Ashley Walters (Adolescence / Top Boy / So Solid Crew) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Ashley Walters, originally episode 317 from 2020-03-18.
Original writeup below:
Okay - in case you don’t recognise that name right there immediately, let’s bring you up to speed. ASHER D FROM SO SOLID. Ring a bell? DUSHANE FROM TOP BOY! Getting through yet? RICKY FROM BULLETPROOF? Don’t make me get all Biff from Back To The Future and knock on your head to make sure you’re on the same page… Anyway - it’s Ashley Walters! A fascinating chat and as with a lot of Distraction Pieces episodes, one that feels like it’s been on the cards for a minute. The two get down to it and cover it all from getting in shape and being more mindful re: bodies, representation and the path to Bulletproof, working with Noel Clarke and becoming his pal, working with Carol Jackson from Eastenders (sorry, Lindsey Coulson), being multi-disciplined from a young age, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, time spent in prison and lessons learned on release, Top Boy, So Solid, all that good stuff and TOO MUCH to fit into a write up here. You’ll love it. GO IN!
PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting nature
DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP BANDCAMP
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Scroobius Pip, welcome to my time capsule. So what's your first item? |
| 0:03.7 | Dog welcomes. |
| 0:04.9 | Stephen Fry? |
| 0:01.6 | It's a mint green typewriter. How about you, David Mitchell? Could you put hope in? I hope so. Caroline Quinton? I want to put a moment in. Josh Whittickham. A smoke has been. Sounds disgusting. Shabby or Sandy. The Muppet Show. Rob Ryden? A vintage jukebox. |
| 0:20.9 | My time comes from it is a podcast where I ask guests for five things to put in their time. The Muppet Show. Rob Ryden. A vintage jukebox. |
| 0:25.4 | My time caption is a podcast where I ask guests for five things to put in their time capsule. |
| 0:28.1 | Four things they love and one thing they want to bury and forget. |
| 0:30.9 | Podcasts of the week in the Radio Times, The Guardian and the Times. |
| 0:31.8 | Available now. |
| 0:42.4 | In Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, this is your Friday Rewind and I'm going back five years here. |
| 0:49.7 | Last week on The Rewind, we spoke to one of the first face-to-face interviews I did post-lockdown. |
| 0:54.5 | This was one of the last face-to-face interviews I did pre-lockdown. |
| 1:03.5 | This came out in February 2020, and it's with Ashley Waters, who has just gone on since this interview, not because of this interview. |
| 1:07.3 | Since this interview has gone on to just excel and excel and excel. |
| 1:10.7 | The last series of Top Boy was astounding. Ashley popped up in a thousand blows |
| 1:13.5 | recently, which I loved. And I think the reason he popped up in that was because at the same |
| 1:18.3 | time they were filming that, they were also filming adolescence, which obviously has taken the world |
| 1:24.5 | by absolute storm. Astounding performances. So I wanted to rewind and have a look |
| 1:31.1 | at Ashley's outlook and approach back here because I think it tells a lot. Now, I will give a little |
| 1:37.6 | warning here. When we recorded this, Ashley was doing a show with Noel Clark. Since then, a lot of things have come out about Noel Clark that, in my opinion, are |
| 1:48.1 | absolutely appalling. |
| 1:49.4 | If I had recorded an episode, let's say this, if I'd recorded an episode with Noel |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scroobius Pip, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Scroobius Pip and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.