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Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Distraction Pieces with Scroobius Pip is one of the UK's biggest and longest running independent podcasts.

Previous guests include Michael Fassbender, Mary J Blige, Stephen Graham, Florence Pugh, Spike Lee, Lena Headey, Stewart Lee, Kathy Burke, Dizzee Rascal, Aisling Bea, Kano, Adam Buxton, Vicky McClure, Peter Capaldi, Michaela Coel, Louis Theroux, Tim Key and many more.

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Episodes

Rian Johnson • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #491

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by director and screenwriter RIAN JOHNSON ! First thing's first, so you know who you're about to listen to. GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY . Okay? Okay. NOW you know! Rian wrote and directed the incredible follow up to Knives Out, which hit cinemas recently and will be with you Netflix possibly right about now. The coverage so far has been nothing but awesome so you'll be in for an absolute...

Dec 21, 202235 minEp. 491

Three Wise Men of Podcasting with Adam Buxton & Richard Herring (2 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #490

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip forms a mihghty podcast triumvirate with ADAM BUXTON & RICHARD HERRING ! You already KNOW Adam and Richard from their illustrious podcast careers (The Adam Buxton Podcast and RHLSTP respectively), but surely a ton of you also know them from their comedy or acting careers too, in solo form as well as in double acts. I mean this is all just fluff really because if you listen to Distraction Pieces then...

Dec 14, 202241 minEp. 490

Three Wise Men of Podcasting with Adam Buxton & Richard Herring (1 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #490

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip forms a mihghty podcast triumvirate with ADAM BUXTON & RICHARD HERRING ! You already KNOW Adam and Richard from their illustrious podcast careers (The Adam Buxton Podcast and RHLSTP respectively), but surely a ton of you also know them from their comedy or acting careers too, in solo form as well as in double acts. I mean this is all just fluff really because if you listen to Distraction Pieces then...

Dec 14, 202254 minEp. 490

Bloomsbury Football w/Rio & Charlie • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #489

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by RIO & CHARLIE of the incredible BLOOMSBURY FOOTBALL ! Todays episode is a wonderful chat with coach and mentor Rio Rosenberg, and founder / CEO of Bloomsbury Football Foundation Charlie Hyman! A really nice conversation about what the foundation is, does, and means to those who join. Bloomsbury Football Foundation is all about access to football to those who might have previously faced ...

Dec 09, 202233 minEp. 489

Xmas Drinks w/Polar & Musa (2 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #488

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined for a Xmas tradition catch-up by old pals POLARBEAR and MUSA OKWONGA ! Part 2 of 2... If you're listening to this podcast, I'll make a pretty safe bet that you will be familiar with spoken word superheroes Polar and Musa. If not, I'll make an equally safe bet that if you like Pip, you've now got two friends in waiting, as this crew go back a long way and share a lot of amazing ground, stories,...

Dec 07, 202255 minEp. 488

Xmas Drinks w/Polar & Musa (1 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #488

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined for a Xmas tradition catch-up by old pals POLARBEAR and MUSA OKWONGA ! Part 1 of 2... If you're listening to this podcast, I'll make a pretty safe bet that you will be familiar with spoken word superheroes Polar and Musa. If not, I'll make an equally safe bet that if you like Pip, you've now got two friends in waiting, as this crew go back a long way and share a lot of amazing ground, stories,...

Dec 07, 202259 minEp. 488

Inbetweeners Special w/Joe & Simon • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #487

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by Inbetweeners heroes and OGs JOE THOMAS & SIMON BIRD ! This bonus episode is in partnership with All 4, featuring Joe Thomas and Simon Bird from The Inbetweeners. Pip has been circling these two for a good while now, although Simon has appeared on DPP all those years ago in 2020 - but as a duo, the lads come correct and you know it's a great one. You of course know them from The Inbetwee...

Dec 02, 20221 hrEp. 487

John Hathaway • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #486

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by MMA superhero JOHN HATHAWAY ! A truly great chat with Pip and John, and while you may see the initials M, followed by an M, and then an A, in the above description, this isn't necessarily one strictly for the UFC heads. Although you'll surely have a great time if you ARE one. John's been through a whole lot in his journey to perfection, and as you'll hear not every pro fighter is immune to ...

Nov 30, 202253 minEp. 486

Jack Spring • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #485

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the superb director JACK SPRING ! A great catchup with Pip and Jack as they get all the way into the film making craft, covering almost every aspect from the journey into it all, to learning the ropes on the business side, funding, casting, all of that good stuff as well as all the extra bits and pieces you would want to hear and know about. A perfect chance to get to know Jack better, and ...

Nov 23, 202253 minEp. 485

Mark Mylod • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #484

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by TV and film director behind almost everything MARK MYLOD ! An amazing chat with someone who began their storied career working on some cornerstone shows in BBC history like Grandstand, Eastenders and Blue Peter but ALSO Maid Marian which was a huge deal for those of us of a certain age, let's say... Anyway - through a series of chess moves on the board of the industry he currently finds him...

Nov 21, 202248 minEp. 484

Maisie Adam • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #483

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the brilliant and hilarious comic MAISIE ADAM ! A delightful episode which goes into so much in not that long of a time, but certainly enough to get you fully up to speed on all things Maisie. So much ground is covered, including the Brixton Academy level of popularity, the cost of living crisis not being lost on her in relation to people turning up at shows, a misleading non-recommendation...

Nov 16, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 483

Alistair Green • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #482

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the hilarious and great comic ALISTAIR GREEN ! You could also add actor to that list of accolades as Alistair is busy in front of the camera too, as you will hear. Kicking off with heavy metal nights and the tour t-shirt, it's a fun slip n' slide down the road of tangents as Pip and Al get down to the business of social media and rolling news being too quick for a comic hot take, making vid...

Nov 09, 20221 hrEp. 482

Adam Kay • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #481

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the multi-hyphenate comic, author and doctor ADAM KAY ! Well maybe doctor in the 'present' tense might not be strictly true but it's a nice trio right there. A really great chat with Adam and Pip as they get deep into the vault of doctoring and the world of medicine. But with a definite truth-telling angle - not to dish the dirt by any means, but really to help the public understand more th...

Nov 02, 20221 hr 2 minEp. 481

Nikesh Patel • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #480

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the excellent actor NIKESH PATEL ! A great ep with a nice instant camaraderie from the opening moments onwards, which serves as a lovely antidote to otherwise maddening times in the local and global sense. Nikesh has been in front of the camera for a minute, and leaving a trail of fans, happy faces and more of that camaraderie at the end of each project - you will have seen him on variously...

Oct 25, 20221 hr 4 minEp. 480

Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #479

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by acting heavyweight SOPE DIRISU ! Gangs Of London, His House, His Dark Materials, Humans... Sope's BUSY, and has been putting in work on the stage and screen for a good minute. Here's a perfect opportunity to hear from the person behind the roles, in a really nice and relaxed but satisfyingly detailed chat which covers so much. Process, origin story, the notion of self tapes and how to ident...

Oct 18, 202246 minEp. 479

Jim Bob (Carter USM) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #478

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by UK indie treasure JIM BOB (Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine) ! While 'listeners of a certain age' will get instant nostalgia feels from the very mention of Carter USM, this episode is by no means one for them and them alone! For Jim Bob is an eloquent and thoughtful musician with very good insights and understandings on the music scene with experience in the game. Carter blew up on the UK...

Oct 11, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 478

Lauren Pattison • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #477

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by wonderful comic LAUREN PATTISON ! Lauren had an amazing run at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, to which Pip shall attest, and this is a huge awesome chat between the two which will cover everything involved! By everything, of course that entails Lauren's childhood and upbringing, influences, process, road to professional status, proper proper Newcastle, the anxiety of ticket sales, and so m...

Oct 04, 20221 hr 10 minEp. 477

Jordan Gray (2022) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #476

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined, once again, for the universal good of podcast listeners, by JORDAN GRAY ! It's a much requested and long awaited return, and so much has happened in Jordan's world since the last visit in actually quite a short span of time. We catch up with Jordan hot off their triumphant return from Edinburgh Fringe which proved to be a VERY full on month of highs, and the two catch up and check in on all o...

Sep 27, 20221 hr 10 minEp. 476

Kaitlyn Dever • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #475

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by acting superstar KAITLYN DEVER ! If you are unaware of Kaitlyn in your adventures through the wide world of broadcast media, prepare to make fast friends with a true great, and an absolute gem of a person at that. Kaitlyn's been putting down serious moves since childhood, including a Shakespeare stint at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for those pondering), and her filmography is stell...

Sep 20, 202242 minEp. 475

Tom George • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #474

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by director TOM GEORGE ! The second in a two part podcast mini series I guess you could call it, where Pip catches up with one of the people immediately involved with the murder mystery See How They Run. It also happens that the two people in said mini podcast series were ALSO immediately involved with This Country - a mockumentary of which Pip is a card-carrying superfan of. This is a Friday ...

Sep 15, 202248 minEp. 474

Charlie Cooper • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #473

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by actor and writer extraordinaire CHARLIE COOPER ! A long awaited one right here, as long term listeners will already be aware of how big a fan Pip is of This Country... Charlie was one of those responsible for the whole thing (along with his sister Daisy May), but obviously NOT ONLY that... As you'll hear, there's a ton going on with Charlie, including a starring role in See How They Run alo...

Sep 13, 202253 minEp. 473

Babak Anvari • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #472

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by director BABAK ANVARI ! See Wednesday's episode for the George side of things but this is the other side of the camera right here! Pip and Babak unexpectedly go back a way, as you'll hear up top on this episode, and from then on it's all about Babak - from their surprise meet at Wireless around 2008 , to his background in film assisting with the editor's mind of it all, short films, his fil...

Sep 08, 202244 minEp. 472

George MacKay • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #471

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by UK acting hero GEORGE MACKAY ! A brilliant chat with one of the stars of the excellent ' I Came By ', which is available to your ears and eyes right now in your local [indie] cinema and Netflix! He and Pip share some interesting pinpoints, in a real and cinematic sense, but also connect on the greater art of acting, film making and this whole life thing in general. Street art, starts and en...

Sep 06, 202245 minEp. 471

John Bradley West • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #470

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by UK acting superstar JOHN BRADLEY WEST ! We caught up with young John back in October 2016, in those sepia toned and tobacco-tinted days of episode 120, no less... Well, as always, you can only imagine how much life has happened in those interviening 6 years, but John is back to bring us all back to speed! From the weird end time of his tenure on Game Of Thrones and the funky feelings of tha...

Aug 30, 202257 minEp. 470

Paddy Considine • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #469

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by national acting treasure and Distraction Pieces friend PADDY CONSIDINE ! You may remember back all those years to 2015, when Paddy made his first appearance on the podcast... A huge amount of life has happened since then, and you're about to hear - well, condensed into an hour or so - all about it. We find Paddy in a good place, which is lovely to hear, and delve into the past again, in a n...

Aug 23, 20221 hr 3 minEp. 469

Frankie Boyle • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #468

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by comic, host and writer FRANKIE BOYLE ! I mean, multi-hyphenate would kind of sum it all up to some degree. This a very welcome catch up with Frankie, as he and Pip check in on everything since September 2016 - so not much to talk about then really...? So let's just say that the tip of the iceberg is approached at the very least, with a lot of Frankie goodness to indulge in including his new...

Aug 16, 202258 minEp. 468

Sex With Charlie & Nina • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #467

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by new Distraction Pieces Network signees, the fabulous duo of CHARLIE & NINA ! From - obviously - their podcast entitled Sex With Charlie & Nina. But previously of the podcast 2 Girls 1 Shop, in case you were fortunate enough to catch that one... The joy of the new one though is that it truly requires zero back story. Charlie and Nina talk about sex. And now you're all caught up! But ...

Aug 09, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 467

Birthday Party w/ Stu Whiffen & Kunt (Part 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #466

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! It's Pip's birthday and the party is going OFF in the Whiff Inn, with guests STU WHIFFEN and KUNT ! Part 2 of 2! A glorious nostalgic celebration of music from the three esteemed 80's fellows, who will brighten your day and absolutely unlock a ton of songs you weren't expecting to get stuck in your head today but, so it goes. It's like a naughty friend of the Drunkast episodes so if you know those, you'll know what y...

Aug 03, 20221 hrEp. 466

Birthday Party w/ Stu Whiffen & Kunt (Part 1) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #466

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! It's Pip's birthday and the party is going OFF in the Whiff Inn, with guests STU WHIFFEN and KUNT ! Part 1 of 2! A glorious nostalgic celebration of music from the three esteemed 80's fellows, who will brighten your day and absolutely unlock a ton of songs you weren't expecting to get stuck in your head today but, so it goes. It's like a naughty friend of the Drunkast episodes so if you know those, you'll know what y...

Aug 02, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 466

Kerry Godliman • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #465

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by comedian and actor KERRY GODLIMAN ! Top class material from Kerry and Pip, as the two catch up like old pals (which in a sense they are) and get things off to a perfectly familiar start. From all things tech updates, to the size of Glastonbury (but WHICH town is it the same size as...?), making complex stuff sound understandable, Treadstone, bridging the worlds of comedy and acting. people ...

Jul 26, 202255 minEp. 465
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