Park Date

Location: Golden Lane Estate Gardens City of London Guest: Chris Petit If you have a poster of Radio On like me then you'll love this one. Chris Petit talks about road movies, cars, music and noirish novels set against a backdrop of political posturing and cultural laziness. Chris worked with Iain Sinclair on London Orbital and Iain put me in touch. Thanks Iain! Chris been active in the undergroun...

Location: Kensington Gardens Central London Guest: William Hanson It's time to speak to William Hanson about being more polite. You'll know him from Help I Sexted My Boss, which he presents with Radio 1's Jordan North. I know him from a wild week in New York a few years ago(!) And if you have the cash you can hire him as your own personal Henry Higgins. We strolled round Kensington Gardens avoidin...

Fragments. Everything is fragmentary, everything is fleeting The Wall In The Head, 2019, Christopher Beanland We are the rubbish, outmoded and unrequired. Hackney, That Rose Red Empire, 2009, Iain Sinclair Location: Gallions Reach Park and the Thames Path, the Thamesmead fringes, Belmarsh and the Woolwich backstreets Woolwich Guest: Iain Sinclair FRAGMENTS Here are some fragments from a conversati...

Location: Butterfield Green Stoke Newington, London Guest: Travis Elborough You should read Travis Elborough's books about such things as buses, the seaside, glasses and vinyl records. But in this chat we look at - what else - parks! We chat calmly like adults as we stroll through Butterfield Green. Then he mentions he met JG Ballard and I lose my sh*t. Thanks Travis. See you at The Mildmay Club s...

Location: Peters Park Boston, MA, USA Guest: Chris Grimley 2MANYCHRISES Chris Beanland x Chris Grimley B2B! Oh boy are you going to be into this special Season 2 episode from Boston in the US of A. I went to do a talk about my Unbuilt book and my novel The Wall in The Head at Chris Grimley's gallery Pink Comma in the South End and a few days later we met up again to walk around a typical American...

Location: Hollyrood Park Edinburgh Guest: Hannah Van Der Westhuysen SEASON TWO IS HERE And who better to kick off than the brilliant Hannah Van Der Westhuysen. Star of Fate: The Winx Saga, and many more besides. We talked about stage versus screen acting, fave children's TV, young people's values, saving the world and Edinburgh Festival - where we recorded. Hannah was in Ben Norris' play Autopilot...

Season 2 of Park Date debuts Sep 13 2022. It's going to be AWFUL. And here's some more TERRIBLE comedy... Music by Kevin MacLeod parkdate.co.uk @parkdatepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Location: De Beauvoir Square Hackney, London Guest: Ben Norris SEASON FINALE A lovely finale to Season One - Ben Morris joined me to explain how The Archers make the sound effects for when lambs are being born, then we moved on to the main business - his play Autopilot which is on at Edinburgh Fringe. Go and see it. Thanks for listening to Season One! Season Two coming this autumn! GRAZIE to Lucia...

Location: Haggerston Park Hackney, London Guest: Vicky Baker Episode 7. As Vicky says: "If you're gonna get to six episodes you have to kill someone!" Well nobody has died. Yet #meta Well I didn't. Instead, we just talked about school discos, Argentina, Inventing Anna and the slippery nature of truth itself. Oh and we saw some donkeys. Vicky is a renowned journalist, foreign correspondent and now...

Location: The Barbican Residents' Gardens and Water Gardens City of London Guest: Lucy Bright Some more blah blah show notes here. Do you read these? Tweet me the word PALINDROME @parkdatepodcast or @chrisbeanland to say a big YES and I'll come round and gift you a punnet of strawberries and a can of squirty cream. Even better, I'll put the squirty cream ON the strawberries, climb a ladder, smash...

Location: London Fields Hackney, London Guest: Helen Coffey Welcome to Park Date! On this episode of Park Date, Helen Coffey and some idiot called Christopher Beanland walk around London Fields fresh from their dip in the lido next door. Up for discussion: how to meet sexy singles when you're on the road, why Before Sunrise is the best travel movie ever made and why trains and boats beat planes......

Location: Hampstead Heath Hampstead, London Guest: Michael Cumming Michael Cumming talks about minds as bad as a bent hedge and working with Chris Morris, Stewart Lee, and many other comedy *stars*. Michael is a director and you'll find links to his various works below - like Brass Eye, Oxide Ghosts and King Rocker. Come and see me chat to Michael and Stew in Birmingham after the King Rocker scree...

Location: Norman Park Bromley Guest: Rosie Wilby Welcome to Park Date! On this episode of Park Date, Rosie Wilby and Rosie's dog Dolly chat with me about break-ups, monogamy, marriage, and model aeroplanes. Plus we spy horses and hear the sound of something like a village fete but which I later realised was actually the noise of the crowd at Bromley FC. Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, au...

Location: Highbury Fields Islington, London Guest: Felicity Cloake Welcome to Park Date! On this episode of Park Date I talk to star of Celebrity University Challenge, Felicity Cloake, about breakfasts and brown sauce before things take a turn for the surreal as we discuss a woman who chucks chicken pieces over the fence into the children's playground at her local park. Felicity and I exchange som...

Location: St Thomas Square, Burial Ground and Recreation Ground Hackney, London Guest: Kate Wills Welcome to the first episode of Park Date! First I need to say a huge thank you to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast  https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/ ), Rosie Wilby ( https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en ) and Ma...

Welcome to Park Date! A new podcast about people and parks with jokes and interviews. Here's a ridiculous trailer to advertise it. Back to acting school for me. Yes it's a homage to the A Team. Please like, subscribe and review Insta @parkdatepodcast Twitter @parkdatepodcast Website parkdate.co.uk christopherbeanland.com/contact 🎵 Song: 'Scott Buckley - Legionnaire' is under a...