Natasha Hodgson - "Smell The Magic"
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
RHLSTP #611 - Smell The Magic - Richard is podcasting in the middle of his run of 8 performances of a play. His guest must be in awe, it’s one of the brains behind and up front in Operation Mincemeat (which may have run almost as long) Natasha Hodgson. They talk about the work that she took on during lockdown, having to eat inky eggs in her first acting job, the phenomenal success of Mincemeat and the toll it took on her, Rich’s experience of musical and musical grades (you are treated to several songs from him and not much from Natasha - sorry), how Mincemeat elevated the women involved in the original mission, what the musical awakened in Rich, the extraordinary audio experience that is The Sink, plus some revealing emergency questions and some very bad advice for writers. Plus the world’s most controversial musical Dazzle and writing for puppets (I didn’t know you could do that).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Ratfans, thanks for downloading my podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Not quite sure what's happening in June, thanks to a medical procedure I have to go through. |
| 0:08.8 | We've had to cancel those Lester Square Theatre Gigs on the 1st and 8th of July, |
| 0:14.2 | but hopefully we'll be back for everything else. |
| 0:17.1 | Everything happening in the first week of June is fine, including we're doing two shows now at the Roman Theatre in St. Albans. |
| 0:24.3 | The 6pm show is sold out. |
| 0:25.7 | There's now an additional show at 8.30pm. |
| 0:28.9 | It's me and Katie Wilkins, a very promising stand-up comedian, doing two sets in a Roman theatre with some old jokes for Romans and some new jokes that I've never done before. |
| 0:40.3 | Richard Herring.com slash gigs for links of that. |
| 0:42.3 | Would love to see you there. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm not sure how many stand-up gigs I'll be doing in the next few months. |
| 0:48.9 | So come along to that one if you can. |
| 0:50.7 | And of course, Rahalasdapa is at the Edinburgh Fringe for the first 12 days, |
| 0:56.2 | Richard Herring.com slash Rahalasdapa. We're doing 14 shows in 12 days. So there's every chance |
| 1:03.6 | you can come and see us. We'd love you to support us with that one if you can. Hopefully we'll |
| 1:08.6 | see us through to the new year and then who knows what's going to happen to Rahalashtabar after that. Not me. Not me. I don't know. Okay, Richardherring.com |
| 1:18.5 | slash gigs. Richardherring.com slash for Halestepa if you want to add a little bit of financial |
| 1:23.3 | support to keep the podcast going. Go fast to stripe.com slash badges and you get loads of lovely rewards. |
| 1:28.9 | Thanks for listening. |
| 1:30.5 | Do tell your friends and so on. |
| 1:32.6 | We love you. |
| 1:33.3 | Goodbye. |
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