Welcome, welcome, welcome to Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg's favourite episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip, episode 187 – a handful of words into the intro and already the rap gawds are being referenced... Whatever the number, this is a grand one right here as Pip is joined by one of the UK's finest, the Bafta winning queen Vicky McClure! Surely you will have seen Vicky's acting greatness on the big and small screen, having a HUGE part to play in the filmography of the legend Sh...
Jan 31, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 187
TRIGGER WARNING: This podcast discusses sexual assault, grooming and several other sensitive subject matters. Welcome, welcome, welcome to a very special roundtable discussion episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip. Pip is joined on this one by a powerful assembly of wrestling community associated women to have an informed, honest and educated talk about the current state of British Wrestling, which has recently been tainted severely by a number of serious allegations of se...
Jan 26, 2018•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 186
WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is episode 185, we’re getting DEEP in the episodes now… A Brum phenomenon takes us through this one, a full on slammer of an episode featuring man like comedian and actor GUZ KHAN ! Mad entertaining from start to end, as Pip sits down with Guz for a truly matey chat but which brings out the best of both! They were first acquainted back around a year ago on set on the upcoming ‘ Walk Like A Panther ’, where they ...
Jan 24, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 185
WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We trust your 2018 is getting off to a wondrous start and all coming together nice like. Thanks kindly for joining the DPP mothership for another year of relentless, non-stop goodness! And what way to continue that very same year of goodness other than by welcoming in UK #1 singing legend PALOMA FAITH ! A long, long overdue guest on the podcast, as Pip has been pals with Paloma for a good decade or so (their friendsh...
Jan 17, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 184
WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip, and the FIRST DPP of 2018 with a one-on-one Pip and guest setup (and not a roomful of drunk mates yammering with increasing volume)! The guest this week is a proper acting heavyweight who you may know from the fabulous Dredd (the 2012 one), the massive 300 or the very definition of massive Game Of Thrones (as Cersei Lannister) - ladies and gentlemen, it's Lena Headey! An inspiring and honest chat with Pip and Lena, a...
Jan 10, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 183
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to the fourth and final quarter of the Xmas DrunkCast! But first and foremost, the Distraction Pieces Podcast consortium would like to formally wish you the very best for 2018 and hope that it's been a tremendous start for you. We will be here for you for the duration and we would like to thank you properly for the listening time, downloads, shares, Speech Development Records and all round support. Team 3W is the BEST - never forget. Thank you. And so we continue, and as ...
Jan 03, 2018•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 182
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to your THIRD instalment of the surely notorious and definitely infamous DrunkCast for Xmas 2017! Y'all ready...? C'mon now, it's been almost a week - of course you're ready... Let's get it in shall we...? Same again, same number, same hood – Hardcore Listing homies and DrunkCast OGs Stu and Chris, the host of the Say Why To Drugs podcast Dr Suzi Gage (on breathalising and cognition test duties), John of The Dream Factory podcast on fact checking and note taking, Jim Smal...
Dec 27, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 182
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to your second serving of the 9th Distraction Pieces DrunkCast! How'd you get on with that first part, mmm? All good? No double vision? How many fingers am I holding up? Okay well you seem fine - obviously looks can be deceiving so I'll take your word for it this time, but we'll see how things look after this one... SO - all is the same, same guests – Hardcore Listing homies and DrunkCast OGs Stu and Chris, the host of the Say Why To Drugs podcast Dr Suzi Gage (on breatha...
Dec 22, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 182
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to that ever so special time of year, the time when the Distraction Pieces Podcast gets buckwild crazy and lets its hair down and acts crazy inappropriately, only to completely forget what happened the previous night... Yes indeed - it's the Distraction Pieces Xmas DrunkCast 2017! You KNOW it's gonna be a heavy one... And if you weren't around for last year's debacle - well let this be your initiation... Ladies and gentlemen, Team 3W, please get yourselves good and comfy ...
Dec 20, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 182
Welcome, welcome and a third customary welcome to YOU, dear Distraction Pieces Podcast listener, and to the one hundred and eighty first episode! A damn fine, properly solid episode it is too, as your loyal host Scroobius Pip is joined by creator and star of ' Taskmaster ' (and very good friend of Tim Key), Alex Horne! Get involved, be you viewer or not, in this chat with Pip and Alex, and enjoy the ground covered between the pair of them. Situated out in the Taskmaster shed, which - as you will...
Dec 13, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 181
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY (word to Jim Bowen) of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Bless ya heart for tuning in, it is a pleasure to have you aboard. A full on cinematic marathon right here this week, as Pip finally presents his finely curated and handpicked selection of his favourite films of the year! All on his lonesome too - 100% Pip! Now, before you go in - know this: this is PIP'S LIST. Pip. This is not your list. These are not the country...
Dec 06, 2017•1 hr•Ep. 180
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 179 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Nothing but super scientifical madness this time round as we warmly welcome RICK EDWARDS of the ' Science(ish) ' podcast to the chat-throne, to drop some gems and nuggets upon you regarding all things cinema and the science within... Whether you know Rick from the Science(ish) podcast or the accompanying book, or none of the above, this is a really entertaining chat which goes through a few of the film...
Nov 29, 2017•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 179
Welcome, welcome, welcome to your second Friday bonus in a row, concluding the two part 'Ask Pip' session from last week! But more importantly, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip - that's the important upfront business taken care of... Not in the French badlands this time but out in a park near Covent Garden, round the back of the Odeon and near the back of Denmark Street / New Tottenham Court Road if I'm not mistaken. There was a one-eyed cat who lived there a few year...
Nov 24, 2017•59 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Episode 178 is standing outside your door this minute, so exercise politeness and cordiality and let it in won't ya - it's a goody this week, as Pip is joined by mighty acting talent Jonny Lee Miller ! Undoubtedly you will know Jonny from the film which basically everyone must have seen by now (I mean if you were at an age suitable for the 18 rating) Trainspotting - and if not then good god fix that up already... He ...
Nov 22, 2017•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 178
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode... Hmmm... The episode with NO NUMBER! For this is an extra special bonus 'Ask Pip' edition of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! While Pip is out and about on location filming in a sleepy French town appropriately called 'Mello', where the dogs are fierce and the truckers do not obey public hygiene guidelines, he took time to get your questions in on Facebook and answer them out in the wilderness. He also bumps into fellow actor Adam along th...
Nov 17, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome - and since this is a very special episode indeed, go ‘head - have another welcome - to the great and grand Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Episode 177 right here, hot and fresh out the kitchen and ready for your immediate devouring… Truly this episode is a long awaited one, hinted at for a good while… Well, paths have aligned, the gawds have shaken hands and good fortune has stood in the DPP path as we welcome Jeannie Grigio aka Jean Greasy aka JEAN GRAE...
Nov 15, 2017•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 177
WELCOME! Welcome! Ahhhhh go on then - another welcome upon you for this is the DISTRACTION PIECES PODCAST with Scroobius Pip and we do NOT give less than three welcomes, ever. You know this by now. So with this in mind, tripley welcome as you are, here is the long awaited EPISODE 176, recorded live at the Tivoli in Dublin! Another slammer of COURSE right here, in the second part where - as Pip keeps hinting - ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN... Well you'll be pleased to know that very good things happen in...
Nov 08, 2017•1 hr 8 min
WELCOME! Welcome! Ahhhhh go on then - another welcome upon you for this is the DISTRACTION PIECES PODCAST with Scroobius Pip and we do NOT give less than three welcomes, ever. You know this by now. So with this in mind, tripley welcome as you are, here is the long awaited EPISODE 176, recorded live at the Tivoli in Dublin! TONS to enjoy in this two parter, which we kick off here with a lovely Pip monologue which may add an exciting - dare I say 'sexy'? - new layer to his character (involving cha...
Nov 08, 2017•48 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE of the ruffest, tuffest podcast in the known and unknown multiverse (zero exaggeration) - the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Thank you for tuning in! An equally ruff and tuff guest right here on this episode, as Pip is joined by the multi-talented musician/writer/director S. Craig Zahler! You may know him from the rugged Western 'Bone Tomahawk' , or from his upcoming release 'Brawl In Cell Block 99' , or maybe inde...
Nov 01, 2017•54 min
WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Wonderful to have you on board, and it goes without saying, thank you much for tuning in. More fire for you this week, as is the standard, by way of comic and satire writer/producer (and everything else) Armando Iannucci! Responsible for an insane amount of some of the greatest UK comedy since the 90's, including the writing and production of 'The Day Today' which spawned Alan Partridge and the Partridge multiverse, ...
Oct 24, 2017•55 min
WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Thank you for tuning in and opting to enrich your Wednesday's listening choices - you shan't regret it. Bigups of the highest order. Another smash episode for your DPP enjoyment - this week's show is pure UK comedy goodness from a true great - yes indeed, it's Russell Howard! Powerful chat goodness right here from the fellas, getting right into it from beginning to end with only the briefest of pauses for some dog wr...
Oct 17, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A pleasure to have you on board. Welcome thricely to listeners long term (Team 3W) and new skool, consider yourselves all tripley welcomed. So let's crack this one open eh? A blockbuster of an episode this week, as Pip sits down for a face to face chat with pure acting royalty Michael Fassbender!Far from the a short 3 minute press-junket soundbite interview, Pip has some quality real life facetime with Michael, who i...
Oct 10, 2017•54 min
Welcome welcome welcome to episode ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Thank you for tuning in, as always - your attention shall be rewarded handsomely, as is the DPP standard. A real lovely one this week as Pip properly catches up with his old mate and TV presenting legend Helen Chamberlain!"No-one knows if I jumped of if I was pushed..."Of course MANY of you will be well acquainted with Helen from her epic and heroic stint on Soccer AM (and will na...
Oct 03, 2017•1 hr 28 min
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome! To what? Come on now. You know what it is. You are now tuned into the ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTIETH episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! As custom dictates, it's another smash, and another long overdue meeting at that - please tripley welcome Hugo White of The Maccabees! (aka Pip's new/long time best mate!)Since destroying their recent farewell gig schedule, The Maccabees have been exploring all manner of individual and collaborative paths - it wa...
Sep 26, 2017•1 hr 22 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip, episode 169 at that! They are racking up aren't they... My my my... You may have heard Pip hyping this one up for a minute, and quite rightly so - ladies and gentlemen, please welcome journalist, author, writer, Souad Mekhennet!A huge episode here, as Pip sits down with Souad for a nice good while to really get into her own story... And what a deep, heavy and truly daring life she has led, from beginning to present day...
Sep 19, 2017•1 hr 21 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME one and all, newcomers and oldtimers, to the super powerful and ultra plush Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Now you have been officially and entirely welcomed, let's get you good and settled into this week's episode - and what a heavy hitter it is... Yes indeed - this week Pip is joined by EDDIE IZZARD!Comedian, actor, marathon man and all round champ Eddie takes time from his current press junket to sit down with Pip for a proper chat - not a three minute ...
Sep 12, 2017•1 hr 7 min
A triple welcome upon you to this, the 167th episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very merry Wednesday to you all (assuming you are the Team 3W first responders - if that's not the case, a very merry whatever day it is). A huge one this week, as Pip is joined by young acting heavyweight Will Poulter!In the midst of his current promo run for Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit', Will takes time to sit down with Pip for a long overdue chat covering - as you will have come to expe...
Sep 05, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to episode 166 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Thank you for tuning in, people - you are most welcome (I refer you back to the three welcomes about 30 words ago) and it is a pleasure to have you here. In return for your attendance, consider yourself fully blessed and uplifted by the presence of this week's wonderful guest - it's Ireland's own comedian, actress and writer Aisling Bea!Such a warm and funny chat with Pip and self-proclaimed "gritty li...
Aug 29, 2017•1 hr 32 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 165 of the rich, creamy and ever so delicious Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A long awaited episode at that, as Pip is joined by Rebecca from Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Melanie from the incredible International Rescue Committee! Imagine that... Yes indeed, all those references to those forward thinking ice cream pioneers Ben & Jerry on all those DrunkCasts, the Instagram posts, the tweets... Well it looks like they have opened a big, ...
Aug 23, 2017•1 hr 29 min
TEAM 3W long termers and first timers, stand UP! Or remain seated. It truly is your call. Just get yourself comfortable really. The reason is this: EPISODE 164 of the DISTRACTION PIECES PODCAST with SCROOBIUS PIP is knocking at your door PRESENTLY! Look alive, fix up, look sharp also - as this week we welcome thricely the wonderful Danish comedy firecracker Sofie Hagen!True brilliance right here, and a surefire pick me up from the potential mid-week slumps that may be facing you - it could be th...
Aug 15, 2017•1 hr 32 min
