Homo Sapiens

A big old Culture Club treat for you all, Jack Guinness, is the man behind the book everyone should be giving this Christmas - The Queer Bible. Featuring Elton John, Munroe Bergdorf, Tan France and many more talking about their own Queer Heroes, Jack swings by to tell us all about it. 📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T 📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday 📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & I...

The delightful Shon Faye is currently toast of the British Literary scene with her Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ‘The Transgender Issue - An Argument for Justice’. It’s been making waves all over the world and it’s an incredible read. So she was kind enough to join me to discuss a whole host of this including her life changing book, Mercury in retrograde, all via a whole chat about Goldie Hawn a...

The delightful Shon Faye is currently toast of the British Literary scene with her Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ‘The Transgender Issue - An Argument for Justice’. It’s been making waves all over the world and it’s an incredible read. So she was kind enough to join me to discuss a whole host of this including her life changing book, Mercury in retrograde, all via a whole chat about Goldie Hawn a...

Have you lot got all of your Christmas presents yet? Don’t worry, neither have I, but I do have a little present for you - a magical chat with trailblazing comedian, actor & writer Nik Dodani. Nik went viral with his standup about being gay and Indian and now is the toast of Hollywood starring in Netflix’s Atypical and the recent Dear Evan Hansen movie. Plus we’re talking small LGBTQ+ business...

Have you lot got all of your Christmas presents yet? Don’t worry, neither have I, but I do have a little present for you - a magical chat with trailblazing comedian, actor & writer Nik Dodani. Nik went viral with his standup about being gay and Indian and now is the toast of Hollywood starring in Netflix’s Atypical and the recent Dear Evan Hansen movie. Plus we’re talking small LGBTQ+ business...

Merry Christmas! Yesterday, December 1st, marks the start of Christmas but also World Aids Day, so how do we merge such an important day with all the joy of Christmas? With a chat with Ruth Coker Burks, that’s how. Ruth nursed men dying of AIDS in 1980’s Arkansaw USA when even doctors wouldn’t go near them and their families had disowned them. She buried them on her family plot undercover of...

Merry Christmas! Yesterday, December 1st,  marks the start of Christmas but also World Aids Day, so how do we merge such an important day with all the joy of Christmas? With a chat with Ruth Coker Burks, that’s how. Ruth nursed men dying of AIDS in 1980’s Arkansaw USA when even doctors wouldn’t go near them and their families had disowned them. She buried them on her family plot undercover of...

The Wonderful Róisín Murphy is our guest this week. Anyone else had her recent EP on repeat? It's so good. This is a great chat where Róisín tells me all about being schooled on the queer history of dance music by hanging out on the Manchester gay scene, putting Anna Wintour’s nose out of joint (figuratively), and the funniest story about how partying with P Diddy ended with a bump back down to ea...

The Wonderful Róisín Murphy is our guest this week. Anyone else had her recent EP on repeat? It's so good. This is a great chat where Róisín tells me all about being schooled on the queer history of dance music by hanging out on the Manchester gay scene, putting Anna Wintour’s nose out of joint (figuratively), and the funniest story about how partying with P Diddy ended with a bump back down to ea...

The man who ‘Changed The World’ is what The Guardian called our guest this week - Lord Michael Cashman CBE. On the 18th anniversary of the repeal of section 28 in England & Wales, I chat to Michael about his central role in getting it scrapped. He’s starred in Eastenders, founded Stonewall, helped get most of the civil rights LGBTQ+ people have today so it’s quite the odyssey of a chat with a...

The man who ‘Changed The World’ is what The Guardian called our guest this week - Lord Michael Cashman CBE. On the 18th anniversary of the repeal of section 28 in England & Wales, I chat to Michael about his central role in getting it scrapped. He’s starred in Eastenders, founded Stonewall, helped get most of the civil rights LGBTQ+ people have today so it’s quite the odyssey of a chat with a...

To mark Trans Parenting Day I’m chatting to the wonderfully funny Freddy McConnell. Freddy is the trans dad who made a brilliant film called seahorse about his first pregnancy in all its glory. He is now pregnant with his second and joins me to share many fascinating tips on queer parenting, hysterical stories of parenting little ones, talks me down from my fears of raising a toxic male (!) and we...

To mark Trans Parenting Day I’m chatting to the wonderfully funny Freddy McConnell. Freddy is the trans dad who made a brilliant film called seahorse about his first pregnancy in all its glory. He is now pregnant with his second and joins me to share many fascinating tips on queer parenting, hysterical stories of parenting little ones, talks me down from my fears of raising a toxic male (!) and we...

It’s Kevin McHale everyone! I loved this chat, Kevin is full of mischief and made me laugh for a full hour as he told me all about learning to stick up for himself during his time playing Artie on Glee, why UK X Factor wasn’t for him and finally explains what the hell he was doing on a billboard in my local train station… Press play and listen now! - Chris x 📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T...

It’s Kevin McHale everyone! I loved this chat, Kevin is full of mischief and made me laugh for a full hour as he told me all about learning to stick up for himself during his time playing Artie on Glee, why UK X Factor wasn’t for him and finally explains what the hell he was doing on a billboard in my local train station… Press play and listen now! - Chris x 📍H O M O S A P I E N S P O D C A S T...

It’s Asexual Awareness Week aka #Aceweek and we’ve got the inspirational asexual activist and superstar, Yasmin Benoit on the show. Yasmin swings by to tell us what it’s really like being an activist for such an under-represented part of the LGBTQIA+ family, takes the time to dispel many myths about asexuality, and lord help her, answers YOUR wonderful questions! - Chris x 📍H O M O S A P I E N S...

It’s Asexual Awareness Week aka #Aceweek and we’ve got the inspirational asexual activist and superstar, Yasmin Benoit on the show. Yasmin swings by to tell us what it’s really like being an activist for such an under-represented part of the LGBTQIA+ family, takes the time to dispel many myths about asexuality, and lord help her, answers YOUR wonderful questions! - Chris x 📍H O M O S A P I E N S...

Extra extra! We’ve got a Culture Club bonus episode for you, listeners. The brilliant actor Dino Fetscher (who you may well recognise from pretty much anything that fellow Homo Sapiens alumni, Russell T Davies, has written) is in the house to tell us all about his role in the brilliant Larry Kramer play 'The Normal Heart’. It’s on at the National as we speak and you just gotta go see it - it’s abo...

This episode is pure joy. If you don’t know who ‘The Old Gays’ are, you’re in for a treat and if you do, well, you’ve come to the right place. I spoke to all four of the gang - Bob, Bill, Jessay and Mick about how they they shot to internet fame through Grindr, why friendship and community is SO important and why we all just gotta “Enjoy, live and stop fearing”. Wise words! Chris x 📍H O M O S A P...

This episode is pure joy. If you don’t know who ‘The Old Gays’ are, you’re in for a treat and if you do, well, you’ve come to the right place. I spoke to all four of the gang - Bob, Bill, Jessay and Mick about how they they shot to internet fame through Grindr, why friendship and community is SO important and why we all just gotta “Enjoy, live and stop fearing”. Wise words! Chris x Head to Tonic H...

Hello listeners. Welcome to a brand new series of Homo Sapiens!  This season's theme is… YOU - our listeners! I’ll be having a gas with all the same LGBTQ+ icons that you have come to expect from Homo Sapiens, but we’ll also be chatting to you delightful lot, talking about the things that matter to you, asking you to choose the guests, and of course there will be a healthy splash of agony unc...

Hello listeners. Welcome to a brand new series of Homo Sapiens!  This season's theme is… YOU - our listeners! I’ll be having a gas with all the same LGBTQ+ icons that you have come to expect from Homo Sapiens, but we’ll also be chatting to you delightful lot, talking about the things that matter to you, asking you to choose the guests, and of course there will be a healthy splash of agony unc...

How on earth do you create a Best Bits Episode when every episode with Alan has been such a laugh? Well listeners, we’ve had a good old crack at it, and it’s a corker. We’ve got Tan France telling us off, Stephen Fry making us laugh like drains, Debbie Harry’s barking dogs, and the legend that is Patti Smith dishing out wisdom til the cows come home. All with a Hannah Gadsby cherry on the top, plu...

How on earth do you create a Best Bits Episode when every episode with Alan has been such a laugh? Well listeners, we’ve had a good old crack at it, and it’s a corker. We’ve got Tan France telling us off, Stephen Fry making us laugh like drains, Debbie Harry’s barking dogs, and the legend that is Patti Smith dishing out wisdom til the cows come home. All with a Hannah Gadsby cherry on the top, plu...

Hold on to your hats! This week's episode comes a little early for Homo Sapiens Listeners, but that’s cos it’s extra special. With a heavy heart we have to tell you that very soon the wonderful Alan will be leaving the Homo Sapiens nest and setting sail for podcast shores of his own with his new podcast Alan Cumming’s Shelves. SO we thought, what better than for us to introduce you all to this bri...