New series launching next week

John-Luke Roberts is to launch a new podcast, spoofing all the other podcasts.

Welcome To The Sound Heap will feature scores of guest comedians improvising parodies of shows, based only on their ridiculous made-up titles.

It has been inspired by 500 tweets the comic made when he ‘mad during lockdown', each suggesting the name of a podcast that did not yet exist.

He said: ’A few months ago I discovered that I was one of only three people in the country not to have a podcast. I wanted to put that right, and have made up for my late start by making loads and loads and loads of them.’

Producer  Ed Morrish added: ‘In a world where just about every podcast you can think of exists, we realised there was a gap in the market for some podcasts that don’t.’

Those taking part in the 12-part series  include Tom Allen, Kevin Eldon,  Mark Watson, Katherine Parkinson, Deborah Frances-White, Elis James, Isy Suttie, Katy Brand and Bilal Zafar.

The first weekly episode is to be released across all platforms on June 2, and will include the following parodies:

• Describing Pretzels to Peter, Who's Never Seen A Pretzel (ft. Eleanor Morton)
• Liza Minelli Reads From Instruction Manuals (ft. Sooz Kempner)
• Crabslag (ft. Stuart Laws)
• What Have I Dropped on my Foot? (ft. Margaret Cabourn-Smith)
• Pranks With Full Consent (ft. Joz Norris)
• Memes with Val (ft. Josie Long) 
• Passwords of My Life 1 (ft. Tom Allen) 
• The Restaurant That Rehabilitates Pirates (ft. Toussaint Douglas/Katy Brand)
• Wifechat (ft. Jonny Donahoe)
• Passwords of My Life 2 (ft. Tom Allen) 
• Elty Jom and his Lubberly Sonds 
• How To Put Out A Raging Fire (Mainly Guesses) (ft. Athena Kugblenu)
• Britain's Worst Bastards (ft. Eleanor Morton)
• SozCast 
• Bernadette Peters Reads From Instruction Manuals (ft. Sooz Kempner)

Published: 25 May 2021