The Radio 1 breakfast host and his writer wife fought off lockdown ennui to launch an educational new podcast – which has quickly become a chart-topping hit
“Basically,” says Greg James, “we had run out of things to talk about.”
The jovial host of Radio 1’s breakfast show is explaining why he and his wife, Bella Mackie, decided to start a podcast. Although it’s hard to believe that James and Mackie, an author and former Guardian journalist, would struggle for conversation, their lockdown ennui has been a boon for the nation’s podcast listeners. Their show, Teach Me a Lesson, quickly rose to the top of the iTunes charts when it was released last month, piggybacking on the trend for lifelong learning that has flourished during the pandemic.