RHLSTP Book Club 115 - Robert Popper
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Book Club #115 - The Elsie Drake Letters - Richard talks to the creator of Friday Night Dinner and Look Around You, Robert Popper, about his collection of letters from Elsie Drake (aged 104) to various unsuspecting companies and people of note. They chat about the genesis of his previous letter writing campaign, The Timewaster Letters, what made him decide to take on the persona of Britain’s sixth oldest woman, how the replies usually show the good in people, the many calls from the police and other institutions that came about as a result of the letters, whether Robert was wasting people’s time, Richard’s own attempts at spoof letters, including a campaign to legalise a sex act that is illegal for heterosexuals and a fantastic new idea for a Look Around You Movie (that will crop up again in the upcoming Peter Serafinowicz podcast)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, rat fans, welcome to the Rich Herring podcast feed. The big Rahalasdpa news is that on the 4th of November, I will be at the Square Theatre talking to Nish Kumar and Milton Jones. That has got to be worth coming along to see live. Please come and see us live if you can. Richard Herring.com slash Rahalistaper. We've got Chesney Hawks on the 25th of November and I've got a big name in |
| 0:22.3 | Pencilford the 18th of November. That's it for 2024 Rahalistapers, but we're doing Lester and |
| 0:28.3 | some more gigs at the Les Square Theatre in 2025, so do watch out for those. Also 2025, I will be |
| 0:34.2 | heading out for the second leg of my ballback tour. One of my balls is in the past, |
| 0:41.0 | but there's another big ball waiting for you in the future. If you head to richterring.com |
| 0:47.6 | slash ballback slash tour, you can see all of those tour dates. I'm coming to some new places. |
| 0:52.5 | I'm coming to some places again. I'm coming to some places again. |
| 0:57.6 | Still not coming to Birmingham, which was my whole reason for doing extra gigs. |
| 0:59.2 | But hopefully we can sort that out. |
| 1:03.2 | And yeah, book early, book often. |
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| 1:14.8 | You'll probably be okay to wait. But it'd be nice for me if you book early. |
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| 1:19.5 | So that is going to be lots of fun. |
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| 1:33.8 | tour shows. So you are a big part of this. I hope you will come back to the theatre. |
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