S9 EP35: Richard Armitage (Video Edition)

Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

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Places & Travel, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week on Life’s A Beach, Alan Carr is joined by actor, writer and all-round talent Richard Armitage. From his early holiday memories in Anglesey to skiing adventures, to living in New York, and even bumping into Lady Gaga on a flight, Richard shares some amazing travel tales from his acting career. He opens up about writing his new book (and how his stories are getting optioned!), how filming The Hobbit made him fall in love with New Zealand, and we find out where he’d like to be at 100 years old. Plus, Alan has some classic confessions of his own along the way… ⏰ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:15 Make up for dogs 00:50 Rich’s first holiday memories of Anglesey 01:56 Richard’s writing a new book and how writing started 03:07 His books getting optioned 03:30 The Cut: story and inspiration 05:05 How scary Weapons is 06:01 Why Richard loves skiing 08:24 Lionel Blair is Alan’s dad 09:10 Has Richard ever had a holiday romance? 10:14 Richard in Beijing and the Great Wall of China 13:02 Richard and the superstar on the flight (Lady Gaga) 16:18 Is Richard adventurous with food? 17:30 How filming The Hobbit made Richard fall in love with New Zealand and Alan’s New Zealand hidden gem 19:30 Richard’s New York hidden gem: Carnitos 21:03 Broadway stories 22:50 Richard wanted to ski down Mount Ruapehu as a dwarf 23:57 Does Richard complain? 25:19 Richard’s love of Berlin 26:15 Richard returning to the stage 27:00 Where does Richard want to be when he’s 100 years old? 28:20 Starting our descent – the quick fire quiz ✨ Don’t forget to like, subscribe and join Alan every week as he chats to celebrity guests about their dream holidays and travel stories. #LifesABeach #AlanCarr #RichardArmitage #LadyGaga #HolidayPodcast #TravelStories #Skiing #Berlin #NewZealand #Broadway #FunnyPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Across the aisle, Baz Luhrman stands up and it's like, oh my God, you know, we should work together.
0:08.6	And I thought he was talking to me.
0:11.6	Oh, look who we've got on board.
0:14.4	It's Richard Armatite.
0:15.3	How you doing, Richard?
0:16.2	I'm good.
0:17.1	Nice to be here.
0:17.9	Yeah, now we were talking before the cameras.
0:19.9	And I don't want to see you on Dragon's Den, but makeup for dogs. That's good. Lipstick for dogs. Well, we don't want to talk about dogs' lipstick. You know what that is, don't you? What's that? The penis. It's true. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, don't pop that in your search engine. No. Dogs lipstick.
0:37.6	Anyway, we're not here to talk about dog makeup.
0:42.0	We're here to talk about you and your fantastic book, but also your holidays.
0:47.1	So tell us your first holiday memory.
0:50.6	My first holiday memory would have been as a little kid.
0:55.2	And I'm writing about it now because I've got a polaroid of me on the beach with my dad and my mom in Anglesey in Wales.
1:04.2	Oh.
1:05.8	It's not quite so ooh.
1:08.1	I know.
1:08.5	I'm sort of just going, oh.
1:10.2	No, look, Anglesey's very
1:11.6	but the reason we would go there is because my dad was a nuclear engineer and he would work
1:18.0	in all of the power stations at Traus Finney at Sellerfield. And there's a nuclear power
1:23.6	station on Anglesey. So our summer holiday was a trip to the power station.
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