Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by acting superhero BENEDICT WONG ! A marvelous and Marvel-ful episode as Pip has a long overdue catch up with the Salford hero Benedict Wong, which comes equiped with good vibes, positivity and inspiring nuggets from all sides. Kicking off with some record dealings up top, we glide into such matters as London acting gig drama, Mancunian origins, the great Sean Lock and working on 15 Storeys H...
May 03, 2022•57 min•Ep. 451
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very special bonus episode as Pip talks with LISA SIMPSON , whose son was killed by police in 2016. Before going in, know that this episode is obviously a heavy one with many nuanced elements. Lisa has been actively vocal about her feelings and experiences with the Black Lives Matter movement since her son Richard Risher was murdered by the Los Angeles Police Department on July 25th 2016. Not only has she had to fa...
Apr 28, 2022•40 min•Ep. 450
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the fabulous actor and writer EMER KENNY ! Quality actorial goodness is on the table again for your listening enjoyment, as we get to engage in an hour of real nourishing and inspiring chat between Emer and Pip. Highly recommended for Emer fans and those not so aware, and for the latter, you're about to become fast friends - together they cover the lot, from origins, to process, her family ...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 449
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by awesome actor and writer SARAH SOLEMANI ! A lovely episode for those interested in all things actorial, stage and screen as Pip catches up with Sarah about everything process related and all else in between. Everything from her current work with Steve Coogan, to past works and Pip favourites, to origin stories, life in the USA, work, life, and so much more. A definite must listen for those ...
Apr 19, 2022•56 min•Ep. 448
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the incredible poet, writer and all round legend KAE TEMPEST ! By all means, this writeup could end there - I mean the name Kae Tempest is essentially an instant download. But if you're still waiting for a hard sell in this description, just know that this is a wonderful, heartfelt, funny, inspiring and uplifting chat with Kae and Pip about - well, the whole thing. Life, love and the univer...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 447
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the legendary DJ and broadcaster JO WHILEY ! You can file this one under "Always on the cards / finally happened", if you're keeping scores. Jo's earned her place in the broadcasting hall of fame without a doubt, having been a rock solid and awesome part of radio history for a minute as well as holding it down on many a festival presenting lineup too. Here's a perfect chance to hear Jo on t...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 446
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by journalist, author and presenter HAYLEY CAMPBELL ! You’re probably familiar with the age old dilemma of ‘Cake or death?’ - well, you’re about to hear a podcast which contains firstly takeaway, and then death. So it’s not worlds away, let’s say. This is a well overdue meeting of Pip and Hayley who get along like old pals from the get go, beginning with - as stated - takeaway habits and secre...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 445
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A bonus Friday episode for you this week, by of a feed drop for the podcast MUM AND MUMMER ! What is a 'Feed Drop'? GOOD QUESTION. The easiest way to explain is this - Pip hears a podcast either on the DPP Network or from a close pal in the podcasting circuit, and after cordial formalities have been exchanged, it features on the DPP feed. In this case, it's network pal and all round wonderful human Amy's turn, with a...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 444
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by author and poet CECILIA KNAPP ! A perfect chance to catch up with Cecilia, and a lovely one to file alongside past episodes with DPP alumni Kae Tempest, Polarbear, Musa Okwonga and so on. Cecilia and Pip go back as far as the days of Bestival, and it’s lovely to hear about the journey she’s taken and the many moments of day and night along the way. We hear about the actual factual nuts and ...
Mar 23, 2022•59 min•Ep. 443
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by writer, actor and director CRAIG ROBERTS ! For those who know their cinema and tv, you’ll surely be well aware of Craig and his back catalog of goodness but if not, at the very least, you must have seen at least the cover for the film Submarine… Either way - you’re in for a treat of a chat with the Welsh sureshot himself as he goes into it all with Pip. Everything including growing up in Wa...
Mar 16, 2022•59 min•Ep. 442
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by writer, actor and singer/songwriter NICÔLE LECKY ! A wonderful chat with Nicôle who has been putting in WORK for a long while now, and a chance to hear about said work including the run up to doing what she does and how those early seeds started growing. Not only that, we get to hear about her own process, the not very diverse world of drama back in the day, her musical early days, her show...
Mar 09, 2022•51 min•Ep. 441
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined, at long last, by national treasure STEPHEN FRY ! Simply using the term ‘national treasure’ doesn’t do any kind of justice whatsoever to who or what Stephen is, does and has done, of course. But it’s pretty tough to dispute. Long term (and casual) Pip listeners will already know the line ‘Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry’ - well, Pip breaks the holy rap commandment and does just that, and i...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 440
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by comic, writer, actor and podcaster BETH GRANVILLE ! In a kind of mirror-type episode of Wednesday with Lucy Pinder, this is Lucy's podcasting pal from the Smashing Sundays podcast who now has the spotlight fixed firmly on her for an episode! Beth is incredibly busy, as you will surely deduce by the end of this, but busy in a reassuringly comfortable way. With so many projects on the go and ...
Feb 25, 2022•58 min•Ep. 439
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by actress, TV star and podcaster LUCY PINDER ! A delightful chat bringing in loads of feelgood action, with a dash of triumph over adversity in there for good measure. From her days back in Winchester, we hear about her path to publicity and being involved in the world of early 00's lad culture and glamour modeling from a chance day off at the beach, which led to a huge amount of ups and down...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 438
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined for a second appearance by awesome acting friend, the great TOM DAVIS ! Heavyweight listeners will recall episode 58, back in September 2015, all those years ago, when young Tom joined Pip for a debut appearance. Tom brings up the ribbing he got recently from pal Seapa on said appearance, but by all means listen back and decide for yourself...! It's always nice to compare and contrast though s...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 437
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the artist formerly known as Prolyphic, it's Strange Famous's MOPES ! The last time Pip saw Mopes was in his former guise in 2013, and hooo boy has a lot happened in the interim... From name changes to all kinds of life stuff, it's a tale as old as time - take a chunk of someone's life and explore and you'll find (hopefully) huge evolutions and transitions. It's a pleasure to hear them catc...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 436
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by Youtube geography champ and amazing idea generator GEOWIZARD ! Otherwise known as Tom Davies, of course. Some of you might be all like "Who in the good name of all things Youtubular is Geowizard now?", while some of you might in contrast be all like "Ahh, YES!" - well, either way, both camps are in for a treat. Tom has been making amazing videos with some concepts that make you instantly wo...
Feb 09, 2022•57 min•Ep. 435
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined for acting masterclass with YOUSSEF KERKOUR ! Seriously, this one goes deep… You might want to bring a notepad to this one if you’re in the least bit interested in the craft of acting because Youssef drops jewels like he keeps his valuables in a fishing net. Even though he’s sleepless through a recent addition to the family, a ton of goodies get investigated including turning a corner on publi...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 434
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A bonus Friday episode for you this week, by of a feed drop for the podcast BORN HUMAN ! It’s a rare thing, these feed drops (where a podcast features or ‘guests’ on a particular podcast feed), but this one struck a chord with Pip. Andy Chambers, the host of Born Human has been on the Distraction Pieces Podcast before back on episode 412 if you would like a full chat with the man himself, but here is literally a whol...
Jan 28, 2022•57 min•Ep. 433
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by podcasting heavyweight, author and comic DAN SCHREIBER ! Surely you will be familiar with the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish by now - either as a hardcore listener or from seeing it time and time again on top podcast lists. It’s the show you know Dan Schreiber from, being part of the greater QI stables and leading from Dan’s own ‘elf’ status on QI. Here’s a great chance to hear Dan’s origi...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 432
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A bonus treat this Friday as Pip is joined by writer of Channel 4’s new prison drama ‘Screw’ , ROB WILLIAMS ! Rob of course has worked on a great amount of productions and works, but the focus this episode is the series Screw, and how it all formulated including the development and so on. The synopsis for Screw reads: “This is prison as never seen before – the uncensored, shocking and often darkly funny reality of li...
Jan 21, 2022•28 min•Ep. 431
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by inspirational author and activist EMMA DABIRI ! Recorded at a time of political weirdness (a backdrop as old as time), illicit government parties feel pretty low down the list compared with the content of what Emma gets into with this episode. Just listen to her break down the origins of slavery in the early part, where she traces race as a construct to the roots, and charts its spread from...
Jan 19, 2022•55 min•Ep. 430
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by actor, author and activist EVANNA LYNCH ! You may know Evanna from her role as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, which is a fine place to begin. But of course Evanna is a whole universe more than an acting role, a glimpse of which you shall have here on this podcast. She catches up with Pip about essentially life after Harry Potter, which contains a huge amount of ups, but as we all ...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 429
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A rare Saturday bonus as Pip hosts an MMA roundtable with Seán Sheehan , Blake Harrison & Stu Whiffen ! One for you MMA heads for sure, so please be aware that if you have little or no interest in all things Mixed Martial Arts, maybe hang tight til next week... That being said - if you ARE a fan of Seán, Blake, Stu and Pip together - my god, is this one for you. A roundup and check in on all things MMA from 2021,...
Jan 08, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 428
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! The very merriest, happiest and healthiest of new years to you all and all the very best for what's to come in 2022. Let's make it one for the books... Not that any year in previous history has not been one for the books - but still, let's do what we can. All this talk of books though is not helping the cause of todays episode - for this is the tradition as old as time itself, where your dutiful cinephile host Scroob...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 427
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Looking at my Casio, it’s about that time… Folks… It’s DRUNKAST TIME ! PART 5! You are - like it or not - VERY cordially invited to front row seats for the ongoing festive season roll through the wicked and weird wonderland of the three merry men, the three kings, the three drunkateers (not bad uh?) as they present for you the listening public, the family tradition that is the Drunkast. Drinks get drunk, gifts get gi...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 426
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Looking at my Casio, it’s about that time… Folks… It’s DRUNKAST TIME ! PART 4! You are - like it or not - VERY cordially invited to front row seats for the ongoing festive season roll through the wicked and weird wonderland of the three merry men, the three kings, the three drunkateers (not bad uh?) as they present for you the listening public, the family tradition that is the Drunkast. Drinks get drunk, gifts get gi...
Dec 27, 2021•53 min•Ep. 426
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Looking at my Casio, it’s about that time… Folks… It’s DRUNKAST TIME ! PART 3! You are - like it or not - VERY cordially invited to front row seats for the ongoing festive season roll through the wicked and weird wonderland of the three merry men, the three kings, the three drunkateers (not bad uh?) as they present for you the listening public, the family tradition that is the Drunkast. Drinks get drunk, gifts get gi...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 426
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Looking at my Casio, it’s about that time… Folks… It’s DRUNKAST TIME ! PART 2! You are - like it or not - VERY cordially invited to front row seats for the ongoing festive season roll through the wicked and weird wonderland of the three merry men, the three kings, the three drunkateers (not bad uh?) as they present for you the listening public, the family tradition that is the Drunkast. Drinks get drunk, gifts get gi...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 426
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Looking at my Casio, it’s about that time… Folks… It’s DRUNKAST TIME ! PART 1! You are - like it or not - VERY cordially invited to front row seats for the ongoing festive season roll through the wicked and weird wonderland of the three merry men, the three kings, the three drunkateers (not bad uh?) as they present for you the listening public, the family tradition that is the Drunkast. Drinks get drunk, gifts get gi...
Dec 22, 2021•48 min•Ep. 426
