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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

RHLSTP Book Club 174 - Zakia Sewell

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Tv & Film, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP Book Club #174 - Finding Albion - Richard is back at the Podcast Room talking to DJ and probably the coolest person who has ever been on Book Club (not much contest) Zakia Sewell. They chat about her quest to discover the roots of Britishness in our folk traditions, whether Morris Men are good or evil and why some of them refuse to give up the dodgier aspects of the craft, Cheddar Man and how little his family travelled in 10,000 years, what the idea of indigenous Britain might even mean, confronting the less admirable aspects of British history and present, dressing up as a wolf in Cornwall,why the rest of the world should be grateful to England and what are Zakia’s hopes for the future?


Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/finding-albion-myth-folklore-and-the-quest-for-a-hidden-britain-longlisted-for-the-women-s-prize-for-non-fiction-2026-zakia-sewell/ac1b8680af0c4bba


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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 Put my

0:55.1

fan, as friends.

0:59.8

Hello, welcome to another Raha Lusterbubbubbub. This week I've been reading Finding

1:04.3

Albion by Zakia Sewell, Women's Prize Longlisted Nonfiction 2026.

1:10.4

That's what hasn't even come out yet.

1:11.7

I know.

1:12.2

That's amazing. Are you sure? Are you sure? How are you, Zachia? I'd love to see you. Very well. It's a beautiful springy day out there, so I'm feeling quite jolly. It is, and we're both in jumpers, and I'm already too hot. We've been discussing our jumpers. We won't do that on the podcast. That would be ridiculous.

1:28.3

So look, Zachia, tell us, first of all, just tell us a little bit about yourself and who you. First of all, I have to say, you're the coolest person we've ever had on the book club. And I don't think cool people should be allowed to write books. Because it's for that cool. Not for cool people.

1:45.3

You're a DJ, first of all.

1:46.9

So tell us about your pre-author life or for this book anyway.

1:52.1

Well, yeah, so I'm a DJ broadcaster.

1:55.6

I've been hosting kind of music radio for the last 10 years or so.

1:59.3

Currently, I do a show on Six Music or Dreamtime, which is every Sunday night, playing all sorts of kind of dreamy music from all around the world.

2:06.6

Before that, I was on a station called NTS.

2:08.7

But I've always been really drawn to, as well as house music and jazz and all the rest of it, folk.

2:14.4

And for a long time, this was something that I kept private because it maybe

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