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RHLSTP with Richard Herring

RHLSTP is an award-winning series in which comedian Richard Herring ("The Podfather" - The Guardian) chats with some of the biggest names in comedy and entertainment. Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Dawn French, David Mitchell, Katherine Ryan and Brian Blessed are amongst the many stars to have been interviewed across the 200+ episodes..


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RHLSTP with Richard Herring
Retro RHLSTP 42 - Sofie Hagen from 2022-02-18T07:00:59

#41 Bog Buddies


Unbeknownst to Richard and his guest, a drunken audience member collapsed during last week's podcast, and Rich wastes no time in calling the man who he...

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RHLSTP 367 - Ahir Shah from 2022-02-16T07:00:52

#367 Piss Drip Trays - Richard is back live at the Phoenix and has become a bit obsessed with the comedy writers who created the Tory party’s worst comedy character - his guest ...

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Retro RHLSTP 41 - Aleks Krotoski from 2022-02-11T07:00:22

#41 The Shape of Things To Come


In the final episode of these retro podcasts, Rich talks to tech expert and geek Aleks about how we can expect things to pan out in the...

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RHLSTP 366 - David Cross from 2022-02-09T07:00:18

#366 I Have a Dream - Richard has some bad news about Scooby Doo, but some good news about Emergency Questions getting mixed up with Scottish seamen. It’s another TransAtlantic ...

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Retro RHLSTP 40 - Lance Workman from 2022-02-04T07:00:59

#40 Good and Evil


In another blast from the past, here’s the full length interview with evolutionary psychologist Lance Workman about good and evil. Again, what’s comi...

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RHLSTP 365 - Grainne Maguire from 2022-02-02T07:00:51

#365 Apology to Kris Marshall - In another Covid hit remote show, Richard is wondering if Boris Johnson will still be PM by the time this podcast is released (of course he will)...

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Retro RHLSTP 36 - Nick Lane from 2022-01-28T07:00:43

#39 Death - This one is about death and features Nick Lane and if I am honest with you I remember nothing at all about it. Not Nick’s fault. I was very busy and very tired.I bet...

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Retro RHLSTP 39 - Nick Lane from 2022-01-28T07:00:43

#39 Death - This one is about death and features Nick Lane and if I am honest with you I remember nothing at all about it. Not Nick’s fault. I was very busy and very tired.I bet...

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RHLSTP 364 - Laura Jean Marsh from 2022-01-26T06:30:21

#364 Naked in Brixton - Richard is still isolating, and has had to reluctantly welcome a new son-in-law into his life. His guest is actor, director and musician Laura Jean Marsh...

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Retro RHLSTP 37 - Virginia Ironside from 2022-01-21T07:00:22

#38 Love - Richard discusses love with the Agony Aunt who turns out to be his nearby neighbour. They shared a cab home afterwards. Discretion means I can not discuss what happen...

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Retro RHLSTP 38 - Virginia Ironside from 2022-01-21T07:00:22

#38 Love - Richard discusses love with the Agony Aunt who turns out to be his nearby neighbour. They shared a cab home afterwards. Discretion means I can not discuss what happen...

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RHLSTP 363 - Laura Lexx from 2022-01-19T07:00:10

#363 What Women Want! - Richard has got Covid 19 - always late to the party - but nothing can stop him podcasting and so this remote recording carries on regardless (with social...

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Retro RHLSTP 36 - Richard Wiseman from 2022-01-14T07:00:38

#37 The Paranormal -  In another old interview from the Meaning Of Life series, Richard chats to Richard Wiseman about ghosts, talking ferrets and things that go bump in th...

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Retro RHLSTP 37 - Richard Wiseman from 2022-01-14T07:00:38

#37 The Paranormal -  In another old interview from the Meaning Of Life series, Richard chats to Richard Wiseman about ghosts, talking ferrets and things that go bump in th...

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RHLSTP 362 - Peter Baynham from 2022-01-12T09:00:06

#362 You Start Monday! - Wow, what’s this, a remote RHLSTP whilst we’re still allowed (at the time of recording) to go outside. We’re filling a little gap in our schedule with s...

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Retro RHLSTP 36 - Marcus Chown from 2022-01-07T09:00:12

#36 Creation - In an interview from Richard Herring's Meaning of Life, Rich talks to Marcus Chown about the creation of the universe and whether science knows any more than anyo...

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RHLSTP 361 - Chris Lynam from 2022-01-05T09:00:51

#361 Hair Length Apartheid - It’s a New Year (for you, though Richard is just pretending) and Rich looks back on his weird and unsettling 2021, but definitely sees the positives...

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Retro RHLSTP 35 - Lee Mack from 2021-12-31T09:00:45

#35 The Centurion - Richard makes more predictions of atrocities that will have occurred in the news on the week of release for this podcast and is impressed by the skills of an...

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RHLSTP 360 - Margaret Cabourn-Smith from 2021-12-29T07:49:02

#360 Monkey Paw - Richard has been having car trouble and is worried that his son might have been damaged on his watch. His guest is the actor and podcaster Margaret Cabourn-Smi...

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Retro RHLSTP 34 - Sarah Millican from 2021-12-24T09:00:57

#34 Why Won't You Tell Us Your Exact Address? - Rich has some surprising and life-changing news to share, but that doesn't mean that gloves (and pants if it's cold enough) aren'...

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RHLSTP 359 - Miriam Margolyes from 2021-12-22T10:08:36

#359 A Face For All Occasions - Richard is in giddy mood as he meets a member of the audience. His guest is living legend and national treasure Miriam Margolyes. They discuss Ar...

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Retro RHLSTP 33 - Diane Morgan from 2021-12-17T04:00

#33 A Bad Dream - Richard discusses some zombie based movie ideas he has had, before introducing the dry-witted and incredulous Diane Morgan who isn't quite sure what she's let ...

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RHLSTP 358 - Emma Dabiri from 2021-12-15T04:00

#358 Irish Unicorn - Richard has an idea that will revolutionise football and is having to explain to his daughter why history killed all the famous women. His guest is academic...

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Retro RHLSTP 32 - Jon Ronson from 2021-12-10T00:00

#32 Gaybomb - An almost imperceptibly slimmer than the beginning of the series Richard Herring takes the stage to find a slightly sinister pair of men in the front row. What do ...

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RHLSTP 357 - Deborah Meaden from 2021-12-08T04:00

#357 Shamgel - Richard wonders if the man who wrote the Grange Hill theme might have been hoodwinking us all along. His guest is the formidable Dragon, Deborah Meaden. Rich is h...

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Retro RHLSTP 31 - Mary Beard from 2021-12-03T04:00

#31 Fattening Dormice - After last week's headline-grabbing show, Richard feels under pressure to coax revelations from his guest, classicist Mary Beard, but is a bit distracted...

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RHLSTP 356 - Ben Shephard from 2021-12-01T04:00

#356 Gravity - Rich has had what he thought might be the most middle class accident, but he is wrong. His guest is a listener who has won a competition to be on the show, t...

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Retro RHLSTP 30 - Peter Serafinowicz from 2021-11-26T04:00

#30 Peter Serafinowic(h)z - Jeddy. Rich and his wife have made the ultimate commitment: they've been through their DVD collections and are getting rid of any duplicates. Some lu...

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Peter Serafinowicz from 2021-11-26T04:00

Peter Serafinowic(h)z - Jeddy. Rich and his wife have made the ultimate commitment: they've been through their DVD collections and are getting rid of any duplicates. Some lucky audience member is g...

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RHLSTP 355 - Phil Wang from 2021-11-24T04:00

#355 Mind Your Language - Richard is excited by the upcoming film Wonka and has some other ideas for origin story films. His guest is the Sidesplitting Phil Wang. They disc...

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Retro RHLSTP 29 - Sean Hughes from 2021-11-19T04:00

#29 Mango Mist - This week's guest has had a drink with Morrissey, seen a member of Madness drying his bum hair and has failed to discuss time travel with Gary Sparrow's best ma...

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RHLSTP 354- Dave Gorman from 2021-11-17T04:00

#354 Rufus Arenque - Richard can’t stop thinking about a man he walked past 30 years ago but is somehow walking taller. His guest can answer the question “Are you Dave Gorm...

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Retro RHLSTP 28 - Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith from 2021-11-12T04:00

#28 Death is Nice - Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. With the world in shock about the accusations about an ex-BBC employee with long hair and an odd home life who raised m...

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RHLSTP 353 - Shaparak Khorsandi from 2021-11-10T04:00

#353 It Was The 90s! - Richard has been tossing logs and that’s literally it for this week, so he talks to his audience for the first time in ages. His guest is author and comed...

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Retro RHLSTP 27 - Mark Gatiss from 2021-11-05T04:00

#27 T R Assmagik - Richard is still reeling from the lurgy he had in last week's show and his guest is also not very well, it's Mark Gatiss from off of T...

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RHLSTP 352 - Katherine Ryan from 2021-11-03T04:00

#352 For Sport - Richard has been teaching his kid wrong information, for a payoff that will take years to come and he finally has his hands on a copy of Would You Rather? His g...

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Retro RHLSTP 26 - Paul Merton from 2021-10-29T08:27:32

#26 Waiting For Crawford - It’s back for an eleventh series - who keeps commissioning this - and Richard’s new emergency questions are coming true as he’s fresh from irking a po...

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RHLSTP 351 - Adam and Joe from 2021-10-27T03:00

#351 T n T - Richard’s daughter has written a story to rival the Men of Phise and Rich has come up with a new sitcom idea. His guests are his 1990s comedy rivals Adam and Joe. F...

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Retro RHLSTP 25 - Brett Goldstein from 2021-10-22T10:46:14

#25 Routines About Buttons - Richard is still hungover from his birthday - what a day that was! He is joined by Brett Goldstein, a man who once ran a strip club with h...

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RHLSTP 350 - Louise Wener from 2021-10-20T03:00

#350 Docking - Richard had written an actual joke and been dreaming of tiny animal attacks, plus performing music in quite an unusual way. His guest it arg...

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Retro RHLSTP 24 - Mark Addy from 2021-10-15T03:00

#24 Sean Bean's Pound Shop Subterfuge - Richard proves he is down with the cool kids by chatting to his teenage fans about skateboards and exams before introducing a man who is ...

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RHLSTP 349 - Tim Key from 2021-10-13T03:00

#349 timkey - Richard’s son is a chip off the old block, though Richard is upset that Lego has introduced things that are chips instead of blocks. His gues...

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Retro RHLSTP 23 - John Robins and Ahir Shah from 2021-10-08T03:00

#23 Suck Each Other Off A Bit - Richard reveals the hypocrisy of his parenting techniques and reminisces about the death of Lady Di. His first guest is Edinburgh Comedy Prize no...

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RHLSTP 348 - David Mitchell from 2021-10-06T03:00

#348 Vice Versa - Richard has seen a middle aged man score a major triumph over two trainee baristas over the absence of a plate. His guest this week also expects crockery in co...

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Retro RHLSTP 22 - Iain Stirling and Jason Manford from 2021-10-01T03:00

#22 The Main Thing Is Ricky Gervais Didn't Win - Rich is mortified about having accidentally crashed someone else's show and is thinking of becoming someone who pays t...

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RHLSTP 347 - The Parapod from 2021-09-28T03:00

#347 A Bag of Sausage Rolls - Richard is concerned about a doppelgänger who is out there somewhere claiming to be him (and whether it might be him) and why the fraud has such a ...

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Retro RHLSTP 21 - James Acaster from 2021-09-24T03:00

#21 Three Nights in Peterborough - Richard is so close to becoming the Radio Times Comedy Champion that he can almost taste it, which will just make his ultimate failure all the...

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RHLSTP 346 - Bob Mortimer from 2021-09-22T03:00

#346 RETRACTO! - After four years Richard has noticed a hubristic plaque at his local cricket pitch and is gunning for North Herts District Council - they will regret crossing h...

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Retro RHLSTP 20 - The Doug Anthony All Stars from 2021-09-17T03:00

#20 The Boy Who Cried Batman - The King has returned and he's at the spooky New Theatre Grand Hall where the Masons get up to all sorts of mysterious time-travelling. And Richar...

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RHLSTP 345 - Barry Cryer from 2021-09-15T03:00

#345 Bruce Forsyth’s Tobacconist - Richard is shedding body parts in his dreams, but making the most of the first class medical treatment that comes from having the Big C in you...

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Retro RHLSTP 19 - Victoria Coren Mitchell from 2021-09-10T03:00

#19 What's It Like Being the Unattractive One from Lee and Herring? - Richard is gifted a front row audience member who is not only wearing red glasses but is also called Aanth ...

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RHLSTP 344 - Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates from 2021-09-08T03:00

#344 Send in the Clones - It’s season 22 melon-farmers and we’re back at the Leicester Square Theatre where we belong and Rich has had no sleep and may not be his son’s real (or...

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Retro RHLSTP 18 - James Acaster from 2021-09-03T03:00

#18 Two Men in a Field with Walkie Talkies and it's All Clear - Psychic Richard manages to divine the life of someone in his front row merely by looking at him, though what he ...

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RHLSTP 343 - Matthew Holness from 2021-09-01T03:00

#343 Sit Down Wees - Richard is back in Norwich and has an idea for a new Olympic discipline and gets paid big bucks to finally slag off someone’s uncle.. His guest is come...

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Retro RHLSTP 17 - Jess Thom from 2021-08-27T03:00

#17 Biscuit - Rich meets some people who have never tried sushi before introducing Tourettes Superhero (though that's a secret) Jess Thom. It's a battle to see who will say...

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RHLSTP 342 - Jay Rayner from 2021-08-25T03:00

#342 Hand Carved Penis - Richard is finally in a Norwich for a gig rescheduled several times due to Covid and he has a story about his son’s attempts to build on his laughs...

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Retro RHLSTP 16 - Richard Osman from 2021-08-20T03:00

#16 Desert Island Dicks - Richard has been considering his own mortality after a visit to Highgate Cemetery, realising that one day he himself might die. But it's unlikely. So l...

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RHLSTP 341 - James Acaster and Ed Gamble from 2021-08-18T03:00

#341 Bobby Davro’s Notebook - Richard has been playing I Spy with a 3 year old, and also reveals the cover of his new book, Would You Rather? His guests are the disrespectf...

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Retro RHLSTP 15 - Michael Sheen from 2021-08-13T03:00

#15 Rich has come back from his holiday for this and why wouldn’t he? But will his guest turn up this time? The bad news, if he doesn’t, is that Nish Kumar is ill... there’...

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RHLSTP 340 - Robin Askwith from 2021-08-11T03:00

#340 Oxo Mum Meets Han Solo - Richard is wondering about the photo that will accompany his obituary, but not in a morbid way - he’s a lot fitter than he started this run at the ...

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Retro RHLSTP 14 - Simon Pegg from 2021-08-06T03:00

#14 In A Round Hole - Richard has just returned from Vienna, burdened with ice-cream disappointments and further worries about his wife's insensitive choice of cheese. But ...

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RHLSTP 339 - No Such Thing As A Fish from 2021-08-04T03:00

#339 I Don’t Want To Go Back To Clown School - Richard’s daughter has proven that she is definitely funnier than him, but he’s cool with that. His guests are too. They are Andre...

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Retro RHLSTP 13 - Louis Theroux from 2021-07-30T03:00

#13 Pathetic - Richard is very excited to meet the man who made him give up viewing porn (temporarily), Groove is in the Heart dancer and park ranger Louis Theroux. With a ...

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RHLSTP 338 - Isy Suttie from 2021-07-28T03:00

#338 Papier Mache Penguin - Richard’s phone is trying to make his life a lot more interesting and Richard is concerned about his stinky sweat, but luckily his guest, I...

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Retro RHLSTP 12 - Armando Iannucci from 2021-07-23T03:00

#12 Jeffrey Archer's Carp - Rich has been laid down low with an admittedly indirectly sexually transmitted disease, but nothing can stop him from starting this 10th and now...

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RHLSTP 337 - David Baddiel from 2021-07-21T03:00:56

#337 Thirty Years of Thirty Years of Hurt - Richard has somehow managed to not damage his son during a week of solo parenting, but only just, but he’s had an experience that sum...

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Retro RHLSTP 11 - Sara Pascoe from 2021-07-16T03:00

#11 Kamikaze Sperm - Even though eight days have passed since the Half-Marathon, Richard still aches like it was all just yesterday. But he will soon forget his woes when h...

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RHLSTP 336 - John Robins from 2021-07-14T03:00

#336 Watching Brian May Have Sex - Richard has had his audience analysed and you won’t believe how many of them come from the Vatican City. No matter. His guest costs £43.50 on ...

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Retro RHLSTP 10 - Steve Coogan from 2021-07-09T07:21:29

#10 Celebrity Ghost Train - Rich is still alive and kicking (and dancing) only a day after completing a Half Marathon in record breaking time (though to be fair he had a ri...

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RHLSTP 335 - Johnny Vegas from 2021-07-07T03:00

#335 Hermione Hands - Richard is the proud owner of an exercise machine and also tries out crowd work for the first time in over a year. What can possibly go wrong? His guest wa...

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Retro RHLSTP 09 - Stephen Merchant from 2021-07-02T03:00

#9 Suckling Milk From A Cow's Udder - Richard gives his surprise mystery (to the audience at least) guest possibly the worst introduction known to mankind, but gigantic Ste...

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RHLSTP 334 - Jessie Cave from 2021-06-30T03:00

#334 Hermione Hands - Richard has had his manhood challenged at funfair and is planning to rewrite history. His guest is actor, author and artist Jessie Cave. The...

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Retro RHLSTP 08 - Adam Buxton from 2021-06-25T03:00

#8 Adam and Eve - Adam Buxton. It's the longest RHLSTP yet with Rich upstaged by his new butler, Siri and worrying about all the libel he has committed to the Internet in t...

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RHLSTP 333 - Sarah Kendall from 2021-06-23T03:00

#333 Only Available Together - Back at the Clapham Grand for a second week and Rich has had another worrying lump - why is his body conspiring against him? His guest is the poo ...

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Retro RHLSTP 07 - Dawn French from 2021-06-18T03:00

#7 Mmmmm Yes, Do It That Way - Rich is giddy with fanboy excitement at having one of his childhood (and adulthood) comedy heroes in the off-white seat, it's the loveliest p...

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RHLSTP 332 - Geoff Norcott from 2021-06-16T03:00

#332 The Problem with Avocados - Rich is overwhelmed to be back on stage in front of an actual audience at the wonderful Clapham Grand. His guest is comedian Geoff Norcott. ...

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Retro RHLSTP 06 - David Mitchell from 2021-06-11T03:00

#6 Bumming C3PO - Richard talks briefly to a semi-retired postman and considers bumping his guest to chat with him more, but instead introduces perhaps the perfect RHLSTP g...

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RHLSTP 331 - Nigel Planer from 2021-06-09T03:00

#331 Taking the Full Weight of an Eclair - Richard is back in Cheddar trying to harvest material for the new series of Relativity. So it’s a double remote podcast and the guest ...

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Retro RHLSTP 05 - Brian Blessed from 2021-06-04T03:00

#5 What Was The Question? - It’s finally come to pass. The podcasts can end now, because the whole point of starting them up has been achieved. Richard’s guest is a man who...

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RHLSTP 330 - Jackie Weaver from 2021-06-02T03:00

#330 Battle of Hastings Nasal Regrets - Richard is lamenting the moments from childhood where you move on from something and can never go back. His guest is the formidable Jacki...

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Retro RHLSTP 04 - Greg Davies from 2021-05-28T03:00

#4 Ian Gunpowder- Richard chats with his audience and manages to secure himself a TV writing job, as well as marvel at his once IT heavy, bearded male audience being replac...

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RHLSTP 329 - Felicity Ward from 2021-05-26T03:00

#329 Ominous Shadows - Richard is delighted that his daughter has drawn him not falling into lava and impressed with listening and viewing figures for his stupid shows. His gues...

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Retro RHLSTP 03 - Kathy Burke from 2021-05-21T03:00

#3 I Don’t Do Blow Jobs - Richard’s living in a house of horrors and has heard a ghost, so he’s glad to be back in the safety of lovely, undangerous London to find out if Kathy ...

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RHLSTP 328 - Mae Martin from 2021-05-19T03:00

#328 Playdough Tumour - Richard is surprised to discover the scale of what he had (until recently) been carting around in his scrotal sac. Due to his aphantasia he couldn’t visu...

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Retro RHLSTP 02 - Bob Mortimer from 2021-05-14T03:00:19

#2 Do you believe in Calgon? Richard is back and exhausted from fatherhood and trying to remember how these work and he’s smarting from Alan Sugar rejecting Herring’s proposed t...

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RHLSTP 327 - Catie Wilkins from 2021-05-12T03:00

#327 Double Robert Boris - Richard has some serious questions about Gio Compario from the Go Compare adverts and is also surprised to see online that he is currently single. Tha...

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Retro RHLSTP 01 - Stephen Fry from 2021-05-07T03:00

#1 Hit It Bitch! - In the first of a series of Retro RHLSTPs, we present Stephen Fry's interview from 2013. In a frankly extraordinary, must-listen, funny, poetic and heart-brea...

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RHLSTP 326 - Anneka Rice from 2021-05-05T03:00

#326 Depp Fry Rice Ball - Great news! RHLSTP has been recommissioned for a record breaking 21st series and Rich has had a makeover to make him look like a rock star. His guest i...

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RHLSTP 325 - Pippa Evans from 2021-04-28T03:00

#325 Paul Mckenna’s Talking Thumb - Richard is paying tribute to a recently departed Duke, though how long will people remember his name? His guest is ex Buckingham Palace shop ...

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RHLSTP 324 - Andi Osho from 2021-04-20T23:00

#324 Double Mastermind - Rich is still going on about his ball. This is going to be the case for the best part of the next year or two, so buckle in (and while you’re buckled, c...

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RHLSTP 323 - Dominik Diamond from 2021-04-14T03:00

#323 Mothersacker - Like the bravest person who has ever lived Richard is still churning out podcasts, even though he’s just 5 days out of chemotherapy. But what super powers ha...

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RHLSTP 322 - John Oliver from 2021-04-07T03:00

#322 Goblin Sweets - Richard is either banging on about his ball(s) or a missed joke in a film from over half a century ago. Bet you wish he was still doing the Aphantasia stuff...

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RHLSTP 321 - Brian Regan from 2021-03-31T03:00

#321 Tip of the Hat - Richard has just been vaccinated and his balls have been in the Daily Mail, so it’s been quite a week. His guest is veteran US stand up and comedians’ come...

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RHLSTP 320 - Jeremy Paxman from 2021-03-24T04:00

#320 Packalackadackdack - Richard is one week into convalescence after surgery, but was his interviewing skill housed in his lost part? He’s worried about some bonus gifts he go...

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RHLSTP 319 - Mary Lynn Rajskub from 2021-03-17T04:00

#319 Cornered by Coyotes - Richard is on the eve of surgery and hoped a podcast might take his mind off it all, but his guest, actor and comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub is keen to ch...

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Dear Joan and Jericha RHLSTP Comic Relief Mashup 2021 from 2021-03-14T11:00:33

Richard With Joan And Jericha: A CBS Primetime Special


As part of Acast's Red Nose Day Podcast Mashup Joan Damry and Jericha Domain meet Sir Rich...

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RHLSTP 318 - Alice Fraser from 2021-03-10T04:00

#318 Secret Eyebrow Language - Richard has been flying a kite with his daughter and is hoping she will remember it when he is gone, if he ever dies, which he thinks is unlikely....

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RHLSTP 317 - Iszi Lawrence from 2021-03-03T04:00

#317 Sex Whisk - Richard has been in a Total Recall machine (or something like that) but is worried about the manufacturer. His guest has cut her own hair and has thought a lot ...

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RHLSTP 316 - Lou Sanders from 2021-02-24T04:00

#316 Skating With Eight Year Olds - Richard is back at the Clapham Grand in front of a virtual audience of humans and potentially racist puppets. His guest is his ex-Fubar radio...

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RHLSTP 315 - Nish Kumar from 2021-02-17T04:00

#315 Bread Roll - Richard is out of the house and at the Clapham Grand in South London. A virtual audience are on the TV screen beside him, all ready to be insulted for bei...

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RHLSTP 314 - Danny Robins from 2021-02-10T04:00

#314 Have You Ever Seen A Ghost? - Richard is excited that he’s about to get out into an actual theatre to record some shows and that he’s getting his hoover fixed by a sha...

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RHLSTP 313 - Ashley Storrie from 2021-02-03T04:00

#313 A Shrek Versus A Grinch - Richard is furious that homeschooling is carrying on til March 8th (at least) but has made a snowman with a feature that Raymond Briggs ...

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RHLSTP 312 - Sophie Hay from 2021-01-27T04:00

#312 The Holy Grail of Archaeology - Richard is upset by a bottle of bathroom spray - and angry at Ian Vim for not having faith in his name, but he’s also a film star now, so yo...

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RHLSTP 311 - Nina Conti from 2021-01-20T04:00

#311 Magic - Rich is wondering if the Proclaimers have ever had their bluff called as he wearily starts Lockdown 3. His guest has a first in philosophy and has performed in a mo...

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RHLSTP 310 - Catherine Bohart from 2021-01-13T04:00

#310 Break Them Down, Build Them Up - Richard has had his mind blown by a Christmas surprise and his theatrical 3-year-old has been unexpectedly philosophical. His guest has had...

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RHLSTP 309 - Alexei Sayle from 2021-01-06T04:00

#309 Eighty-Nine Pence BLT - Recording just before Christmas on Plague Island, Richard wonders what kind of UK listeners will be living in when this is broadcast (in a fortnight...

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RHLSTP 308 - Lou Conran from 2020-12-30T04:00

#308 Calamari - Richard has been admonished by his daughter, but is also fascinated by an old penis-based crime. His guest is comedian Lou Conran. They discuss an amazing case o...

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RHLSTP 307 - Rhod Gilbert from 2020-12-23T04:00

#307 Short Torso, Long Bum - Richard is planning to rewrite a Christmas classic and reflecting on the worst memorial to a human being that he’s ever seen. His guest is the forme...

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RHLSTP 306 - Marek Larwood from 2020-12-16T04:00

#306 Pooland (not Poland) - Rich is stinging from the snub from Sports Personality of the Year, but at least his acting career is going from weakness to slightly less weakness a...

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RHLSTP 305 - Alistair Green from 2020-12-09T04:00

#305 Walt Disney Head - Richard has seen a ghost (but it’s of someone who isn’t dead) and is worried about one of the victims of the Pompeii earthquake. His guest is internet se...

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RHLSTP 304 - Kiell Smith-Bynoe from 2020-12-02T04:00

#304 Annoying the Cosmos - Richard is recording on International Men’s Day Eve and he’s excited about what the next day will bring. But don’t worry he’s got lots of porridge so ...

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RHLSTP 303 - Arthur Mathews from 2020-11-25T04:00

#303 Rod Stewart’s Fridge - Richard is on TV so much now that it’s actually not funny any more, but his son has come up with an improvement to Star Wars, so tha...

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RHLSTP 302 - Nell Scovell from 2020-11-18T04:00

#302 Which One’s Melania? - It’s November 4th and the world hangs in the balance as they wait to discover if a winner will be declared right away in Taskmaster series 10. Rich i...

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RHLSTP 301 - Ed Gamble from 2020-11-11T04:00

#301 Forsaken - It’s the first show of series 20 (how does this keep getting commissioned?) and Rich is giving a moving tribute to a wrongly disgraced broadcaster and glad ...

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RHLSTP 300 - Richard Herring from 2020-11-04T04:00

#300 Socially Distanced - It’s a momentous occasion, not only the 300th numbered RHLSTP, but the first one since March in front of an audience. We’re at the prestigious Bill Mur...

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RHLSTP 299 - John Kearns from 2020-10-28T04:04

#299 Everything Entropies - We’re just one show from the magic number 300 (if you ignore all the Edinburgh shows and other specials) and Rich is angry that he hasn’t got an MBE ...

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RHLSTP 298 - Stevie Martin from 2020-10-21T03:00

#298 Snail Face - Richard has been causing a Twitter sensation with the ballad of his blocked cupboard, but the real question is how many graters does one man need? His guest on...

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RHLSTP 297 - Michael Ian Black from 2020-10-14T03:00

#297 Polystyrene Vs Worms - Richard has found himself disappointed by the action of Han Solo, but never mind, he’s back on telly (Taskmaster starts on October 15th, 9pm on Chann...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 3, Episode 6) from 2020-10-08T23:00

Retro AIOTM #28 - We have come to the end of the road. It’s the final Retro AIOTM. It got us through the whole of lockdown and ends just as the second one starts going. Ah it was fun, wasn’t it?...

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RHLSTP 296 - Michael Fenton Stevens from 2020-10-07T09:42:23

#296 Groovy Gang - Richard has been to Legoland and seen a sight that sums up the compromise of parenthood. His guest is the legendary Michael Fenton Stevens. They discuss the r...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 3, Episode 5) from 2020-10-01T23:00

Retro AIOTM #27 - Only one more Retro AIOTM to go after this. Weirdly Lily Allen had just got married back in June 2011 and she’s just got married again! There’s a memorable punishment for Rich’...

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RHLSTP 295 - Maria Konnikova from 2020-09-30T03:00

#295 Snucker - Richard has this week performed live on stage for the first time since March, but a certain papier-mâché drunkard stole the show. But never mind, Richard is ...

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RHLSTP Special - Ally and Sally Sloper from 2020-09-24T14:20:18

Don’t Look At Me! - Rich has failed to secure a human guest for RHLSTP and so instead decides to get drunk and talk to some Victorian dolls. It’s a very special kind of second l...

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RHLSTP 294 - Sindhu Vee from 2020-09-23T03:00

#294 Uterus - Richard is coming to you from an exciting new location in time and space and is worried about the lack of jumping 18 year olds. His guest is ex model, investm...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 3, Episode 4) from 2020-09-17T23:00

Retro AIOTM #26 - Back to June 2011 for another Retro AIOTM to try and distract you from the inevitability of lockdown 2. As it spirals towards the mountain that will put it out of its misery, R...

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RHLSTP 293 - Sophie Duker from 2020-09-16T03:00

#293 Postman Potter - Rich is back from his holiday and now able to control gulls and make them his lifelong allies and he’s also had an amazing gift from a fan of the show. His...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 3, Episode 3) from 2020-09-10T23:00

Retro AIOTM #25 - It’s May 30th 2011 and AIOTM’s silver jubilee 25th ep. To think that Canadian baby of unknown gender is now 9 and the world has caught up a bit with its parents gender concerns...

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RHLSTP 292 - Bilal Zafar from 2020-09-09T03:00

#292 Twitch Chaplin - Rich is being driven mad by a children’s song, but at least he’s about to finally get back on the telly, so he can leave you losers behind. But he’s mistim...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 3, Episode 2) from 2020-09-03T23:00

Retro AIOTM #24 - Back to May 23rd 2011, when the worst thing Richard Herring had to worry about was navigating piss covered toilets. If we could turn back time, we wouldn’t mind being back in t...

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RHLSTP 291 - Bettany Hughes from 2020-09-02T03:37:16

#291 Ancient Porn Hub - Rich has discovered a dark secret about his wife, but there’s no way out now. His guest is best served dripping with honey, it’s historian Bettany Hughes...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 3, Episode 1) from 2020-08-27T23:00

Retro AIOTM #23 - We’re up to Series 3 of Retro AIOTM and now it’s May 2011 and Pippa Middleton and her disembodied anus are about to burst into the public consciousness. What a time to be alive...

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RHLSTP 290 - Jo Caulfield from 2020-08-25T15:04:15

#290 Garlic and Vodka - Rich is about to hit 53, but at least he’s back in the big time with a major TV opportunity as a snookerist. His guest is ex-rockabilly drummer Jo Caulfi...

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RETRO AIOTM (2010 Autumn Special 3) from 2020-08-20T23:00

Retro AIOTM #22 - Do you ever wish you could go back to the start of the 2010s and give it all another go? Well join me if you dare in another retro AIOTM and do exactly that. It’s 2nd November ...

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RHLSTP 289 - Daniel Sloss from 2020-08-19T03:00

#289 Hubris - Richard has just finished writing the first draft of his book and is in a giddy mood. He’s been practicing his ventriloquism which will be particularly impressive ...

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RETRO AIOTM (2010 Autumn Special 2) from 2020-08-13T23:00

Retro AIOTM #21 - Do you remember 19th October 2010? Do you want to go back there and have marmalade for lunch and celebrate the rescue of those Chilean miners? Let me take you by the audio hand...

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RHLSTP 288 - Nathan Caton from 2020-08-12T03:00

#288 Lockdown Love Poetry - Rich has received his first hand-written Father’s Day card, which might also have been a break-up note. His guest is the Chortle Student Comedian of ...

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RETRO AIOTM (2010 Autumn Special 1) from 2020-08-06T23:00

Retro AIOTM #20 - Let’s turn back time to October 12th 2010 to hear the first in a short run of AIOTM specials. I don’t remember anything about this one, I am afraid and it’s not like I am going...

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RHLSTP 287 - Maisie Adam from 2020-08-05T03:00

#287 White Chicks Dance Off - Rich has been turned into a woman on the internet and so comes a predictable emergency question. It’s another lockdown remote record with the West ...

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RETRO AIOTM (Edinburgh Special 2010) from 2020-07-30T23:00

Retro AIOTM #19 - Back 10 years to the Edinburgh Fringe 2010 - who would have dreamed that a decade later the whole thing would have been postponed? But you can pretend it’s all still happening ...

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RHLSTP 286 - Lauren Pattison from 2020-07-29T03:00:30

#286 Hi-Viz Jacket - We’re still in lockdown but Rich is hoping he’s managed to secure the future of Emergency Questions in the event or World War, so fingers crossed. His guest...

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RHLSTP 285 - Greg Jenner from 2020-07-22T03:00

#285 Micky Mouse’s Unsexy Ears


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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 8) from 2020-07-16T23:00

Retro AIOTM #18 - Back to July 2010 for the final AIOTM of the 2nd series and it’s the one with Lembit Opik. He’ll do the jokes. Thanks for listening to these. You know the ways you can support ...

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RHLSTP 284 - Richard Osman from 2020-07-15T04:00:58

#284 Shipham Strawberry Fayre - Lockdown continues in all its exhausting torpor, but Rich has come up with a new game show as well as becoming needlessly annoyed by a very old s...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 7) from 2020-07-09T23:00

Retro AIOTM #17 - Back to the end of June 2010 for more retro AIOTM and loads more motorcycle clothing shops. If you’re enjoying these crazy steps back in time then you can become a monthly badg...

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RHLSTP 283 - James Acaster from 2020-07-08T03:00

#283 Mummified Cat - It’s an extra special sell-out episode which has been bought and paid for by Ian Oxygen of O2 and that originally went out to Priority at O2 customers. But ...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 6) from 2020-07-02T23:00:43

Retro AIOTM #16 - It’s here. These weeks of listening to ten year old comedy is finally worth it. MOTORCYCLE CLOTHING SHOP SKETCH is here - and I am advising people to pull down statues. I am a ...

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RHLSTP 282 - Kiri Pritchard-McLean from 2020-07-01T03:00

#282 Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing - We’re 10000 days into lockdown and Richard is going mad, but his dreams are becoming violent or sexy. But is is cheating? His guest is the beseq...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 5) from 2020-06-25T23:00

Retro AIOTM #15 - five shows into the second series and Rich is clearly struggling to hold it together. It’s 14th June 2010 and ITV have screwed up the football - remember that? Suppor...

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RHLSTP 281 - Robert Webb from 2020-06-24T03:00

#281 Nipples Like Walnuts - Richard’s daughter has wished him a choice of terrible deaths, but come up with a great emergency question, proving herself superior to him in every ...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 4) from 2020-06-18T23:00

Retro AIOTM #14 - More retro shenanighans from 7th June 2010 with the AIOTM gang. You might want to go back and listen to all of the Collings and Herrin podcast to get t...

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RHLSTP 280 - Bill Burr from 2020-06-17T03:00

#280 Ping - Rich is peeved that Banksy has been ripping off his ideas, but his guest doesn’t realise he’s not supposed to talk over him, it’s only bloody birthday boy Bill Burr....

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 3) from 2020-06-11T23:00:35

Retro AIOTM #13 - Thanks for listening to this old guff. This one goes back to 31st May 2010 when iPads were new and exciting. Support us by becoming a badger at Listen

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RHLSTP 279 - Mark Watson from 2020-06-10T03:00

#279 Isolation, My Dear Mark Watson - Richard has been enjoying the lunchtime hour of lockdown the most so far and discusses chalk shadow drawings reminding him of nuclear war. ...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 2) from 2020-06-04T23:00:44

Retro AIOTM #12 - Back to 24th May 2010 to find out what was troubling the young idiots version of Richard Herring and his crew of misfits. Why not become a badger at Listen

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RHLSTP 278 - Michael Spicer from 2020-06-03T10:24:59

#278 Paternal Sunflower Plagiarist - It’s another lockdown RHLSTP and Rich is talking to the star of internet phenomenon The Room Next Door, Michael Spicer. They chat about star...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 2, Episode 1) from 2020-05-29T11:24:01

Retro AIOTM #11 all the way back 10 years and 12 days to May 17th 2010 to find out what the young whippersnapper Richard Herring and the team are up to. Will they be driving to Barnard Castle to...

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RHLSTP 277 - Adam Buxton from 2020-05-27T03:00

#277 Empty W*nk Bank - The Coronavirus has taken out many planned live RHLSTPs (hopefully most will be rescheduled) and destroyed a promising and lucrative 2020 for Richard, but...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 10) from 2020-05-21T23:00

It’s 14th December 2009 and the first decade of the 21st Century is coming to an end (unless you are a mathematical stickler) and just think how bad things were going to get in the next 10 years...

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RHLSTP 276 - Aisling Bea from 2020-05-20T03:00

#276 Bill Murray’s Irish Sister - Richard is still buzzing from last week’s podcast. Thank God we only do one a week, or imagine having to follow that! But he has news of his di...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 9) from 2020-05-14T23:00:36

It’s coming up to Christmas in 2009 and the innocent young cast of AIOTM have no idea what will hit them in just 10 short years. And that’s for the best I suppose. As usual by listenin...

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RHLSTP 275 - Michael Palin from 2020-05-13T03:00

#275 You’ve Got Mail - We’ve been recommissioned again for an amazing 19th series and Richard is exhausted from his final attempt to let the world know when International Men’s ...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 8) from 2020-05-08T20:43:18

Back to 30th November 2009 for this exciting episode of AIOTM, with added adverts to raise money for the cast and other charity cases. Check out Rich on TwitchListen

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RHLSTP 274 - Limmy from 2020-05-06T03:00

#274 The Bollywig - Richard is back at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow and don’t worry that he forgets about the cool kids at the start - he remembers halfway through and he’s...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 7) from 2020-04-30T23:00

Series 1 show 7 - Back to 23rd November for another retro AIOTM with advertising proceeds going to the cast and the Heckle the Virus justgiving campaign for comedians. Check out Rich’s many stup...

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RHLSTP 273 - Fern Brady from 2020-04-29T03:00

#273 Selfies With Naturists - Richard is at the huge Theatre Royal in Glasgow and it’s the biggest crowd he’s ever had at one of his gigs, but he nearly got in a fight on his wa...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 6) from 2020-04-23T23:00

Another retro RHLSTP, this one from 16th November 2009 when we had no idea what a wonderful world of freedom and light and joy that we lived in. Hope you’re enjoying this snapshot back into what...

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RHLSTP 272 - Steve McNeil from 2020-04-22T03:00

#272 The Pale Pirate - Richard is still in Northampton and reveals how an appearance on RHLSTP can get you on to the front page of a national newspaper. His guest is a man who r...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 5) from 2020-04-17T20:12:45

Series 1 episode 5 - Back to 9th November 2009 for this retro AIOTM which we’re repeating to raise some money for the cast and the comedians justgiving page - Listen

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RHLSTP 271 - Rev. Richard Coles from 2020-04-15T03:00

#271 Cadging Fags Off The Homeless - Richard is at the Northampton Deco and amazed by the local news headlines and tourists’ Lady Diana disappointments. His guest is Communard t...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 4) from 2020-04-09T23:00

Retro AIOTM - Back to Halloween 2009 and the mad show which Richard Herring attempted to write in a day and record with minimal rehearsal. 


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RHLSTP 270 - Konnie Huq from 2020-04-08T03:00

#270 Shy Cock - Richard chats with a secretive journalist in his audience before meeting his Boat Race foe, Konnie Huq.


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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 3) from 2020-04-03T15:28:14

Retro AIOTM - Welcome to another episode of this ancient sketch show, this one from 26th October 2009, when everyone was worried about swine flu, the ducking idiots. We are putting one of these ...

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RHLSTP 269 - Olga Koch from 2020-04-01T03:00

#269 Talking Koch - Richard is at the Cambridge Corn Exchange and starts with a joke he first did in this venue 25 years ago. His guest is standup and daughter of the former Dep...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 2) from 2020-03-27T20:03:12

Series 1 - episode 2 - Take a step back in time with us to a simpler time in 2009, when Richard Herring, Dan Tetsell, Emma Kennedy and Christian Reilly got together once a week to perform a hast...

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RHLSTP 268 - Charlie Brooker from 2020-03-25T04:00

#268 Gulping Robot Toilets - Richard is hoping he will find his way into the Guinness Book of Records, but Norris Macwhirter is not answering his calls. His guest is making a re...

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RETRO AIOTM (Series 1, Episode 1) from 2020-03-20T21:19:16

A chance to listen to this ragbag of a podcast originally broadcast starting in October 2009 and based on the stuff that had happened and occurred to Richard Herring in that week - written at sp...

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RHLSTP 267 - Rachel Parris from 2020-03-18T04:00

#267 Pukka Pie Ring - Richard is trawling the two days since his last podcast record for stand up material and predictably it isn’t gold. But the lack of it being gold, makes it...

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RHLSTP 266 - Bethany Black from 2020-03-13T04:00

#266 Bigger on the Inside - Richard is back at the Manchester Podcast Festival and rolling out a 20 year old joke about the Magic Bus. His guest this week is actor and comedian ...

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RHLSTP 265 - Janice Connolly from 2020-03-11T04:00

#265 Jeremy Thorpe is Innocent - Richard is at the Manchester Podcast Festival and reveals a surprising bit of his father’s Mancunian history. His guest is recipient of the Brit...

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RHLSTP 264 - Sara Pascoe from 2020-03-06T04:00

#264 Coin Master - Richard is giddy from doing too many podcasts in too short a time, but luckily his guest will bring him down to earth about how tough his life really is - it’...

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RHLSTP 263 - Tim Minchin from 2020-03-04T04:00

#263 Finnish Sausage Party - Richard is riding high from another magazine article lauding this podcast, but was the journalist right about the audience. If the maths teacher he ...

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RHLSTP 262 - Paul Sinha from 2020-02-28T04:00

#262 Voluntarily Shitfaced - Richard is back at the Oxford Playhouse and testing out his daughter’s jokes. Is she funnier than him yet? Of course she is. His guest is British Qu...

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RHLSTP 261 - George Monbiot from 2020-02-26T04:00

#261 Capitalism in Space - Richard is at the Oxford Playhouse and unsettled by the fact that it’s 30 years since he left University and appeared on this stage in Month in the Co...

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RHLSTP 260 - Frank Cottrell-Boyce from 2020-02-21T04:00

#260 Googling Colin Firth - Richard is back at the Liverpool Playhouse, making his annual proclamation to fight any University lecturer in the vicinity. His guest is screen...

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RHLSTP 259 - Kate Robbins from 2020-02-19T04:00

#259 Cillagrams - Richard is at the Liverpool Playhouse and is impressed by the bravest heckle put down ever attempted in this proud city (with the best sense of humour in ...

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RHLSTP 258 - Jon Parkin from 2020-02-14T04:00

#258 Tub of Spunk - RHLSTP returns to the Grand Opera House, York for the second week running. York is the most haunted city in Europe and Richard finds out what percentage...

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RHLSTP 257 - David Reed from 2020-02-12T04:00

#257 Glass Pyramid - Richard is back in York, this time at the Grand Opera House and he’s come up with a plan to rescue the magic football bones of Richard III from the thi...

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RHLSTP 256 - Athena Kugblenu from 2020-02-07T08:06:11

#256 Psychic Sex Twin - Richard is back at the Leicester Square Theatre and filling for time as nothing has happened to him in the week that has passed since last week’s sh...

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RHLSTP 255 - Robin Ince from 2020-02-05T04:00

#255 Spaceship Moon - Richard is back at his spiritual home of the Leicester Square Theatre and has more news about what you shouldn’t put up or on your genitalia. His guest is ...

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RHLSTP 254 - Seymour Mace from 2020-01-31T04:00

#254 Oklahoma - Rich liked the Newcastle Stand so much last week, he’s returned to talk about how squirrels ruined his day and to list the questionable achievements of the city....

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RHLSTP 253 - Dave Johns from 2020-01-29T04:00

#253 Woody Allen Lift Horror - Rich is at the Newcastle Stand and mourns the possible end of Pizza Express but celebrates besting Piers Morgan. His guest is bricklayer turned co...

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RHLSTP 252 - Mike Wozniak from 2020-01-24T04:00

#252 Giraffe Harpsichord - Richard’s house is being haunted by a film star, but he’ll get over it. He’s back at the Exeter Corn Exchange and chatting to the man behind the most ...

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RHLSTP 251 - Francesca Stavrakopoulou from 2020-01-22T04:00

#251 Christ, the Child Killer - Richard is a the Corn Exchange in Exeter, a town famous for the the most comical suicide bomb of all time. And Richard is talking religion with B...

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RHLSTP 250 - John Kearns from 2020-01-17T04:00

#250 CBE? - Back to the Winchester Theatre Royal for the second week running and Richard is annoyed at his child’s teacher’s money-making schemes. His guest was also the final g...

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RHLSTP 249 - Ahir Shah from 2020-01-15T04:00

#249 Sexy Borg Queen - We’re at the Winchester Theatre Royal and Rich is blaming the city for the loss of one of our greatest authors. His guest is the comedy Doogie Howser Ahir...

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RHLSTP 248 - Nick Frost from 2020-01-10T04:00

#248 Lock Keepers - Richard had so much fun at the Richmond Theatre that he’s come back again. Sure he’s wearing the same clothes, but a week has gone by and that’s plenty of ti...

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RHLSTP 247 - Tape Face from 2020-01-08T05:00

#247 A Spice Girl Broke My Toilet Seat - Rich has had his lactose tolerant choices mocked at the supermarket again, but he will rise above it as he comes to posh old Richmond Th...

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RHLSTP 246 - Jayde Adams from 2020-01-03T05:00

#246 Gurt Lush - Richard is back in Bristol and surprised at some of the refurb choices apparently made at the SS Great Britain. His guest is the gorgeous force of nature that i...

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RHLSTP 245 - Mark Olver from 2020-01-01T05:00

#246 Dual? - Richard is back at the Bristol Old Vic and is just happy to be no longer in Leicester, but what is Bristol famous for? You’ll find out. His guest is legendary Brist...

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RHLSTP 244 - Lucy Beaumont from 2019-12-27T05:00

#244 The Marx Brothers - Rich is back at Hull City Hall for his last RHLSTP recording of 2019 and he has had an accidental slip off the wagon. But does it count? His guest is Hu...

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RHLSTP 243 - Grace Petrie from 2019-12-25T05:00

#243 Is Leicester Sh*t? - A week has passed, the costume change proves it, but Richard is back at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester and still fuming about the bones that he bel...

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End of Year Draw from 2019-12-20T21:04:37

End of Year Draw - RHLSTP End of Year Draw - A short podcast advertising all the benefits of becoming a monthly badger (I forgot to say you also get an audio feed of RHLSTP with...

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RHLSTP 242 - Graham Fellows from 2019-12-20T05:00

#242 Snogging Debbie Harry - Rich is at Hull City Hall in the penultimate tour show of 2019 (released out of order, just to keep you on your toes) and he’s laying into Hull, eve...

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RHLSTP 241 - Jenny Eclair from 2019-12-18T07:00

#241 Tilda Swinton’s Guff -Richard is at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester and his Yorkshire roots mean he isn’t going to let a bone of contention go. Luckily he has the fabulo...

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RHLSTP 240 - Seann Walsh from 2019-12-13T01:00

#240 Forgetting About Caterpillars - Richard is back at Sheffield City Hall and has some hard-hitting topical questions to ask before introducing his guest dancing comedian Sean...

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RHLSTP 239 - Simon Evans from 2019-12-11T05:00

#239 Car Porn - Richard has returned to the Brighton Theatre Royal for the second consecutive week and is worried that he has let down a squirrel, but he has no time to ponder a...

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RHLSTP 238 - Ian McMillan from 2019-12-06T05:00

#238 Degree! Degree! - Richard is at the City Hall in steel obsessed Sheffield and his guest is proudly professional Yorkshireman and poet, Ian McMillan.


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RHLSTP 237 - Annabel Giles from 2019-12-04T05:00

#237 Christmas Presents for Ethiopia - Richard is at the Brighton Theatre Royal and in danger of having a deadly secret revealed unless he stumps up the cash, but is it worth th...

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RHLSTP 236 - Grayson Perry from 2019-11-29T05:00

#236 Don’t Look Down - Richard has yet another stomach upset, adding some much needed jeopardy to the podcast. And it’s a meeting of Turner Prize winners past and future as his ...

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RHLSTP 235 - Max and Ivan from 2019-11-27T05:45

#235 Tiny Teeth - Rich is at the Cambridge Corn Exchange and has had a dream about eating lettuce with Blur and that’s pretty much the most exciting thing that’s happened to him...

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RHLSTP 234 - Vic Reeves from 2019-11-20T05:00

#234 Little Tich's Shoes - RHLSTP returns to the Marlowe Theatre I’m Canterbury for the second week running and Rich is doing some of his topical material about St Augustine. Hi...

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RHLSTP 233 - Shaun Williamson from 2019-11-13T05:00

#233 Joke Thief - RHLSTP comes to the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, a town divided by what should happen to the local takeaway shop, but with an audience smart enough to get a ...

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RHLSTP 232 - Caroline Quentin from 2019-11-06T04:40

#231 Bohemian Rhapsody Karaoke - RHLSTP is back at the Warwick (Coventry) Arts Centre and Richard is discussing his daughter’s reaction to the Teletubbies and his son follo...

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RHLSTP 231 - Bobby Mair from 2019-10-30T04:30

#231 The World’s Most Successful Homeless Man - RHLSTP rolls into Warwick Arts Centre, but is it really in lovely Warwick or horrible Coventry? And should a city that keeps brea...

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RHLSTP 230 - Ed Gamble from 2019-10-23T03:00

#230 Back, Sack and Crack Salon - Rich has a terrible confession to make about this podcast, which somehow shocks and appals his audience, but there will be plenty more appallin...

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RHLSTP 229 - Michael Sheen from 2019-10-16T03:00

#229 Herring:Sheen - Rich has come back from his holiday for this and why wouldn’t he? But will his guest turn up this time? The bad news, if he doesn’t, is that Nish Kumar is i...

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Special RHLSTPGF Deborah-Frances White and Siobhan McSweeney from 2019-10-10T03:00

Wedding Anniversary Gift - Richard Herring forms an uneasy truce with his greatest enemy, the feminists, to create a podcast mash-up of RHLSTP and the Guilty Feminist. Who will take charge in th...

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RHLSTP 228 - Sara Barron from 2019-10-09T04:00

#228 Jackhammer - Another week has gone by and we’re at King’s Place again and Rich congratulates Kings Cross on another record breaking success and meets his new upmarket audie...

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RHLSTP 227 - Russell Howard from 2019-10-02T04:00

#227 One Day This Could All Be Yours - We’re at the swanky King’s Place in King’s Cross (with a few teething troubles with the radio mics- sorry audiophiles) for the next few we...

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RHLSTP 226 - Sarah Millican from 2019-09-25T06:00

#226 Clown Pyjamas - After last week’s respectful chat with the great Jimmy Cricket, the gloves are off and it’s time to spew up a gut load of filth with third time RHLSTP (plus...

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RHLSTP - #PODSTRIKE from 2019-09-20T09:41:15

RHLSTP supports #PODSTRIKE on Friday September 20th 2019.


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RHLSTP 225 - Jimmy Cricket from 2019-09-18T06:45

#225 Come Closer To The Screen - We’re on the road still and at the Lowry in Salford where the lightest local headline is not really ripe for frivolity, but at least they are pa...

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RHLSTP 224 - Mark Charnock and Dominic Brunt from 2019-09-11T06:45

#224 Emmerdale Farm There’s a weird giddy atmosphere in the room at the Leeds City Varieties, but you’ll have to try and use the clues in this podcast to piece together what you...

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RHLSTP 223 - Stephen Grant from 2019-09-04T00:00

#223 Second Back at the Old Market in Hove for a second (separate) week and Richard has more disappointing reviews of local tourist attractions, plus news of a life-changing bin...

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RHLSTP 222 - Angela Barnes from 2019-08-28T09:16:27

#222 The Voice of Burnt Tits Richard is wearing his wedding suit, but has forgotten about the secret curse that it possesses that might destroy his esteemed standing in society,...

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Flo & Joan & John Kearns - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 21 from 2019-08-25T15:14:29

Flo and Joan and John Kearns Ed Fringe #21 Nine Minutes- Rich has just hit the 200 average crowd he coveted and worked out just how much his landlord has made from each ticket sold and ther...

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Thom Tuck & Tom Rosenthal RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 20 from 2019-08-24T17:52:53

Thom Tuck and Tom Rosenthal #20 - A Noble Failure - Rich has a visual surprise for his audience (and for you if you haven’t looked at the picture yet, that will infuriate his wife. His guests ar...

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George Egg & Cally Beaton - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 19 from 2019-08-23T18:56:02

George Egg and Cally Beaton - RHLSTP Edfringe 2019 #19 - The Big Hub Is Open - Rich is meeting all the best celebrities backstage at the venue. You won’t believe who it was yesterday. ...

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Susan Murray & Alice Fraser - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 18 from 2019-08-22T17:30:47

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #18 Susan Murray and Alice Fraser - Robot Sex Again - Rich has found out why he’s not on TV and whose fault it is and he is NOT happy. Never mind his guests Susan Murray an...

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Sukh Ojla & Tommy Tiernan - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 17 from 2019-08-22T02:32:13

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #17 Sukh Ojla and Tommy Tiernan - Older Than Sean - Rich is being stalked by Andy Murray’s mum, but he is also only one step removed from The Two Ronnies now. His guests ar...

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Rich Wilson & Sarah Kendall - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 16 from 2019-08-20T23:35:10

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #16 - Rich Wilson and Sarah Kendall - Nagasaki Spider-man -There’s so much controversy over Joke of the Fringe that Richard can’t work out what to think. Luckily he has gue...

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Fern Brady & Josie Long - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 15 from 2019-08-19T00:21:10

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #15 Fern Brady and Josie Long - Teeth and Ecstasy - Rich has seen some disturbing poster vandalism that has made him question who the real Jesus is, and his daughter h...

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Sunil Patel & Daliso Chaponda - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 14 from 2019-08-18T12:41:58

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #14 Sunil Patel and Daliso Chaponda - Donkeys - Richard is losing his mind in the Groundhog Day of Edinburgh and still turning up at the wrong venues, but he so far ha...

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Bryony Kimmings & Arabella Weir - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 13 from 2019-08-17T02:11:27

RHLSTP Ed 2019 #13 Bryony Kimmings and Arabella Weir - Baulk - Richard is awaiting imminent arrest for the crime of trying to educate women about their bodies. He welcomes guests Bryony Kimmings...

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Rob Auton & Lost Voice Guy - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 12 from 2019-08-15T18:46:08

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #12 Rob Auton and Lost Voice Guy - Baked Beans - Richard may be old or tired or both, but he has just experienced a potentially disastrous misunderstanding of Edinburgh geo...

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Richard Osman - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 11 from 2019-08-14T18:59:20

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #11 Richard Osman - The Oldest Person In Scotland - Richard has hopefully the definitive list of what people should avoid putting inside their chuffs and maybe we can leave...

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Lauren Pattison & Geoff Norcott - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 10 from 2019-08-13T18:47:29

RHLSTP Ed Fringe #10 Lauren Pattison and Geoff Norcott - Love or Career? - Rich can stop doing Edinburgh now as he has been bestowed with the greatest of honours, plus he has more tips abou...

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Isma Almas & Tony Slattery - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 09 from 2019-08-11T16:43:13

RHLSTP Ed 2019 9 Tony Slattery and Isma Almas - Carry On Cocaining - Richard is worried that his comments about a royal might lead to his ultimate demise… buy he’s more worried about extreme vag...

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Steph Tisdell & Jen Brister - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 08 from 2019-08-10T19:06:37

RHLSTP ed Fringe #8 Steph Tisdell and Jen Brister- Migaloo - Rich reveals the real reason he’s having so many female guests on the series before introducing two more of the blighters, Steph Tisd...

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Spencer Jones & Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 07 from 2019-08-10T12:47:29

RHLSTP Ed 2019 #7 Spencer Jones and Janey Godley and Ashley Storrie - Scottish Russian Dolls. Richard has just witnessed the most arrogant and obnoxious person of Edinburgh 2019 and they aren’t ...

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Snjolaug Luðviksdottir and John Robins - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 06 from 2019-08-08T18:11:31

RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 #6 Snjólaug Lúðvíksdóttir and John Robins - Gibbon Arms - The RHLSTP chairs are getting more press than Richard and also he is doomed to eternity in Hell, but never mi...

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RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 05 - Jayde Adams & David O' Doherty from 2019-08-07T16:53:41

RHLSTP Ed Fringe 2019 #5 Jayde Adams and David O’ Doherty - Mr Adjective - Richard is still thinking about his penis, but has just had an encounter with another major politician and failed to ge...

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Sophie Duker & Vikki Stone - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 04 from 2019-08-06T18:42:33

Ed Fringe 2019 #4 Sophie Duker and Vikki Stone - Tree Huggers - Rich is being ultra topical and that of course means him attempting to value his penis, plus he gives a review of an incredible pi...

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Jena Friedman & Phil Wang - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 03 from 2019-08-05T10:09:41

RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 #3 Jena Friedman and Phil Wang - Raisin Drip - Rich was looking forward to being able to use his topical satirical eye to look at the news, until he looked at the news, but...

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Lucy Beaumont & Scummy Mummies - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 02 from 2019-08-02T23:00

RHLSTP Edinburgh 2109 #2 Lucy Beaumont and Scummy Mummies - Screw You William Wilberforce. What Did You Ever Achieve?


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Laura Lexx & Tony Law - RHLSTP Edinburgh 2019 01 from 2019-08-02T19:00

Ed #1 - Laura Lexx and Tony Law - Can Men Be Funny? The King of Edinburgh is back for his 25th Fringe, though he is feeling under the weather thanks to his bloody stupid decision to breed and hi...

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RHLSTP Special - Rebecca Callard from 2019-07-30T23:00

RHLSTP comes to the Great Yorkshire Fringe and York City fan Richard couldn’t be happier about his team’s amazing season or the fact that the hot weather has given him the perfect new emergency ...

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RHLSTP Special - Emergency Questions from 2019-07-28T08:42:45

Emergency Questions Special - Richard Herring - Venice in Peril - The RHLSTP tables are turned as the interviewer becomes the interviewee and Richard Herring, best know for playing a policeman o...

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RHLSTP Special - Fiona Allen from 2019-07-25T23:00:36

RHLSTP Special - Fiona Allen - Henley Festival. Rich is at the Henley Festival and is up against the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, who prove to be much more popular and louder t...

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RHLSTP 221 - No Such Thing As A Fish from 2019-07-23T23:00

#221 No Such Thing As a Fish - Are There Any Female Cuttlefish Here? It’s the end of the run at the Leicester Square Theatre and time to find out if Richard can fit into his sui...

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RHLSTP Special - Rob Rouse from 2019-07-18T23:00:43

RHLSTP Special - Rob Rouse - Quink-Faced Schoolboy. RHLSTP is back at the Long Division Festival in Wakefield for the second week running and this time Richard is looking at the...

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RHLSTP 220 - Professor Alice Roberts from 2019-07-16T23:00:53

#220 Professor Alice Roberts - What Would You Keep in your Marsupial Pouch? Richard has been gigging back home in Cheddar and meets a face from his past. His guest this week is ...

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RHLSTP Special - Kay Mellor from 2019-07-11T23:00:56

RHLSTP Special - Kay Mellor - Rhubarb Triangle. RHLSTP comes to the Long Division Festival at the beautiful Wakefield Theatre Royal and Richard is impressed with the commitment ...

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RHLSTP 219 - Do The Right Thing from 2019-07-09T23:00:15

#219 Do The Right Thing - Knowing Your Own Dad’s Smell. Richard chats with a therapist and a photographer in the front row before bringing on his triumvirate of guests, Danielle...

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RHLSTP 218 - Nicholas Parsons from 2019-07-02T23:00

#218 Nicholas Parsons - An Alligator Named Daisy. Richard has been dreaming about the Wiggles and one of them has been tweeting him. But is it Emma? Richard’s guest is the showb...

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RHLSTP 217 - Adrian Chiles from 2019-06-25T23:00:49

#217 Adrian Chiles - Exiting Stourbridge Multi-storey Car Park. RHLSTP comes to Birmingham Town Hall and the biggest audience Richard has ever performed to (outside of charity g...

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RHLSTP 216 - Tiff Stevenson from 2019-06-18T23:00:56

RHLSTP #216 Tiff Stevenson - Stevie Nicks Cartman. Richard E Grant has foolishly left a bottle of his scent behind and Rich uses it as a pomander to erase the stink from his unw...

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RHLSTP 215 - Rosie Jones from 2019-06-11T23:00:23

#215 Rosie Jones - Chicken Plucker. Rich’s diet continues to go well, but will he be in his 2015 suit by the end of the series? The anticipation is killing us all I know. His gu...

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RHLSTP 214 - Matt Lucas from 2019-06-04T23:00:55

#214 Matt Lucas - The Football Eagle Has Landed. Richard believes he will soon be a multi-millionaire but agrees to give 1/365th of his profits to charity. His guest is comedy l...

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RHLSTP 213 - Les Dennis from 2019-05-28T23:00:48

RHLSTP #213 Les Dennis - If it’s up there... Happily-married Rich meets a man who works in a castle and the woman he has found love with, before introducing the legend that is L...

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RHLSTP 212 - Matt Forde from 2019-05-21T23:00:45

RHLSTP #212 Matt Forde - Brian Clough’s Dangerous Remedy For Eczema. Richard explains why he is constantly upsetting businesses who ask him to fill in surveys, before meeting th...

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RHLSTP 211 - Joel Dommett from 2019-05-14T23:00:38

RHLSTP #211 - Joel Dommett - Lembit Opik Catfish. Richard meets a nuclear physicist impersonator and has a friend who will never be any more than that. This week’s guest is disg...

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RHLSTP 210 - Suzi Ruffell from 2019-05-07T23:00

RHLSTP #210 - Suzi Ruffell - The Great HMS Victory Robbery. Richard has been spending a lot of time with his kids and consequently his stand up is going to be all Kids Do The Fu...

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RHLSTP 209 - London Hughes from 2019-04-30T23:00:52

RHLSTP #209 London Hughes - Catching a Dick. Richard has a new prop that he hopes will make him a superstar and has a guest who probably has a better chance of making the big ti...

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RHLSTP 208 - James Acaster from 2019-04-23T23:00:23

RHLSTP #208 James Acaster - Sir William Strawberry. Richard reveals the terrible secret that he was harbouring throughout the David Morrissey podcast before introducing the man ...

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RHLSTP 207 - Kerry Howard from 2019-04-16T23:00:11

RHLSTP #207 Kerry Howard - Gurt Lush. Richard is back at the Bath Komedia and chats about the planet that was discovered here and the various names it had, but it doesn’t go on ...

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RHLSTP 206 - Peter Lord from 2019-04-09T23:00:28

RHLSTP #206 Peter Lord and Morph - Morpheus in the Underworld. RHLSTP tours to the Bath Komedia and Rich manages to find some tourists who are disgruntled about the Roman Baths ...

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RHLSTP 205 - David Morrissey from 2019-04-02T23:00:28

RHLSTP #205 David Morrissey - Kevin Bacon’s Cock Sock. Rich manages to do some successful crowd work for once in his long life, before introducing the man the Adam Sandler film ...

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RHLSTP 204 - Rob Brydon from 2019-03-27T00:00:34

RHLSTP #204 Rob Brydon - Basil Brush Phobia. Rich has suddenly received a lot of fan mail from suspiciously fluent English students in Mexico who have all given him answers to o...

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RHLSTP 203 - Emily Atack from 2019-03-20T01:17:16

RHLSTP #203 -Emily Atack- Not Harry Redknapp. Richard reveals his plan to have Thin Rich host the last podcast of this series. But will he succeed or obviously fail? Plus some s...

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RHLSTP 202 - Jon Ronson from 2019-03-13T13:01:14

RHLSTP #202 - Jon Ronson - Alex Jones (Not That One)’s Simon Cowell. Richard reveals all the changes that are happening with the podcast, plus what RHLSTP now sta...

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RHLSTP Special - The Goodies from 2019-03-06T00:00

RHLSTP Special The Goodies - War With Babies. Rich is at the Bristol Slapstick Festival and almost bursting with excitement to meet and chat with his childhood and adulthood her...

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RHLSTP Special - Damon Beesley and Joe Thomas from 2019-02-27T11:37:43

RHLSTP Special - Damon Beesley and Joe Thomas - Baggy Trousers. Rich is still at the Bristol Slapstick Festival, chatting with some of his comedy heroes, including the co-creato...

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RHLSTP Special - Tim Vine from 2019-02-21T00:00

RHLSTP SPECIAL: Tim Vine - Back to Back. In the first of three special interviews from the Bristol Slapstick Festival, Richard talks to ex-World Record Punster and Pen Behind th...

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RHLSTP 201 - Sathnam Sanghera from 2019-02-13T00:00

RHLSTP #201: Sathnam Sanghera - Sex in a Bush. RHLSTP is going on the road this year - check richardherring.com/gigs for dates (loads more to come) starting with a journey to Bi...

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RHLSTP 200 - Adam Buxton from 2019-02-06T10:00

RHLSTP #200: Richard Herring - Pennsylvania Polka. It's episode 200 of the podcast and the end of Series 14, two insane milestones for this ramshackle lump of podcast. And to celebrate this occa...

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RHLSTP 199 - Terry Hall from 2019-01-30T16:45:15

RHLSTP #199: Terry Hall - Terry Hall Hall. Richard has finally won a TV quiz show and I am afraid he will never stop talking about it again, but he's nervous as Hell because one of his heroes is...

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RHLSTP 198 - Sanjeev Bhaskar from 2019-01-23T11:30

RHLSTP #198: Sanjeev Bhaskar - Pert Nipples. Richard chats with the audience and struggles to find anyone who works in IT, but discovers a human interest story that would be moving and inspirati...

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RHLSTP 197 - Rick Edwards from 2019-01-17T13:25

RHLSTP #197: Rick Edwards - Bailey's Comets. Rich is back on the telly, even if at this point, House Of Games is looking like it might be another House of Horrors, but if he plays his cards righ...

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RHLSTP 196 - Fingers on Buzzers Podcast from 2019-01-09T20:15

RHLSTP #197: Fingers on Buzzers Podcast - Frank Bruno's Chauffeur. Drunk from one beer from last week's podcast, Richard is indiscreet about one of his former girlfriends, but let's move quickly...

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RHLSTP 195 - Joe Lycett from 2019-01-02T15:50

RHLSTP #195: Joe Lycett - Esme. Rich has found the mother of all stones and is banging on about that as usual (don't worry he will syphon this off into a podcast you don't have to listen to soon...

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RHLSTP 194 - Amanda Abbington from 2018-12-21T10:30

RHLSTP #194: Amanda Abbington - Chicken Carcass Ghost. Rich has had to deal with the soft poo of his ill dog, but he didn't eat any of it, even though it looked delicious and anyone who says he ...

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RHLSTP 193 - James O'Brien from 2018-12-12T11:00

RHLSTP #193: James O'Brien - Sean Connery's Macbeth. Rich is back on terrestrial TV as a last minute guest on a new Channel 5 gameshow, so cheg on suckers, he's out of here. He always hated podc...

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RHLSTP 192 - Nish Kumar from 2018-12-05T10:00

RHLSTP #192: Nish Kumar - Not Michael Sheen. Richard's participation in a PTA quiz in his village led to an unlikely correspondence with one of his new neighbours, but he's really looking forwar...

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RHLSTP 191 - Rose Matafeo from 2018-11-28T23:00

RHLSTP #191: Rose Matafeo - Ladybird. Richard has had a ladybird in his house and is reminded of the horrors of the 1976 ladybird invasion, but how it eventually paid off to his advantage, but t...

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RHLSTP 190 - Greg Davies from 2018-11-21T10:00

RHLSTP #190: Greg Davies - Bowl of Cheese. It's a showdown battle of who is best, Richard or Hugh Jassburn - in book form at least, but Richard is keen to bring back one of his all time favourit...

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RHLSTP 189 - Drunk Women Solving Crime from 2018-11-14T10:40

RHLSTP #189: Drunk Women Solving Crime - How Does She Know So Much About Parachuting? Richard has been publicising his latest book, but it's not popular with canines, but at least he's got dayti...

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RHLSTP 188 - Jess Robinson from 2018-11-07T11:40

RHLSTP #188: Jess Robinson - Doctors and Nurses. Richard welcomes an audience member who has come all the way from America JUST to see him, and boy is he pleased about that? His guest is the mul...

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RHLSTP 187 - Alice Lowe from 2018-10-31T10:20

RHLSTP #187: Alice Lowe - Horny Time Traveller. Rich has had the time of his life in Manchester and wants to leave the avocado-munching Londoners behind forever - is he no longer one of them? An...

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RHLSTP - Manchester special - Glenn Wool from 2018-10-26T08:40

Manchester Special 2 - Glenn Wool - Werewolf Penis. Richard has had to stay in Manchester for another week so he can interview the most sane Canadian comedian in the world, Glenn Wool. They disc...

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RHLSTP 186 - Lou Sanders from 2018-10-24T10:00

RHLSTP #186: Lou Sanders - Cold Stones. Richard has some Hitchin-based stand-up, that doesn't play well with the self-obsessed London metropolitan elite and it's seat of your pants time for this...

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RHLSTP - Manchester special - Toby Hadoke from 2018-10-19T11:15

Manchester Special 1: Toby Hadoke - Blake's Seven Spoilers. Rich has travelled to Manchester to take part in a podcast festival and the live podcast-starved people of this fine city have snapped...

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RHLSTP 185 - Ross Noble from 2018-10-17T10:20

RHLSTP #185: Ross Noble Harder on the Balls. SPOILER ALERT: Rich gives a big spoiler about the new Harry Potter plays which will be bad if you like Harry Potter, but awesome if you hate him, and...

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RHLSTP 184 - Alex Horne from 2018-10-10T10:00

RHLSTP #184 Alex Horne - High-Fiving the Pope. Rich offers to fill a school library with books, before introducing the multi-talented genius behind Taskmaster and much more, Alex Horne. Find out...

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RHLSTP 183 - Jonathan Ames from 2018-10-03T11:40

RHLSTP #183: Jonathan Ames - The Herring Wonder. It feels so long since we were last here, but Richard is glad to be back for Series 14, even if life in the countryside seems to be driving him t...

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Machynlleth Festival special: Jessica Fostekew and Holly Burn from 2018-06-13T12:00

RHLSTP (EATMCF) #3: Jessica Fostekew and Holly Burn - Michael Sheen's Mildly Nutritious Hand. Rich has just had the biggest gig of his career and now he's in a Tabernacle somewhere in Wales, but...

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RHLSTP 182 - Mark Steel from 2018-06-06T16:00

RHLSTP #182: Mark Steel - Cunt or Wanker. It's the end of the series and Rich wonders how tourists in Kings Cross will feel if their last action on earth is to queue to stand by a fictional wall. H...

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RHLSTP 181 - My Dad Wrote A Porno from 2018-05-30T10:15

RHLSTP #181: My Dad Wrote A Porno - Vaginal Lids. Rich cannot win game shows even in his dreams, but is also convinced that he might be a robot, but these are small worries compared to his guest...

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RHLSTP 180 - Al Murray from 2018-05-23T12:40

RHLSTP #180: Al Murray - Jimmy Tarbuck's Bad Day. Rich has witnessed the miracle of the birth of some lamb chops near his countryside home and will be contemplating human birth with this week's ...

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RHLSTP 179 - Desiree Burch from 2018-05-16T08:30

RHLSTP #179: Desiree Burch - Do the Hokey Cokey. Rich muses on passports and the fruition of John Moloney's aged comedians TV show, before meeting the fiercely intelligent comedian and writer De...

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RHLSTP 178 - Sophie Willan from 2018-05-10T09:00

RHLSTP #178: Sophie Willan - How To Twerk. Richard is marvelling about a new interpretative dance based on 'All You Need Is Love' but soon he will be dancing himself with brilliant new comedian ...

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RHLSTP 177 - Maria Bamford from 2018-05-02T16:45

RHLSTP #177: Maria Bamford - STD from a Vulcan. Richard continues to be surprised by the difference of living in the country and surprises his neighbours with his specialised knowledge about gen...

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RHLSTP 176 - Pippa Evans from 2018-04-25T11:00

RHLSTP #176: Pippa Evans - Half an Orange. I mean there is so much of last week's podcast still to unpack, plus the extra 20 minutes that Rich and this week's guest - improviser and inspirationa...

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RHLSTP 175 - BRIAN BLESSED from 2018-04-18T07:00

RHLSTP #175: BRIAN BLESSED!!!! What Was The Question? It's finally come to pass. The podcasts can end now, because the whole point of starting them up has been achieved. Richard's guest is a man...

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RHLSTP 174 - Peter Baynham from 2018-04-12T10:40

RHLSTP #174: Peter Baynham - I Am Delighted. Rich meets his audience. Can he resist being a dick? Spoiler Alert- of course not, but never mind because he's about to meet the man behind almost ev...

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RHLSTP 173 - Katherine Ryan from 2018-04-04T22:30

RHLSTP #173: Katherine Ryan - Shooting Dust. Rich is disgusted to be back in filthy London and wondering if a man performs an act of extreme slapstick and no one is around to see it, will it sti...

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RHLSTP 172 - All Killa No Filla from 2018-03-28T10:30

RHLSTP #172: All Killa No Filla - Chinese Hymen. Red-nosed Rich is still down with the lurgy and a bit befuddled. After an awkward chat with an accountant and a student, it's time to meet the st...

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RHLSTP 171 - Mackenzie Crook from 2018-03-21T13:30

RHLSTP #171: Mackenzie Crook - Hucknall Forest. Rich forgot to do a bit of his tour show for the people of Cardiff so we start with a comity contest, which unexpectedly leads to the podcast bein...

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RHLSTP 170 - Jess Phillips from 2018-03-14T11:00

RHLSTP #170: Jess Phillips - Jeremy Corbyn's Salad Sandwich. Rich's daughter seems to be on her way to a mediocre career in comedy and he could not be more proud, but he doesn't have time to sho...

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RHLSTP 169 - Trev and Simon from 2018-03-08T12:00

RHLSTP #169: Trev and Simon - You Are An Idiot. Rich is looking forward to International 'When's International Men's Day?' Day, but for now it's International We Don't Do Duvets Day, as his gues...

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RHLSTP 168 - Danielle Ward from 2018-02-28T11:00

RHLSTP #168: Danielle Ward - Sting's Bloody Toilet. Technology delivers a cruel blow to Richard as it deletes his carefully crafted opening monologue about Cheddar Man, but he has a crack at it ...

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RHLSTP 167 - John Robins and Elis James from 2018-02-21T09:00

RHLSTP #167: John Robins and Elis James - Not My Cup Of Tea. Fired up by his first TV recording in 23 years, Richard decides to work harder on his opening monologue, but is surprised to find how li...

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RHLSTP 166 - Adam Kay from 2018-02-14T16:07

RHLSTP #166: Adam Kay - Degloved Penis. This week's guest is doctor turned comedian turned best-selling author Adam Kay. They discuss his hilarious, harrowing and politically important book - Th...

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RHLSTP 165 - Kathy Burke from 2018-02-08T08:30

RHLSTP #165: Kathy Burke - I Don't Do Blow Jobs. Richard's living in a house of horrors and has heard a ghost, so he's glad to be back in the safety of lovely, undangerous London to find out if ...

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RHLSTP 164 - Dave Gorman from 2018-01-31T12:30

RHLSTP #164: Dave Gorman - Nigel Havers-based Injustice. Richard celebrates 10 years of podcasting by blowing your comfortable views of the film Toy Story apart like Spike with a firework. His g...

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RHLSTP 163 - Paul Chowdhry from 2018-01-26T11:15

RHLSTP #163: Paul Chowdhry - Brian Glover's Walkman. Richard is mourning the non-existent victims of the Oxford Circus incident and the personal connection he had to them, but life goes on for a...

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RHLSTP 162 - Katy Wix from 2018-01-17T13:20

RHLSTP #162: Katy Wix - Burned Bunting. Richard hits comedy gold and finds the person with the perfect job to riff about for as long as an hour if he wishes, but he doesn't wish to, as he has th...

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RHLSTP 161 - Johann Hari from 2018-01-10T16:40

RHLSTP #161: Johann Hari - Cannibal Chicken. The question of ham hands versus suncream armpits has gone international and been introduced to a new generation in the most charming of ways. But ha...

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RHLSTP 160 - Reginald D Hunter from 2018-01-04T14:00

RHLSTP #160: Reginald D Hunter - An Order of Travelling Monks. Richard is overly proud of himself for having created a new book of Emergency Questions, but luckily there is someone on hand who w...

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RHLSTP 159 - Richard Osman from 2017-12-15T18:05

RHLSTP #159: Richard Osman - Drifter Charger. Rich's daughter has made quite a radical life choice, but hopefully is a reincarnation of someone who will make the family a lot of money (if only w...

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RHLSTP 158 - Simon Brodkin from 2017-12-14T12:30

RHLSTP #158: Simon Brodkin - Vagina Cash Machine. Richard has been belittled by a scaffolder, and is plotting his revenge. Perhaps he should send this week's guest after him, it's serial prankst...

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RHLSTP 157 - Greg Jenner from 2017-12-07T10:30

RHLSTP #157: Greg Jenner - Portuguese Boy's Urine. Richard seems to think he's the new Frost:Nixon for some reason, but his audience banter suggests he has some way to go. But never mind, he's t...

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RHLSTP 156 - Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd from 2017-11-29T12:15

RHLSTP #156: Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd - Prime Minister of the Central African Republic. Richard's dog is at war with his eyes, but who cares. He has the Prime Minister from an alternate timel...

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RHLSTP 155 - Jan Ravens from 2017-11-22T11:20

RHLSTP #155: Jan Ravens - Just Amazing. Richard is excited after spotting a celebrity at Crewe station, but upset that the celebrity wasn't excited about spotting him. But his guest has snogged ...

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RHLSTP 154 - John Moloney from 2017-11-16T10:00

RHLSTP #154: John Moloney - Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? Richard freewheels about the poor quality of the suit he has had to wear as his nice ones no longer fit him, still giddy from a heady cockt...

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RHLSTP 153 - Rachel Parris from 2017-11-08T12:20

RHLSTP #153: Rachel Parris - Oh Jesus I have Promised. Rich is confused and amazed by horses and apparently alone in being troubled by the lyrics to the new Stereophonics song, but he has a more...

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RHLSTP 152 - Armando Iannucci from 2017-11-01T10:15

RHLSTP #152: Armando Iannucci - Deeply Dippy. Richard is surprisingly appalled by what a sex robot inventor is planning for his sex robot and reeling from the brutal combo of no sleep and attend...

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RHLSTP 151 - Ellie Taylor from 2017-10-25T10:55

RHLSTP #151: Ellie Taylor - Catching Clouds. RHLSTP is back and the sky has changed colour and the first of the gang has died, so Richard is a bit unsettled and sad. But on we plough until our o...

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RHLSTP 150 - Sara Pascoe from 2017-10-19T10:55

RHLSTP #150: Sara Pascoe - Hello, Still a Feminist? Rich details how he considered stealing a man's identity to become a chartered accountant. Perhaps it would have been for the best. But instea...

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RHLSTP 149 - Ed Byrne from 2017-10-11T14:50

RHLSTP #149: Ed Byrne - Lost Leather Jacket. Rich is getting used to living in the countryside and the action movie that is attempting to get the train home. His guest has painful memories of th...

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RHLSTP 148 - Robert Webb from 2017-10-05T22:59

RHLSTP #148: Robert Webb - The Ideal Age To Die. Richard is still prickling with mortification after an encounter with Michael Portillo, as if turning 50 and moving house wasn't enough, but he h...

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RHLSTP 147 - Arthur Smith from 2017-09-27T10:00

RHLSTP #147: Arthur Smith - Rage and Balloon: Rich tries to find someone older than him in the audience, as he tries to squeeze some joy out of the last few hours of his forties. His guest is ol...

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RHLSTP 146 - Limmy from 2017-09-22T08:05

RHLSTP #146: Limmy - Monopoly Penguin. Rich is on the cusp of a couple of massive life changes, but he won't let ageing and moving get in the way of asking comedians strange questions in an atte...

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RHLSTP 145 - Julian Clary from 2017-09-13T10:45

RHLSTP #145: Julian Clary - Fist of Fun. Richard is still bugging last week's audience about Lego Batman - it's amazing they keep coming back. His guest is Gillian Pieface, or as she is sometime...

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RHLSTP 144 - Katy Brand from 2017-09-06T11:30

RHLSTP #144: Katy Brand - Catering for the Dead. Richard hasn't eaten enough in a last-ditch attempt to lose weight before he turns 50, but no time for stomach rumbles because his guest is profe...

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RHLSTP 143 - Dan Skinner from 2017-08-30T12:45

RHLSTP #143: Dan Skinner - Tape in a Bag. Richard has his least successful attempt to meet his audience of all time, but no matter, he has a great guest on hand in the form of Angelos Epithemiou...

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RHEFP 4 - John Robins and Ahir Shah from 2017-08-26T16:20

RHEFP 2017 #4: John Robins and Ahir Shah - Suck Each Other Off A Bit. Richard reveals the hypocrisy of his parenting techniques and reminisces about the death of Lady Di. His first guest is Edin...

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RHEFP 3 - Iain Stirling and Jason Manford from 2017-08-19T11:20

RHEFP 2017 #3: Iain Stirling and Jason Manford - The Main Thing Is Ricky Gervais Didn't Win. Rich is mortified about having accidentally crashed someone else's show and is thinking of becoming s...

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RHEFP 2 - James Acaster from 2017-08-12T09:20

RHEFP 2017 #2: James Acaster - Three Nights in Peterborough. Richard is so close to becoming the Radio Times Comedy Champion that he can almost taste it, which will just make his ultimate failur...

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RHEFP 1 - Doug Anthony All Stars from 2017-08-05T15:00

RHEFP 2017 #1: The Doug Anthony All Stars - The Boy Who Cried Batman. The King has returned and he's at the spooky New Theatre Grand Hall where the Masons get up to all sorts of mysterious time-...

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RHLSTP 142 - Brendon Burns & Craig Quartermaine from 2017-08-03T09:00

RHLSTP #142: Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine - Race Off. Richard contemplates the now trickier commute to work that he has thanks to being forced to move to the country because he is 50, be...

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RHLSTP 141 - David Baddiel from 2017-07-26T12:10

RHLSTP #141: David Baddiel -What is the Biggest Ant?. Richard is pondering what it must be like to buy a flat in BBC TV Centre, and appreciating his daughter's grasp of money. It's a reunion thi...

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RHLSTP 140 - Andrew Collins from 2017-07-19T11:01

RHLSTP #140: Andrew Collins - Frog Tape. Richard is over excited to find people 2/5ths of his age in the front row and tries to forget he is on the verge of his sixth decade. He's gone against t...

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RHLSTP 139 - Zoe Lyons from 2017-07-12T16:30

RHLSTP #139: Zoe Lyons - The Camaraderie of the Jam Factory. Richard attempts to work out how a waitress in a pizza restaurant with a limited menu might be surprised by every order, before intro...

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RHLSTP 138 - Adam Buxton from 2017-07-05T12:30

RHLSTP #138: Adam Buxton - How Short Are You That You Can Not Reach? Richard has been gifted an almost free Twirl by the Universe. But has he been moral, immoral or amoral? To help us find out, ...

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RHLSTP 137 - Jessica Knappett from 2017-06-28T10:30

RHLSTP #137: Jessica Knappett - Air Mattress. Richard is worried that he smells of cat wee, but he can't let that slow him down, he is chatting to the star of his as un-yet commissioned sitcom (...

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RHLSTP 136 - Joe Thomas from 2017-06-21T11:15

RHLSTP #136: Joe Thomas - Pasta-based diet. Richard is excited about becoming a father for the second time, but not to witnessing the birth. His guest is, like him, a son of teachers and has a 2...

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RHLSTP 135 - Paul Merton from 2017-06-14T10:20

RHLSTP #135: Paul Merton - Waiting For Crawford. It's back for an eleventh series - who keeps commissioning this? - and Richard's new emergency questions are coming true as he's fresh from irkin...

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Wells Comedy Festival special: Bec Hill from 2017-05-31T13:30

Wells Comedy Festival Extra: Bec Hill - Passing The Baton. Rich has risked the wrath of everyone in his home town of Cheddar by travelling beyond the horizon to Wells, where the crazy people dwe...

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RHLSTP 134 - Peter Serafinowicz from 2017-02-15T10:30

RHLSTP #134: Peter Serafinowicz - Brian Blessed and the Big Foot. It's the final episode of Series 10 of RHLSTP and Rich meets a bearded man who has married to find a partner (find out how he di...

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RHLSTP 133 - Lucy Porter from 2017-02-09T12:15

RHLSTP #133: Lucy Porter - Altercation With A Shepherd. Richard is worried that he's been experimented on by aliens and about whether a litigious Egghead will be coming for him. His guest this w...

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RHLSTP 132 - Simon Munnery from 2017-02-01T10:50

RHLSTP #132: Simon Munnery - Don't Die. Richard quizzes his audience to find how little they have done with their lives, before introducing the comedian's comedian and avant garde comedy genius,...

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RHLSTP 131 - Sarah Millican from 2017-01-25T11:05

RHLSTP #131: Sarah Millican - Old Man's Pants Under The Bed. Rich has just had to stand impassive in a stranger's guff for fear of looking like the one who smelt it and thus dealt it and it's be...

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RHLSTP 130 - Jess Thom from 2017-01-18T11:50

RHLSTP #130: Jess Thom - Biscuit. Rich meets some people who have never tried sushi before introducing Tourettes Superhero (though that's a secret) Jess Thom. It's a battle to see who will say t...

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RHLSTP 129 - Susan Calman from 2017-01-12T10:30

RHLSTP #129: Susan Calman - Milk Tart. Weeks have passed for you in the Donald Trump President Elect alternate universe, but this was recorded less than a week after the result and Richard and t...

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RHLSTP 128 - Tom Davis from 2017-01-05T10:00

RHLSTP #128: Tom Davis - Nervous Lord's Prayer. You have us at an advantage this week, as you know who the next US President will be and we don't. What terrible future are you in? Either way. Bu...

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RHLSTP 127 - Dawn French from 2016-12-21T14:45

RHLSTP #127: Dawn French - Mmmmm Yes, Do It That Way. Rich is giddy with fanboy excitement at having one of his childhood (and adulthood) comedy heroes in the off-white seat, it's the loveliest ...

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RHLSTP 126 - Deborah Frances-White from 2016-12-14T10:40

RHLSTP #126: Deborah Frances-White - Alien Orifice. Rich is reeling from a Pointless betrayal of the twin-Judases, but he rises above it to introduce podcaster, writer, businesswomen, feminist a...

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RHLSTP 125 - Ed Gamble from 2016-12-07T10:50

RHLSTP #125: Ed Gamble - Harry Potter Trivial Pursuits. Rich finds a woman in the audience who doesn't seem to know where she is, who he is or understand the concept of remembering. She continue...

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RHLSTP 124 - Chris Addison from 2016-11-30T13:30

RHLSTP #124: Chris Addison - Cut Up By Prince Phillip. Rich discovers that someone from US TV is in the audience and considers sending the guest home so he can audition for a stand-up special, b...

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RHLSTP 123 - Kerry Godliman from 2016-11-23T19:30

RHLSTP #123: Kerry Godliman - Over to our Human Centipede Expert. Richard has had his topical comedy well pretty much depleted by recording AIOTM the night before this, but considers creating a ...

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RHLSTP 122 - Tony Robinson from 2016-11-17T01:01

RHLSTP #122: Tony Robinson - Pissing in the Queen's Flowerbed. There are some fine beards on display in the front row as always, but it's all about the puny moustache that we can see on stage to...

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RHLSTP 121 - Will Smith from 2016-11-09T12:10

RHLSTP #121: Will Smith - Baked Bean Silo. Richard welcomes a newbie audience member from Canada in his usual unpleasant style, before bringing on a man who had the name first, so why should he ...

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RHLSTP 120 - Caitlin Moran from 2016-11-02T23:50

RHLSTP #120: Caitlin Moran - Cheese Lollipops. Richard has been filming the Kickstarter extra where he interviews his ventriloquist dummy Ally, and the 125 year-old terrifying monstrosity at the...

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RHLSTP 119 - Dane Baptiste from 2016-10-28T10:45

RHLSTP #119: Dane Baptiste - The Naked Arsonist. Moral benchmarks and locker room banter are on Richard's mind, as he gives a kickstarter backer the finest champagne available to man (if the man...

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RHLSTP 118 - Hans Teeuwen from 2016-10-19T06:00

RHLSTP 118: Hans Teeuwen - Heart Slag. Rich meets his audience and finds a man who works in genealogy who can trace his family back an absolutely unbelievable distance, before introducing his gu...

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RHLSTP 117 - Armando Iannucci from 2016-10-13T08:15

RHLSTP 117: Armando Iannucci - Jeffrey Archer's Carp. Rich has been laid down low with an admittedly indirectly sexually transmitted disease, but nothing can stop him from starting this 10th and...

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Podcast Festival special: Dan Schreiber from 2016-10-07T16:30

RHLSTP Podcast Festival Extra: Brian Blessed on Mars - Dan Schreiber. Welcome to another bonus podcast, this one recorded at the Podcast Festival at Kings Place, just hours after Jeremy Corbyn's...

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Great Yorkshire Fringe special: Mark Addy from 2016-10-05T22:55

RHLSTPEATGYF #2: Sean Bean's Pound Shop Subterfuge - Mark Addy. Richard proves he is down with the cool kids by chatting to his teenage fans about skateboards and exams before introducing a man ...

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RHLSTP 116 - Elis James from 2016-09-28T19:20

RHLSTP #116: Paedophile Postman - Elis James. It's the end of the series (but there will be bonus audio podcasts from the Great Yorkshire Fringe next week) and Richard is frankly astonished by t...

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RHLSTP 115 - Tom Parry from 2016-09-21T12:10

RHLSTP #115: Vertical Pizza - Tom Parry. Richard is reeling from a celebrity encounter and being outsmarted by a 3 year-old heckler, but at least he has a plan to finance the rest of the RHLSTP ...

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RHLSTP 114 - Tim Minchin from 2016-09-14T12:20

RHLSTP #114: Fish Pie Mix - Tim Minchin. Rich has exciting news that will make other puppet-sex enthusiasts very jealous, but there's no time for even a brief wank using the hand of a 100 year-o...

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RHLSTP 113 - Russell Kane from 2016-09-08T07:30

RHLSTP #113: Minky - Russell Kane. Rich is wondering if the world will survive long enough to ever hear this podcast, so decides it doesn't matter if he keeps it topical. His guest is the ageles...

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RHLSTP 112 - Sofie Hagen from 2016-09-01T20:20

RHLSTP #112: Bog Buddies: Sofie Hagen. Unbeknownst to Richard and his guest, a drunken audience member collapsed during last week's podcast, and Rich wastes no time in calling the man who helped...

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RHLSTP 111 - Graham Linehan from 2016-08-26T12:00

RHLSTP #111: Kiefer Sutherland's Pregnancy: Graham Linehan. Richard attempts improvisational comedy, but discovers that for this to work your observations must match other people's experience. H...

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RHLSTP 110 - Matthew Crosby from 2016-08-17T18:30

RHLSTP #110: Windsor Davies or Your Wife? Matthew Crosby. Mean podcast Richard Herring delights in continuing to torment the people who pay his wages, but I think they largely enjoy it (possibly...

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RHLSTP 109 - Nish Kumar from 2016-08-10T14:50

RHLSTP #109: Hello, I'm Godot - Nish Kumar. Richard is worried that it is he who jinxed 2016, though hopefully by the time this comes out he himself will have succumbed to this cursed year. The ...

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RHLSTP 108 - Susie Dent from 2016-08-03T09:50

RHLSTP #108 Cheg On! Susie Dent. Rich is surprised by the sartorial elegance of some of his audience. Being out of Europe is clearly paying dividends. His guest this week is a woman who has been...

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RHLSTP 107 - Vic Reeves from 2016-07-27T22:59

RHLSTP #107: Hitchhiking with Rose and Fred - Vic Reeves. Last week's jokes about the consequences of Brexit seem to have fallen on stony ground with the revelation that the pro-Remain audience ...

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RHLSTP 106 - David Cross from 2016-07-20T11:25

RHLSTP #106: Away or Towards? - David Cross. A weary Richard films the audience as evidence of dissent for the future fascist government of the UK, before introducing a man who comes with his ow...

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RHLSTP 105 - Marcus Brigstocke from 2016-07-13T17:20

RHLSTP #105: Sushi Aquarium - Marcus Brigstocke. In the face of horrible world events and future uncertainty for the UK, Richard recounts how his wife distracted him from the horror in an unexpe...

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RHLSTP 104 - Doc Brown from 2016-07-06T09:20

RHLSTP #104: Things To Do In Willesden When You're Alive - Doc Brown aka Ben Bailey Smith. Rich interviews a member of his audience and it's going so well he almost decides to bump his guest, bu...

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RHLSTP 103 - Lauren Laverne from 2016-06-29T14:40

RHLSTP #103: How Many Hours Do Women Need? - Lauren Laverne. Rich has been on an after hours visit to Westminster Abbey and is now obsessed with being interred in the Cathedral, but how will he ...

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RHLSTP 102 - Tony Law from 2016-06-22T15:00

RHLSTP #102: tonylawexhausts.co.uk - Tony Law. Richard finds a bona fide cool kid in the audience and inexpertly attempts to mock him (you'd think he'd be better at comedy after all these years,...

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RHLSTP 101 - Iain Lee from 2016-06-15T16:20

RHLSTP #101: Weeing Next to a Monkee: Iain Lee. Richard is back (in his weightier incarnation) and has forgotten how to do this, but is excited about the possibilities of growing body parts in p...

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RHLSTP 100 - Richard Bacon from 2016-02-17T21:10

RHLSTP #100: Richard Bacon - A Series of Apologies. It's the 100th Leicester Square Theatre Podcast and the last in this series, so we've flown a special guest in all the way from America at the...

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RHLSTP 99 - Cariad Lloyd from 2016-02-10T20:23

RHLSTP #99: Cariad Lloyd - I Fucked Jane Austen's Corpse. Richard is exhausted again because of his stupid, idiot daughter, but at least she's given him the excuse to finally get to have a go at...

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RHLSTP 98 - Ray Peacock from 2016-02-04T10:00

RHLSTP #98: Ray Peacock - You Won't Tell Us If You're Married or Not! Richard proposes his new sinister and upsetting edit of the 1970s film Adventures Of A Taxi Driver before introducing anothe...

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RHLSTP 97 - Aisling Bea from 2016-01-28T10:30

RHLSTP #97: Aisling Bea - Minstrels. Richard is worried about the psychological impact of Winnie the Pooh's skull being on display in a museum, but overcomes his fears long enough to introduce e...

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RHLSTP 96 - Scroobius Pip from 2016-01-20T19:55

RHLSTP #96: Scroobius Pip - Nuking The Moon. Richard chats with the audience in his usual unpleasant manner, before introducing stuttering rapper and apron salesman, Scroobius Pip. They discuss ...

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RHLSTP 95 - Hal Cruttenden from 2016-01-13T18:40

RHLSTP #95: Hal Cruttenden - Sexomnia. Richard has noticed a new development in police technology and is annoyed that there is no shop for British sweets on Leicester Square. His guest went to s...

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RHLSTP 94 - David Mitchell from 2016-01-06T17:45

RHLSTP #94: David Mitchell - Bumming C3PO. Richard talks briefly to a semi-retired postman and considers bumping his guest to chat with him more, but instead introduces perhaps the perfect RHLST...

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RHLSTP 93 - John Robins from 2015-12-31T14:00

RHLSTP #93: John Robins - Noel Edmonds' Toilet and Johnny Vaughan's Shower. Richard is reeling over the news that pregnant women are giving public blow-jobs in the Westfield (surely this can onl...

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RHLSTP 92 - Jack Whitehall from 2015-12-23T20:20

RHLSTP #92: Jack Whitehall - Moving the Trees. Richard successfully guesses the job of a bearded man in the audience before introducing the luckiest man on planet earth, who knows what it is lik...

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RHLSTP 91 - Phill Jupitus from 2015-12-16T20:00

RHLSTP #91: Phill Jupitus - (Never Mind) (The) (Buzzcocks). Richard has written his first joke of 2015 and can't wait to share it with the underwhelmed audience, but luckily he is riding high fr...

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RHLSTP 90 - Eddie Izzard from 2015-12-10T18:55

RHLSTP #90: Eddie Izzard - Magic Ian's Nephew. Richard is unnecessarily unpleasant to someone in the audience (what's new?) before quickly bringing on a man with a drive that burgeons on insanit...

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RHLSTP 89 - Sarah Kendall from 2015-12-02T20:30

RHLSTP #89: Sarah Kendall - You Can Not Be Serious! Richard is amazed how a joke on Twitter now pretty much always gets taken at face value by someone, even if it's in an open letter to an 8 mon...

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RHLSTP 88 - John Finnemore from 2015-11-25T20:00

RHLSTP #88: John Finnemore - Peeps at Syria. Richard is stupidly hungover after a rare night out at a top showbiz party and wonders what you buy the man who has had everyone. His guest is the af...

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RHLSTP 87 - Luisa Omielan from 2015-11-18T23:30

RHLSTP #87: Luisa Omielan - The Former Queen of Angola. Richard chats to a man in the audience who is unexpectedly in IT before introducing 'overnight' success and internet sensation Luisa Omiel...

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RHLSTP 86 - Robert Popper from 2015-11-12T00:15

RHLSTP #86: Robert Popper - Beef Scarecrows. Richard is somewhat affronted to have been compared to Marmite by the box office at the Leicester Square Theatre, but never mind as his guest (who do...

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RHLSTP 85 - Janey Godley from 2015-11-04T19:40

RHLSTP #85: Janey Godley - I've Never Stabbed Anyone... Oh No, I Have. A tired and possibly ill Richard Herring tries to get through another podcast without vomiting on his guest, the disaster-m...

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RHLSTP 84 - Lee Mack from 2015-10-29T08:30

RHLSTP #84: Lee Mack - The Centurion. Richard makes more predictions of atrocities that will have occurred in the news on the week of release for this podcast and is impressed by the skills of a...

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RHLSTP 83 - Diane Morgan from 2015-10-22T09:00

RHLSTP #83: Diane Morgan - A Bad Dream. Richard discusses some zombie based movie ideas he has had, before introducing the dry-witted and incredulous Diane Morgan who isn't quite sure what she's...

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RHLSTP 82 - Stuart Goldsmith from 2015-10-15T09:02

RHLSTP #82: Stuart Goldsmith - Rear Window. RHLSTP is back (it feels like it never went away) and another kickstarted series begins ALL FOR FREE. Richard is worried that David Cameron has just m...

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RHLSTP 81 - Joe Lycett from 2015-10-07T18:05

RHLSTP #81: Joe Lycett - A Fan Who's Won a Competition. It's the last show in Series 7 and there's an end of term atmosphere and a lot of good natured heckling from a slightly inebriated crowd. ...

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RHLSTP 80 - Limmy from 2015-09-30T17:25

RHLSTP #80: Limmy. Richard is a bit worried about the psychological similarities he shares with murder spree killers, but maybe that's just all comedians. If you read his book you might worry th...

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RHLSTP 79 - Al Murray from 2015-09-23T16:20

RHLSTP #79: Al Murray. Richard delves into the seedy personal life of Dean and Matilda on the front row, before introducing failed politician and thwarted parachutist Al Murray. They chat about ...

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RHLSTP 78 - Paul Sinha from 2015-09-16T19:00

RHLSTP #78: Paul Sinha - A Stopped Clock is Right About Ted Heath. Richard has witnessed a man carrying out his ultimate fantasy, but realises that sometimes maybe fantasies belong in our heads,...

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RHLSTP 77 - Brett Goldstein from 2015-09-10T22:58

RHLSTP #77: Brett Goldstein - Routines About Buttons. Richard is still hungover from his birthday - what a day that was! He is joined by Brett Goldstein, a man who once ran a strip club with his...

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RHLSTP 76 - Bridget Christie from 2015-09-04T11:45

RHLSTP #76: Bridget Christie - No Man Is Faster Than a Cheese. Richard has just had his third sixteenth birthday and has returned from Amsterdam with a hangover that might just last two weeks. H...

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RHLSTP 75 - Jessica Hynes from 2015-08-27T09:00

RHLSTP #75: A Child's Drawing of the Enola Gay. Richard rewards an audience member for his Top Cat like trick of never having to buy a poppy again and then introduces his guest, a woman who has ...

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RHLSTP 74 - Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan from 2015-08-20T09:50

RHLSTP #74. Richard has broken his mirror, but wondering if that gives him 7 years bad luck or frees him from the ghosts of the past. His guests are the non British writers and stars of Britain'...

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RHLSTP 73 - Robin Ince from 2015-08-12T21:20

RHLSTP #73: Robin Ince - Punching a Watermelon with the Face of Vernon Kay. Richard concludes the story of his disastrous romantic break with his wife and gives away an exclusive RHLSTP mug to o...

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RHLSTP 72 - Mark Watson from 2015-08-05T16:15

RHLSTP #72: Mark Watson - Improvisation My Dear (Mark) Watson. Richard is reeling from forgetting about his daughter and another attack on his home (how will he ever sell it?), but excited to be...

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RHLSTP 71 - Johnny Vegas from 2015-07-30T18:50

RHLSTP #71: Johnny Vegas - Maniac in a Suitcase. Giving away a prize to a lucky audience member, Rich reminisces about schoolday bags and realises how much work he has got to do to re-learn his ...

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RHLSTP 70 - Roisin Conaty from 2015-07-22T09:00

RHLSTP #70: Roisin Conaty - Amstrad Emailer Sex Doll. Richard has come close to death, choking on an apricot stone and in his possible final moments only felt embarrassment, but hopefully he has...

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RHLSTP 69 - Louis Theroux from 2015-07-16T09:05

RHLSTP #69: Louis Theroux - Pathetic. Richard is very excited to meet the man who made him give up viewing porn (temporarily), Groove Is In The Heart dancer and park ranger Louis Theroux. With a...

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RHLSTP 68 - Robert Webb from 2015-07-08T10:50

RHLSTP #68: Robert Webb - I Think I've Explained Peep Show To My Satisfaction. Richard has been making t-shirts for Kickstarter donators but has made quite a basic error on one of them, and also...

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RHLSTP 67 - Romesh Ranganathan from 2015-07-01T15:40

RHLSTP #67: Romesh Ranganathan - Yoghurt Smearing Ethics for the Vegan. Richard has a controversial theory about the recent FIFA controversy and gets paid by a man to call him a fucking idiot to...

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RHLSTP 66 - Emma Kennedy from 2015-06-24T09:10

RHLSTP #66: Which came first, Yazoo or Yazoo? Emma Kennedy. Richard is reeling from a missed opportunity to assassinate a government minister and a mystery cloaca based attack, but is delighted ...

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RHLSTP 65 - Lou Sanders from 2015-06-17T09:30

RHLSTP #65: Lou Sanders - The Pink Bike Helmet of Doom. Richard chats to his audience, with faces old and new, including a mum and daughter that lead him to some dark thoughts and a laughing fin...

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RHLSTP 64 - Bob Mortimer from 2015-06-10T15:45

RHLSTP #64: Bob Mortimer - Do you believe in Calgon? Richard is back and exhausted from fatherhood and trying to remember how these work and he's smarting from Alan Sugar rejecting his proposed ...

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Spike Sligo Festival special: Sofie Hagen from 2015-04-15T14:30

RHLSTPBATSSII with Sofie Hagen - An Abundance of Shells. A surprise bonus RHLSTP recorded at the Spike Sligo Festival in West Ireland to a tiny, but enthusiastic crowd. And the guest is the up-a...

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RHLSTP 63 - Stewart Lee (TMWRNJ Special) from 2015-02-11T23:59

RHLSTP # 63: Stewart Lee - This Morning With Richard and Nick. Richard is joined by his erstwhile partner Stewart Lee to chat about This Morning With Richard Not Judy. Stew discovers that there ...

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RHLSTP 62 - Paul Putner and Trevor Lock from 2015-02-04T18:15

RHLSTP #62: Paul Putner and Trevor Lock - TMWRNJ RHLSTP. In this and the next podcast Richard is catching up with some of the stars of the failed 1990s comedy show, This Morning With Richard Not...

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RHLSTP 61 - Ben Goldacre from 2015-01-28T11:45

RHLSTP #61: Ben Goldacre - I Think You'll Find It's More Complicated Than That. Richard has bought (and definitely not shoplifted) a present for this week's guest, the author who thinks you'll f...

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RHLSTP 60 - Sue Perkins from 2015-01-14T18:00

RHLSTP #60: Sue Perkins - Superkings. A new website to rival Dirty Britcom Confessions has emerged and Richard is fascinated to find out his fans' favourite food. His guest is a woman who has mo...

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RHLSTP 59 - Victoria Coren Mitchell from 2015-01-07T16:20

RHLSTP #59: Victoria Coren Mitchell - What's It Like Being the Unattractive One from Lee and Herring? Richard is gifted a front row audience member who is not only wearing red glasses but is als...

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RHLSTP 58 - Milton Jones from 2015-01-03T18:40

RHLSTP #58: Milton Jones - Kids Writing Set. Richard is excited about having been shopping for his as-yet-unborn child and having seen a daring theft from Pret a Manger and is freaked out to thi...

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RHLSTP 57 - Michael Legge from 2014-12-24T14:33

RHLSTP #57: Michael Legge - Spreading All Your Nits About. For the first time in RHLSTP history, a guest has been unable to make the recording at the last minute. Al Murray had to drop out due t...

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RHLSTP 56 - Richard Osman from 2014-12-17T14:15

RHLSTP #56: Richard Osman - Desert Island Dicks. Richard has been considering his own mortality after a visit to Highgate Cemetery, realising that one day he himself might die. But it's unlikely...

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RHLSTP 55 - Andy Zaltzman from 2014-12-10T17:50

RHLSTP #55: Andy Zaltzman - Pogo Stick Assassin. Rich has more ideas for terrorist atrocities and wonders if vitamin supplements might be the key to bringing down an aeroplane. His guest is craz...

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RHLSTP 54 - Josh Widdicombe from 2014-12-03T16:15

RHLSTP #54: Josh Widdicombe - Celebrity Juice. Rich is excited to reveal his new 'grown-up' question notebook, but will having a baby make him stop finding some jokes funny? His guest has both a...

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RHLSTP 53 - Rebecca Front from 2014-11-26T17:40

RHLSTP #53: Rebecca Front. Richard is very excited about his Nostradamus-like abilities to predict the future and makes another audacious claim about future-tech. Only time will tell if he is ri...

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RHLSTP 52 - Sarah Millican from 2014-11-19T11:15

RHLSTP #52: Sarah Millican - Why Won't You Tell Us Your Exact Address? Rich has some surprising and life-changing news to share, but that doesn't mean that gloves (and pants if it's cold enough)...

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RHLSTP 51 - Sara Pascoe from 2014-11-12T13:40

RHLSTP #51: Sara Pascoe - Kamikaze Sperm. Even though eight days have passed since the Half-Marathon, Richard still aches like it was all just yesterday. But he will soon forget his woes when he...

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RHLSTP 50 - Steve Coogan from 2014-11-06T09:30

RHLSTP #50: Steve Coogan - Celebrity Ghost Train. Rich is still alive and kicking (and dancing) only a day after completing a Half Marathon in record breaking time (though to be fair he had a ri...

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RHLSTP 49 - James Acaster from 2014-10-29T19:30

RHLSTP #49: James Acaster - Two Men in a Field with Walkie Talkies and it's All Clear. Psychic Richard manages to divine the life of someone in his front row merely by looking at him, though wha...

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RHLSTP 48 - Brendon Burns from 2014-10-23T09:00

RHLSTP #48: Brendon Burns - Not Even The Go To Guy With This Face. Richard forgot to lube his nipples and now he's in all kinds of pain, but he's mainly glad that his nipples get to experience a...

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RHLSTP 47 - Mark Gatiss from 2014-10-15T17:00

RHLSTP #47: Mark Gatiss - T R Assmagik. Richard is still reeling from the lurgy he had in last week's show and his guest is also not very well, it's Mark Gatiss from off of League of Gentlemen a...

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RHLSTP 46 - Katherine Ryan from 2014-10-09T08:05

RHLSTP #46: Katherine Ryan - Pissing in a Money Tin. A new series of RHLSTP and Richard has a whole raft of new emergency questions, to the consternation of his audience who just want to hear th...

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Machynlleth Festival special: Mike Wozniak from 2014-05-27T08:20

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RHLSTP 45 - Nick Helm from 2014-05-16T08:40

RHLSTP #45: Nick Helm - Przepraszam. Richard harangues the willing fools on the first row as usual, though it's a man on the second row who will inadvertently make the most impact on the podcast...

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RHLSTP 44 - Jon Ronson from 2014-05-09T09:00

RHLSTP #44: Jon Ronson - Gaybomb. An almost imperceptibly slimmer than the beginning of the series Richard Herring takes the stage to find a slightly sinister pair of men in the front row. What ...

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RHLSTP 43 - Susan Calman from 2014-05-02T09:10

RHLSTP #43: Susan Calman - Helen Mirren Mask. Richard is still a bit giddy and over-excited from meeting Harry Shearer and, after being on his best behaviour for 75 minutes, is now off the leash...

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RHLSTP 42 - Harry Shearer from 2014-04-25T11:50

RHLSTP #42: Harry Shearer - Creative Differences. Richard has some news of an amazing time travelling finger and is clearly super excited to be meeting one of his all-time comedy heroes, Harry S...

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RHLSTP 41 - Josie Long from 2014-04-18T08:25

RHLSTP #41: Josie Long - Fruit Pastille Lolly. After being unnecessarily rude to his audience again, Richard introduces this week's guest, comedian, cartoonist and film maker, Josie Long. They c...

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RHLSTP 40 - Danny Baker from 2014-04-12T11:25

RHLSTP #40: Danny Baker - I Don't Need A Receipt, Chaz. Richard is still recovering from his important educational work on International Women's Day, but luckily he isn't going to be taxed by ha...

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RHLSTP 39 - Greg Davies from 2014-04-04T08:45

RHLSTP #39: Greg Davies - Ian Gunpowder. Richard chats with his audience and manages to secure himself a TV writing job, as well as marvel at his once IT heavy, bearded male audience being repla...

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RHLSTP 38 - Alexei Sayle from 2014-03-28T10:45

RHLSTP #38: Alexei Sayle - Mouse Killing Alarm Clock. Richard has a pus-filled finger, which is disgusting even in audio, but that doesn't stop the people at Dirtybritcom Confessions pretending ...

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RHLSTP 37 - Robert Llewellyn from 2014-03-21T09:00

RHLSTP #37: Robert Llewellyn - Charlie Chaplin's Lasts. Richard meets his audience, who are predictably much better than last week's to discover a disconcerting leap in the attractiveness and co...

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RHLSTP 36 - Helen and Olly from 2014-03-14T09:50

RHLSTP #36: Helen and Olly from Answer Me This! - Okapi Sandwich. Richard is bristling from more anarchic behaviour in the swimming pool and pitching ideas for Dragon's Den. His guests are Helen...

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RHLSTP 35 - Jenny Eclair from 2014-03-07T09:00

RHLSTP #35: Jenny Eclair - You Go! Rich meets his audience, some familiar, some new. His guest has had an interesting afternoon at the gynaecologists and the cinema, but which was more painful? ...

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RHLSTP 34 - Adam Buxton from 2014-02-27T13:00

RHLSTP #34: Adam Buxton - You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore. Rich is back for an unprecedented 5th series of this stupid podcast, worried that he might have the same effect on this week's guest...

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RHLSTP 33 - Stephen Merchant from 2013-11-26T18:20

RHLSTP #33: Stephen Merchant - Suckling Milk From A Cow's Udder. Richard gives his surprise mystery (to the audience at least) guest possibly the worst introduction known to mankind, but giganti...

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RHLSTP 32 - Simon Pegg from 2013-11-20T14:15

RHLSTP #32: Simon Pegg - In A Round Hole. Richard has just returned from Vienna, burdened with ice-cream disappointments and further worries about his wife's insensitive choice of cheese. But he...

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RHLSTP 31 - Ross Noble from 2013-11-13T01:05

RHLSTP #31: Ross Noble - Trojan Badger. The company director with the sexiest voice in the world is in the front row and Richard is needlessly rude to his less sexy fans. His guest is one of the...

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RHLSTP 30 - Dara O Briain from 2013-11-06T10:40

RHLSTP #30: Dara O Briain - Penis Sausage. Richard is stuffed to the gills with giant chocolate buttons and recounts the time he got lost in Buckingham Palace, and still is on the prowl for flie...

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RHLSTP 29 - Miles Jupp from 2013-10-30T10:40

RHLSTP #29: Miles Jupp - What IS the Story in Balamory? Richard tells a story of a terrifying prediction made by an Armenian fortune teller and is needlessly insulting to a dead broadcaster befo...

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RHLSTP 28 - Miranda Hart from 2013-10-23T12:30

RHLSTP #28: Miranda Hart - Randy Dyke. After the infestation of flies that plagued the first two podcasts of the series Richard has been gifted a tennis racquet shaped fly exterminator to try an...

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RHLSTP 27 - Rufus Hound from 2013-10-16T00:00

RHLSTP #27: Rufus Hound - Aggy! Aggy! Aggy! - Richard is once again plagued by a swarm of flies that he fears only he can see. His guest is ex-moustachioed comedian and actor, Rufus Hound. The i...

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RHLSTP 26 - Shappi Khorsandi from 2013-10-08T11:40

RHLSTP #26: Shappi Khorsandi - Talcum Powder Tit. RHLSTP (rhlstp) is back and Richard has stories from Armenia and the Amalfi Coast and is threatening to reveal the plot to the final episode of ...

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RHLSTP 25 - Sean Hughes from 2013-07-08T09:50

RHLSTP #25: Sean Hughes - Mango Mist. The guest for the final RHLSTP of the series has had a drink with Morrissey, seen a member of Madness drying his bum hair and has failed to discuss time tra...

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RHLSTP 24 - Isy Suttie from 2013-07-04T09:05

RHLSTP #24 - Isy Suttie - The Moon Told Me To Kill. It's the clash of the vaguely gold coloured Sony Award winners, but who will come off as comedy king (or queen). The shamefully uncompetitive ...

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RHLSTP 23 - Mark Thomas from 2013-06-30T13:40

RHLSTP 23: Mark Thomas - The Disillusioning Illusionist - It's time for a bit of politics, but that's no reason not to discuss huge, ageing wrinkly ballbags, because tonight's guest is that rare...

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RHLSTP 22 - Edgar Wright from 2013-06-26T14:40

RHLSTP #22: Edgar Wright - Spaced By The Bell. At last it's the podcast that addresses the burning issue of modern Britain - which is the best Somerset based show cave complex? Cheddar Gorge (ob...

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RHLSTP 21 - Russell Brand from 2013-06-23T07:00

RHLSTP #21 - Russell Brand - Richard Carpenter Punishment. In a theatre that one suspects is stuffed to the rafters with journalists hoping to steal a scoop, Rich is left wondering, what do you ...

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RHLSTP 20 - John Lloyd from 2013-06-14T16:00

RHLSTP #20 - John Lloyd - It's Not Personal. Richard continues with his mission to get to be a guest on QI with top TV producer John Lloyd, though Lloyd seems intent on demonstrating why Herring...

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RHLSTP 19 - Mary Beard from 2013-06-13T16:20

RHLSTP #19 - Mary Beard - Fattening Dormice. After last week's headline-grabbing show, Richard feels under pressure to coax revelations from his guest, classicist Mary Beard, but is a bit distra...

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RHLSTP 18 - Stephen Fry from 2013-06-06T11:00

RHLSTP #18 - Stephen Fry. Hit It Bitch! - In a frankly extraordinary, must-listen, funny, poetic and heart-breaking podcast Richard interviews quintessential Englishman (take that EDL) Stephen F...

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RHLSTP 17 - Chris Addison from 2013-05-29T13:45

RHLSTP# 17: Chris Addison. He's snogged someone who used to be a dead child and worked with Gail Porter, but did he punch a cupboard? Richard, fresh from his triumphant third place Sony, is back...

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Machynlleth Festival special: Pappy's from 2013-05-07T09:09

RHLSTP (BATMCF) Special! - it's like the Leicester Square Theatre Podcast but it's at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival in Wales and is at the packed Y Tabernacle. It's the first podcast since the sh...

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RHLSTP 16 - Russell Howard from 2012-12-04T14:40

RHLSTP #16: Russell Howard - A Foreskin full of Haribo. It's the podcast so funny that it can make you go into labour. Even if you're not pregnant. Maybe one day it will eject a future monarch into...

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RHLSTP 15 - Adam Buxton from 2012-11-20T10:22

RHLSTP #15: Adam and Eve - Adam Buxton. It's the longest RHLSTP yet with Rich upstaged by his new butler, Siri and worrying about all the libel he has committed to the Internet in the past. But all...

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RHLSTP 14 - Dave Gorman from 2012-11-06T13:35

RHLSTP #14: Dave Gorman - Gagglewhack. The a Shrek joke may have run its course but that won't stop Richard running it into the ground. After all he is in Slytherin even if his hands will always...

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RHLSTP 13 - David Mitchell from 2012-10-23T10:50

RHLSTP #13: David Mitchell - The Shreks of Westminster Bridge. Slightly worse for wear after having lunch with Alice Cooper at the Q Awards, Richard is delighted to welcome a man he thinks might...

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RHLSTP 12 - Peter Serafinowicz from 2012-10-16T13:00

RHLSTP #12: Peter Serafinowic(h)z - Jeddy. Rich and his wife have made the ultimate commitment: they've been through their DVD collections and are getting rid of any duplicates. Some lucky audie...

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RHLSTP 11 - Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith from 2012-10-09T11:15

RHLSTP #11: Death is Nice - Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. With the world in shock about the accusations about an ex-BBC employee with long hair and an odd home life who raised money for ...

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RHLSTP 10 - Rob Delaney from 2012-10-02T11:15

RHLSTP #10: Rob Delaney - Do you remember things? RHLSTP is back with a man so well-balanced and pleasant that it's hard to believe that he's a comedian. Twitter sensation and top stand-up Rob D...

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RHLSTP 9 - Armando Iannucci and Graham Linehan from 2012-06-26T09:35

It's the last in the series, but what a way to end with the creators of Ted & Ralph, Father Ted, Malcolm Tucker and Alan Partridge on stage together (but who created which?). There's talk of tax...

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RHLSTP 8 - Stewart Lee from 2012-06-20T10:40

Lee and Herring are back together, but they're old and chilled and less likely to talk about moons and sticks and all the other catchphrases that they used to do that they are now too addled to ...

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RHLSTP 7 - David Baddiel from 2012-06-15T12:50

Two tired men from the 1990s talking about sexy Jews, travelling with your cleaner, how David pronounces his own name wrong and the consequences of using people's real names in comedy routines. ...

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RHLSTP 6 - Nick Frost from 2012-06-12T10:21

The sexual morals of Edwardian penguins are at the fore this week, as Richard interviews the star of Man Stroke Woman, but not Fatso in Casualty. We will hear the Star Wars impression that led t...

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RHLSTP 5 - Charlie Brooker from 2012-05-29T12:22

This weekend Rich has been working with 88 year-old Nicholas Parsons and Charlie has been working with 81 year old William Shatner, but now they've ditched the octogenarians to create this long ...

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RHLSTP 4 - Charlie Higson from 2012-05-22T01:40

It's podcast number 4 and Rich still can't pronounce his own acronym, but he's got his old 90s rival, Charlie Higson from The Fast Show, which some people might argue was more successful than Fi...

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RHLSTP 3 - Francesca Martinez from 2012-05-17T16:10

RHLSTP #3 Francesca Martinez. Rich is angry about the Fringe programme censoring the entry for Talking C*ck (what can that word be?), but luckily Francesca Martinez is on hand to talk about the ...

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RHLSTP 2 - Jonathan Ross from 2012-05-15T19:35

RHLSTP #2 Jonathan Ross (with guest appearance by Francesca Martinez). How did Rich manage this? He's got a proper TV star and interviewer on his show and the pressure is making him tongue-tied,...

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RHLSTP 1 - Tim Minchin from 2012-05-08T14:12

The podcast with the most unwieldy acronym yet RHLSTP (rhlstp) starts with a bang with flame-haired multi-talented genius Tim Minchin chatting about self-penetration, bad reviews, whether Karma ...

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