Antrim Gardens, Belsize Park, London, UK

Guest: Davina Bentley

Davina Bentley is a great comedian and despite her rinsing me for wearing a Hawaiian shirt at her Edinburgh gig a couple of years ago (remember that Davina haha?!) she is one of my favourite comedians in London at the moment.

You have to check out her excellent skits on Instagram @davinabentleycomedy where she does brilliant take offs of Love Island, The Crown, and London Lidos. There are also collabs with Freya Mallard, Adam Flood and Rosie Holt and demolitions of middle aged men (oh).

Also see her live. She's great.

And if you find yerself in a spot o bother wi the old Peelers - give her a call, she's a lawyer too! :)

Thanks Davina!

PS there is some strong language in this one

Cheers!

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves).

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

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Kynaston Gardens, London, UK

Guest: Freddie Hill

Lots of laughs as me and comedian Freddie Hill talk about movies, music, highbrow jokes, satirising the North London middle classes and running a comedy night.

And come to that comedy night you should! Babbling Babel, in Stoke Newington - it's a cracking little comedy club run by Freddie and friends. Check it out. I'll be playing there on Sep 26 too.

Cheers Freddie

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves).

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

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Location: Bingfield Park

London, UK

Guest: Stacey Edwards

It's time for another new episode of Park Date

All you need to know is that you'll need to turn the volume down on this one. It's Stacey Edwards!

As Stacey says at one point: "This is like a voice note"

Follow her @lestass

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves).

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

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Hello you! If you love Park Date why not join us and get even more from the podcast? We will release the family member of yours (or pet) we are currently holding hostage and you also get to experience a range of benefits. But mainly you get to support us and help make Park Date sound even funnier. https://plus.acast.com/s/park-date.

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Location: Mayville Estate Gardens

London

Guest: Harry Stachini

WARNING - THERE IS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE IN THIS EPISODE, SO IT'S NOT SUITABLE FOR KIDS

We're back!

And our first guest for a new run is Harry Stachini. Catch Harry performing his solo show at Edinburgh Fringe in Aug and also doing his podcast All Made Up LIVE!

Yes we ran out of batteries but it was still fun. Cheers Harry

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves).

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

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Hello you! If you love Park Date why not join us and get even more from the podcast? We will release the family member of yours (or pet) we are currently holding hostage and you also get to experience a range of benefits. But mainly you get to support us and help make Park Date sound even funnier. https://plus.acast.com/s/park-date.

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Location: The Bill Murray and Prebend St Park

London

Guest: Dec Munro

Please welcome Mr Comedy - Dec Munro - to the podcast.

Some of you might know I scratched my itch to do stand up comedy last year and it would not have been possible without the kindness and enthusiasm of this guy. He really did give me the confidence to get on stage that I'd been craving for years and is, like my mum(!), a brilliant teacher.

Dec has taught and advised so many people how to do comedy better and not just idiotic wannabes like me but actual famous comics too - directing shows by Stuart Goldsmith and Lara Ricote to name just a couple. We spoke about his teaching and his directing and what makes good live comedy.

And Dec also gave us a look behind the curtains at the Bill Murray pub - the ground zero of the London comedy scene which has witnessed performances from anyone who's anyone... and me. He told us about how he and his friends at Angel Comedy together opened this amazing venue.

Dec was very sweet in this podcast - asking me questions and even saying that he's had requests to do something like this before but felt like Park Date was the right podcast to spill the tea on. So thanks for talking Dec and see you soon.

Find out more about Dec here and if you're a comedian in need of a director or a person who wants to learnt he dark arts of stand up, I urge you to get in touch. He didn't pay me to say that - but Dec I'll forward my bank details if you want to.

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves).

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

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Hello you! If you love Park Date why not join us and get even more from the podcast? We will release the family member of yours (or pet) we are currently holding hostage and you also get to experience a range of benefits. But mainly you get to support us and help make Park Date sound even funnier. https://plus.acast.com/s/park-date.

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Location: Kings Heath Park

Birmingham, UK

Guest: Andy Howlett

It's time for another new episode of Park Date

Please welcome Andy Howlett. Now this is something a little different... we recorded this chat for my When Harry Met Telly podcast series about the infamous film Telly Salavas Looks At Birmingham. We'll still do something with that... but I thought in the meantime you might like to hear the full chat between Me and Andy.

Well we recorded in a park so I think it counts! It was in Kings Heath Park, south Birmingham - famous as the location of the BBC Gardener's World garden and where I used to smoke ciggies with my girlfriend Anna (hi Anna!) a lot of years ago.

Andy tells me about his amazing film Paradise Lost, about the brutalist library in Birmingham and the Paradise Circus complex that obsessed me too and features in my novel The Wall in The Head. We talk about films, the city, skating and public space.

http://andyhowlett.co.uk

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

Please follow us on socials

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More about Christopher 

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Hello you! If you love Park Date why not join us and get even more from the podcast? We will release the family member of yours (or pet) we are currently holding hostage and you also get to experience a range of benefits. But mainly you get to support us and help make Park Date sound even funnier. https://plus.acast.com/s/park-date.

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Location: Hyde Park (aka Woodhouse Moor)

Leeds, UK

Guest: David Ellis

It's time for another new episode of Park Date

Please welcome David Ellis. David and I chatted about what makes a liveable city and how transport clicks together, from biking to trains. We talked before I did a book talk in Leeds, which I always love to do.

And some uni memories came flooding back - I lived here for 3 years while I was studying.

Thanks to David for being a great book talk host. And thanks Jack and the brilliant Hyde Park Book Club where I've done two talks now. I will have another book out next year and will be back at HPBC I'm sure :)

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

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Hello you! If you love Park Date why not join us and get even more from the podcast? We will release the family member of yours (or pet) we are currently holding hostage and you also get to experience a range of benefits. But mainly you get to support us and help make Park Date sound even funnier. https://plus.acast.com/s/park-date.

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Location: Cannon Hill Park

Bimringham

Guest: Catherine O'Flynn

It's time for another new episode of Park Date

This time, well what can I say? Catherine O'Flynn rightly won the Costa First Novel Award for her exceptional debut What Was Lost. The News Where You Are was even better. Honestly I would love to write a screenplay or a TV version of these books, they are just so, so good and I can imagine them bursting into life on screen.

So it was an absolute honour to spend an hour with Catherine talking about her work and about Birmingham, and you know what? She is an absolutely lovely as well. Meeting the people whose work you love and then they're also so kind and generous - priceless.

Catherine, I'm so sorry for keeping you out in the cold for this one in Birmingham's Cannon Hill Park! We chatted before we did a cool event at Mac showing some classic Birmingham TV shows. And of course we talked about these and about Cliff Richard hover crafting under Spaghetti Junction and Telly Savalas's Looks At Birmingham too.

I'll be back at Mac doing another 'Brum on Screen' in November at Square Eyes TV Festival, this time with another special surprise guest. Keep your eyes peeled for more info soon!

Find out more about what Catherine is up to here: http://www.catherineoflynn.com

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review.

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christopherbeanland.com

Hello you! If you love Park Date why not join us and get even more from the podcast? We will release the family member of yours (or pet) we are currently holding hostage and you also get to experience a range of benefits. But mainly you get to support us and help make Park Date sound even funnier. https://plus.acast.com/s/park-date.

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