Distraction Pieces Podcast
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The Distraction Pieces Podcast is a weekly conversational podcast created and hosted by English spoken word poet and hip-hop artist Scroobius Pip. The podcast began on 13 October 2014 and has been released weekly ever since. The podcast was first released on iTunes on 22 October 2014 and reached #1 in the UK podcast chart the next day[1]
Format
The podcasts are usually around one hour in duration and are released every Wednesday. Pip was inspired to switch to this format from his radio show on Xfm after appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience and hearing other American long form interview podcasters such as Marc Maron[2]. Speaking with The Observer's Killian Fox, Pip describes the podcast as "interesting conversations with interesting people"[3]. He adds "Obviously it’s important to have some big names in there, such as Simon Pegg[4], Alan Moore and Billy Bragg, but we’ve also had people such as Dr Suzi Gage, who studies recreational drugs and their potential benefits and negatives, and the mortician Carla Valentine[5] talking about the taboo of death. It can get incredibly heavy – we’ve had debates about race and mental health – but there’s also a lot of silly nonsense". Pip bookends each episode with monologues in which he mentions sponsors for the show, updates the listener on his work, and reflects on the conversations in the podcasts. Occasionally, 'Drunkcasts' are released which involve Pip getting drunk and conversing with people including Pip's friends Chris and Stu.
Awards
The Distraction Pieces Podcast was nominated for the Entertainment with Maple Street Studios award at the British Podcast Awards in 2017[6]
Distraction Pieces Network
The Distraction Pieces Podcast is the founding podcast of a network of podcasts organised by Pip and comprises Brett Goldstein's podcast Films To Be Buried With[7] Suzi Gage's Say Why To Drugs[8], Jason Reed's Stop and Search in association with LEAP UK[9], and Jim Smallman's Tuesday Night Jaw.
Episodes
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References
- ^ "ITunesCharts.net: 'Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip' by Scroobius Pip (British Podcasts iTunes Chart)".
- ^ http://podbiblemag.com/2019/02/10/scroobius-pip-pod-bible-interview-part-1/
- ^ Fox, Killian (2016-08-07). "Scroobius Pip: 'With podcasting, you can give a platform to unexpected people'". The Guardian.
- ^ "Taboo's Scroobius Pip Discusses His First BBC Drama Role and Working with Tom Hardy". 2017-02-10.
- ^ https://aux.avclub.com/new-podcast-retail-nightmares-finds-its-stride-discussi-1798287835
- ^ "Nominations".
- ^ https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/09/podcast-week-films-buried-brett-goldstein-8190189/
- ^ Gage, Suzi (2016-07-14). "What are the effects of ketamine?". The Guardian.
- ^ "[Listen] Drugs: Think of the Children - New Podcast". January 2017.
- ^ Hawkins, Kathleen (2015-05-07). "Scroobius Pip and the benefits of a stutter". BBC News.
- ^ https://aux.avclub.com/podmass-explores-menage-a-trois-discovers-another-simp-1798287845
- ^ https://news.avclub.com/a-british-dj-may-have-just-revealed-banksy-s-identity-1798263325
- ^ https://aux.avclub.com/the-new-york-times-new-podcast-caliphate-illuminates-1825602750
External links
http://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/distraction-pieces-podcast/
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