In this episode of UniCast, Nancy and Meg catch up with Simmie Superstar Broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake. Currently host of his daily show on BBC Radio 5 Live and his podcast Headliners, Nihal has previously presented on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Asian Network and is due to publish his new book Lets Talk: How to Have Better Conversations later in the year. Nancy and Meg find out about Nihal's time studying at St Mary's and his advice for how we can all have better conversations on difficult topics.

This week Meg and Nancy are joined by final year student Josefine and Student Placement Lead Maxine to talk all things Work Placements. If you are interested in one of our new sandwich year courses or want to find out about what its like undertaking a work placement as part of your degree and how it will benefit you at the start of your career, then this is the UniCast episode for you.

Find out more about our degrees with placement year: https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/placement-year.aspx

In this episode of UniCast, Nancy and Meg are joined by Head of Drama St Mary's Mark Griffin to talk to Simmie Superstar Tom Grennan. Tom shares his memories of studying Physical Theatre at St Mary's, plays a round of Simmies Would You Rather, talks about the new Drama St Mary's Scholarships in partnership with The Stage, which offer two fully funded places to students regardless of financial or social background, and reunites with an old friend. This is not an episode to be missed!