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Distraction Pieces, with Scroobius Pip, is one the UK's biggest and longest running independent podcasts. Previous guests include Michael Fassbender, Mary J Blige, Stephen Graham, Florence Pugh, Spike Lee, Lena Headey, Stewart Lee, Kathy Burke, Dizzee Rascal, Aisling Bea, Kano, Adam Buxton, Vicky McClure, Karl Pilkington, Michaela Coel, Louis Theroux, Tim Key and many more. Available on acast, iTunes and all good podcast outlets. Download, subscribe, rate & review now! Hosted on Acast. See a ...
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Turning the tables on Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster, a different guest host each week poses the hypothetical questions from their own TV show on Dave. How would James steal an animal from London Zoo? How would Josh make everyone stop eating potatoes? Time for them to come up with some answers. Hypothetical the Podcast is a Hat Trick Production for Dave. Our guest host this week was Roisin Conaty. The guests were Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster. The Producers are Andy Goddard and Diggor ...
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by return awesome guest, comic, podcaster and author SOFIE HAGEN! A fantastic meeting of minds for second time round, as Pip catches up with Sofie to talk about all things that have happened since the first go around! Although it's very fair to s…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by YOU! The listeners... It's an April 2024 edition of ASK PIP! I wouldn't dare blow the spot on what you're about to hear BUT - just so you're aware of what zones might get a look-in, you can expect to hear topics including: actor pay and how mu…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by friend and comrade in music and life, B. DOLAN! You will have surely heard if not every appearance from B on here, then at least the previous one which went into what life has looked like for him since the pandemic. In a nutshell, it's been a …
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the positive ray of musical light that is BOBBY VYLAN! Speaking of rays of light, the Bobby Vylan album 'Humble As The Sun' comes out on April 5th, so keep that on your agenda. As you know with Distraction Pieces and the work Pip does / has do…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by UK acting treasure WUNMI MOSAKU! Proper acting business right here with this episode - this is total nectar for those who appreciate the visual arts and the world of TV and cinema. Wunmi has been holding it down on the acting circuit for a min…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by grime great and Roll Deep affiliate MANGA SAINT HILARE! A lovely chat with a grime star who shows both confidence and humility at the same time, in what seems like equal amounts. A quick scan through his videos and IG will reveal that he has t…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the actor writer comic multi-hyphen rocking legend that is JOHN POINTING! A wonderful catch up with two people that get along famously and always have very entertaining chats, which certainly bodes well for a podcast episode of people talking!…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Bonus time as Pip makes the pyramid of power with fellow podcasters JOHN & JOEL for the TV SHOWS OF THE YEAR! * Succession spoiler around 27m - I've added a mini jingle to let you know when... It's about 2-3 minutes long to be on the safe side so BE WARNED if you've yet…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the incredible film maker and director GARETH EDWARDS! Gareth is responsible for some of the most visually impressive movies in recent memory, and his story stems from creating lo-fi special effects on a consumer-grade bedroom PC. You've llike…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by one of Scotland's finest, the acting heavyweight that is PETER CAPALDI! Depending on where you caught Peter on his timeline, you may know him as Malcolm Tucker, Dr Who, or even Oldsen if you've seen Local Hero. Point is - Peter's been busy for…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by acting great KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR! A very good time to catch Ben, as he's been on a whirlwind promo run for Bob Marley: One Love of late - but this is someone who would have been a Distraction Pieces guest soon enough, whatever the weather... Don…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by stuntperson and all round beam of light DAVD HOLMES! You might have come to know David through the documentary 'The Boy Who Lived', which goes into great detail about his life and the path that led to his stunt work and career in the industry.…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by Shetland superhero, comic, folk expert and Twitch-er MARJOLEIN ROBERTSON! A fabulous one here which branches out on all sorts of tangents but ONLY for the advancement of the podcast itself. A wonderful meandering and weaving conversation which…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by esteemed writer and director ANDREW HAIGH! A lovely episode for anyone inspired by the craft and creativity of film making, and you know Pip's a geek for this stuff so it won't be a surface level chat by any means! Andrew's been making roundly…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by Future Islands lead vocalist, writer, actor and rapper SAMUEL T. HERRING! What an episode... Samuel was generous enough with his time to give us a full 90mins-ish of pure goodness which will entirely appeal to already-down Future Islands appre…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by film-maker and actor JOEL EDGERTON! A fabulous episode with Pip and Joel, as we hear the two of them get down deep into the whole mess of life, film, and everything else. As you will expect it's a wide ranging and very honest one, delving into…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! The yearly tradition boldly continues as Pip celebrates a year of incredible cinema with his FILMS OF THE YEAR 2023! One of those traditions that comes around every 12 months and makes you realise how much you missed it and how much you wanted to hear it again... A glor…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Gather round, DPP fam... Here we go - it is indeed that time of year once again... DRUNKAST TIME! PART 5! A welcome return of the Drunkcast gang as we hear from the original formation over five delirious episodes. If this is your first time coming in contact with the Di…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Gather round, DPP fam... Here we go - it is indeed that time of year once again... DRUNKAST TIME! PART 4! A welcome return of the Drunkcast gang as we hear from the original formation over five delirious episodes. If this is your first time coming in contact with the Di…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Gather round, DPP fam... Here we go - it is indeed that time of year once again... DRUNKAST TIME! PART 3! A welcome return of the Drunkcast gang as we hear from the original formation over five delirious episodes. If this is your first time coming in contact with the Di…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Gather round, DPP fam... Here we go - it is indeed that time of year once again... DRUNKAST TIME! PART 2! A welcome return of the Drunkcast gang as we hear from the original formation over five delirious episodes. If this is your first time coming in contact with the Di…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Gather round, DPP fam... Here we go - it is indeed that time of year once again... DRUNKAST TIME! PART 1! A welcome return of the Drunkcast gang as we hear from the original formation over five delirious episodes. If this is your first time coming in contact with the Di…
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For our last show of 2023 we were joined by previous guest and friends, Allie from Katz Creates, James from Malt & Make, and Duncan from Little Hobby Shop. We chatted about cameras, measurement systems, word-play, pub names, SMRRF, and 3D printing. With a few tangents and loop-backs. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. No after-show this week, …
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A glorious episode and a long time in the making - this week Pip is joined by acting hero THOMAS TURGOOSE! A long one in the making not only because this is the longest This Is England reformation in history, but because literally they have been trying to arrange this o…
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Having been postponed a few weeks ago we finally managed to have a waffle with Daniel Uebleis from Multi Awesome Studio. In the main show we chatted about lighting, mining, Macgyver, creativity, analogue versus digital, 3D software (Jamie & Daniel geeking out) and AI. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. No after-show this week, just a normal 2+…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Pip is joined for the second time this week by the wonderful actor that is ROSIE MARCEL! YES this is the much hinted at and inquired about episode from the archives that was never aired, for reasons that - with the passage of time - seem trivial, but at the time itself …
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the incredible acting treasure that is ROSIE MARCEL! You might know Rosie from her role as Jac on 600 episodes of Holby City - but it's entirely possible that you know her from the vast IMDB list and have never seen an episode of Holby City in…
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With Jamie exhausted after a weekend away at SMRRF, Andy chatted with Phil from Phil Makes Things. In the main show we chatted about injuries, wood, hoarding and making notes. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the after-show for our Patreon supporters the chat started with keeping the voices at bay but was mostly about analogue vs digital.…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the excellent director WILLIAM OLDROYD! Another perfect meeting here for Pip and all film heads who listen to this (and as always, anyone into creative process and inspiration), as William talks about all of the intricacies and moments of ligh…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by actor, comic and podcaster BILAL ZAFAR! A lovely meeting with Bilal, which gets into the under the bonnet mechanics of this multi-disciplined superstar with a lot of fun in the process. Bilal balances many different hats including acting, podc…
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We had a really good waffle with Pia from Pempu Making. In the main show we language and linguistics. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the after-show for our Patreon supporters the chat was mostly about food, especially curry, and clotted cream. Our attention grabbers that we mentioned, with links to where they can be found, are in the de…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by musician, writer and comic JOSH WELLER! ...and by no means a debut appearance from Josh, as you might remember an appearance a LONG while back in October 2018! At time of this episode that's 5 years. How much can happen in 5 years? Well there'…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by actor, writer and director EMERALD FENNELL! An excellent chat with the very awesome Emerald, whose work you will likely have caught up with over the past few years in any one of her many capacities. Playing Camilla on The Crown, writing on Kil…
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Dale from Maple Tree Studios and Duncan from Little Hobby Shop joined us to share some of their expertise on AI. It's definitely a big rabbit hole, but they helped to highlight some of the interesting aspects of it. Our attention grabbers that we mentioned, with links to where they can be found, are in the description of the YouTube video for this …
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by commentator, activist and rapper LOWKEY! This is Lowkey's second appearance on Distraction Pieces, in what feels right now like a section that ought to be there every episode. Lowkey is very well versed on matters involving Israel and Palestin…
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Jamie wasn't able to make our chat with Huey Lionsheart but Dale from Maple Tree Studios stepped in at the last minute. We had a really good waffle. In the main show we talked, amongst other things, about TV, shugisms, what drives Huey's making, food and cool projects. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the after-show for our Patreon suppor…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by documentary and film maker AODH BREATHNACH! Just quickly - a little assist on pronunciations when talking about this episode - AODH is like a capital 'A', and BREATHNACH is like 'Brennok'. In case you need it! Also - trigger warnings in this e…
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Andy had a great chat with previous guests, and our friends, Duncan (Little Hobby Shop) and Niall (NMB Woodworks). Jamie was away this weekend. In the main show we talked about EVs, windscreens, being tall, access control in Maker Spaces, and tool organisation. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the after-show for our Patreon supporters the…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by director, screenwriter and producer PHILIP BARANTINI! This episode has been hinted at for a minute now, and anyone who's picking up crumbs on the acting breadcrumb trail will already be aware that Stephen Grahame is essentially the spiritual g…
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Jamie wasn't able to make our chat with Dave G but Khuz stepped in at the last minute. It was a really good chat. In the main show we talked about rabbit holes, 3D printing and kids & making. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the after-show for our Patreon supporters the chat included TV making shows, a novel use for Mr Sheen, Brothers Mak…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by writer and director (of 'Host' and more) JED SHEPHERD, and also Chris and Stu from Hardcore Listing! A celebration of all things slept on TV shows, and many of these you will be forgiven for never having heard of them in your life (I definitel…
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Andy and Jamie were experiencing FOMO from seeing all the fun and games at The Catskill Mountains Maker Camp last weekend, so we invited our friends, and previous guests, Dave Bauer, Heidi Jacobs and Rasmus Loen onto the show to tell us more about the experience. We heard about the flooding, the scheduling and some not often seen crafts. We hope yo…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the incredible actor and all round "forced Buddha" STEVEN OGG! A delightful episode which has so much goodness in it, it feels like we have a series on our hands right here. You'll likely know Steven from one or more of his many unique roles i…
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We had a lovely waffle with Karol Kolanowski from KK Make. It really was great to catch up with him. In the main show we talked about beards, respirators, swimming, diving, microwave ovens, mushroom foraging and Christmas. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the after-show for our Patreon supporters the chat included YouTube monetisation, ov…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by brilliant actor and podcaster LAURA CHECKLEY! We catch Laura at a really exciting time of life, having been recently married which has also led to greater revelations about the good old fashioned work - life balance. It turns out Laura can tak…
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We had a fabulous waffle with Grant and Jessy, two of the hosts of the CLAMP podcast. It really was a lot of fun. We spent most of the first half of the show talking about movies and TV. With a round off on pranks. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the after-show for our Patreon supporters the chat was a bit more varied including CAD, the …
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by neuropsychologist and author ANDY MITCHELL! A wildly interesting chat with Pip about not just the broad area of psychedelics, but the culture surrounding them and some of the modern spins on it all that we might be encountering on our travels.…
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We had a great chat with Mike from That Guy Mike. In the main show, we talked about gardens, Brothers Grimm, reading, productivity systems, Dr Who, other pop culture, murder ball and dream workshops. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.In the after-show for our Patreon supporters there was more maker talk including Makers Central, SMRRF, road tr…
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by actor and director OTTO BAXTER! ...and joined by PETER BEARD and BRUCE FLETCHER of course. The trio here are responsible for the horror film 'The Puppet Asylum', and the documentary about Otto and the making of said film, 'Otto Baxter: Not A F…
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