Welcome to the Edinburgh Fringe Show.
This BAFTA-nominated podcast is a mix of daily news from the biggest arts festival in the world, with interviews and reviews from the world of comedy, theatre, and music; featuring over 1000 guests since we started coverage in 2005.
Following the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 the world… changed, especially for those in the live arts and those covering the arts. With no Edinburgh Fringe in 2020, the show moved into hiatus with a number of previous episodes from fifteen years of coverage showcased in the feed.
With the Fringe returning to a full roster for 2022, the Edinburgh Fringe Show is also returning. Ewan Spence, joined by Fin Ross Russell guides you through a daily mix of interviews, thoughts, news, and more during August as we bring you the largest arts festival in the world.
Listen to all our shows online at edinburghfringe.thepodcastcorner.com. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or in your favourite podcast app, to never miss an episode.
All Episodes
August 15, 2022
Season 17
Episode 14
00:16:43
Fin’s travelling back in time to talk to Chewboy Productions duo George Bailey and Hal Darling about their new show ‘Caligari’. How is a silent German film that’s over 100 years old still relevant to audiences today? How is music so important to protecting the story’s legacy? How does it feel when a company you started with your childhood friend ends up with a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?
August 14, 2022
Season 17
Episode 13
00:14:42
Emo Majok joins Ewan Spence to talk about his Edinburgh Fringe debut show ‘African Aussie’. He talks about how comedy has become a part of him, an immensely layered journey through life, and the power of story-telling at home and on the stage.
August 13, 2022
Season 17
Episode 12
00:23:33
Ewan and Fin Ross sit down after a week at The Fringe to talk about how this year is feeling, from the joy of returning performers, through the smaller Fringe of 2021, and on to our recommended shows from the last seven days in August at the largest Arts Festival in the world.
August 12, 2022
Season 17
Episode 11
00:15:35
Fin welcomes Amie Enriquez to the podcast chair to discuss her solo show, ‘Lightweight’. How has the discourse around mental health changed over the last 20 years? What is a “debilitatingly positive attitude”? Why do we need to laugh about the scary stuff in order to normalise it?
August 11, 2022
Season 17
Episode 10
00:15:16
Can you convince an audience that you can record not just an album, but the greatest album of all time? That’s the challenge that Tom GK has set himself at the Fringe this year. Ewan sits down with Tom GK to talk about the power of song, his Wikipedia-fuelled years as a music critic, and coping with hearing loss.
August 10, 2022
Season 17
Episode 9
00:15:31
Kick The Door’s Fraser Scott joins Fin Ross Russell to discuss the group’s first Fringe Festival excursion with their original musical ‘Land’. We discuss Scotland’s musical storytelling identity, how the group drew parallels between the 18th and 21st centuries and how the group developed such a unique brand of theatre.
August 9, 2022
Season 17
Episode 8
00:15:21
Italian comic Luca Cupani has always been a popular face at the Free Fringe, but in 2022 he has a one-hour tickted show called Happy Orphan, and the adventure he took when the rent ran out for mother’s grave He joins Ewan to talk about his show, his first experiences of open-mic comedy, why he looks younger now than he did ten years ago, and why Italian paperwork indirectly led to his Fringe 2022 show.
August 8, 2022
Season 17
Episode 7
00:16:52
Fin Ross Russell begins his month as the podcast’s theatre correspondent by speaking. to ‘Brown Boys Swim’ Director John Hoggarth. They cover everything there is to know about Oxford’s finest offering at this year’s Fringe including the awkwardness of adolescence, needing to see it to be it and the many faces of masculinity.
August 7, 2022
Season 17
Episode 6
00:16:03
First up in our Edinburgh studio is Aliya Kanani. She’s making her Fringe debut with “Where You From, From”, a stand-up show that takes you on “a turbulent journey around the world with tales of fitting in, sticking out and standing up.” As well as introducing the show, she chats with Ewan about how the Fringe feels to a Canadian, why she records every single performance, and what it means to finally bring this show to the Arts Capital of the world.
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