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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

RHLSTP Book Club 170 - Fergus Craig

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Tv & Film, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

RHL:STP Book Club #170 - I’m Not The Only Murderer In My Retirement Home - Richard is back at the Podcast Room with former Fringe flat mate Fergus Craig to discuss his new comedy novel about a serial killer ending up in an Old Folks’ Home where a murder takes place. They discuss why Fergus is now writing books by himself rather than alter ego Martin Fishback, his relationship to a real life murderer, how the book whilst including parodic elements is not really a parody of another series of books set in a retirement home, whether serial killers ever really retire, the pre-launch buzz and bidding war for this very funny book, how it’s very hard to make a living as a writer and what research was required for the very realistic portrayal of geriatric sex,


Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/everyone-in-my-retirement-home-thinks-i-killed-someone-dead-fergus-craig/7762041


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0:00.0

Yo, yo, rap fans, thanks for downloading my podcast. You know the drill by now.

0:04.2

Look, there's a few Rahalasdpa gigs coming up. Head to rigidhering.com slash rahalostapa for all details. March the 16th at Les Square Theatre with David Mitchell is sold out. There is some gigs, April the 20th at Les Square Theatre. And there's a couple of new ones in July. at the less square theatre of july the first and eighth i think also i will be playing droid witch

0:22.6

is part of the rmail Festival with Rahalista, but that details of which will be up very soon. Head to GoFastastorpe.com if you want to buy one of my downloads or one of the very rare, can I have my ballback DVDs, only a few copies left, or the fantastic autobiography of a testicle. I write,

0:38.7

Bollock. All the money from that will go to make him more podcasts. You can support us with money,

0:44.3

you can support us by telling your friends about us, you can support us by just listening to some

0:48.8

adverts and keeping your bloody gobs shut. All right, sit back, relax and enjoy another

0:53.7

Raha Luster part, my back, relax and enjoy another Rahalusta part, my finest friends.

0:59.7

Hello, my finest of friends and rat fans. Welcome to Rahalasdaba book club. This week I have been

1:06.3

reading, and literally I finished this, like an hour and a half before this recording. So it is literally this week. I've been reading, I'm not the only murderer in my retirement home. By Fergus Craig, sounds like a familiar idea. Here he is, Fergus Craig. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you? I am all right, actually. Yeah, I'm feeling okay. In yourself? Yeah, no, I'm very good in myself.

1:28.1

And now I'm feeling quite dapper and dapper spruced up. I can't think of the word. I'm all right. I'm okay. I'm fine. We're all fine, aren't we considering? So look, this is, I mean, this, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. because I've read your,

1:41.1

you've of course been on the book club before,

1:42.6

and we talked about your Martin Fishback novels.

1:47.6

But this, I've read your, you've of course been on the book club before, and we talked about your Martin Fishback novels.

1:47.6

But this is written by you.

1:50.5

Yeah.

1:51.0

So this is a slight departure from the previous one.

1:54.9

Do you want to remind us of the fishback novels

1:58.8

and what the idea of those was, and then we'll move on to this new

2:02.1

yeah it's sort of complicated to explain although it's actually very simple i did this character

2:07.6

online this sort of um um um pompous middle class dad character and as a sort of side project of that he he was

2:16.9

this character i said was writing crime novels.

2:20.5

And then as a result of that, I ended up getting a book deal to write two crime novels based on his detective, Detective Roger La Cary, this sort of Exeter-based detective.

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