Hellish

We did a spot of enchanting and got writer JOANNE HARRIS to give us the five tracks she will meet in Hell! Joanne is a prolific writer, having authored over twenty novels, several cookbooks, and a multitude of short stories. (Her latest collection, Maiden, Mother, Crone is out now in paperback, with art by our former damned soul Bonnie Hawkins ). Her third novel, Chocolat , is an international bes...

We grill comedian and all-round enthusiast ROBIN INCE for the five tracks he will meet in Hell! Robin has been a stand-up comedian since the early nineties. He is the author of several books, including I'm A Joke And So Are You and Bibliomaniac , and is the co-creator and co-presenter, with Professor Brian Cox, of BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage . That barely scratches the surface of what R...

We press publisher and writer SAM JORDISON for the five tracks he will meet in Hell! Sam is one half of Galley Beggar Press, the small independent publisher with a bunch of big hits to its name: Eimear McBride's Women's Prize winning A Girl is a Half Formed Thing , Lucy Ellman's Booker-shortlisted Ducks, Newburyport and Alex Pheby's Cities of the Weft trilogy to name but a few. Sam talked us throu...

Historian NATALIA MEHLMAN PETRZELA runs through the five tracks she will meet in Hell. Quite aside from being a Professor of History at the New School, Natalia is the author of two books: Classroom Wars , and Fit Nation, the latter of which takes a fascinating look at the history of exercise as leisure in the United States. She's also a qualified fitness instructor, and a seasoned podcaster: she c...

Screenwriter LUKE NEAL lists the five tracks he will meet in Hell. Luke wrote the screenplay for Des , the incredible drama series about the serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Luke told us all about how the project started, and how David Tennant got involved. Prior to writing, Luke was also an actor, and we touch on his acting career - including his starring role in Pudsey The Dog: The Movie - and why h...

Classical musician & yogina ELENA URIOSTE picks the five tracks she will meet in Hell. Elena is a world class violinist, having appeared as a featured soloist with orchestras around the world. She is also a yoga master, and has combined her two worlds to co-create Intermission - a yoga programme designed for musicians. Elena talked to us about life as a classical musician, dished the dirt on t...

Musician & co-founder of TAPE Community Music & Film STEVE SWINDON picks the five tracks he will meet in Hell. Steve started his career as bassist with the Britrock band A. He is now the drummer for the very fine Flotation Toy Warning. Steve is also co-founder of TAPE, a community based music and film charity which seeks to help people develop their creativity. They are doing some fine wor...

Artist and illustrator BONNIE HAWKINS picks the five tracks she will meet in Hell. Her latest exhibition, a series of illustrations based on Dylan Thomas's 1954 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood, is currently touring Wales, and is soon to be published alongside the play text. We talked about the feminist credentials of a certain pop group, found out about how a chance virtual encounter led Bonnie...

Welsh music expert NEIL COLLINS chooses the five tracks he will meet in Hell. No stranger to podcasting, Neil is the co-host of the Welsh Music Podcast . His new book, International Velvet: How Wales Conquered the 90s Charts , is an excellent look at the so-called 'Cool Cymru' era of 90s alternative music. You can get it here . We talked about the surprisingly dark inspiration for a noughties pop-...

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...