RHLSTP Book Club 149 - Angas Tiernan
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
RHLSTP Book Club #149 - Minute Cryptic - It’s a podcast that spans the world, with a beautiful connection to Australia and the handsome king of the nerds Angus Tiernan talking about his fabulous puzzle book (and daily internet quiz) Minute Cryptic. Richard is star struck to have the man who talks to him every morning actually answer back, but still manages to discuss the genesis of the idea, the organic way it gained popularity, why cryptic crosswords and jokes share similarities, the clamour to turn the idea into a book, why it works so well in book form too and why it’s a bad idea to do cryptic crosswords in a stand up comedy set. Plus favourite anagrams and custardy battles.
Buy the book here https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/minute-cryptic-over-160-wordplay-puzzles-to-decipher-unlock-and-untangle-angas-tiernan/7873833
Play Minute Cryptic here https://www.minutecryptic.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ratfans. Welcome to another Richard Herring podcast. Thank you very much to everyone who came to the Edinburgh Fringe. |
| 0:06.0 | Fantastic shows. All 12 of them, they'll be going out between now and November, I think. So buckle up. |
| 0:13.3 | I hope you'll enjoy listening to those. They were a lot of fun to do. I am doing one more show, definitely live this autumn. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm at St George's Hall in Bugley on the 16th of October, |
| 0:25.3 | and there are about five tickets left. |
| 0:26.7 | It's near Kid and Mr. Apparently, so come along if you want, no guest announced yet. |
| 0:30.2 | We might be doing some more in London later on. |
| 0:33.2 | But for now, if you want to support us, why not buy Buy a badge at gofastestripe.com slash badges. |
| 0:39.1 | Or you could buy a copy of the emergency questions book at gofastestripe.com. |
| 0:43.2 | All that money will go to making more podcasts. |
| 0:46.1 | But just listening to podcasts and telling your friends about it is good enough for me, my fan friend. |
| 0:52.5 | Now listen to a podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | Thank you. Goodbye. |
| 0:54.7 | This podcast is sponsored by Speck Savers. I'm going to leave you, said my wife the other day. |
| 1:01.3 | Fair enough, I replied, I can't really blame you. I can't believe it lasted this long. |
| 1:05.4 | She seemed confused. She said, I'm going to leave you some of this pizza. I know, I lied. |
| 1:10.1 | I can't believe the pizza has lasted this long. I know, I lied. I can't believe the pizza |
| 1:11.0 | has lasted this long. Totally fooled her, and she still hasn't realised that she's way too good for me. |
| 1:16.0 | Plus, I got some pizza. Result. Look, she's got a very quiet voice and was facing the other way, |
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