Sophie Willan • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #409
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the amazing actor, comic and writer SOPHIE WILLAN!
…also known as Bafta Award winning Sophie Willan! Sophie’s running things right now, not only on account of her fantastic and unique series Alma’s Not Normal, but through pure hard work and an individual, very real eye through which she filters what’s happening out there. She and Pip get into all of it, including her work on The Circle, being mates with Jayde Adams, Bolton, shining light on the past and honoring real people from real places, working class backgrounds, being introduced to John Waters and Mike Leigh through her grandma, past job, Rob Parker, going against ‘safe’ lineups in casts, charity work and so much more besides - if you don’t know Sophie, prepare to make a new pal right here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 409. I hope you are all well. |
| 0:08.5 | Thank you for tuning in guys. |
| 0:10.9 | Today's guest is a fantastic one. It's the amazing |
| 0:15.3 | Sophie Willen. As we discuss, had her pilot for a TV show, she wrote, created, |
| 0:24.5 | starting, Alma's not normal, come out the first week of the pandemic, get commission for a series |
| 0:32.5 | the second week of the pandemic, and then however further on, she won a bath before it. |
| 0:39.3 | But she's got a fantastic story and I really wanted to sit down. I'm really enjoying the series. |
| 0:45.2 | As you listen to this, it's out now on BBC iPlayer with episodes air in Mondays on BBC 2 at 10 PM. |
| 0:52.6 | It's called Alma's not normal. But it's also, as I said, there's loads of other stuff that we |
| 0:58.0 | wanted to talk about. So I was delighted to get Sophie on. We had a few technical issues with the |
| 1:05.2 | zoom, but that all got smoothed out. And I'd imagine Buddy Pease is the best producer in the world. |
| 1:09.4 | So you probably won't even notice that. But I thought I'd warn you of it. Oh, and also, how am I |
| 1:13.9 | sounding, man? I've got a, I've got a new gear for the first time in the seven or so years I've been |
| 1:21.4 | doing this podcast after asking you guys online for recommendations. I've got the, um, sure, |
| 1:29.3 | MV seven USB and XLR mic because that was one that you guys tweeted about it and you guys |
| 1:36.8 | were raving about that. And I'm feeling it, man. I think it sounds good. I hope you think it |
| 1:40.9 | sounds good. I probably need to get used to the levels and find where I need to be. But, um, |
| 1:46.3 | yeah, I hope you like it. Anyway, before we get into this, I mean, two people that we mentioned |
| 1:53.2 | on this, in fact, a few people we mentioned on this podcast that are previous guests. If you want |
| 1:57.2 | to go and check their episodes out, we mentioned Jade Adams. We mentioned Gus Khan. We mentioned |
| 2:02.2 | Tess Ilya. So mention Rob Parker. All of those are previous guests. We mentioned Michaela Cole. |
| 2:07.5 | We mentioned Daisy Haggaz. We mentioned, um, Ashlyn B. We mentioned a lot of people who are previous |
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