Manatomy is a place where well-known men talk honestly about their bodies. It’s not about getting thinner or fitter or putting on muscle – it’s about being funny and honest. We cover secret vanities, bizarre insecurities, muscle, fat, broken bones, damaged pride and the magnetic appeal of cheese. You will laugh, gasp and feel part of a warm awkward, human family.
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LVB Presents is the insider's guide to the world of Voice Over. Hosted by London Voice Boutique founder, Steph Thompson, this series will take you on a little journey behind the scenes every Friday with some of our actors so that you can get a taste of what goes on in this world – all the funny stories, advice and useful insights on how to navigate this industry.
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In this final episode of Series Two, Steph talks to Sean Carnegie of Radioville and Joe Attewell from Global about producing voice overs for radio and digital advertising, the skill it takes to cram an encyclopedia's worth of information into 30 seconds, and making host reads in podcasts sound 'part of the show.' Find out more about The London Voic…
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This week Steph looks at the world of Documentary voice overs with seasoned artists Glynis Barber and Adrian Scarborough, talking about the rapid increase of work (especially during Lockdown), working from home, clunky scripts, and the perils of recording three or more documentaries in a day! Find out more about The London Voice Boutique here. Prod…
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This week Steph looks at what Creatives do in the industry by talking to two of the more successful one, Ravi Beeharry and Andy Mancuso, how they develop a campaign, and what they look for when casting voices. Find out more about The London Voice Boutique here. Produced by Mike Hanson for Pod People Productions. Recorded at Jungle Studios by Shaun …
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This week Steph looks at the voice over world from the sound engineer's perspective. Stuart Allen-Hynd and Luke Isom are both seasoned studio pros and talk to Steph about what makes for a good session, how to make the clients feel comfortable in the studio, the creativity that goes into sound design, and those hidden gems to get a drink in Soho on …
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This week Steph looks at one of the fastest growing areas for voice over artists - video games. She chats to George Taylor and Osy Ikhile about their extensive work in video games, how they approach it like any other acting job, and why there's no shame in playing videos after the age of 30. The video game industry is now bigger than film, TV, and …
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This week Steph talks to freelance TV Executive Producer, Emma Johnston, and Melody Sylvester, Chief Production Officer at TBWA, about how the world of advertising has changed over the last 30 years where campaigns now take longer to come to life and need to satisfy various platforms beyond traditional TV and Radio including social and other digita…
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This week Steph chats to The Bourne Consultancy founder, Melsie Bourne, and her colleague, Laura Townson, about what it's like from the client's perspective. Melsie, who ran the highly successful Voice Over Agency, Rabbit, talks about the move to the other side - casting and looking outside of the normal arenas to find new talent - and of course, t…
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Steph kicks off series two by explaining what a Voice Over agent actually does with London Voice Boutique colleagues, Sophia Nicholson and Sorel Read, talking about the 'Do's and Don'ts' of session work and finding an agent as well as why just 'having a nice voice' is not enough to become a voice over artist. Find out more about them and the London…
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LVB presents returns for a new series on January 26. In this series Steph looks at the production side of Voice Overs, talking to producers, directors, clients and agencies. Follow now to catch every show.By Stephanie Thompson
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In the last of Series One, Steph talks to Sophie Corbett and Nathalie Arming, both of whom specialise in up market brands. Find out more about them and the London Voice Boutique here. Produced by Mike Hanson for Pod People Productions. Recorded at Jungle Studios by Shaun Dyos. Music by Deli Music.By Stephanie Thompson
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This week Steph looks at the unique world of audiobooks with two of the top audiobook actors, Liz Bower and Joe Coen looking accents, character, and how prepped you need to be for what is always a really big job. Find out more about them and the London Voice Boutique here. Produced by Mike Hanson for Pod People Productions. Recorded at Jungle Studi…
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This week Steph looks at the world of animation voice overs with illustrator and actor (and Steph's first signing at LVB) Harriet Carmichael and BAFTA winning animation producer, Alan Johnston, of Jungle Creative talking Do's and Don'ts of show reels and other tips when voicing animation. Find out more about them and the London Voice Boutique here.…
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This week Steph welcomes the actors Kola Bokinni and James Lance, best known for their roles in Ted Lasso. Find out more about them and the London Voice Boutique here. Produced by Mike Hanson for Pod People Productions. Recorded at Jungle Studios by Shaun Dyos. Music by Deli Music.By Stephanie Thompson
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In this episode Steph chats with comedians Josh Pugh and Jonny Weldon about being funny in the booth and giving it more 'ooomph'. Find out more about them and the London Voice Boutique here. Produced by Mike Hanson for Pod People Productions. Recorded at Jungle Studios by Shaun Dyos. Music by Deli Music.…
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In this inaugural episode of series one, our host, Steph Thompson, welcomes the musician and actor, Collette Cooper, and the comedian Anneka Harry where they discuss the importance of wearing comfortable pants during recording sessions, who they’d like to share a booth with (spoiler: Ricky Gervais) and where to hang out in Soho on Friday night afte…
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Welcome to LVB Presents...the new podcast from Pod People Productions.By Stephanie Thompson
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Novelist Mike Gayle has forged a career in industries largely populated by women. He’s a former agony uncle, responding for dispensing advice to worried teenage girls, and his bestselling books like Turning 30 and My Legendary Girlfriend explore relationships and manhood in really accessible ways. Here he talks men, women, pole vaulting, great calv…
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It’s one year of Manatomy! Today, the hugely affable Martin Roberts joins Danny & Phil with an urgent message. Martin is one of daytime TV’s most familiar faces, thanks not just to Homes Under the Hammer, but also his appearances on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and for stripping off for The Real Full Monty. But what he thought was Long-COVID …
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JONATHAN GOODWIN: “There’s only now.”
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America’s Got Talent and BBC America star Jonathan Goodwin is the Welsh daredevil and escapologist famous for his incredible acts of bravery, skill and risk. It’s what got him his own show - The Incredible Mr Goodwin - and a reputation for thrilling audiences worldwide. But in just one moment, his whole world - and body - changed. Today, we talk fe…
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The lightning-quick TV and radio broadcasting genius that is Johnny Vaughan is our fiftieth guest on Manatomy, and it’s important you appreciate he is bang on six-feet tall, with feet also a remarkably specific length. Today, he takes us from top to toe in typically freeform manner, talking heart attack adverts, tan-lines, paunches, quads, incredib…
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PETE MCKEE: “I’m aware I’ve had the full benefit of someone passing.”
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This guy is an absolute dude. A pop-artist who took up the game after leaving Tesco at 40, he quickly became a favourite of the Gallagher brothers, Arctic Monkeys and more. He can sum up the life of a body with just a few of his brushstrokes - despair, delight, love, angst. But his own body - raised on Sheffield stodge - has given him a few surpris…
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Winner of the Comic’s Comic Award, the hugely funny and affable Scott Bennett joinsDanny & Phil this week, to talk twisted testicles, his wonderful hair, exhaustion, anxiety, mid-life, and the unfairness of genetics. Scott’s always gigging, but has a full tour coming up - find all the 2022 dates atscottbennettcomedy.co.uk And check out the podcast …
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MARK WATSON: “An odd relationship with self-esteem.”
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Thoughtful and erudite comic Mark Watson has put his body through a lot over the years. Whether it’s adrenaline, stress, panic or literally ending up near-starving on a desert island eating snails. Here he talks with Danny & Phil about booze, self-criticism, fear, losing control, anxiety, confidence, doubt and so much more. It’s a great chat with a…
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SAM DELANEY: “Bravado, bullshit, booze and bugle.”
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The brilliant journalist and author Sam Delaney is also the brains behind the excellent The Reset podcast and newsletter. Why The Reset? Because Sam had to do just that. In this episode, he talks just as frankly but always as entertainingly as he writes, about booze, drugs, addiction, anxiety, hair loss, and the trip to IKEA that went very wrong in…
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CHEF ANDRE RUSH: “I’ll kick yo’ ass... Then make you dessert.”
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Chef Andre Rush is one-of-a-kind. Once a sickly kid, he grew into a US Army Master Sergeant with enormous biceps who does 2,222 push-ups every single day. He also became a chef. One who would find himself a White House chef, cooking fordiplomats and no fewer than four US Presidents. On September 11th 2001, he was in the gym at the Pentagon when the…
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JAMES O’BRIEN: “A mate of mine missed the pot!”
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We talk about things we’ve never talked about on the show before, thanks to record-setting LBC broadcaster and journalist James O’Brien, whose article on the shock of realising you may be close to infertile has helped very many men. Elsewhere, he talks his own adoption and the strange feeling of not knowing who you’re growing up to look like, the t…
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ED GAMBLE: "I worry more about my weight now."
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When he was in his early 20s, Ed Gamble weighed around 19 stone, or 265lbs. He lost more than a third of his body weight in just months. In this episode, the Off Menu podcast superstar and Great British Menu TV host talks binge-eating, type 1 diabetes, injecting yourself in public, and looking like an American GI. Get in touch and have a great day.…
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JASON BYRNE: “A weird thing happens with my testicles.”
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Superstar Irish comedian Jason Byrne is a whirlwind of energy, sweatily whipping up crowds around the world - and even his recent health scare can’t stop him. Plus, he brilliantly and hilariously talks opticians, lazy eyes, thick glasses, red hair, pale skin, lanky frames, the way Spanish lads smell, and of course Irish dads. Jason’s very funny mem…
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TONY BLACKBURN: “I never had that confidence when I was younger.”
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Living legend Tony Blackburn has been one of the most famous faces - and voices - in the UK since before many of us were born. The iconic radio deejay and TV presenter is a grafter, an enthusiast, an optimist and at nearly 80 years old, still packed with energy. He’s also very funny. Here he sits down with Danny and Phil to talk sex, drugs, rock an…
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JUSTIN MOORHOUSE: “Throwing chicken wings in Aldi.”
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The papers might call him a “roly-poly Northern funnyman” but glass-half-full Justin Moorhouse, has a lot more going on than that. Prepare for medical revelations, body frustrations, and a pure mic-drop moment of clarity and realisation. Plus a load of laughs, with a man who can’t not be funny. Oh, and what the hell’s “the cabbage diet”? Get in tou…
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LETHAL BIZZLE: “Fans would draw pictures of me - and make me fat!”
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Rapper and grime artist Lethal Bizzle found his moniker on the school football pitch, startedmaking music there too, took it to pirate radio - and before he knew it was in the UK Top 10. A gym nut, but a junk food fan, here he sits down with Danny and Phil to talk gyms, racialprofiling, six-packs, and that sweet, sweet year he had the perfect hairc…
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DAVID GANDY: “If this nose keeps growing I’m in trouble.”
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Not many male models are known by name, but David Gandy is definitely one of the few. Britain’s highest-earning male model is globally recognised and constantly in demand - ever since *that* Dolce & Gabbana shoot that saw every single inch of him take over Times Square. What must all this be like for an Essex boy who never meant to model in the fir…
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ROSS NOBLE: “I don’t care what anyone thinks about me.”
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It’s the turn of comedy superstar Ross Noble to discuss his body this week, which was a surprise to him. He talks long hair, chicken wings, and the unexpected onset of gout. And also about having the eyes of Nicolas Cage. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. Well, if it’s n…
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ROH YAKOBI: “They could kill you for this.”
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This man, Roh Yakobi, wears and bears the scars of war. His dad was the local militia commander, and life was hard. He was kidnapped by the Taliban aged 12, imprisoned, and tortured. He fled to Pakistan as a child, smuggling opium across the border, and Iran, where he worked as a child labourer in factories and construction sites. He made it to Bri…
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TONY SCHUMACHER: “I was a nylon turd.”
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In one of our favourite episodes, the critically-acclaimed writer Tony Schumacher talks honestly and hilariously of the thousand lives he’s lived. From growing up as an initially non-speaking, non-cute kid - “I looked like a Kinder egg with long arms” - to the decade of long nights he spent driving around Liverpool as a police first responder, Tony…
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DALISO CHAPONDA: “I’m not the Prince of Bel Air. I’m Carlton.”
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The Zambian-born Malawian comic, writer and star of TV and radio Daliso Chaponda sitsdown with Danny and Phil this week - and he is fascinating. He talks being the son of arefugee-turned-diplomat, shirtlessness, growing up as a very cute child indeed, and thepride of being a long distance runner. Plus, going to what we think might be the veryweirde…
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ALEX BROOKER: “Thin-skinned and insecure.”
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When the very funny and charming Alex Brooker was a kid, there weren’t many people like him on TV. So he grew up thinking there weren’t many people like him at all. He’s worked to change that, and here the hugely popular journalist and TV host tells Danny and Phil about girls, the week he drank nothing but pepper juice, and the day he discovered a …
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NIGEL NG: “Metrosexual is a term we use for guys who shower.”
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“Guys get judged as harshly in Asia as women get judged in the West” says globetrotting Malaysian-Chinese comedian and insanely popular social media superstar Nigel Ng. Uncle Roger himself talks diets, six-packs, hairlines, cooking fish in an office microwave, make-up for men, British boozing and Bruce Lee. Nigel’s off on a World Tour - from London…
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Actor and comic Rufus Hound joins Danny and Phil to talk about how sexy he suddenly feels these days. Where does that confidence come from and how do we get it? Elsewhere, he discusses tattoos, facial hair, receding hairlines, ADHD and more. TW: Rufus discusses at one point why he thinks it may be that he can’t take advice from older men, and there…
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Mr Motivator, aka Derrick Evans, is a British TV legend, a diversity pioneer and a man who can’t swear so says “Flip me!” instead. His brightly coloured lycra-clad body changed the way millions of viewers thought about exercise, and today, at almost 70, he’s not slowing down. He talks to Danny and Phil about adoption, racism, homelessness, bullying…
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SCROOBIUS PIP: “They made me the Alpha hipster.”
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Actor, poet, hip hop star and podcaster Scroobius Pip sits down with Danny and Phil this week - and what follows is a wide-ranging chat about body image struggles, hipsters, height, the kinship bearded men have, tattoo removal and the beauty of Brazilian jiu jitsu. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all …
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JACK WHITEHALL: “We were quite a nudey family.”
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Film star and arena-filling comedian Jack Whitehall sits down with Danny and Phil, to talk about posh bodies, weak chins and bad posture. And also about the night his father inadvertently revealed himself to a gaggle of shocked youths. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving a review - it all genuinely helps the podcast. W…
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RANKIN: “I probably shouldn’t say this.”
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Genuinely legendary photographer and the man whose portraits have defined whole eras Rankin is our guest this week, and the show is packed with his thoughtful wisdom on men, men’s bodies, male nudity, penises, self-confidence and empowerment. The man who’s captured the essence of not just entire decades but everybody from the Queen to Arnold Schwar…
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MIKE BUBBINS: “The Welsh Burt Reynolds.”
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Stand-up and sitcom star Mike Bubbins has had many bodies: weightlifter, rugby professional and 70s detective are just three of them. Here, he tells Danny and Phil about the confidence it takes to wear Speedos, the lure of luscious moustaches, dying your sideburns and what it’s like to rip your bicep off. We find out what he smells of, the time he …
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LUKE STOLTMAN: “Triple XL. Especially in the crotch department.”
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Europe’s Strongest Man Luke Stoltman is known as the Highland Oak. Together with his‘little’ brother Tom, he’s proved one of the most popular and impressive strongmen in thesport. Here he talks muscles, mindset, Big Man Breakfasts and how a man working on an oil rig became the strongest on the continent. Plus, what being a “wee daftie” in the body …
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STEPHEN FRY: “I wanted to trade with the Devil.”
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The very English body of Stephen Fry is discussed this week, with the author, comedian, and - obviously - national treasure only too willing to discuss bent noses, small paunches, school showers, Faustian pacts, cocaine, bipolar, getting one over on Biff Tannen, 80s gay clubs, and self-acceptance. We cannot thank him enough. Get in touch and have a…
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DAVE BERRY: “I will protect my loved ones from Evil!”
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Broadcaster, ex-model and tailoring enthusiast Dave Berry talks us through his body this week, and there are some surprises. Bad Cantonese tattoos, hairless buttocks and shiny white legs being just three. Dave is funny and candid about the power of dressing well, what not to wear when presenting children’s television, and being open about your body…
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JAYDE ADAMS: “I’m a bit of an over-sharer.”
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Comedian, presenter and 6ft, former Bristolian freestyle disco dancer Jayde Adams joins Danny and Phil this week. Her former boyfriends have been all sorts of shapes and sizes, and here she reveals why she’s not the type to have a ‘type’. She also talks height, drag acts, what men do wrong in bed - and what they do right. As ever, email us on hello…
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The double Emmy Award-winning actor Tony Hale knows exactly what to do with his body. The Veep and Arrested Development star talks shirtlessness, awkwardness, anxiety, his lovely arms, and what it’s like to walk into an audition and see fifty other quirky men who look just like you. Get in touch and have a great day. And please do consider leaving …
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IAIN LEE: “This is the last time I’m going to be so personal.”
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Late night radio legend and TV star Iain Lee opens up on skinniness, eating, beards, addiction, “always having to have something wrong” and coming out as bisexual in an extremely frank discussion about his body. And it’s very funny, because he’s so very funny, and it’s smart, because he’s so smart. He is also insanely strong - to get through the th…
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