The Business Of Pleasure Podcast

We celebrate 25 years of the theatre-goers guide, advocate and champion

This month The Business of Pleasure Podcast gets the inside story on The Bitter Pill, the show where you 'leave your gender behind at the door,' playing 21 Soho, 21 and 22 January

As companies compete for audience leisure budgets denuded of those gorgeous lockdown surpluses, it is time, once again, to shake every lemon on the tree and SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE!

This month's Podcast from The Business of Pleasure explores the life, work and inspirations of the Founder and Chief of Stuff of the hugely popular and game-changing Arts and Cultural Network

WHO WILL BIAS? This month The Business of Pleasure is taking an unbiased (I promise!) look at biases and decision-making. Like to learn more? Your call (or is it?) Written by David Thomas. Read by Chris Courtenay.

This month we’re ditching the desk and hitting the coast to serve up a perfect summer cocktail of Business and Pleasure

From Ambridge to Armageddon via Ancient Rome, this month’s podcast in The Business of Pleasure puts the eagerly anticipated UFC Title Clash ‘Humans v AI’ into ‘CONTEXT’ 

As the world ruminates over the impact of AI, The Business Of Pleasure has dived deep into the murky depths of its data pool to retrieve the episode 'Are You A Robot?' to help some of our human readers understand their electronic third-cousins-twice-removed a bit better Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

Former Blockhead Lee Harris riffs on his early influences as a musician and his life on the road touring with Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

“We start 2023 by inviting listeners to boldly go beyond their current comfortable safe areas in The Business of Pleasure”

This Month the Business of Pleasure Podcast heads out to the mean streets of North Yorkshire for 'Murder on the Harrogate Express'. Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

This month we salute those unsung heroes without whom even the greatest shows would perish... the Box Office. Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

The Business Of Pleasure Podcast: Interview with Clive Thomas This month we are in conversation with legendary event creator and raconteur Clive Thomas, whose book 'I Think I Got Away With It' recounts four decades spent lovingly producing unforgettable experiences in the business of pleasure Interview by David Thomas www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

This month's Podcast takes a heart-warming and humorous look into History's historic role in The Business of Pleasure. Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

This month's Podcast casts an adoring, personal look at the importance of stories in our lives ...and beyond. Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

For the first of our new Monthly Podcasts we go back to our roots in and the questions that started the ball rolling. Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

Let's talk about trust shall we? Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

Don’t Sacrifice the Virgins -the new West End landscape needs new thinking, enticing new patrons to boldly show where they have never shone before. Written by David Thomas  Read by Chris Courtenay  www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

Making An Exhibition Of Yourself' Does the physical, in-person Trade Show have a future in the digitally-interwoven post-pandemic Business of Pleasure? Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

This month we speak to Artist and Actor Adam-De-Ville, whose work will be familiar to regulars to The Business of Pleasure, in order to focus on creativity and explore the reality beneath the romantic ideal of the life of the Artist/Artiste.

The Business Of Pleasure Podcast: Shopping Cart Dropout The term ‘ The Business of Pleasure ’ tends to suggest a divide between the work that goes into generating pleasurable experiences for our audiences, and the task of generating optimal revenue from the value created by those pleasurable experiences. For most of us in The Business of Pleasure , both aspects are of equal importance. They are th...

Welcome to September’s Interview of the Month from The Business of Pleasure. Olivier and Tony Award-winning Producer, Chris Harper, shares the inspirational story of his incredible career, including his work with such shows as War Horse , One Man, Two Governors , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , his partnership with multi-award-winning Director, Marianne Elliott, and their revol...

The Business Of Pleasure Podcast: Barriers to Entry We look at one of the key factors that may be artificially limiting the size of your audiences in The Business of Pleasure Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

The Business Of Pleasure Podcast: On Approval Vicarious pleasures that are essential to The Business of Pleasure, but are they also healthy for our audiences? Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com

The Business Of Pleasure Podcast: The Price Is Never Right We explore some of the very human complexities underpinning this crucial area of The Business of Pleasure. Written by David Thomas Read by Chris Courtenay www.thebusinessofpleasure.com