Welcome to the Edinburgh Fringe Show.
This BAFTA-nominated podcast is a mix of 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.
Just as the Edinburgh Fringe went on hiatus in 2020, so did the Fringe podcast. The Fringe returned to a full roster for 2022, as did the podcast. Following the 2022 Fringe, we explored our extensive library of guests with a weekly showcase interview from the archives.
With Fringe 2026 here, the big show is back for Season 22, bringing you the best flavour of the Fringe that we have done for twenty years.
Listen to all our shows online at edinburghfringe.thepodcastcorner.com. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or in your favourite podcast app, to never miss an episode.
You can also listen to the Edinburgh Fringe Show’s weekend Omnibus edition throughout August on Radio Six International and its syndication partners worldwide (check listings for details). We’re also partnered with Lothian Life where the podcast will sit alongside reviews and features from around the Fringe.
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August 8, 2025
Season 21
Episode 9
00:29:32
Today, we listen to Annie Lareau talk about her life, which she is bringing to the Fringe in the show Fuselage.
Annie was meant to be flying home from the UK with 35 university classmates for Christmas in 1988. They changed to an earlier flight, and Anie, who couldn’t afford the fee, stayed behind, as her friend boarded Pan Am 103. A flight where a bomb exploded, crashing the aircraft into the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
This ensemble piece threads Annie’s life with that of the people of Lockerbie and the scrutiny of the terrorist incident, how Annie faced debilitating grief, panic attacks, and nightmares in the decades afterwards.
It’s also a look at treasuring moments and relationships in an unpredictable and sometimes cruel world.
August 7, 2025
Season 21
Episode 8
00:24:15
1984 is a story that has been told countless times and becomes more relevant every time it is told.
Box Tale Soup brings their version of the classic warning to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. I caught up with Noel Byrne to talk about the challenge involved in bringing a classic to the stage. Box Tale Soup has established itself as one of the leading puppetry companies coming to the Fringe over the last few years, and I explore how the company came to that part of the arts world and how they learned their skills.
With that, what can this stylised approach bring to 1984? What different techniques can be taken, and when was the decision on the puppet roles and the human roles made?
August 6, 2025
Season 21
Episode 7
00:25:51
What if Cabaret, disaster movie, philosophy, and Geri Halliwell? You get Apocalypse Cabaret: Songs for the End of the World!
To learn more about this one-woman cabaret show, I talk with Scout Durwood as she brings this dark delight to the Edinburgh Fringe. With a mix of original songs, standards and a dash of existentialism, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.
This is Durwood’s first play, which means balancing between sticking to the page and performing for a live audience, and why cabaret thrives with restricted budgets. There’s also the small matter of some of the comparisons in the press release… why Bette Midler?
August 5, 2025
Season 21
Episode 6
00:21:48
One of the delights of the Edinburgh Fringe is finding something that’s just a single step to the side of your average show. It’s in those little side streets where you can find something spectacular.
Kit Loyd is on one of those side streets. He’s brought Frenzy to the Fringe, a delightful and engaging mix of comedy, physical theatre, and mime. It’s also his first full hour at the Fringe.
I sat down with Kit to talk about bringing a debut show to Edinburgh, his expectations, and how he discovered that his forte is mime and physicality.
August 4, 2025
Season 21
Episode 5
00:20:18
Today’s guest is Saaniya Abbas. From the UAE comedy scene, she is the first local comic to officially debut a solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe this August.
How do you go from a sheltered upbringing in New Delhi to a sometimes controversial comedy career? We talk about Sanniya’s background and her first steps in comedy, before finding wider acclaim and turning a hobby into a profession.
August 1, 2025
Season 21
Episode 4
00:27:57
Some will know him from the dim and distant past as Barry Ferns. Edinburgh Fringe historians will know him as Lionel Ritchie. Others in the comedy scene of 2025 will know him, once more, as Barry Ferns.
And there you have the premise for his Fringe show, My Seven Years As Lionel Ritchie. This strong narrative hour charts the highs and lows of being a professional comic at the Fringe, the lead up to the shows, the many years of “this year is the one”, the debt, the bankruptcy, and the return to the scene.
We touch on many of these subjects in today’s interview to give you a flavour of what all performers face at the Fringe, as well as putting Barry’s work at Angel Comedy and The Bill Murray into context.
July 25, 2025
Season 21
Episode 3
00:28:31
This week’s Fringe preview takes in not only a Fringe show, but the evolution of social media storytelling itself.
Grace Helbig and I start by talking about he early days of content creation on the internet… I started podcasting with the Fringe Show in 2005 while Grace started during the first flush of YouTube in 2006.
That starts us down a path of online personae, presenting yourself, and the grind of content… which was then disrupted with Grace’s diagnosis of breast cancer. Her Fringe show, “Let Me Get This Off My Chest,” is about the journey from that point, and taking it while in the public eye.
July 18, 2025
Season 21
Episode 2
00:36:03
As we head through July, we’ll be bringing you preview interviews that help set the scene for Fringe 2025. That could be the history of the Fringe, how traditional and online media impact the arts, the future of the Festival in Edinburgh, and the impact it can have.
In our first preview, Ewan Spence meets Henry Naylor to talk about his new solo show ‘Monstering The Rocketman,’ a timely drama about press values through the lens of Elton John and his libel case against The Sun in the 1980s.
July 4, 2025
Season 21
Episode 1
00:08:42
The Edinburgh Fringe Show started in 2005, and as Fringe 2025 appears on the horizon, we’re going to get started on our 21st season covering the largest arts festival in the world.
We have a few traditions in these parts. One of those is our prologue podcast—a chance to ensure the website, podcast feed, and all the other digital components are ready to go. We’ll have weekly preview interviews through July to help set the scene, before a rush of recordings in August.
As always, we have the music of Daniel Cainer to remind us what it’s like to be in Edinburgh at this time of year.
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