The Mrs Barbara Nice & Friends Podcast

Comedian Olga Koch has a fantasy where there's a museum filled with items from her career in comedy, and she wants YOU to visit She explains to Barbara what you can expect to see in her Museum as well as the lockdown activities she's allowed to talk about.... Follow her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rocknrolga Or find her Pink Vinyl versions of her show on her website: https://www.rocknrolg...

Comedian Rob Deering chats to Barbara Nice about his Running Podcasts, lockdown vegan cooking, the best Elvis songs for Tortoises and everything wrong with Auto Correct on your phone Stick around until the end for your comments and feedback from previous weeks and answers to the big questions. Follow Rob on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DeeringRob Or his podcast, "Running Commentary" here: htt...

Many people will be aware of the work of Comedian Reginald D Hunter through his many stage shows, TV panel appreances and documentaries but what they may not know is he got his start in Birmingham at the Gag Club under the watchful gaze of Mrs Barbara Nice Now, reunited on her podcast, they reminisce about the early days of Reg's career, Reg making a swift exit from an American Civil War Re-enactm...

Mrs Barbara Nice is joined by Comedian Paul McCaffrey who she has only met a couple of times before but still gets on with like they're old mates During their conversation they talk about the best improvised lockdown drinks, gigging in Lockdown vs gigging in the between-lockdown period and they take a long detour through the world of music, via Wessex. You can follow Paul on Twitter here: https://...

From Britain's Got Talent to Trollied via Eaten By Lions, Jack Carroll has had quite the career at such an early age He talks about it to Barbara who quizzes him on his relationship with his mother, his stance on Halloween and the unfortunate side effects of Ju Jitsu in Lockdown. Follow Jack on Twittter here: https://twitter.com/fatjacko And if you want more Barbara, join her Halloween Spooktacula...

Author Helen Rutter Appeared in the background of her Husband Rob Rouse's episode earlier this year. This time the tables are turned as Helen joins Barbara to talk about her new novel "The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh" and Rob is relegated to chopping trees in the background. Not only does Helen have to combat some background chainsawing, but a late arriving Barbara Nice herself, who leaves Produce...

Mrs Barbara Nice chats to Toyah Willcox about the re-release of her album "Sheep Farming in Barnet" on Cherry Red Records The become fast, firm friends as they discuss the coincidence in their locations, interacting with individual audience members amid big gigs. the importance of the audience to a performer and somehow, wild swimming in the Avon Also: Here's a video of a sheep on a trampoline. ht...

Episode 81 of Mrs Barbara Nice and Friends is part of the Birmingham Comedy Festival and also finds Barbara in an upbeat mood as her own piece of comedy, her Radio 2 sitcom, is being repeated, so she's getting to be heard by the masses again. Happy days! Joining her on her wavelength is comedian and storyteller Chris Stokes who compares storytelling to stand up comedy, tells stories of turtles in...

To start this week's podcast, Barbara has to admonish producer Paul for losing her end of the interview with Alex Lowe, but lets see if anyone notices the difference first shall we? When they finally get to the reconstructed interview with Alex, they talk money for doing nothing, dogs and how people want to socialise with you on a walk and the joy of the secrets shared backstage at a gig. Follow A...

This Week, Barbara has been swimming in cold water but it is having a benefit and she is feeling rejuvinated and rejigged and ready for more wide-ranging chats She talks to "funny chap" Jack Gleadow about his sleeping patterns and how he's just dragging himself back to normality, his late night bird encounters (until Boris gets ahold of them anyway...) and the high points of Hull He also is launch...

Barbara Nice is finally back from her Summer Holiday and is ready to chat to comedy Character Ada Campe Or is it real person Dr Naomi Paxton that she's chatting to? Whichver one it is, they talk pre-gig motivation, Barbara's story idea about time travelling showbusiness women and the gigs they have been performing in the current climate, thin on the ground they may be We're going weekly now kids,...

One Week ago, Mrs Barbara Nice performed a triumphant return to live comedy at the Frog and Bucket club in Manchester. The gig was supposed to be a new dawn for comedy under the restrictions of the pandemic, but alas it wasn't to be. The day after it happened, the government announced it was back into lockdown for many parts of the north. To this end, Barbara intended to celebrate a job well done...

In his time, Liam Jones has been a comedian, compere, promoter and teacher. Now he spends his time in China teaching English and promoting comedy over there while planning his return home. He talks to Barbara about the best comedy in Asia, catching up with her Britain's Got Talent performance last week and spending Glastonbury Weekend with Norman Lovett. Barbara's last lock in show is now availabl...

Playwright and Screenwriter Tanika Gupta joins Barbara Nice from the deserted streets of the ghost town of London to talk about her latest projects, how to get theaters back going after lockdown is over and how garden parties are an acceptable replacement for socialising in the pub Plus, how to motivate yourself when you have nothing else going on and no-one breathing down your neck to get your jo...

Harry Jenkins is involved with Digbeth Dining Club, the street food company that has taken Birmingham's catering scene by storm On this episode Harry talks to Barbara Nice about how the pandemic has affected the business as well as what age is perfect for Disney land, why Barbara's friend is talking rubbish about Megabus and how he needs to get Barbara down the pub for their first post lockdown dr...

On today's Podcast, producer Paul has returned to the shed to meet up with today's guest in Person. Barbara however, is still in her back bedroom but she still manages to have a chat with legendary music promoter Dave Travis, who has promoted gigs all over the 2nd city of Birmingham over the years, including Nirvana, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene and many more. They talk about the current situation's...

Jan Ravens is a comedian and impressionist who may have lost a lot of work to lockdown, but she's still battling on In this episode she talks to Barbara Nice about the problems she had with the Church not accepting her well meaning grandad, 2 or 3 of her favourite Percy's and how she is still battling on as one of the Dead Ringer impressionists even without an audience Keep your ratings and review...

Chris Fitchew is a comedian that has taken to lockdown and made it work for him  On today's podcast he talks to Barbara about controlling every detail of his cabaret shows, resisting the temptation to order every single thing on Amazon and also has time to suggest improvements to Barbara's online shows.  His show is  https://www.soulpride.org/ (but don't expect Arethra!) and you can see shows from...

Jen Brister is a comedian and author who has seen the majority of her upcoming work decimated by Covid-19 and Lockdown But it's not all doom and gloom as her book "The Other Mummy" is doing very well and has been nominated for a Polari award, which leads to her teaching Barbara about the meanings of some everyday polari words. She's also cracking on with Zoom comedy, if she can find a spare 5 mins...

In this Episode, Barbara is reeling from being made aware of a review of the podcast in the "I" newspaper that called her "Unintentionally Funny" but will take the extra attention nonetheless. She is joined by comedian Craig Deeley to talk Kenneth Williams (and Craig does a mean impression of him to boot), Coronation Street, female comedians that begin with the letter J and having your Twitter jok...

Before her Guest arrives, Barbara has been ruminating on the recent airings of the performance of David Bowie at Glastonbury and what she can learn from the master for her act. Then she is joined by Comedian Maureen Younger, a veteran of many comedy gigs with Barbara who also runs the Mycomedy Nights, which at the moment are running online (check them out here: https://www.maureenyounger.com/mycom...

Barbara Nice and UB40's Brian Travers go back a long way. A very long way in fact, though maybe not quite as long as Brian ribs Barbara through the medium of music Here, they reminisce about early gigs they shared together, why bucket lists are a waste of time and Brian's artwork Brian also managed to turn the tables on Barbara and ask her about her time in a band that should've been bigger than t...

After Barbara's first well earned Lockdown Break, she's back , and this time she's talking to comedian Harriet Dyer Harriet comes to visit Barbara electronically, but if she had traveled she'd have set off from sunny Glossop and noted down all the animals she saw on her journey. She still does that anyway, but she also finds time to talk about her comedy show where comedians confess their sins to...

Another week for Barbara Nice and Friends and Barbara is in a bit of a technical stress, despite being in a great place off the back of her latest "Piggin' Lockin" show  She is joined, and cheered up by, Jenny Eclair as they both visualise each other's locations, fantasise about being in the wings at a comedy club and discuss what they think about on stage.  But mainly they get to the bottom of Je...

Ninia Benjamin was one of the Three Non-Blondes, has performed with Lenny Henry and, of course, has gigged with Barbara Nice Now she is a comedian who is wondering what else she can do, as the great comedy gap we are all suffering means she is considering her options. But for now, she's entertaining her audience on her Instagram walks and keeping an eye out for a bargain on Ebay, sometimes even wh...