Hellish

British actor NINA SOSANYA chooses the five tracks that will torment her for all eternity. If you've been anywhere near a screen in the last twenty years, you've seen something Nina has been in, from Teachers to Baby Reindeer via Doctor Who, Good Omens, Staged, Screw, Killing Eve, His Dark Materials and you know what? You should just go to IMDB and look. Needless to say, she has made an amazing ca...

American photographer VALERIE PHILLIPS gives us a picture of her personal musical Hell, selecting the five tracks that will torment her for all eternity. Valerie's incredible body of work spans live music, album covers, corporate clients, and fashion magazines as well as her fascinating series of books photographing young women in their own environments. She's shot PJ Harvey, Garbage, and Florence...

Scottish author MARTIN STEWART boards the one-way elevator to the waiting room at the end of eternity, where we take from him the five tracks that will plague his afterlife. Martin is a prolific author of children's books, from 'Scottish Stranger Things' The Sacrifice Box to his "Bridget Vanderpuff" series for the over-eights. He recently moved into adult crime fiction, with the excellent Double P...

Episode fourteen brings a new development, for the first time we welcome two souls at once! Glasgow band NEVERFINE materialize in Hell and are forced to provide the five tracks that will torture them for all eternity. neverfine are the creators of a fine E.P. called Do Everything, Feel Nothing and in January released their single Colours . They've been tipped as ones to watch this year by BBC Radi...

Our thirteenth episode sees Welsh critic and broadcaster GARY RAYMOND dragged to Hell and made to give up the five tracks that will torture him for all eternity. Gary is no stranger to trips in the underworld, as his latest book, Abandon All Hope is a version of Dante's inferno set in the world of Welsh literature. He is the author of four other books: two fiction, two non-fiction, including How L...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode twelve is really something else. We're joined by art director/model maker/costume designer/vfx whizz CERIDWEN BROWN. It's quite hard to explain exactly what Ceridwen does, as you'll hear in the episode, but it has included making puppets for Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox; making prosthetics for the M...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode eleven sees writer and broadcaster HORATIO CLARE join us so we can extract the five tracks he will meet in Hell. Horatio is the author of several books, including Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire Myths and Legends and Heavy Light , a memoir about his experience of being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. T...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode ten, and to celebrate our epi-decade we've got comedy producer MICHELLE FARR SCOTT to give us the five tracks that will torment her for all eternity. Michelle's CV is packed full of British comedy goodness, including Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps , Life's Too Short , and Bluestone 42 . She i...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode nine! We're welcoming actor and writer KELLIE SHIRLEY to Hell, to get the five tracks that will torment her for all eternity. Kellie is familiar to millions as Carly Wicks in British soap Eastenders , Kirsty in Idris Elba's In the Long Run , and currently Sophia in Casualty . In this episode, we talk ab...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode eight belongs to thriller writer KAT ELLIS. Kat is the author of five young adult novels, with a sixth on the way. In this episode, we talk about being published for ten years, the art of the throat punch, and a song that definitely wants you to hate it from the first second. You can find out more about...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode seven is archaeologist and TV presenter ERIN LLOYD JONES. Erin is well known to TV viewers in the UK, appearing on documentaries for Sky and Discovery, as well being a regular presenter on cosy Welsh rambling show Weatherman Walking. In this episode, we talk about Princess Diana's death, the later caree...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode six brings us to musician and composer IAIN COOK. Iain is one third of the band CHVRCHES and one half of new project Protection. We talk the Beano universe, what exactly the rules are when it comes to a song universally adored that you cannot stand, whether or not CHVRCHES ever ride around on BMX bikes...

Welcome to Hellish, where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode five is the turn of Acting Coach, Teacher, and Director JAMES KEMP. James has taught at least one actor you think is awesome, including Tom Hardy, Emilia Clarke, and former damned soul Stephen Wight. As a coach, his clients include Dune star Rebecca Ferguson and Scroobius Pip of Distraction Pieces fame....

Welcome to Hellish, the show where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. Episode four, and we welcome our first poet since Dante, GLYN EDWARDS. Glyn is the author of two poetry collections, Vertebrae , and In Orbit . We talk teaching, getting mis-named, lyrics vs poems, and of course the worst job Glyn has ever done. Head to patreon.com/hellishpod to access episodes early a...

Welcome to Hellish, the show where we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. In episode three, we torment Capital Radio's ALISTAIR JAMES. As well as being a top breakfast DJ, Alistair is also a singer and award-winning songwriter. He talks us through the five songs we'll be using to torture him for all eternity. We talk karaoke, the Welsh Eurovision Cân i Gymru , playing music...

Welcome to Hellish, the show in which we ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. In this episode, we welcome actor STEPHEN WIGHT. The star of I May Destroy You, Bluestone 42, Screw, Star Wars: Andor, and of course Highlander: The Source talks us through the five songs we'll be using to torture him for all eternity. We talk springs, fancy Star Wars sets, auditions, and the worst...

Welcome to Hellish. In this show we'll be asking our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell. In our first episode, we welcome actor SANTIAGO CABRERA . The star of Merlin , The Musketeers , Star Trek: Picard , Heroes and many, many more talks us through the five songs we'll be using to torture him for all eternity. We talk Soccer Aid, dying, strikes, the CIA, and the worst job Santiago h...

Introducing Hellish: a new music podcast, launching Monday April 22nd 2024. Each week, we'll be broadcasting from Hell's waiting room as we ask our guests/damned souls for the five tracks they will meet in Hell: the songs we will be using to torture them for all eternity. In this short intro episode, we tell you how to get episodes one and two before anyone else, and we announce the name of our fi...