Lucy Beaumont
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is one of the most distinctive and brilliantly funny voices in British comedy. Born in Cornwall by accident, raised in Hull with pride, Lucy Beaumont has built a career out of finding the strange, hilarious and deeply human moments in everyday life. You’ll know her from shows like Would I Lie To You?, Taskmaster, Meet the Richardsons, The Celebrity Traitors, and so much more, as well as from her acclaimed stand-up and writing.
In today’s conversation, we travel from an out-of-season teenage trip to Magaluf, to sneaking off to Torquay in search of surfers, falling in love with Menorca, finding magic in New York and New Orleans, and the spiritual pull of Robin Hood’s Bay. We also talk about Hull, panel shows, pad Thai on tour, Celebrity Traitors secrets, travelling with Johnny Vegas, and her brilliant new tour, Bad at Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos, which begins this September.
Holly's Destination Recap
- Coworth Park, England
Lucy's Destination Recap
- Magaluf, Mallorca, Spain
- Truro, Cornwall, England
- Torquay, Devon, England
- Newquay, Cornwall, England
- Hull, England
- Hornsea, Yorkshire, England
- Ciutadella, Menorca, Spain
- Deià, Mallorca, Spain
- Kavos, Greece
- Ibiza, Spain
- New York City, USA
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Robin Hood’s Bay, Yorkshire, England
- Whitby, Yorkshire, England
- Montenegro
- Croatia
- Maldives
- St Lucia
Tickets are available for Lucy's new tour, Bad at Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos, which begins this September.
Thank you to the London Marriot County Hall for having us to film the episode.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm your host Holly Rubinstein and here each week I uncover the seven chapters of my guests travel diaries. |
| 0:17.3 | From the first place they fell in love with to their all-time favourite and hidden gems, |
| 0:22.3 | we uncover the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:27.2 | Today's guest is one of the most distinctive and brilliantly funny voices in British comedy. |
| 0:34.4 | I was born on holiday on a camping trip. We thought one woman was bumping off the other |
| 0:39.5 | women. We thought we were like Miss Marple and then we realised they were just going home. |
| 0:44.0 | It was like no one was dying. They were just going home. And she woke up and I went, |
| 0:47.5 | oh my God, you've had your tongue pierced and she went, you've had your nose pierced. |
| 0:52.9 | We realised we're quite nice girls, we don't |
| 0:56.2 | need to do this. It used to be, you'd be the only woman with a group of men. Yeah, we're just |
| 1:01.7 | talk, you know, talk over you, but it's not so much like that anymore. You felt like you'd |
| 1:06.3 | won a competition. But what did they all think about celebrity traitors? He's like, otherworldly. You're like, because you get your phone taken off you. You're only allowed to make one call a day. Took your passport. But they search your luggage for any like recording devices. It is a bit extreme. I think it was my second show went really well. And I had a pad tie before it. So I thought that must be the secret and there's a |
| 1:29.7 | street called Land of Green Ginger and it says it and it's a little cobbled street it feels |
| 1:34.8 | otherworldly and you would never know you're in whole yeah that was of course Lucy Beaumont |
| 1:40.2 | you'll know her from shows like would I lie to to You, Taskmaster, Meet the Richardson's, |
| 1:45.9 | the Celebrity Traitors, of course, and so much more, as well as from her acclaimed stand-up and |
| 1:52.0 | writing. I spoke to Lucy a couple of weeks ago at the London Marriott County Hall on a beautifully |
| 1:57.7 | sunny day. We were in the Big Ben Suite overlooking the iconic Westminster Skyline. |
| 2:02.4 | And on today's episode, we travel from an out-of-season teenage trip to Magaloof and sneaking |
| 2:09.3 | off to Torquay in search of surfers to falling in love with Monorca and finding magic in New Orleans. |
| 2:16.6 | This one is great fun. |
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