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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Rebecca Perry – Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl

August 21, 2025

Season 21

Episode 17

00:25:45

Ten years ago, a single-hander show turned up at the Fringe… Rebecca Perry with ‘Confessions Of A Redheaded Coffeshop Girl’, which starts as “what if a coffeeshop with David Attenborough?” A hook that brought you in, before the performance and the piece delightfully dragged you further… a further that included an interview on this podcast.

Ten years later, Rebecca is back at the Fringe, and ten years later, Rebecca is back on the podcast.

What is the impact of a critically acclaimed show at the Fringe on a career? Why bring a show back? And how much of a personal show can remain the same after a decade of growth and performance?

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Sutara Gayle – The Legends Of Them

August 20, 2025

Season 21

Episode 16

00:26:04

One of the delights of the Fringe is learning something new. Theatre is the great educator, hiding it within music, within moments, and sometimes even with mime.

For me, the life and work of Sutara Gayle is one of those moments. She was a pioneering female deejay on London’s infamous reggae scene in the 1980s, which earned her a first record contract; she lived through personal tragedy that sparked the Brixton Uprising, and her work with the LGBTQAI+ community, especially within the Afro-Caribbean community, is rightly celebrated.

She is bringing some of her life to the Fringe in The Legends of Them, a unique theatrical, shared spiritual experience. An ethralling force, I spoke to her ahead of the show arriving in Edinburgh.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Sarah Bowles – The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards

August 19, 2025

Season 21

Episode 15

00:18:41

One of the key returns for many acts and troupes from the Fringe is to come away with an award. There’s an insane amount of competition to win one, but they can set the tone of your career for the following years.

But what does it take to manage and run one of the awards?

The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards started in the years after Covid-19, and brought a fresh look at the comedy scene across the Fringe. With over 700 shows to see, it’s a vast undertaking to see, to judge, and to decide. On the four awards – best show, best newcomer, best tech, and panel prize

I decided to find out more, and spoke to ISH’s Sarah Bowles.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Julien Salvia and Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal – World’s Greatest Lover

August 15, 2025

Season 21

Episode 14

00:24:58

There are so many puns available to me from today’s show. “The World’s Greatest Lover” is a new musical debuting at the Fringe, but with international ambitions beyond Pleasance One.

Writers Julien Salvia and Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal bring the titular lovers from the annals of history. Romeo, Casanova, Cyrano de Bergerac, the Marquis de Sade and MC Saint Valentine to the Fringe stage. Not only is this a closer look at five different types of love, it’s also a chance for some great new pop standards.

Julien and Ludo, on a rather long-distance call from Australia, talk about how they cho

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Ryan Stewart and Tiah Bullock – Kinder

August 14, 2025

Season 21

Episode 13

00:30:46

Kinder is an excellent example of a show taking risks at the Fringe, both for the production and the audience.

There are hints on what to expect on paper – a story of a Drag Queen preparing a “comedy roast” but finding out with an hour to go, it’s actually a booking for a children’s story time show. In that short liminal space, there is some theatrical magic that lifts the story to something powerful, reflective, and vitally important.

It’s the Fringe at its best. I caught up with the team behind the show – producer and performer Ryan Stewart and director Tiah Bullock to find out more.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Jay Phelps – Miles

August 13, 2025

Season 21

Episode 12

Accomplished jazz trumpeter Jay Phelps debuts at the Fringe this year with Miles. It’s a look back on the life of Jazz virtuoso Miles Davis in general, and the creation of the album “Kind Of Blue” in particular.

It mixes in many disciplines, including the acting talents of Benjamin Akintuyos as Davis, the music of the album, and Phelps’ music talents on the trumpet. Not only that, but Phelps has 20 years of music and performance in his CV, but this is his first move into acting.

I caught up with Jay earlier today to talk about the impact and relevance of Kind of Blue, the influence it has had on his life, and what it’s like to meet your hero on stage.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Jay Saunders and Nick Cheng – Project Comedy

August 12, 2025

Season 21

Episode 11

0:31:00

Jay Saunders and Nick Cheng are from Project Comedy; a part of Project Recce, which helps Military Veterans and Service Leavers to move from military service to civilian employment.

As they describe it, “military humour is more than just entertainment—it’s a survival tool. It forges camaraderie, boosts morale, and keeps teams strong in the toughest conditions. Now, through Project COMEDY, veterans can harness that same power of humour to improve their well-being, master new skills, and stand out in civilian careers.”

This is the first year that the Project Comedy team has brought shows to Edinburgh. The Fringe can offer more, so I listen to Jay and Nick as they talk about the power of healing that the Fringe can offer, how the Fringe can help introduce the Project to a broader audience, and how this will help build the project for the future.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Narin Oz – Inner Child(ish)

August 11, 2025

Season 21

Episode 10

00:18:01

As week 2 starts here in Edinburgh, let’s welcome Narin Oz to the pod. Returning to the Fringe with her fourth show, Inner Child(ish) sees Oz looking to reconnect with her titular inner child … through the medium of the Tom Hanks motion picture Castaway.

Her inner child misbehaves, breaks rules, and flips reality around. Behind all this is Narin learning to live in a world of neurotypical people surrounding her neurodiversity. Why live in reality when you can skip over, under, around, and through it?

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Annie Lareau – Fuselage

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.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Box Tale Soup – 1984

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?

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