Comedians feature in the inaugural event

Russell Kane, Richard Herring and Deborah Frances-White’s Guilty Feminist are among the attractions in the first ever Manchester Podcast Festival next month.

The inaugural event comprises eight recordings over four days from Thursday October 4.

Opening night comprises a double bill at the Union Theatre with Hagen’s Made of Human and Gabrielle Ebulue’s Desert Island Discs-style Three Track Podcast, while Kane hosts his Boys Don’t Cry podcast at  The Bread Shed.

On October 5, Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast moves from its normal London venue to the Dancehouse; The Totally Football Show will be recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music; and actor Craig Parkinson will be taping his Two Shot Podcast at Union Theatre

Jess Fostekew presents her food-based podcast Hoovering at the Union Theatre on October 6; while The Guilty Feminist is at The Dancehouse is on the 7th.

The festival has been devised by Michael Clapham of Perfect Strangers Comedy and Emma Zillmann, programmer of festivals including  Kendal Calling. The official website is here and tickets go on sale at 10am tomorrow.

Published: 3 Sep 2018