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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2026 – Stam Zimmerman – Right Before I Go

August 15, 2026

Season 22

00:24:10

As the Fringe started, I sat down with Stan Zimmerman, the writer and on-stage narrator of ‘Just Before I Go,’ a play that looks to raise awareness by “highlighting the struggles of people who have died by suicide, by reading the notes they left behind.

Stan and I talk about the origins of the play from Stan’s personal life, the impact the show has had on individual lives, and how it continues the conversation between the audience and the cast after the end of the performance.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2026 – Saint Stella – Louise, The Last Dance

August 14, 2026

Season 22

Episode 9

0:26:15

Burlesque dancer Saint Stella brings a forgotten star to the Edinburgh Fringe. Their show, ‘Louise, The Last Dance ’, looks at Louise Weber. Known in history as La Goulue, and once heralded as the Queen of Montmarte, she was put on a pedestal for the creation of the can-can and the face of the Moulin Rouge, before being torn down by male business interests.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2026 – Darryl J – Tennish

August 13, 2026

Season 22

Episode 8

00:24:14

Silent clown Darryl J is bringing two shows to the Fringe; the first is ‘Out of the Box’ in the afternoon, and the second is Tennish, late at night. Both are clowning shows; the latter is about learning the violin, the former has a box full of adventures, ready to be opened by anyone in the audience. What’s in the chat box between us? How about making a performance like a Pixar movie, clowning around the world, and what street performers can bring to the stage?

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2026 – Thom Tuck – The Wolf Of Poyais

August 12, 2026

Episode 7

00:25:21

“The Wolf Of Pryais” sits at the heart of Thom Tuck’s Edinburgh Fringe this year. Tuck inhabits the role of Gregor MacGregor, the 19th-century Scottish adventurer who convinced hundreds of people to invest in, and in some cases emigrate to, a country that did not exist… the fictional Central American territory of ‘Poyais.’

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2026 – Couplet – Folk, Marry, Kill

August 11, 2026

Season 22

Episode 6

00:26:16

Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe this year are Marnina Schon and Micah O’Konis. ‘Folk Marry Kill’ is a folktale about sex, death, and the hard question of “how often should a married couple, you know… folk?” We talk about the delights of writing a follow-up show, why “kill your darlings” is something they still have to contend with, and coming back to the Fringe with a little more experience.

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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2026 Prologue – Welcome To Season Twenty Two

July 13, 2026

Season 22

Episode 1

00:10:38

Welcome to Edinburgh, and the build-up to the Edinburgh Fringe is underway. August, with its month of shows across the Capital, is on the horizon, which means a month of podcasts to talk about them. Ewan Spence opens up the year with a prologue to set the scene, and our traditional opening song from Daniel Cainer.

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The Interview – Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag

December 11, 2025

Season 1

Episode 6

00:10:41

Directed by Vicky Wood, and written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe and remains the gold standard of Fringe legends… from a theatrical dare to a short stand-up like ten minutes, to a ‘that’s so Fringe’ run in Edinburgh, and then onwards into the zeitgeist.

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The Interview – Conchita Wurst, ‘Rise Like A Phoenix’

November 27, 2025

Season 1

Episode 5

00:21:20

One of the most recognisable names in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest is Austria’s Conchita Wurst. In the weeks before her victory for Austria with ‘Rise Like A Phoenix’, I caught up with the singer to find out more about their public and personal sides. We discussed attitudes, dreams, songs, Shirley Bassey, and Austria’s entry into Eurovision 2014.

A few hours after this interview, Conchita would take to the stage for the first public performance of the song and start their journey to global recognition. Time was tight between rehearsals and taking to the Dutch stage, so the interview took place in the back of a taxi. Sometimes it’s the name, not the venue, that counts!

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The Interview – Gene Cernan, The Last Man To Walk On The Moon

November 13, 2025

Season 1

Episode 4

00:20:09

Director Mark Craig and retired astronaut Gene Cernan to talk about the documentary film ‘The Last Man On The Moon.’

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The Interview – Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet

October 30, 2025

Season 1

Episode 3

00:30:02

Vint Cerf, along with Bob Kahn, developed TCP/IP, the communications protocol that lies at the heart of the Internet. Without that, nothing works, hence many calling Cerf and Kahn the fathers of the Internet.

When he joined Google, after he was talked out of working as an Archduke, was given the title of Chief Internet Evangelist. We talked about the design of the Internet and how its open nature was achieved, reaching the last billion users and using the Internet for education

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