Park Date

Location: St James Square, Edinburgh Guest: Steve McLean Here's another episode I recorded at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe - with the brilliant and very Scottish Steve McLean. Steve does comedy shows about music, runs the excellent awards called West End New Act of The Year, and has a new book out called Stealing Deep Purple, which you should go and buy https://www.thehighwaystar.com/news/2025/07/16/...

Location: Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Guests: Alfrun Rose A special episode here for you all. I knew Alfrun Rose's dad Gis and her lovely mum Anna when I was doing music journalism a decade ago. Gis' death is one of the inspirations for Alfie's exquisite play Dead Air. I watched the play at the Edinburgh Fringe and then we chatted about it and life and death in general with the imposing Arthur'...

Location: Holland Park, London Guests: Chris Romer-Lee and Kathryn Ferry Okay a lovely special episode for you here with TWO guests for the price of one. The three of us were joined by Peigh Asante of the fab Swim Dem Crew for a talk I hosted on Jun 3 2025. It was a spin off from the Design Museum's Splash! Exhibition and was organised by the amazing Imelda Dooley Hunter. So me, Chris and Kathryn...

Location: MAC, Birmingham, UK Guests: Sam Nicoresti and Nathan Cassidy (and Nathan's dad) Ok this is a special Park Date with not one, not two but THREE guests. We recorded a little chat backstage at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham before I hosted the Brum on The Box show where we screened random archive titbits and had a laugh about the crazy telly that was made in Birmingham like Gangster...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Location: Birmingham, UK Guest: David Baldwin It's Christmas 2025! It's me and David Baldwin's annual Christmas catch-up. But what's this? Is David buying drugs? And why is there so much traffic as we try to get to the park next to the Mac arts centre? And where are we going to park? Ho ho ho homeless men ask us for money, Balders comes good with the driving and we chat about we've...

Location: By some bins, behind the Melia Hotel (there were a few trees around), Gt Portland St, London, UK Guest: Sophie Sconcia I took Sophie for a quickie by some bins behind a hotel. It's a little podcast but a funny one! Sophie is amazing and it's no surprise she won the audience vote at the West End New Act Competition a few hours after we did this episode. Check out her Cat Soup night in Che...

Stockwell, London, UK Guest: George Watson Actor and stand up George Watson joins me for this episode as we walk around the green spaces of some council estates in Stockwell, London, while George has a G&T in hand. George has been in Wedding Season, Masters Of The Air and many more and is now killing as a stand up. Maybe he'll be in the short film I'm making? As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocc...

Elephant Park, London, UK Guest: Claire Cox The always funny Claire Cox talks us through state school pony clubs, Waitrose, and other middle class problems. Come and the see the show Claire is doing with yours truly at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Aug 2-9 and 15.45 at PBH's Free Fringe Venue 102 - Brewdog Lothian Road, Edinburgh. It's called Chaos in The Avocado Aisle - 99 Middle Class Problems. Y...

Location: Clapham, London, UK Guest: Caroline McEvoy Let's talk trains with Caroline! Check out her Edinburgh show Train Man this Aug - buy tickets here https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/caroline-mcevoy-train-man Caroline is then also doing Train Man at the Dublin Fringe in Sep! And go to her and Alfie Packham's fab London comedy night, Comedy Bandits in Clapham As always GRAZIE to Lucia S...

Location: Bunhill Cemetery, London, UK Guest: Richard Parr It's only JOHN INVERDALE AWARD WINNER Richard Parr isn't it?! We take a look at William Blake's grave. He's not impressed. As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast  https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/ ), Rosie Wilby ( https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues...

Location: Regent's Park, London, UK Guest: Phil Green Phil Green joins us on Park Date to chat about his new show about mental health and middle-aged men. And we talk about walking cockapoos in London parks! Check out Phil's great Edinburgh show at the Fringe in Aug. As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast  https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/cat...

Location: Regent's Park, London, UK Guest: Alfie Packham Alfie Packham tells me about working for the Guardian by day and doing comedy by night. Mixing journalism with comedy is something we have in common. And we get nerdy over Games Workshop. Check out Alfie's great Edinburgh show at the Fringe in Aug. As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast  ht...

Elephant Park, London, UK Guest: David Ian Wow it's our 50th episode! Thanks for coming along for the ride In this episode David Ian talks us through his upcoming Edinburgh show and the tells us the story of the Queer Comedy Club As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast  https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/ ), Rosie Wil...

London Fields, UK Guest: Rosalie Minnitt Rosalie Minnitt is great! GIVE HER SOME FUNDING! Seriously. I felt bad because she told me she just had some bad news before we did this - and all I can say is, you need to fund her. Her Austen spoof Clementine is great. Or just make it into a great Blackadder-esque sitcom. Anyway thanks Rosalie for chatting and I hope I cheered you up :) As always GRAZIE t...

Birmingham, UK Guest: David Baldwin Happy Holidays! Happy Christmas! Seen all the travel programmes where two ageing comedians go on a journey? Well, have you? Then please enjoy our pilot for a new series of Chris & David's Birmingham Adventure. Yes, these two washed up old f***ers will be going on a journey just like all the other pairs of middle aged white men doing travel shows laced with p...

London, UK Guest: Tom Dinsdale of Audio Bullys It's time for another new episode of Park Date This is a cheeky spin off from a Metro interview I did with Tom Dinsdale from Audio Bullys We recorded it to put out as a podcast for Park Date so here it is! But you can also read the interview online at metro.co.uk Cheers! As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant pod...

Antrim Gardens, Belsize Park, London, UK Guest: Davina Bentley Davina Bentley is a great comedian and despite her rinsing me for wearing a Hawaiian shirt at her Edinburgh gig a couple of years ago (remember that Davina haha?!) she is one of my favourite comedians in London at the moment. You have to check out her excellent skits on Instagram @davinabentleycomedy where she does brilliant take offs...

Kynaston Gardens, London, UK Guest: Freddie Hill Lots of laughs as me and comedian Freddie Hill talk about movies, music, highbrow jokes, satirising the North London middle classes and running a comedy night. And come to that comedy night you should! Babbling Babel, in Stoke Newington - it's a cracking little comedy club run by Freddie and friends. Check it out. I'll be playing there on Sep 26 too...

Location: Bingfield Park London, UK Guest: Stacey Edwards It's time for another new episode of Park Date All you need to know is that you'll need to turn the volume down on this one. It's Stacey Edwards! As Stacey says at one point: "This is like a voice note" Follow her @lestass As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast  https://southgirlproduction...

Location: Mayville Estate Gardens London Guest: Harry Stachini WARNING - THERE IS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE IN THIS EPISODE, SO IT'S NOT SUITABLE FOR KIDS We're back! And our first guest for a new run is Harry Stachini. Catch Harry performing his solo show at Edinburgh Fringe in Aug and also doing his podcast All Made Up LIVE! Yes we ran out of batteries but it was still fun. Cheers Harry As always GRA...

Location: The Bill Murray and Prebend St Park London Guest: Dec Munro Please welcome Mr Comedy - Dec Munro - to the podcast. Some of you might know I scratched my itch to do stand up comedy last year and it would not have been possible without the kindness and enthusiasm of this guy. He really did give me the confidence to get on stage that I'd been craving for years and is, like my mum(!), a bril...

Location: Kings Heath Park Birmingham, UK Guest: Andy Howlett It's time for another new episode of Park Date Please welcome Andy Howlett. Now this is something a little different... we recorded this chat for my When Harry Met Telly podcast series about the infamous film Telly Salavas Looks At Birmingham. We'll still do something with that... but I thought in the meantime you might like to hear the...

Location: Hyde Park (aka Woodhouse Moor) Leeds, UK Guest: David Ellis It's time for another new episode of Park Date Please welcome David Ellis. David and I chatted about what makes a liveable city and how transport clicks together, from biking to trains. We talked before I did a book talk in Leeds, which I always love to do. And some uni memories came flooding back - I lived here for 3 years whil...

Location: Cannon Hill Park Bimringham Guest: Catherine O'Flynn It's time for another new episode of Park Date This time, well what can I say? Catherine O'Flynn rightly won the Costa First Novel Award for her exceptional debut What Was Lost. The News Where You Are was even better. Honestly I would love to write a screenplay or a TV version of these books, they are just so, so good and I can imagine...

Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan Guests: Nicola Chilton, Maik Novotny and many more It's time for another new episode of Park Date Ok I thought I'd try something different and record some on the hoof meanderings while I criss-crossed the Uzbek capital of Tashkent with some fellow fans of Soviet modern architecture and design. Then we head out of town to see the weirdest thing I've possibly ever seen...