Rosie Wilby’s acclaimed podcast The Breakup Monologues starts 2020 with two announcements and a brand new season. 

 

The Breakup Monologues is one of 11 successful recipients of the Pulse Award, an initiative from the British Podcast Awards and Wellcome to produce content that drives conversations around public health. Rosie Wilby will host a live double bill at Kings Place on March 20 exploring whether recent medical advances have brought chemical control of our love lives within our grasp ... and whether this is something that people want. Would we take a pill to erase an ex from our memory? 

 

The Breakup Monologues is also set to become a book, to be published by Bloomsbury health and wellbeing imprint Green Tree in 2021. In a similar style of immersive narrative nonfiction to her award-shortlisted debut Is Monogamy Dead?, Rosie will blend humour, memoir, science and interviews to investigate how breakups have evolved over time and around the world, how they may change in the future and how they have impacted her own life. 

 

To celebrate all this and to gear up for their annual anti-Valentine's live show, The Breakup Monologues launches a new season on February 7 with an episode recorded live at Podcast Social Club in Thirsk featuring comedian Matt Hoss and poet Kate Fox. 

 

The Breakup Monologues is available on all good podcast platforms and features guests including comedians Richard Herring, Viv Groskop, Ayesha Hazarika, Brett Goldstein and Sofie Hagen and authors Dolly Alderton and Daisy Buchanan all sharing their funny and bizarre stories of breakup and recovery. It has been recommended by Metro, The Observer, Time Out, Chortle, Diva, Run Riot, The Tung, BBC Woman's Hour, BBC Saturday Review, BBC Podcast Radio Hour, BBC Radio London, Great British Podcasts and Funny Women. Season 3 will be released weekly on Fridays from February 7 and is produced by Dave Pickering. Rosie has also written and narrated an episode of Radio 4 podcast The Boring Talks all about breakup language, which will be released in Feb. 

Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian who has appeared many times on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman’s Hour, TV programmes including Good Morning Britain and at major festivals including Latitude, Glastonbury, Wilderness, Green Man, Larmer Tree, Secret Garden Party and How The Light Gets In. Her first book Is Monogamy Dead? was shortlisted for the Diva Literary Awards 2017 and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2018. 

 

The next London live recordings are at Poplar Union on February 13. Buy tickets here. And at Kings Place on March 20 and April 24. Buy tickets here.

 

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