In 2020, there was a brief podcast goldrush as all of the UK’s comedy talent’s filming schedules were cleared at once.

Whistledown and audible enlisted me to pull together an ‘in your dreams’ list of who you could get to do a chat podcast about how they were coping in lockdown.

It’s somewhat of an interesting museum piece now and comes with a trauma flashback health warning.

but still, i got to work with: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost; Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan; Sarah Millican and Jason Manford; Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French; Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney; Tez Ilyas and Sindhu Vee; Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield; and People Just Do Nothing‘s MC Grindah, DJ Beats, DJ Steves and Chabuddy G.

while A logistical and health and safety nightmare that left me lost in the countryside trying to find simon pegg’s postbox, it did leave me with one of my favourite podcasting memories: taking 2 hours with dawn french to teach her how to use her own ipad.

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