Will Be Will Be’ (highly recommended) charts his journey through every round of last season’s FA Cup. 

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Part two with listener Tom Fenton whose hugely generous donation to CALM - the Campaign Against Living Miserably - secured him a place as the guest on Life Goals. His excellent goal list is explored further and we resume in the FA Cup 5th round at Boundary Park Oldham… 

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In September alongside a number of other podcasts Life Goals teamed up with CALM - the Campaign Against Living Miserably - to raise funds for its brilliant suicide prevention work. As part of this we said for a very substantial donation a listener could commission their own Life Goals with Theo Delaney podcast on which they would be the guest. Step forward the incredibly generous Tom Fenton form Glossop who paid the money and is welcomed by Theo Delaney on this very special edition. An Oldham fan with a love of all football Tom’s goals take us from Boundary Park to Wembley, to Glossop North End and the San Siro in Milan and he selects some excellent music too.

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The second half of Theo Delaney’s conversation with the inspirational Baroness Lola Young whose book ‘Eight Weeks’ tells her story of growing up in the care system. The passionate Arsenal fan relives goals from the men’s and women’s teams and selects some beautiful music too…
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Joining Theo Delaney to relive the goals of her life is Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey. After growing up in care her career has encompassed acting, writing, education and legislation. She became a life peer in 2004, has chaired the Booker Prize judging panel and is the Chancellor of Nottingham University. She is also a huge Arsenal fan.

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Part two with Sky Sports' Bill Leslie including goals from Henry and Lampard and thoughts on the art of commentary. We resume at Highbury in 2004

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Top football commentator Bill Leslie joins Theo Delaney to relive the goals of his life. With over 20 years service at Sky Sports his unmistakeable mellifluous tone is familair to fans of `english football at home and around the world and his considerable expertise is manifest on a connoisseur's list of goals with an ecclectic set of music choices providing the accompaniement. 

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Part two with writer Karen Dobres the former director of Lewes FC whose book Pitch Invasion talks about her indefatigable efforts to achieve gender equality in football. We resume at Lewes’s home, the Dripping Pan in 2022
Throughout September Life Goals is supporting CALM the brilliant suicide prevention charity and its STAY TUNED campaign and offering you the chance to be a guest on Life Goals. 
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Theo Delaney’s guest is Karen Dobres the one time fashion model who went from actively disliking football to becoming a passionate fan and director of Lewes FC where she plays a prominent role in pioneering gender equality in football. Her remarkable and inspirational story is told in her excellent book Pitch Invasion.

Throughout September Life Goals is supporting CALM the brilliant suicide prevention charity and its STAY TUNED campaign and offering you the chance to be a guest on Life Goals. 
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Part two with the phenomenally successful thriller writer Lee Child. He tells Theo Delaney what it’s like becoming hugely rich in your late thirties, reveals why football is so important to him and relives goals from Vardy, Platt and more. 

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Theo Delaney’s guest is Lee Child one of the most successful authors in the world whose Jack Reacher books have sold around 200 million copies. His latest book, just out, is the autobiographical ‘Reacher - The Stories Behind The Stories’. Among the ardent Aston Villa fans memories in this, part one of two, are going to games at Villa Park on his own from the age of seven and the teams finest hour, 1982’s European Cup triumph.

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Part two with the great record producer businessman and charity leader Sir Robin Millar. We resume at White Hart Lane in 1987. 
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Theo Delaney’s guest is the legendary record producer, businessman and charity leader Sir Robin Miller who on top of all this also happens to be blind. In a fascinating interview he talks about living with blindness, his remarkable accomplishments as a producer and arranger and his great lifelong love of Tottenham Hotspur. This is part one of two. 
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Reliving the goals of his life with host Theo Delaney is author Anthony Quinn who, as well as a string of acclaimed novels, wrote ‘Klopp - My Liverpool Romance’ and the newly published ‘Keegan The Man Who Was King’. Among his chosen scorers are Keegan, Collymore and Diogo Jota. 

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Part two with legendary PR man Alan Edwards of The Outside Organisation. His remarkable memoir ‘I Was There’ surely one off the most star-studded ever written, is available now. We resume in Copenhagen in 1993 where Alan has gone to see Arsenal take on Parma in the European Cup Winners Cup Final… Many thanks to Wave Studios in London for accommodating us.

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Theo Delaney’s guest is the great doyen of entertainment PR Alan Edwards. As his compelling memoir ‘I Was There’ demonstrates, there are almost no major stars of the past 50 years that he hasn’t worked with. But despite his never less than hectic schedule he has always made time for his first love, football and, in particular, Arsenal.  Many thanks to Wave Studios in London for accommodating us.

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Part two of Theo Delaney’s interview with the great sports and architectural heritage writer Simon Inglis whose updated edition of Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch - Football Ground Designer is out in 2026.

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