BIZARRE: 2 | Mind Blowing Facts

Stevie Martin: I auditioned for Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar in a haze of fear

The comedian on strange encounters with fans, performing to a room full of silence and the state of sketch comedy

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2024

Nish Kumar: ‘Nando’s is the only thing uniting this increasingly fragmented nation’

The comedian on how he rates his cooking skills, food disasters and the link between the chicken restaurant and David Attenborough

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2024

Hold the Front Page season 2: next episode, trailer, interview and everything we know

Hold the Front Page season 2 sees Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar return to local news journalism.

WhatToWatch · Apr 18, 2024

‘I haven’t been so gripped by a podcast, ever’: your favourite listens of 2023 so far

From riotously funny dating tales to jaw-dropping journalism, Guardian readers think it’s been an incredible year for podcasts. Here is their pick of the best

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2023

The best podcasts of 2023 so far

Rylan Clark discusses how to be a man, Daisy May Cooper is unreceptive to classic novels and Jon Ronson investigates a debutante turned neo-Nazi in the pick of the year to date

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2023

Tennent's coffin aims to 'put a smile on faces of grieving families'

A SCOTTISH funeral parlour says it aims to put smiles on people’s faces on the darkest days with their “wacky” coffin designs – including…

The National (Scotland) · May 29, 2023

The week in audio: Iran’s Hit Squads; Pod Save the UK; Frontlines of Journalism and more

Paul Caruana Galizia studies the dangers of being Iranian in the UK; a British version of the hit US show tries too hard, Jeremy Bowen probes BBC impartiality and more

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2023

Political firebrand Nish Kumar: ‘I can’t be both problematic and an irrelevance’

After The Mash Report was cancelled by the BBC, comedian Nish Kumar is back with a new and uncompromising political podcast. He talks to Nick Curtis about receiving death threats, starting therapy and staying optimistic

Evening Standard · May 9, 2023

Nish Kumar: ‘Tony Blair increasingly resembles the supervillain in an 80s action film’

The comedian on his new podcast about political activism, the symbolism of Sunak and Braverman, and rowdy post-pandemic audiences

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2023

Best podcasts of the week: What really happened when Elon Musk took over Twitter

In this week’s newsletter: Why has the social network been in total chaos since the world’s richest man took control? Flipping the Bird investigates. Plus: five of the best podcasts about planet Earth

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2023