RHLSTP Book Club 68 - Simon Farnaby
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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RHLSTP Book Club 68 - Ghosts - The Button House Archives - Live from the Leicester Square Theatre, Richard has been in for his yearly human MOT. His guest has performed with and dug up monarchs, it’s the amazing Simon Farnaby. They talk about the importance of not making your Christmas TV tie-in a soulless cash grab, the fun of creating historical documents for all the ghosts, plus making the designer’s life difficult. Plus loads more about Simon’s remarkable career, how the documentary about the search for Richard III turned into something remarkable, Simon’s chat with the queen, why he fears a stupid death and where death’s voice came from, his he turned Paddington from a U into a PG, offending the people of Scotland (that’s Richard’s job), being directed by Mackenzie Crook, getting the approval of Nicholas Cage and working on the Persuasionists!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Thanks for listening to my podcast. It's me, Richard Herring. |
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| 0:12.3 | Right here. Look, a couple of things. My book, can I have my ball back? Is now out in paperback? |
| 0:19.2 | Get it wherever you get your books. It's fabulous. It's a beautiful Christmas gift for the |
| 0:23.6 | testicle owner and testicle lovers in your family. More about balls than you could care to know about. |
| 0:30.0 | Plus, it might save someone's life. So, if you don't buy it for your friends and family, |
| 0:34.9 | you could be guilty of murdering them. Also, coming up on the Rahalist Batour. |
| 0:41.8 | We've got a few gigs on the 30th of October. I'm in London with the Vena McCall and Timki. |
| 0:48.2 | Very few tickets left for that one. And then I'm in Norwich on the 1st and 2nd of November. |
| 0:52.9 | Alistair Beckett King and Emma Ciddy on the 1st. |
| 0:55.6 | Joe Pesquale and Tiktok sensation, Jeff Innocent on the 2nd. |
| 1:00.6 | Then Les Square Theatre with Joe Wilkinson and Julia Sawhala on the 6th. |
| 1:05.5 | Again, very close to selling out. And then Northampton with Abigail I assume and special guests, |
| 1:13.7 | yet to be announced. And Ross Noble and John Rutz are coming up for the final Les Square theatre. |
| 1:17.6 | Then there's Chorley, Nottingham, Solford, Edinburgh and then into New Year where guests will |
| 1:23.2 | include Bill Bailey, Macy Adam, Tommy Tin and Jim Weyer, the artist formerly known as Vick Reeves |
| 1:30.6 | and Adam Buckston, loads more to come. Head to richchain.com slash Rahalistapur for details on that. |
| 1:38.0 | And for now, just listen to this lovely podcast and then listen to another one if you like. |
| 1:42.8 | Thanks a lot, bye. |
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| 1:51.4 | Blood and Transplant, who need people of Black Heritage to help fight sickle cell by giving blood. |
| 1:56.7 | On average, a sickle cell patient who receives blood regularly needs 100 blood donors every year |
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