Mark Steel: making gold with tragedy and comedy (The Leopard In My House / The Mark Steel Lectures / Vive La Revolution) #635
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the legendary comic MARK STEEL!
It's entirely likely you'll have been listening to and watching the work of Mark for decades now - he's been hard at work for a minute, and the fanbase is strong indeed. As you'll hear, Pip's been on board for years, starting with the Mark Steel Lectures. Here we have a really lovely catchup with these two as Mark leads the way through his past and present, and as with so much in life, it's a potent mix of all angles. Presently we find Mark having recently battled throat cancer, which as you can imagine features as a big topic here - something which no doubt Mark is still processing and recovering from. On that note, it could be advised that Mark doesn't hold back on some details (neither should he), so just mentioning that for those who might appreciate the alert. But it's also pretty incredible that not only do we get to hear about what happened in the past tense, we get to hear it through Mark himself, as even talking as a way of communicating was a difficult thing to weave around. All that said - he is a comic, so there's a huge amount of fun and laughter and the whole episode is a real joy (and TONS of random facts. Catch him on the road, the schedule is packed...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Before we get into the podcast, I've mentioned it previously, but if you haven't heard, |
| 0:05.7 | in September I'm working with Calm, the campaign against Leavid miserably, a suicide charity |
| 0:13.6 | on their stay tuned month where they're trying to raise money essentially to make them, help them keep doing what they're doing. |
| 0:23.4 | And I thought a good thing to do each week, I'm going to give you another thing that I think it's worth sticking around for. |
| 0:31.3 | A little recommendation of something that improves my life. |
| 0:34.6 | Week one's recommendation surprised a lot of people. |
| 0:38.5 | Before I do that, |
| 0:45.3 | there's a link in the latest episode's descriptions to go to my Tilterfey page or just search Scroobius Pip campaign against living miserably, Tiltify. I'm trying to raise two grand in the |
| 0:51.6 | month for September. I know that's a high target, but it'd be amazing if you could get involved. |
| 0:55.5 | My recommendation this week is the Three Bean Salad podcast. |
| 0:59.9 | It's amazing. |
| 1:00.9 | I only got into it recently. |
| 1:03.1 | It's Mike Wozniak, Benjamin Partridge, and a man that I've become mildly obsessed with Henry Packer. |
| 1:10.4 | And it's just great. |
| 1:11.7 | Each week they get given a new subject to chat about, and they just chat, and they're |
| 1:17.2 | hilarious and wonderful, and I love it. |
| 1:19.4 | So, yeah, this week's thing that's worth sticking around for is three bean salad. |
| 1:25.7 | As said, links in the, in the episode description of the latest |
| 1:29.2 | episodes to donate. Really appreciate if you could get involved on with the episode. Welcome, welcome, |
| 1:35.1 | welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 635 and man have I got a good conversation for you |
| 1:42.9 | today. You may see from the runtime, we've gone |
| 1:45.2 | well over the hour mark, and we could have gone for several hours more, I swear. But I'm joined |
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