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#214 Sofie Hagen: Comedy + Boundaries

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is with Sofie Hagen, a voice you many recognise from many of your fave podcasts, including The Guilty Feminist when it first launched. She also hosts her own brilliant podcasts Made of HumanSecret Dinosaur Cult and Comedians Telling Stuff. First and foremost though, she is an award-winning stand-up comedian, author of the book Happy Fat, a fat activist and a blogger


She has been named one of British comedy's most exciting talents, as well as the winner of the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, and her show this year The Bum Swing and has had rave reviews.


If you missed her show in Edinburgh, then you can still catch it at The Soho Theatre 10th - 14th September, and the rest of the tour!


Go see it and buy her book! Hope you enjoy this episode and if you did, please do rate and review on iTunes :)



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0:00.0

This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles.

0:53.7

Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.

0:56.7

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete.

1:06.0

Today's guest is the amazing author and comedian Sophie Hagen.

1:10.0

I grabbed some time with her while she was in Edinburgh doing her Edinburgh fringe

1:14.4

run of her show The Bumswing and I was in Edinburgh as well watching some shows

1:19.0

so I reached out and she was available so this is such an exciting interview for me

1:24.6

because I'm just a huge fan of hers. We recorded this one in the Market Street

1:28.6

Hotel so just wanted to give them a shout out to say thank you because it's a brand

1:32.4

new hotel that opened on Market Street in Edinburgh

1:35.0

recently so huge thank you to them for allowing us to chat in there. So Sophie Hagen is a voice you may

1:41.0

recognize she hosts many amazing podcasts and she actually

1:45.1

used to host the guilty feminists way back when it first launched and that's how I

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