Hallo!
Am now in the final days of MICF. It has been an exhausting run, with no days off MYTHOS except for the days I've been supporting Norah Jones. On the bright side, this means the show came together relatively quickly and I'm pretty happy with it now.
Come see it in the world!
This week's podcast with Tea-Friend Jarrod McKenna was a fun one, I enjoy our conversations, and particularly enjoy how Jarrod likes to cite his sources both secular and biblical. ...
2019-04-19 01:29:43 +0000 UTC
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More of the excellent Amanda Buckley talking about what we should be thinking about.
2019-04-08 06:35:32 +0000 UTC
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I caught up with old friend, the immensely talented Amanda Buckley for a long overdue cup of tea to talk about Jealousy, supportive partnership, selfhood, ageing, body image, motherhood and depression.
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2019-04-05 06:46:07 +0000 UTC
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Hallo!
Whether it was talking about the show to you here yesterday, or just the next natural step in the process of chewing things together in my hindbrain, but I woke up at about 2am with whirring cogs and threads aligning in my show like a procedural forensic drama.
Now I wish I could grab everyone who has come so far and excitedly tell them that all of the pieces are actually there for a reason (and tell them the reason) rather than just feeling in my gut that they *should* be...
2019-04-04 19:57:48 +0000 UTC
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It's been a rollercoaster of a first week at MICF with my new show, MYTHOS. Previously, I've always had a Pre-Melbourne season of previews to knock a show into shape, but this time, Melbourne was a standing start for me. I had done two half-hour previews in London to try some of the jokes, but structurally, it's been very much working the show out on the fly.
This is always a mixed feeling, because of course you want every audience to enjoy themselves as much as possible, but at t...
2019-04-04 08:04:30 +0000 UTC
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Answering some questions and a long, intense email. Solo ep, talking about the new show, MICF, and all that fun jazz.
Content warning for discussion of mental illness and family distress.
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2019-03-30 03:11:32 +0000 UTC
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When I started out in comedy, there wasn’t much room for me or my style. Was turned away from a lot of things because I didn’t look like what they wanted. I repeatedly used to tell myself “be better”, “be undeniable”.
I refused to see it as being about my qualities (even though it probably was) and made it a spur to work on the work’s quality. That was me starting out. Tonight I’m doing the MICF opening night gala. Whether it’s my improvement or the industr...
2019-03-27 03:35:25 +0000 UTC
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This was the second time I'd sat down with Justin Hamilton to chat, and the first time I brought my microphones and we ended up just catching up as normal humans.
The second time, I managed to record our chat over peppermint tea and it ended up being about relevance, loneliness, revitalising creativity, ambiguity, experimental audio states, cinematic standup and whether and how to say something interesting when you're not sure anyone wants to listen to you.
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2019-03-23 01:50:27 +0000 UTC
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2019-03-15 22:35:06 +0000 UTC
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Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards are a double act, breaking many boxes when it comes to absurd, confronting and wildly funny comedy. I chatted to them in London about rebellion, ageing, womanhood, confrontation and being funny when nobody wants you to be.
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2019-03-14 21:57:38 +0000 UTC
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Halfway home to Sydney, just before tipping over into the calm waters of zombified acceptance, at that point where you feel like your whole body is a jumper you urgently need to shuck.
Abu Dhabi airport is too small to walk around for two hours without feeling very trapped, but I always feel guilty if I sit down in the space between two long stretches of sitting down, so now I have just been looking at all of the many varieties of dates and much falcon paraphernalia.
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2019-03-09 05:03:25 +0000 UTC
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Kate Leaver is an old friend, a journalist, the published author of a book on Friendship and the ex-writer of Pottermore, the official Harry Potter website. She met me in my go-to teahouse in Soho and we talked over a glamorous courtesan tea about depression, medication and friendship.
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Chris Skinner, the one-hipped wonder, suddenly ex-triathlete and current Producer of The Bugle Podcast talks to Alice over black tea about exercise, pain, dignity, ageing and vulnerability.
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2019-02-22 17:18:33 +0000 UTC
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Today I took a day completely off work because after filming the double of ETHOS on Sunday, I woke up to a six hour meeting on Monday followed by MCing Old Rope Monday night. On the bus home, a couple of people came up to chat with me, and I realised I was bordering on total burnout.
So, today off. Tomorrow filming all my answers to your questions. But as a form of apology, I did engage in a few nice twitter chats today, which I think are worth excerpting the interesting bits of b...
2019-02-19 21:23:45 +0000 UTC
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ETA: answers are going up in my Instagram stories as a result of having 0 editing time before the show begins.
http://Instagram.com/aliterative
You should be able to see them even if you don’t have Instagram.
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Hallo lovely people.
I’m so pleased that a few more of you can come to the show, and that I was able to turn those last two promoter holds into...
2019-02-16 21:42:42 +0000 UTC
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I went to Cambridge to visit a new baby and some old friends.
Inventors, veterinarians and parents, Greg Dickens and Dr Guen Bradbury talk with me over tea and water about the decline in insect populations, the differences in diagnostic approaches of veterinarians vs doctors, sleep deprivation for a good cause, and how to process the simultaneous statistical likelihoods of death and happiness.
2019-02-16 15:31:50 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE:
The winner has been drawn by assigning numbers in order and then running a random number generator and is Thomas Wise! Message me for details.
But I had an idea and called management. It is possible or even probable that the 5pm show will only have 1 camera, to the second show’s 2 or 3. This means if I ask nicely (like I just did) there might be space to shove in a few more seats which would possibly make room for more London based “competition entran...
2019-02-15 17:21:33 +0000 UTC
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What does Andrew O'Niell think you should turn your mind to today?
2019-02-12 15:58:27 +0000 UTC
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I consistently get asked by you lovely Patreon types, and in normal life what my favourite book is, and I find it impossible to answer that question.
I think it's because books are in my head, a sort of form of transport.
When someone asks what my favourite book is, it feels like I'm trying to answer the question, 'how do you like to travel from one place to another?', because the answer to that will always depend on where you want to go, what kind of day it is, how fi...
2019-02-09 16:26:25 +0000 UTC
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(photo credit: Tom Medwell)
I had a lovely chat in Camden over fancy tea with author, Metal historian, musician and comedian Andrew O'Niell about “normal tea”, good faith discourse, plastic surgery, femininity, heavy metal, dreadlocks and cultural appropriation.
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Hallo, I've been doing a bit of non-comedy writing in my spare time, and here is some of it for you lovely subscribers.
Let me know if it's the kind of thing you'd want more of. If you prefer the comedy style writing, I'm also hoping to do a bit more of that this year - ideally something new every week if inspiration or discipline strikes, and/or maybe the offcuts from Bugle shows. I tend to over-write for the bugle, as we end up getting to only about 2/3 of the stories we intend ...
2019-02-03 15:42:24 +0000 UTC
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Laura Davis is the best, my favourite and has recently returned to london to have a mystery tea and talk to me about hypnotherapy, the fears you grow out of and into, and the time she went for a very long swim without telling anyone where she was going.
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2019-01-31 23:25:41 +0000 UTC
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Some additional bonus content for patreonites from the Tea With Alice I did with Neal Gaiman.
2019-01-28 13:41:21 +0000 UTC
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I spoke with Neil Gaiman, writer and reluctant show-runner, over fresh mint tea and black english breakfast tea in a library.
We spoke about when you can let go of work and when you feel a duty to fight for it to be a particular way, how his graphic bible story nearly got someone thrown in jail, and the importance of protecting icky speech.
I have enjoyed reading Neil's work for a long time, and was just the right age for Good Omens to make a big impact on my ideas abo...
2019-01-24 12:09:31 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode is with the lovely Matt Kirshen, who does an excellent podcast called Probably Science, and is both very sharp, and also kind and thoughtful, which is a nice combination.
We talked about the roles we play, hiding at your own gigs, and the joys of dating. Also, the smoke alarm went off in my flat.
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2019-01-17 12:57:31 +0000 UTC
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I’m doing a gig in Brighton tonight where it’s poets vs comedians. I’m on the comedian team for tonight, which is always a bit of an odd feeling, because I always thought when I was a kid that I’d end up a poet.
Anyway, there are themed rounds, where we have to have stand-up bits on certain topics (the poets have to have poems for the rounds, obvs) and I sat down to write some jokes about science and instead wrote an extremely silly little poem about the division of s...
2019-01-16 18:59:41 +0000 UTC
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Recently a friend and fellow podcaster has spoken publicly about his experiences with sexual and physical violence. His story is both upsetting and depressing - upsetting in his relation of abuse and depressing in the description of how unwelcome he felt his story would be.
I have spoken a number of times on Tea With Alice to Dean Mayes, who is an author as well as a hospital nurse. In ...
2019-01-13 16:28:10 +0000 UTC
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Comic and mental health campaigner Juliette Burton has a glass of grape tea and talks about single men in her audience, weakness, shame, and the interpenetrability of human experience.
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2019-01-09 12:43:17 +0000 UTC
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Also to me!
2019-01-07 12:54:31 +0000 UTC
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Answering, or trying to answer some tough and interesting questions from Patreon Subs, twitterers and emailers.
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2019-01-01 20:35:29 +0000 UTC
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