Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Joining the podcast this week is another fabulous acting favourite, yes indeed it is AMANDA ABBINGTON ! Due to one thing or another, schedules have been flipped, turned upside down, but Pip and Amanda have managed to crowbar in some good time to get together and rock a truly fine podcast for you all. Amanda’s been in a...

Originally broadcast on February 12th 2020, this episode feels like a dream or a fantasy world away now - but it’s a brilliant one which deserves the DPP Rewind treatment at a poignant time. Michael Cashman was a delight and his story is thrilling, which absolutely warrants its re-run - please listen if you haven’t yet, and if you did at the time, why not revisit… Just to note the films Pip lists...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Joining the podcast this week is the fabulous acting favourite and true treasure JULIET STEVENSON ! Having met on set on Sara Pascoe’s ‘Out Of Her Mind’, Juliet and Pip hit it off and set up a future plan for a podcast meeting - and here we have the glorious result! Kicking off with some misty eyed recollections of the...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Pip catches up on events from the past few years with poet, author and good pal LAURA DOCKRILL ! A very timely meeting with Laura this week, coming in after the finale of the Where’s Your Head At series that spanned the month of May. This is very much on message for the series, though this time we get to spend a whole...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You are especially welcome to the concluding part in a larger series called ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ - a collage of experiences from pandemic times. This is the final in the month long series which has seen Pip engage in a huge collage of conversations to co-incide with Mental Health Week, while extending the theme into...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You are especially welcome to the fifth in a larger series called ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ - a collage of experiences from pandemic times. Over the next few weeks, you will hear from a huge range of people Pip sat down and had conversations with, but specifically based around that main question - where’s your head at? W...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You are especially welcome to the fourth in a larger series called ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ - a collage of experiences from pandemic times. Over the next few weeks, you will hear from a huge range of people Pip sat down and had conversations with, but specifically based around that main question - where’s your head at?...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You are especially welcome to the third in a larger series called ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ - a collage of experiences from pandemic times. Over the next few weeks, you will hear from a huge range of people Pip sat down and had conversations with, but specifically based around that main question - where’s your head at? W...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You are especially welcome to the second in a larger series called ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ - a collage of experiences from pandemic times. Over the next few weeks, you will hear from a huge range of people Pip sat down and had conversations with, but specifically based around that main question - where’s your head at?...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You are especially welcome to the first in a larger series called ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ - a collage of experiences from pandemic times. Over the next few weeks, you will hear from a huge range of people Pip sat down and had conversations with, but specifically based around that main question - where’s your head at? W...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very welcome and amazingly informative conversation with neuroscientist, musician and artist SIMON(E) SUN ! Without wanting to risk the simplification and distilling of this incredible chat, just rest assured that it’s one of those very special Distraction Pieces moments that I can safely say will echo through the DP...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A properly ace conversation with the insightful and hilarious comic DANIEL SLOSS ! Pip catches Daniel 6 days deep in a 14 day quarantine overseas, which is of course the first item of business! The two compare notes on coping with such stints and methods of how to handle one’s self in isolation. From there on, we hear...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A super great chat with KALYN HEFFERNAN of the group WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP ! Whether you know it or now, this is the one you’ve been waiting for. Pip catches up with Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchair Sports Camp for a full length podcast, which is a beautiful occasion as this means that there are a LOT of people who will...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A lovely chat with Inbetweeners star and football / MMA enthusiast BLAKE HARRISON ! You might very well know Blake as Neil, from The Inbetweeners - and some of you may know him extremely well as Neil if you’ve seen every episode, so here is a perfect opportunity to get to know Blake as a true and living person behind t...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A great and very cool, calm and collected chat with UK acting royalty who has been a welcome fixture on screens great and small, it’s JOHN SIMM ! While a good gang of you will know John through Human Traffic (I mean come on), or maybe Life On Mars, or perhaps his new show Grace - or let’s face it, his entire film and t...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Once again, paths that have been log eluding each other have finally converged and here we are, as Pip finally meets the amazing singer songwriter RAG’N’BONE MAN ! Judging by the Youtube views for his single ‘Human’, as one of the billion+ viewers and fans, YOU - dear listener - are probably partly responsible for his...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Joining Pip this week for a bonus episode is the gawd, the GOAT, the king bee himself - please welcome Mr B DOLAN! A very welcome return from friend of the podcast B Dolan, and what makes this return even more triumphant and welcome is that B has survived not only another Winter (word to the Strange Famous crew), but a...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A real feelgood dip in the ever-refreshing acting pool for you this week as Pip is joined by national treasure JANE HORROCKS! Not only an actor though, our Jane - she’s been singing forever and more recently has taken her own dip into the equally refreshing pool of podcasting, which is how this whole episode came about...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Following on from a triple episode week of pure musical commentary, here is a straight up excellent chat with the powerful and acclaimed writer NIKESH SHUKLA! So much to get into on this one, and Nikesh and Pip cram a huge amount into what could certainly go on for a good few more hours. Nikesh’s new book ‘Brown Baby’...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Well, at the start of the week and Wednesday, it was hinted about how special this week was going to be. I’m sure you clocked onto what was going on by Wednesday but if you’re not sure by now, let Friday be the day as Pip completes his ‘Behind The Album’ series with the final album from he and Dan Le Sac - ‘Repent Repl...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week is a powerful one, people - not sure how much we should give away at this point but you’re in for SEVERAL TREATS so do keep an eye on those Distraction Pieces Podcast feeds throughout the week… That’s all I’ll tell you for now. I'm sure you're gathering what's happening at this point BUT for those still in th...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week is a powerful one, people - not sure how much we should give away at this point but you’re in for SEVERAL TREATS so do keep an eye on those Distraction Pieces Podcast feeds throughout the week… That’s all I’ll tell you for now. But - to kick things off correctly, today is the day when Pip goes through in pain...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Pip joins forces this week with the incredible actor TAHAR RAHIM! You may have been introduced to him through the astonishing ‘Un Prophete’, and most recently you may have seen trailers for the new project ‘The Mauritanian’ - whatever the case, get better acquainted with this awesome human who goes boldy into the craft...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Another overdue one right here but somehow the perfect time to connect, this one’s a powerful catchup with Pip and one woman podcast squadron RENAY RICHARDSON! Renay is the CEO of Broccoli Content, and the Twitter bio says it all: “Production company creating opportunities for minority talent” - which gives you a stron...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! It’s been a minute getting this one ready, as he and Pip go way back but the time has finally come - people, please welcome the airwave ray of sunshine NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE! Less ‘overdue’ and more ‘inevitable’, this one, as the two have some ace history together and have been in similar orbits for a good while. It’s a gr...