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Harriet Langley-Swindon and Eshaan Akbar debate the power of political debate with our two wokest talking heads, only one of whom can possibly come back, Laura and Laura; they also speak to our Westminster Correspondent Issy Shots about the remarks made by Hannah Spencer, who used to be a plumber and that's important, about the drinking culture in Westminster; and Producer Martin dives into the "manocube" with manfluencer Andy Bankside for the fourth and final part of his exclusive intervestigation (a cross between an interview and an investigation).
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With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Mark Davison, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Ed Morrish.
Rosie's sitcom, Crossing The Floor, is available now on BBC Sounds. And tickets for her play, Churchill's Urinal, which runs at the King's Head Theatre from the 13th May to the 6th June, are available here.
Brendan's show, Buffy ReVamped, is on at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival - but he's not in it. It's still good, though!
Eshaan has started a new, live podcast called The Early Evening Show, every Sunday evening on YouTube, and his latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is also available on YouTube.
Mark is half of The Exploding Heads, and they do sketches on social media such as Instagram and X: The Everything App.
Margaret hosts the podcast Crushed, which has its own Substack, and is available in all the other usual places, too.
Davina does very funny sketches on Instagram.
Will has a show on Fubar Radio called Privacy Settings and you can listen to it here.
Ed also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show hosted by Maximum Fun. It's currently the annual MaxFunDrive, where the network asks people to become members for as little as £3.70/month, in exchange for which you get decades of bonus content, so have a look at maximumfun.org/join
Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.
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184. Goodbye.
01:26:18||Season 1, Ep. 184Here's the last-ever NonCensored, recorded live in front of about ten thousand people at King's Place, as part of the London Podcast Festival 2026. Harriet, Producer Martin and Eshaan Akbar were joined by Susan Useless, from the Electoral Commission, who explains how she's investigating Reform and Donny Tammo from Patriot Platform, who explains how he keeps the women and girls in his community safe by leaving his community. We also hear Eshaan's final Hot & Spicy Takeaway Of The Week about the end of the world, and are joined by Nicola Witchell (and the spirit of Princess Diana) and Dr. Jordan "Always" B. Petersen to take questions from the audience.There is also, sadly, a poem.Thank you to everyone who listened over the last four years, and especially to those who signed up to the Patreon so we could pay our guests and book a proper studio. We'll be putting some of those less-topical videos up on our YouTube channel.Special thanks to the staff of the venues that have hosted our live shows, the engineers that recorded them (especially Emma Corsham, Miles Wheway and Hamish Campbell), and to George Moore and the team at Streamline Studios for hosting our regular recordings.Most of all, thanks to everyone we've worked with over the last four years: Joz Norris, Davina Bentley, Athena Kugblenu, Paul Dunphy, Bethany Black, Oliver Izod, Thomas Mayo, Marcus Brigstocke, Susan Harrison, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Gareth Gwynn, John-Luke Roberts, Luke Kempner, Larry Budd, Alex Kealey, Cody Dahler, Mark Davison, Nat Tapley, Rob Gilroy, Bilal Zafar, Esyllt Sears, Kelechi Okafor, Robert Gilbert, Sally Hodgkiss, Tom Neenan, James Barr, Lucas Jefcoate, Lewis MacLeod, John Robertson, Nick Revell, Alexandra Haddow, Amy Hoggart, Dan Clarkson, Eleanor Morton, Holly Burn, Seán Burke, Marek Larwood, Matt Green, Matt Tedford, Max Olesker, Rajiv Karia, Ralph Jones, Rufus Hound, Sam Russell, Sanjeev Kohli, Shazia Mirza, Ahir Shah, AJ, Alasdair Beckett-King, Anna Leong Brophy, Annie McGrath, Ben Target, Blank Peng, Charlie George, Chris Cantrill, Colin Hoult, Dan Mersh, David Reed, Ed MacArthur, Elf Lyons, Fergus Craig, Freya Mallard, Hannah Pilkes, Horatio Gould, Ingrid Oliver, Isabelle Farah, Jack Barry, Jake Bhardwaj, Jolyon Rubenstein, Josh Berry, Justin Edwards, Katie Pritchard, Mariam Haque, Matt Winning, Mark Steel, Mary Flanigan, Michael Balazo, Pippa Evans, Rachel Parris, Ruth Bratt, Sami Abu Wardeh, Tom Crowley and Tom Houghton.Finally, thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Sooz Kempner, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Ed Morrish.Rosie is going on tour with her Edinburgh show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is also going on tour, with his one-man Buffy recap show Buffy ReVamped, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography was by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music was by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored was a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: Time For Questions With The Fun Twins
43:25|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are. This week, it's our hundred and firstepisode, which we did live at the Museum of Comedy in June 2024, just before the last election.A live Time For Questions, hosted by Producer Martin and Eshaan Akbar - AKA The Fun Twins - who field questions from the live audience for special guests Penny Mordaunt, Lee Anderson, and Rosie Holt MP. Find outWho they'd vote for the in the US electionWould they be open to a Reform/Conservative collaboration?How much cheaper was Rosie's book at this live event than in regular bookstores?Liz Truss, Margaret Thatcher, Nadine Dorries - snog, marry avoid?With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Davina Bentley, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Ed Morrish.Thanks as well to the Museum of Comedy for having us, and to Miles Wheway for recording us.Rosie is going on tour with her Edinburgh show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is also going on tour, with his one-man Buffy recap show Buffy ReVamped, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: Episode 100
34:52|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are. This week, it's our hundredth episode, which we did live at the Museum of Comedy in June 2024, just before the last election.NonCensored celebrates its 100th episode by recording live at the Museum of Comedy in London. Harriet and Producer Martin are joined by Eshaan Akbar, Penny Mordaunt and Lee Anderson to discuss the upcoming election, and to pitch their parties and policies to the live audience. Also, Producer Martin reveals the exciting deal NonCensored have struck with Netflix.With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Davina Bentley, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Ed Morrish.Thanks as well to the Museum of Comedy for having us, and to Miles Wheway for recording us.Rosie is going on tour with her Edinburgh show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is also going on tour, with his one-man Buffy recap show Buffy ReVamped, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: Time For Questions Live, October '23 - Snog/Marry/Cancel?
37:32|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are. This week, it's the second half of the show we did at the Museum of Comedy in October 2023, where we took questions from the audience.This week Harriet hosts a live Time For Questions! edition of NonCensored, answering the questions posted by our live audience at last week's recording at the Museum of Comedy, with the help of her panel of Producer Martin, Eshaan Akbar, Liz Truss MP, and Doctor Professor Jordan B. Peterson. They answer questions such as:Do we have to support HS2 now that it's been cancelled?How do you get a girlfriend?Producer Martin, Eshaan Akbar and Jordan Peterson - snog, marry, cancel?With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Susan Harrison, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Ed Morrish.Rosie's play, Churchill's Urinal, is on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she is also doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan also at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Indy, a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: Museum Of Comedy, October '23
44:50|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are. This week, it's the second half of the show we did at King's Place as part of the London Podcast Festival in September 2023, where we took questions from the audience.This week Harriet and Producer Martin are grateful that this is a serious news podcast, because imagine if it was a topical comedy show, and they had to write jokes about what's going on in the world? Instead, they put on a live show to be just as serious as ever, in the company of regular guest Eshaan Akbar, MP (and possible future Prime Minister...?) Liz Truss, and Doctor Professor Jordan B. Peterson. Between them, they cover issues like Liz's alternative budget, Jordan's alternative university, and Eshaan's alternative career.With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Susan Harrison, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Ed Morrish.Rosie's play, Churchill's Urinal, is on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she is also doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan also at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Indy, a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: Time For Questions September '23
36:21|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are. This week, it's the second half of the show we did at King's Place as part of the London Podcast Festival in September 2023, where we took questions from the audience.This week we're playing you a Time For Questions episode we recorded two weeks ago, when Harriet and Producer Martin were LIVE at the 2023 London Podcast Festival at King's Place. They were joined by a brilliant panel - there was Sir Keir Starmer, Suella Braverman, and the Reverend Gerry Berrie, from the Very Very Christian Church of England. They took questions on asylum seekers, proud boys, and working-class children, and why all food should be biege.With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Joz Norris, Athena Kugblenu, Bilal Zafar and Ed Morrish.Rosie's play, Churchill's Urinal, is on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she is also doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan also at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Indy, a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: King's Place '23
48:17|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are. This week, it's the show we did at King's Place, as part of the London Podcast Festival, in September 2023.This week Harriet and Producer Martin were LIVE at the 2023 London Podcast Festival at King's Place, and they were joined by a brilliant panel - there was Sir Keir Starmer, who talked us through his recent reshuffle; Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who explained why she was going to lock up lawyers who sneak human rights to immigrants; and we were joined once again by the Reverend Gerry Berrie, from the Very Very Christian Church of England, who offered some Christian moral perspective and also advocated for the death penalty.With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Joz Norris, Athena Kugblenu, Bilal Zafar and Ed Morrish.Rosie's play, Churchill's Urinal, will be on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she will also be doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is taking a brand new show, Indy, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. It's a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: Edinburgh '22
40:05|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are. This week, it's the first-ever live show, from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022.This week we bring you a very special LIVE episode of NonCensored, recorded as part of LATER at Paines Plough Roundabout. Harriet and Martin are joined by Diversity Correspondent Eshaan Akbar, who explains why Lawrence Fox is the most woke man alive, and by Culture Secretary For Culture And Digital Media Sport Nadine Dorries, who takes questions from the audience and reads an EXCLUSIVE extract from her forthcoming erotic political thriller His Front Bench Woman. There's also an extended interview with the man who brought down Theresa May, Simon Brodkin who talks pranks, arrests, and how being a character comedian means sometimes people get confused about whether you're real or not. With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Sooz Kempner, Simon Brodkin and Ed Morrish.Rosie's sitcom, Crossing The Floor, is available now on BBC Sounds. Her play, Churchill's Urinal, will be on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she will also be doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is taking a brand new show, Indy, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. It's a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new podcast called Adda With Eshaan which you can hear here, and contribute to here. His latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production
Summer Season: King's Place '22
50:46|NonCensored is coming to an end. Our final show is at the London Podcast Festival on the 13th September 2026 at 4.30pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/noncensored/As we take a break over the summer, we're going to remind you of how fun our live shows are, starting with this one - the London Podcast Festival in 2022, which we recorded two days after the Queen died.This week Harriet, Producer Martin and Diversity Correspondent Eshaan Akbar made an in-person appearance at the London Podcast Festival at King's Place, London, to really give the wokies in the basement of The Guardian what for. They pay their respects to the Queen and then reflect on whether paying respect is, in fact, "woke". They're also joined by Sir Edward Fry, CEO of energy company Petrocorp, and there's an extended interview with Tom Walker, the man most famous for his character "Jonathan Pie", who explains what could possibly be funny about pretending to be someone else just to get laughs.With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Matt Green, Tom Walker and Ed Morrish.Rosie's sitcom, Crossing The Floor, is available now on BBC Sounds. Her play, Churchill's Urinal, will be on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she will also be doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is taking a brand new show, Indy, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. It's a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new, live podcast called The Early Evening Show, every Sunday evening on YouTube, and his latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is also available on YouTube.Ed produces P.O.V., a scripted sketch show on BBC Sounds which has NonCensored regulars like Davina, Will and Sooz in it. He also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production