Talking to a wall. Lots of sap and reflections on the year past and my Podcast Resolutions for next year
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2018-12-30 16:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo! I am putting together an end of year solo pod tonight, reflecting on the year. Let me know if there’s anything you’d like to address in it.
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2018-12-30 16:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a super interesting conversation with Amanda S, who works as a freelance consultant in education, currently in remote areas in South East Asia. I found her ideas about spreading ideas and giving children the equipment to engage with the world incredibly interesting, and I hope you do too!
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Non- itunes listeners can 2018-12-20 14:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
So I’m sitting in Zaltzman’s shed, and we’re writing nonsense for his annual end of year Revue Show. Last night was opening night, and it was chaotic and fun and educational.
(Word to the wise audience member, opening night is like meeting a baby. It’s likely to be cute, messy and not quite dinner party ready. Come if you want to see that, but otherwise wait til later in the run. Some people I know deliberately come twice to shows, once early, once late, because they enjoy watching so...
2018-12-19 18:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A few more minutes of content from the Teacast with Cally.
2018-12-09 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a super interesting chat. "Cally" is a friend of a friend, and I decided to have tea with him on their recommendation. Ordinarily the 'audition' process for my guests involves me having had at least one extraordinarily interesting conversation with them, and then asking them to come and do the podcast.
In this instance, I met him on spec, and it turned out to be incredibly fascinating. We chatted for about half an hour before I turned the mics on, and I had no hesitation in doin...
2018-12-09 02:19:37 +0000 UTC View Post
What should we be thinking about today? Bonus content for you lovely patreon subscriber types.
Sarah Greenidge is the Founder of WellSpoken, an organisation that's trying to change the world, specifically everyone who is telling you how to live for maximum wellness on the basis of dodgy, anecdotal or non-existent data. We spoke about race, nepotism and how to change people's minds bit by bit.
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Non- itunes listeners can 2018-12-04 02:07:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Tiff Stevenson, one of the best friends of the podcast, returns for more intense and interesting chat about what it is to be a person in the world, a woman in the industry and some controversial thoughts.
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Non- itunes listeners can catch it here 2018-11-21 15:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a bit of extra content for you guys, spinning off the Tiff Stevenson episode that's out today.
Let me know if this is something you'd like more of.
2018-11-21 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy #antibullying week, patreonites!
We are living with technology that makes it possible to put our mouths into people’s pockets and call them c#nts. What a wonderful thing.
Here are some thoughts on how to argue without being a bully.
It’s been lovely getting feedback on the Audible documentary I did on meditation and neuroscience.
Listening back to the edit, it’s really fascinating to hear my dynamic with Ash Ranpura growing, and reflect on the process of getting to know someone through a shared project.
I’ve also enjoyed working in a team, after many years of being a lone wolf. I was very disillusioned by working in a corporation, and I’ve always found it hard to build the kind of creative connection you nee...
2018-11-11 16:42:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo! I am a documentarian!
Ignore the cheesy graphic, this is a documentary series I did with Ash Ranpura (who I had on the Teacast). It was really interesting to do, and I learned a lot about the brain as we went along. I really enjoyed the process and am very happy to be doing this kind of work.
The link is here
It’s free for Audible subscribers, wh...
2018-11-09 18:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a lovely uncomfortable chat with my good friend and ex-boss, Neal Downward, sitting in a London cafe drinking blue tea talking business, wellness, mortality, moving, Aussie Politics, diversity hiring and staying in your lane.
Find Neal HERE
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Non- itunes listeners can 2018-10-26 18:21:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I spoke with Phil Nichol in his flat in Camden over some mint and liquorice tea, over anger, acid reflux, public weeping, masculinity and human connection.
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People trail stories. Like the strands off jellyfish or guy-ropes on tents we anchor ourselves in front and behind with stories. Who we are, where we’ve come from, where we’re going. We are yanked by those stories into all of our choices, so that at times the choices aren’t really choices.
I did that thing because of who I am, or who I want to be, which is because of who I was.
We leave stories behind us when they no longer serve us. We project stories onto t...
2018-10-17 14:05:29 +0000 UTC View Post
My conversation with my mother, Lucy Fraser, a few months before she died.
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2018-10-12 11:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Cure For Cancer Causing Cancer!
Newspapers like to talk about science. It helps them pretend that they are interested in facts, which is what newspapers like to do. (secret newsflash: they are mostly not at all, being instead interested in money. Shh, don’t tell them we know!) Pretending to be interested in facts is the favourite game of many news sources;
The game’s called “Say Things That Sound Like Facts Without Doing Any Research, We Need People Clicking Throug...
2018-10-07 14:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Answering some of your questions from twitter. 19 questions, about 16 answers. Politics in comedy, milk in tea, how to avoid burning down the world.
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2018-09-29 07:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Beth O'Brien sat with me over tea in her flat in Hampstead Heath talking self esteem vs self respect, medical terminology, journalistic ethics, and the problem with autoimmune disorders.
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2018-09-20 18:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the time of year, post edinburgh, where all your plans suddenly fall off a cliff. You’ve pushed everything into this month of intense work, and then when all those blocked out days on your calendar suddenly stretch out into empty space, the questions start sliding into the corners of your vision like the halo of a migraine.
For me, it can mean some sleepless nights. Anyway, here’s some comedy I wrote around this time of year a few years ago on the SBS Comedy platform. Because...
Dr Henry Fraser, equi-temporal sibling and tech-literally-my-bro, talks over chilli rooibos about the pros and cons of swearing in modern discourse, self care vs mindless hedonism, precision of language and the product that he is working on to change the way you do agreements.
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I sat in a field at End of The Road Festival and had a chat with John-Luke Roberts about praise, truth, absurdism, performance training, alienating an audience and the romantic chemistry of creation.
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Non- itunes listeners can catch it here 2018-09-03 11:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Walking in the Highlands is a good way to relax, though it’s hard to slow down your mind after all these weeks of shows, and the obvious as well as subtle pressures the Fringe imposes.
Also, my body has officially collapsed after going Fringe-Highlands-redeye-flight to Salisbury, midnight Bugle in a forest glade.
Also I’ve hit 10,000 twitter followers for no apparent reason, given that recently I’ve just been plugging my shows and retweeting praise and not being particularl...
If you had issues with the last minute of the first half of Empire in the podcast of The Alice Fraser Trilogy, it should be fixed now.
Depending on your app, you might have to delete & re-upload. Surprisingly, despite Tea With Alice previous, I had nothing to do with the tech here. I KNOW! I EXPECTED IT TO BE MY FAULT TOO
It’s been a hectic week, what with radio interviews to Australia for the launch of The Alice Fraser Trilogy, my Dad arriving at the Fringe and you know... The Fringe.
Today for example, I woke up about 20 minutes before I needed to be on stage at a morning lineup show, then met my dad to take him to see Tim Fitzhigham’s lovely Flanders and Swan tribute act (last night I took him to John Luke Roberts and the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society, so don’t worry that I’m sheltering h...
James Nokise, friend of the podcast over liquorice tea, on Golliwogs, explaining consent and inherited trauma.
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2018-08-19 11:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday (Wednesday) was a terrifying rollercoaster of emotions.
After Monday’s Trilogy, my first show back of ETHOS on Tuesday was really lovely, so after a day of lots of running around, writing jokes for Wednesday night’s Bugle and figuring out the logistics of getting to New Town Theatre by 9.10pm, when my show goes from 7.55 til 8.55, and I have to pack up a robot.
About midway through the day someone sent me a very “meh” review of my show and I felt annoye...
2018-08-16 14:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post