A new wave of special guests has been announced for the third annual London Podcast Festival 2018. Across two weekends (7-9 and 13-16 September), the world’s top podcasters will gather at Kings Place to present unique live versions of their hit shows and discuss the latest news and innovations in this booming art form.
Newly confirmed guests include:
-
Catastrophe star Rob Delaney appearing alongside Comedy Bang! favourite Tawny Newsome in improvised sketch comedy Superego (Fri 14 Sep)
-
Sue Perkins discussing the joy and art of comedy with Philomena Cunk writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris on Rule of Three (Fri 7 Sep)
-
Award-winning author and blogger The Slumflower on Alex Manzi's inspirational lifestyle show Dreamer's Disease (Thu 13 Sep) and a special version of regular live podcast show Standard Issue alongside Angela Barnes and Imriel Morgan (Sat 15 Sep)
-
Mae Martin on Cameron Esporito's Queery Live (Thu 13 Sep)
-
Tom Allen and Chris Neill getting a grilling on Dave Holms and Matt McConkey's queer comedy party Homophilia (Fri 14 Sep)
-
Shappi Khorsandi riding rough-shod over the events of the week in Jolyon Rubinstein's award-winning We Need To Talk About (Sun 16 Sep)
-
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Best Newcomer nominee Olga Koch and Robin Ince on Ed Patrick's Comedian's Surgery (Sat 8 Sep)
-
Alex Zane chatting Central Perk, Marcel the monkey and more on Friends With Friends (Sun 9 Sep)
-
Aisling Bea joining Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi on the boundary-pushing political pop-culture show Throwing Shade (Sun 16 Sep)
-
Shazia Mirza turning tricky questions about race into comedy gold on top US podcast Yo, Is This Racist? (Sun 16 Sep)
-
Andrew Hunter Murray, Erin Gibson and Dane Baptiste looking at the lighter side of death on Cariad Lloyd's Griefcast (Sat 15 Sep)
-
Mike Wozniak, Nadia Kamil, Tawny Newsome and Dave Cribb in a very special live edition of the cult favourite Beef and Dairy Network Podcast (Sun 16 Sep)
They join a star-studded international line-up of top podcasters and performers including Bojack Horseman star Paul F. Tompkins (SPONTANEANATION Sat 15 Sep, Characters of Earwolf Sun 16 Sep) The Wire's Clarke Peters chatting on show fan-cast The Wire Untapped (Fri 7 Sep), Broad City's Chris Gethard (Beautiful Anonymous, Fri 14 Sep), Starlee Kine revealing the mystery of Mystery Show (Sun 16 Sep) and husband-and-wife team Travis & Teresa McElroy with modern etiquette show Shmanners (Sat 8 Sep), alongside UK favourites Stephen Mangan guesting on Alan Partridge fan show Monkey Tennis (Sat 8 Sep) and Al Murray talking James Bond on Smersh Pod (Sun 9 Sep).
London-based podcast innovators appearing live include Annika Allen's Black Magic Network featuring former Team GB athlete and the first black Miss Universe Great Britain Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers and the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse Candice Brathwaite on Thu 13 September and James Barr and Dan Hudson aka A Gay and A Non-Gay on Sat 8 Sep. The London Podcast Festival is also thrilled to be hosting Diversity: Just Do It - an unmissable panel event on Diversity: Just Do It on Sat 15 Sep– a frank, necessary discussion on diversity in the podcasting industry featuring David Lavas (Spoken Word Producer at Carousel Radio), Reju Sharma (Producer and CEO of Three Street Media), Tazer Black (Producer of The Receipts and 3 Shots Of Tequila Podcasts) and Sophie Herdman (UK Content Editor at ACAST).
An early innovator in hosting live podcasts, they’ve been a key part of the programme at Kings Place since 2011 and this year the Evening Standard declared it ‘the No 1 place in the UK to watch live podcasts’. Now in its third year and bigger and better than ever, the London Podcast Festival is an unprecedented opportunity to meet your favourite podcasters and discover your new must-listen show all under one roof.
The London Podcast Festival 2018 is thrilled to announce its inaugural partnership with Spotifywhich will be hosting a stage at the event. The festival will also be partnering with Acast, the global leader in audio on demand, connecting audio makers with the financial support they need to create amazing content while also delivering the audience they want.
James Cator, Spotify’s Head of Podcast Partnerships for EMEA, commented: “As one of the biggest supporters of the podcast industry, we are delighted to partner with The London Podcast Festival to celebrate together the incredible creativity and growth of the thriving podcast community.”
Tickets to individual events start from just £6.50 and are on sale now here.
