THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST - EP.272 - BRIDGET CHRISTIE & ALICE BOYD LIVE @ BRISTOL - BEACON THEATRE, 2024

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

Adam talks with comedian, actor and writer Bridget Christie in front of a live audience at the Bristol Beacon about the joys of jogging, enlightenment in middle age, why Ken Dodd is not creepy, the rewards of being single, and what happens when teenagers start leaving home. Plus live music from UK-based sound artist, composer and field recordist Alice Boyd.Thanks to Crosstown promotions and the live podcast crew especially Richard Walsh, Mike Thompson, Ben Saunders, Analisa Lembo, Séamus Murphy Mitchell and Frank Buxton.Conversation and music recorded on 24 May, 2024Podcast illustration by Helen GreenSAILY🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on your first Saily data plans! Use code buxton at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/buxton ⛵THE ADAM BUXTON BAND MAY 2026 TOUR BUG BOWIE SPECIAL @ THE LIGHTROOM 17 June, 2-4 July, 2026 ADAM BUXTON PODCAST LIVE WITH MAWAAN RIZWAAN @ The Roundhouse, 5 April, 2026RETURN OF THE WHITE TAILED EAGLE by Alice Boyd - 2025 (YouTube)ALICE BOYD - SHIFTING SOUNDSCAPES - 2024 (BBC Sounds)ALICE BOYD LIVE IN WARSAW - 2026 (YouTube)KEN DODD AND BESSIE BRADDOCK STATUE photo by David Rostance (flickr)A LOOK INSIDE BOWIE - YOU ARE NOT ALONE @ The Lightroom (Instagram) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin. Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening. I took my microphone and found some human folk. Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke. My name is Adam Buxton. I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this. That's the plan. How are you doing podcast? It's Adam Buxton here on a beautiful morning.

Maybe it's even a bit summery. I mean, I appreciate that by 5 o'clock it might be snowing, but it's nice right now. I'm wearing shorts. And I'm here with my best dog friend, Rosie. How are you doing, Rosie? Don't patronise me, please. Sorry.

Hey, thanks to everyone who came out to the Brighton and Margate shows. And indeed, by the time you're going to... hear this. The Buxton show. That's where I'm heading tonight. After I record this, I'm going to cycle to the station, get on the train, and head up to Buxton. And then we're in Manchester and Lester on Monday and Tuesday night. And then that's it for our band commitments for a little while. We play another couple of shows towards the end of June in London at the Hoxton Hall. But it's continued to be great fun. Thanks as well to everyone who came to the chat with Miranda Sawyer

at the Charleston Festival in Sussex. Great to meet more of you after all those shows. But right now, let me tell you a bit about podcast number 272. This one features some rambling in front of a live audience with British comedian and friend of the podcast, Bridget Christie, writer and performer of something like 14 solo live shows over the years, panel show stalwart, taskmaster genius, creator of the brilliant radio series Mortal,

which I really recommend, and the brilliant TV, comedy, drama, The Change in which Bridget plays a woman going through a midlife crisis. And Bridget was one of the people kind enough to join me back in 2024 when I was doing live podcasts. and she was my guest at Bristol's Beacon Theatre. But that was two years ago. Why has it taken you so long to put this episode out?

Well, Rosie, that's because it was a little complicated to edit. We also had some beautiful live music that night, which I wanted to include from musician, composer and sound artist Alice Boyd. She played a couple of songs with her band. And I wanted to, you know, get them all nicely mixed and sounding as nice as possible, as nice as they did on the night. but it was quite fiddly, lots of different tracks. I met Alice a while back when she was working on a project I did some voiceovers for,

and she sent me some of her music, which I loved. A lot of her work is inspired by ecology, landscapes, wildlife, and our relationship with the environment, and she blends electronics with analog instruments, and field recordings and various lovely fokey vocals. Very focals. Yeah. And I was so pleased,

that she was able to come along and be part of one of the live podcasts that we did in 2024. So now you're blaming Alice for putting this episode out two years after it was recorded. No, I'm not Alice blaming. I'm just saying it needed a little more time than a normal episode would because all the tracks and mixing. I'm badly organised, okay, Rosie? Is that what you want to hear? Yes, thank you. The other factor with the recordings of the live podcast shows,

as you probably will have heard me saying before, if you're a regular listener, was that there was a lot of visual stuff on those nights on a big screen. And I had a theme for that tour of kind of crap AI-generated visuals that would pop up now and then. Oh, you and your AI slop.

Yeah, okay, I probably wouldn't do it now. But back then in the old days, it was still funny to see the wonky images that young AI would generate. And I got it to generate some very odd images of my guests at pivotal moments in their career and their lives and I would show them. Throughout the show was kind of jumping off points for bits of chat.

I never found any of that funny. No, of course not. No one did. Anyway, I showed a few of them to Bridget that night in Bristol, so when necessary, I'll pop back in voice-over form during the conversation to explain what's on the screen. Wow, this is really cutting-edge podcasting, putting out live episodes two years after you recorded them, and then having to explain what the audience was looking at,

because you refuse to join the modern age and film your podcasts like literally everyone else these days. Oh, thanks, Rosie. I'm glad you appreciate the way I do things. I haven't watched it back yet, but I was on an episode of Ramesh Ranganathan's podcast, which is filmed. And I think that's out now. And I seem to recall spending quite a long time complaining about being filmed on that as well. It's not very good, is it? Get invited on someone's podcast and then just moan about being filmed. That's only what I'd explain.

back from you. I'll be back at the end with a bit more waffle, possibly from another location entirely. But right now, with Bridget Christie and music from Alice Boyd in front of a live Bristol audience in May 24. Here we go. A present for you. Oh? Do you remember we talked about... We talked about scents. And so you can, you know, that's for you unless you don't want it.

Oh, it's called lust. by lush. Let me have a smell. Did you smell that I put on some perfume for you? No, did you? Have a little smell. I don't want. Oh, that does smell nice.

I love it. Is that what you were wearing when I last saw you? Yes, I wear it every day. Everyone who smells me says, what's that? Do they recoil when they say it? No, they like it. Well, I don't think you were excited enough or grateful enough. I love it, Bridget.

Lust, you have given me the gift of lust. And I'm feeling it for you now. Have I gone too far? It's 2024, Adam. Is it? Well, no, it's not anymore. It's 2026 now. And I'm in a hotel room in Manchester.

And tonight, the Adam Buxton band are playing a show here at Stoller Hall. Anyway, I wanted to come back and tell you what we were looking at on the screen that night. during this next bit of chat. It was an AI-generated image of Bridget jogging through Gloucestershire fields in the early morning sunshine and looking very free, although the primitive AI had made her features look

unearthly and bizarre, but she still looked very happy. Oh, yes, I love that one. That's you out jogging, which you love to do. I jog every day. I think we talked about that before, didn't we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's kind of how I imagined you

running just with the sun behind you out wild and free. I do laugh as well I laugh yeah yeah yeah it's a high yeah it doesn't matter what the weather is either I don't know what's happened to me no in a really positive way I feel like I've had some kind of enlightenment experience is that the other side of the menopause it could be I don't know but I feel like someone said something to me the other day and this sounds like boasting but it I promise you it isn't but it's the most recent example that I can think of so this does sound awful so I was up for a BAFTA and I didn't get it and I kind of knew deep down that I wouldn't and that was it didn't matter to me at all and someone said you I hope you're not too upset and the idea that I would be felt so alien to me

It felt so unlike me to be To be worried about something. Like that, yeah. And that was for the change, your sitcom, yes? Yes, it was, yes. Beautiful. Oh, thank you. You've had a second series commission.

Congratulations. Thank God, thank you. Thank you so much, Brazil. By Channel 4. But also, it was my first TV commission was at 50. I just, I really feel like, because I had a few journalists when I was doing press for it

they were saying does it make you angry that you kind of 10, 11 years ago you won that Perrier and yet nothing happened for you in 10 years but nowadays someone would have probably been given a commission by now especially if they were a guy I just think that things happen to you when they're supposed to happen to you does that sound really like a cop-out?

No, I love it. I think it does and I think that we get so head up, I think, that in life like people and jobs and situations, like, present themselves to you at the exact right time. So I don't think you should be regretful or this doesn't happen or that doesn't happen. And, you know, I think when you're our age, it's like, I'm just grateful to be here, man. Do you know what I mean? People die very young. People get sick. I'm just so grateful every day. And that happened in lockdown, actually. You died and got sick.

Yeah, I just became really aware of nature and being alive and being well and being grateful and having a positive outlook on things. Not in an unrealistic way because we've all had terrible things happen to us. We've all got pain and grief and trauma and it's not plain sailing for anybody. This is what I love coming on shows like. this as well because I think sometimes people can think that people in the public aisle might be seen to be doing well that our lives were easy and things like just fell into our laps or their life looks great it really it I mean mindset it did really answer but it isn't the reality though we all have stuff that we're dealing with and have dealt with and doing

but it's just making the best of everything I think yeah and I think you can kind of we're not in America you do it yeah go on clap away have you have your inspirational clap fun there's that saying as well it works both ways there's a saying

I can't remember exactly what it is because of menopause but there's like you you think something enough and it will you will start to believe it and it's like we spend so many years disliking something about us, what we look like, something to do with our personality, regretting things. And you do start to believe that after a while. What if you just flipped it,

you know, not in an arrogant way, like I'm amazing sort of thing, but what if you thought, you know something, I try really hard to do the right thing? And I'm trying really hard to be, like, within my parameters as best as I can be. And I try and think about things that I do. If you do that, you will feel better about yourself. You will find success. If you change the story about your life, you too, we'll find success. I haven't got a button for that guy.

I've got a hand zimmer button for when something really exciting and inspirational and emotional happens. You know, hand zimmer? He does the music for like Dune and things like that. That's what I play when anything. thing big happens in my life. It's epic. Epic is the thing, exactly. Make your life epic.

And I love your inspirational words, and I think that's the ideal image that we've got there on the on the screen for that. Hey, you know something? Think epic and sound epic. I love it. That's the formula for success. Bridget, you yourself are a successful woman, and yet you are single. Currently.

Adam Buxton. Have I phrased it wrong? That is the most unacceptable and cowardly way of dumping me I have ever heard. I am, yes. I'm just going to have a blast of lust. I'm right in my face. That's nice, actually. Oh, that is good.

Now I've got, I'm just, my whole face is full of the smell of you. Do you know? That's good lyrics. Ed Sheeran could do a song with that. I am single, yes. Yes. You were married. Yes.

To Ken Dodd. I think I, am I not a bit like Ken Dodd, do you think? I think I am. You could be a Diddy woman. If you, I think I could be like a female. malversion of Ken Dodd, like looks wise. When I was little, I really felt an affinity with him. What did you relate to about Dodd? I loved him. I loved his hair, I loved his teeth, I loved his eyes, I loved his... Tickling stick. Energy and spirit. Tickling stick. I didn't like the tickling stick.

Why? What's your problem with the tickling stick? I was suspicious of it. How did you feel about the Diddy Man then if you didn't like the tickling stick? They were away from me. because he reminded me of Alastus Sim, who I had adored when I was little. I loved Alice. Ken Dodd is like a mad drawing of Alistair Sim and Alec Guinness. If Alec Guinness and Alistair were walking along the South Bank and one of those cartoon artists said, yeah, I'll draw both of you combined.

Yeah. You'll probably look like Ken Dodd. And I'll just give one of you a tickling stick. I was in Liverpool the other day. and there is a statue of Dodd with his tickling stick bringing joy to a woman. There's just a sort of... I mean, that...

What do you mean? It's not like that. It's a sort of statue of Dodd and then opposite him is a middle-aged lady with a headscarf. I think I'm remembering this right. And she's just laughing. And it's just...

Oh, I thought you meant a real woman. No, no, no. It's a statue. Was using the statue? I think... I don't think the statue, no. Did you? You thought that, didn't you? You thought a woman was pleasuring herself on Dodd's statue? Yes.

No. In Liverpool Lime Street Station. Well, I don't know. It's Liverpool, isn't it? I don't, that is a joke. I love Liverpool. But no, it was an indication, because I don't think the statue lady opposite the statue of Dodd is herself famous. It's just supposed to illustrate the effect that Dodd would have on people. I'm not on a man. Why was it a lady, do you think?

I don't know. I think that needs to be unpicked. What does she look like? Yeah, middle-aged headscarf glasses. She looked... From the 50s? Maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah. So why...

When was the statue made? It looks recent. Hello, it's me again from the future, as it was then. It turns out the statue I was looking. at in Liverpool Lime Street Station is called Chance Meeting. It was created in 2009 by Tom Murphy. The woman depicted in the statue as the councillor and later MP battling Bessie Braddock. She died in 1970 and was an ardent socialist and fiery campaigner, particularly in the fields of maternity, child welfare and youth crime. Tom Murphy's life-sized bronze statue shows her holding a handbag

in one hand and in the other. an egg, as she was the politician responsible for getting the lion quality mark of food safety and traceability put on British eggs. Oh, so much great info. Thanks, Buckles. You're welcome. Right now, we'll head back to the past where? Very shortly, I will be slightly disparaging about Ken Dodd's teeth in a way that I genuinely regret and I would like to apologize to the members of the prominent tooth community also a heads up for the men with weird hair community things are about to get rough and i was impressed because i had it in my mind i don't know much about him and i thought surely he's cancelled no doddy isn't cancel but he's never done anything wrong except brought joy yeah but that's the thing

with the poisoned modern mind that i have i just assume anyone with those teeth and a tickling stick has done some terrible, terrible things. But he hasn't. The teeth. It's not the teeth. I think there is a correlation between men with weird hair and bad things. Fred West, Jimmy Savon. Well, I'm sure there's more than two.

Men with weird hair. Gary Glitter. Boris Johnson. We can't have him. Yeah, definitely Boris Johnson. Trump. Is there someone with a mullet? They're back in now, aren't they mullet?

I'm going to get one. Pat's Sharp. Oh, yeah. The Darth Vader of the Master Fader. There's nothing wrong with, Sharp. But is part of your appreciation of life, perhaps, to do with your status as a single woman? Are you getting to appreciate things out of a relationship?

And what are the things about a relationship that you don't miss? Wow. Sorry. I think it's this. It's not so much about being in a relationship or not being in a relationship. I think that it is reaching a point in your life. I think it may be possibly an age thing, because lots of people do need to be in a relationship to function for validation,

all sorts of different reasons, because they're lonely, blah, blah, blah. I never was like that. I don't think it's because I grew up in a big family, but I never felt lonely. I'm not like a lonely person. I've spent a lot of time by myself. I think it's to do with age possibly and just becoming really comfortable with yourself.

And that could have happened within a relationship. But I think sometimes when you are in a, like you get married and you have kids, I think if you don't keep an eye on it, I was lucky because I have a job that I love. So a lot of my identity is tied up in that. But when that doesn't happen, I think you can lose yourself a little

to the point where you can be unrecognizable. As I say, that didn't happen to me, but it does happen a lot to men and women. And I think it's just, yeah, it's not that I'm focused on myself now. I feel, because I don't feel like I am. I think it's just I'm unencumbered. Yeah.

But that's nothing to do with my previous relationships that's more to do with. I am unencumbered. I'm completely alone. And I may die alone, and I'd be very happy with that. I'm sure you'll be cumbered one more time. You'll sure I'll be what? Cumbered.

Is it cumbered? I don't know. Or is it encumbered? I think I've broken the microphone. Oh, yes. You sound really strange. Is there another one? There is.

Back in the room. Hooray. Was it because you dropped it? Yep. Did you drop it on purpose? I dropped it to do a funny mic drop joke and I broke their microphone and that'll come out of my feet tonight.

But don't you think that's right though? I think when you're in something you have to think so you know you have to there's a lot of thinking like oh yeah what were you going to say I was going to say now that your kids you have two kids yes

yeah and now perhaps your life is less governed by the drudgery of the domestic routine would that be fair very much so yes they do their bit one will be flying the nest quite soon I would imagine how's that going to feel 17 I'm in two minds about

it's many many years of that's what you know and you know when you have kids you think what was my life like before my mum was used to say and like I say she had nine children my mum always used to say you don't own your children you just you just borrow them for a bit and then they're gone and it's like God yeah you're so right and it's so fast isn't it it goes so quickly yeah it's not you don't think it will ever come to an end like it doesn't come to an end but that part of it being doing everything did you feel that way all the time or did you sometimes have little moments where you could feel them changing where you could feel the experience of being a parent of younger children pulling away from you i i miss them as babies because

i love babies so much i i would have had like 10 babies if i'd started early enough i think i had my first at 36 and my second at 40 but I would have had I mean babies are so funny and cute and great and like hard work but I don't know I miss them as babies I miss like holding them and you know chucking them around and you know them falling asleep on you yes all that kind of thing it's I think teens is a difficult age like it's not huggy like you know I I'm quite a tactile person, and so I'm quite huggy, and that's not... No, they don't like it, the teens.

No. They're anti all that. Hello, my friend, it's good to see you again. I've got to say you're looking great. I love what you've done with your nipples and your knees and your shiny ballpaste. Right now, I would like to reintroduce our musical friends tonight. Please, folks, make Alice Boyd feel very welcome. when she comes back with Daisy and Jacob.

So, Alice, you were going to play us some recordings, is that right? Because you do a lot of sound recording as part of your job, yes? Yeah, I do a lot of field recording, so I get weird microphones, and the recordings I'm going to share today are from underneath the surface of a pond. So I used a hydrophone, which is an underwater microphone, to get these different sounds. And the first time I heard it, it completely blew my mind, because they're very weird sounds, and you wouldn't expect that to be under a screen pond.

And it's not the sound of the mic breaking. I know about Mike's breaking. Oh, no, no, no. I haven't done that one yet. But maybe next time I'll go recording. Jacob, would you like to play some guitar? So the first sound I'm going to play is the sound of insect strigulating. So these are water poutemen.

That's the sound of the little skiddy guys. Yeah, that's the water boatman. And next up, this is the sound of aquatic plants photosynthesizing, which I think sounds like a weird synthesizer, almost. Why do they make that sound when they're photosynthesizing? So it's the tiny bubbles of air leaving the stomata, which is the holes in the leaves of the plants. Ah.

And so they're going very quickly and releasing these sounds. And then the next sound is a tabpole munching on the microphone. phone. And I couldn't believe it because when I looked down at the hydrophone, I could just see it nibbling away. And the final sound I'm going to share with you are some toads in a pond in Kent. And it's during mating season. It sounds like my stomach. I've got an idea. Anyway, those are my sounds. Very nice. Thank you, Alice. That was like, and I mean this in the absolute best possible way. That was like a kind of kids show from the early 70s. With Jacob playing some beautiful pastoral guitar as well. I loved it. Are you going to sing us a song

though, Alice, to take us into the interval? Yes, this is Life in Cities. In Cities now, sleep, stare, the break, see, slow, chore for you, this was now, drown On the side, the side, crying slow, stretching before some sky for you draw softly slow, small. Alice Boyd, that's called Life in Cities. Thank you, Jacob. Thank you, Daisy. I love that. Thank you so much.

Before we bring Bridget back, I'm going to reintroduce you to Frank, my son. Hey Here we go This is a new arrangement Of halfway through the podcast Halfway through the podcast I think it's going really great Conversations flowing like it worked between a geyser and his maid

All right mate Hello geiza I'm pleased to see you There's so much chemistry It's like a science lab of talking There's sponge chat and there's deep chat It's like Chris Evans is meeting Stephen Hawking. Put it to bed. Lovely work, Frankie.

Thank you so much. And let's get Bridget back. Now look, before we go any further, we've got some audience questions coming our way in this section. Amy Beardmore says, I'm a university lecturer, and we are currently tying ourselves up in knots about AI, completely devaluing academia.

What are your thoughts on the AI beast? Can she be tamed? She's gendered the beast. Or should we all just give up and go home? Have you spent any time being anxious about AI, Bridget? I haven't because I think that, and this is kind of part of my enlightenment, was that I realized that it's much easier to be happy

if you don't think about anything. I'd like I've like I've zoned out man like I don't know anything about I'm like yeah

it's probably be all right I used to be so angry about stuff like even just 10 years ago I'd be like oh my God this is so bad for this and that and this and that

and I totally reject it and I'm going to do a show about it and I'm going to campaign and I know this is wrong and wrong and I'm like what probably probably be all right anyway

what are we having for supper yeah yeah I guess you go through phases, don't you, of moving in and out of a certain kind of engagement with the rest of the world. Yes. But non-stop engagement is unsustainable. It's unsustainable. Especially these days. You know what I mean?

You have to have a bit of a break. Take like three months off. Well, it's rolling news. Apparently lockdown. So apparently our brains are not Yvon. at the same time as technology and they're not so we're actually we can't process the amount of stuff that we're being given to process so we don't process it properly like we don't read we don't read in the same way we like skim like even our hands aren't our hands changing our thumbs are

changing the thing I always remember is when it comes to technology when the Blackberry was a big thing yeah people do you remember people used to get their fingers surgically whittled so that they would be better at using the small keys on the Blackberry. No. This is true. This is true. Is it really? Yep.

No. Yeah. Because people absolutely loved the Blackberry. Back in those days, it's hard to remember, but this was pre the global dominance of Apple. But Blackberry was the piece of technology for everyone to have before the iPhone became the thing. And they had all those tiny little keys. It was so small. It was so small.

So people got their thumbs whittled Because you know the thumb is ungainly and imprecise And then As soon as they Healed over from being whittled Steve Jobs comes out and Waves the iPhone at everyone and they're like Ah s

Whittled my thumbs But that's still useful though Whittled thumbs All right here's a big question for you from Rob Breyer B-R-Y-H-E-R would you say Breyer B-R-Y-H-E-R? Breyer. Briher.

You wouldn't say the H probably. Rob? Is it Briar? Yes, Briar. Yes, Briar. Yeah. He's fucking Briar. Do you think he's been asked that before? Yeah.

He sounded just then the same way that Paul Weller sounded when I asked him if anyone had ever said to him, does anyone ever say, Paul Weller, Weller, Weller, Weller, ooh, tell me more, tell me more. Was it face to face? Face to face on Radio 2. Live with Lisa Tarbuck over in the other corner of the studio going

Sorry, I pressed both the Zimmer buttons. Is that what Lisa Tarbuck did? She went like, she didn't press the hand Zimmer button. But she may as well have done because she was just like, oh God. Anyway, listen, Rob's question, Rob Breyer's question. This is a big question. question too what will be the first line of your obituary but then but then he puts wrong

answers only Rob of yours well either one of us I'm interested in yours I guess mine will I mean depending on when I exit the party you know if it was some time in the next few years it's probably gonna be podcaster Adam Buxton at best this is that someone else writes yeah Adam Buxton guest, Bridget Christen. That's so nice of you. This is from Steve, from Bristol, Telford and Norwich. Steve says, I've just had a baby.

I bet it wasn't you. So can I get your best nugget of parenting advice? Good one. My God, I love questions like this. You do yours first. Oh, geez. Best nugget, I mean, you're asking the wrong guy. Why?

Where's Frankie? Why is your... I don't know, because it's a work in progress. You never know. That's the best answer, though. It's never done, is it? That's the thing that I like about the film, Parenthood with Steve Martin,

is that it makes it clear that the race is never over. There's never a winning line. There's never a point at which you go, smashed it. It just changes. It changes constantly, and you adjust to it. Can I ask, thank you some questions. When you think about your childhood,

does he have to pay for this? Do you need therapy? Or are you happy? I'm happy. Do you have little pockets of great memories? Yeah. It's pretty good overall. Yeah, you've done well.

I mean, thanks, Frank. He's privileged as fuck. I mean, I would hope that there would be some, happy moments considering the investment that we've made when you have a first baby especially you're really worried about

kind of dropping them or like breaking them or something like that and I remember with my first the health visitor or the midwife saying because I was really scared I was going to like knock it they put a clip on the cord you know when they I was like oh what if I knock it and its guts come out

and they were like that's not going to happen you could swing a baby round by the embellicle cord and it would be okay. And it was. But the thing is, is that babies are so like robust and solid. Like that one was flinging itself

around. And I remember when my son was born and I went around to my friend's house and they had kids that were a little bit older. And the kids were like jumping off like wardrobes and I was shitting myself. But they were all fine. And my friends were just like,

watching them like that and I was like, don't you care? But obviously they'd had, they knew that they would be fine. Actually, having said that, I was always in hospital with my kids, because they were always hurting themselves. But don't worry about it. Like, the babies are much more robust than we think they are. My sister, so you know, I'm the youngest of nine. Yes. My sister saw me from a kitchen window, I don't know how I did this, as a baby, fall out of my pram. onto my face, onto the concrete in the garden, and my nose, because you know, it's just, there's no bone at that.

No cartilage, yeah. Went into my face. And then just popped out again. She was like, your nose just like disappeared and then came back out. Isn't that so weird? Isn't it, though? Yeah. Having said all this,

you do have to be careful with babies. On the whole, you really should be very gentle with it. Yeah, be careful. Don't swing it around or anything like that. Bridget, one more question for you. This is from D, from Newport. Bridget, I loved you on ghosts as Annie and was very sad when you got sucked off.

What is that? Is that the question? Well, she says, we also loved you on Taskmaster. What's been your favorite project that you have been a guest on? Oh, a guest on? Yeah. Adam Buxton's podcast. I thank you the...

Well, Taskmaster is very different because obviously this is the best. Sure. But you're allowed to be yourself on Taskmaster, as you are here as well. Obviously, everything is prefaced with that. And once you know that, you can just kind of relax. So I think Taskmaster is such an interesting show. show to do because they kind of say to you, you've been booked because you're you, so we don't want you to be kind of something else. Yeah, you don't have to be show busy. No, and that's kind of

really freeing. And then the way that you film it is you do all your tasks with Alex first. And then, so it's like quite an intensive, often with filming or something, you just have a little bit of time, don't you? Or if you're on a, like a panel show or something like that, or a guest in someone else, it's not like really intensive quality time, but you do get that on Taskmaster, and then there's a massive gap where they edit it all together, and then you're in the studio and you watch it back.

Oh, I see. Yeah, so I think I did my tasks in like May, and then we're in the studio in the autumn or something like that. So loads of time elapses between those two things, and you can't remember what you've done or anything about it. And so you're like, A, what was that? How long do the tasks take? to film?

Well, it depends on the task. Some things took me ages, no. I was there for days. No, yeah, it just depends on the task, but the whole crew and the whole... Have you not, you've done it? No. N-F-I. That's so strange.

Isn't it strange? We should text them now. There's been texting There's all sorts of text Should we have a little bit more music Now I would love to get Alice and Jacob And Daisy back on stage

For one more bit of beautiful music On this Friday night Here in Bristol And what are you going to leave us with tonight So this song is called The Favorite And I co-wrote And produced and co-released it With Jacob here

Jacob, do you have anything you want to say about the song? I just wanted to say, Bridget, you don't need to feel ashamed of your webtoes. Your webtoes. My webtoes. Because Jacob's got some webbing going on as well. There's a lot of, it's a silent crowd of webtoes people. We've both got exactly the same webtoes.

You should be much more interested in that. I'm sorry. I reckon one person has webtoes and they're just not... In here, I think there's more than one, don't you? I mean, what the chances? There, look, loads of... Are you serious? At least two.

Is it the second and third toes on the right foot? That's right. Oh my God. I told you. You're all related. It's always the same toes on the same foot. Yep. Are either of you from Gloucester?

No. Okay. Right. This song has nothing to do with this one. So this one's going out to the webbed community? Yeah. This is the favorite. Hillside, dressed in red,

wasting the sunlight is only, while you can't ride with me. Lived in the summer, barely past June. How could this happen to see? someone summon all your seasons and where it's plans you can hardly see the surface lips like a heart but a heart so big as fool i want to say sorry for it love is such a loo as you can what's through Thank you, Jacob, thank you, Daisy.

Welcome back, Podcats. That was Alice Boyd and her band there, playing us out back in May 2024. Thank you so much to Bridget Christie for being my guest that night. As you can hear, I have left my hotel room. I'm on my way to the Stoller Hall, Manchester, where tonight the Adam Buxton Band will play another show, tracks from Buckle Up

A couple of covers Some great bans And then signing and creepy hugs afterwards And then we're in Leicester Tomorrow night And then that's it for a while But we have a couple of shows In London

Towards the end of June 23rd and 24th At the Hoxton Hall There's a link in the description This also links to a few more bits and pieces by Alice Boyd A beautiful song that she did for the RSPB About the Return of the White-Tailed Eagle

And there's a video of her playing live In Warsaw supporting Jan Tearsen She's working on her debut album at the moment Inspired by the BBC Radio 4 documentary that she made Called Shifting Soundscapes See if I can put a link to that in there as well Now I'm sitting just outside the Malmaison Hotel

in the centre of Manchester just down the road from Piccadilly Station opposite the Sainsbury's local and if you've read my book I love you bye then you will know that this was the scene of not one but two shameful drug-related moments

from my filthy past I won't tell you the whole anecdote. Suffice to say that it ended with me passing out and coming round to find myself in the lap of Sean Locke. He was looking down. In a very kindly way, it must be said. And then he spent the next hour or so

making sure I was okay. Anyway, that's what happened at the end, you'll have to read the book to find out the build-up. I've cleaned up my act since then. Now, also in the description today, there are links to various other bits and pieces. There's the live event with Mawan Rizwan. That doesn't happen until the 5th of August, 2006. But get in there early.

It's at the roundhouse. I'll be doing a live podcast with Mawan. Brilliant comedian, performer. after award-winning sitcom creator. Also, don't forget the Bug Bowie special that I am going to be doing at the Lightroom in Kings Cross. The June date for that has sold out, but there's still tickets left for second, third and fourth of July this year, 26. And I realized that I never told you how I got on at the opening night of the new Bowie film that's been made specially for the Lightroom. you are not alone. It's a critical and commercial smash. They're having to extend their

evenings to accommodate all the people that want to go and see that. If you haven't been to the light room before, I'll explain to you what it is. It uses state-of-the-art projection mapping to transform a huge cube-shaped auditorium space into something a little like the holodeck on Star Trek next generation, if you're a trekker. So sometimes being in that space feels like you're in an immersive 360-degree cinema space, surround space. Then suddenly it'll transform into something that's more like the interior of a gallery or like a kind of moving museum. Or it can put you in the center of a moonscape or a Jurassic forest.

I mean, anywhere, obviously. depending on what's being projected, but it's so brilliantly and cleverly done, all with amazing bone-shaking sound. And in the case of, you are not alone, you've got voiceover from Zavid, from hundreds of hours of interviews, talking about his approach to music and creativity throughout his career, in between moments of interviews, music videos, live performances, some of which have been re-edited in the case of the same.

Ziggi-starred as farewell show in Hammersmith. You know, Pennebaker's Spiders from Mars movie. There's bits of previously unseen concert footage from Earl's Court in 1978, the 1976 Isolar Tour, and it's really very overwhelming when you see them on these huge screens

with footage of the band and the crowd at those concerts surrounding you on all sides. It's amazing. Sensory. overload in a great way. And the film itself is just over an hour long, but it plays on a loop like all the lightroom shows. So you book a time slot and then you go in there and treat it kind of like a gallery. They've got places you can sit, you can sort of lounge around on the floor or stand or do what you like really in that space until the moment you came in, comes back around again

and then you can either bug her off or stay for a bit more. There's not really a beginning and an end, in other words, to the film. That's not how my Bug Bowie show will work, incidentally. I won't be standing there all day, repeating myself on a loop. That's what I'm doing real life. I'll be performing the show, which is more like two hours, I think, with an interval, just once on each of the days that I'm doing it. and it's going to be

if you've seen the Bug Bowie special before this will be a... It'll be more or less what you have seen but it'll be slightly enhanced with extra bits of animation. If you haven't seen the Bug Bowie show before what the absolute F have you done with your life? Please come along, put that right.

I'm fairly certain it'll be one of the greatest nights of your life especially if you include all the nights of your life in that list. Okay, that's it for this week. I've got to go and sound check. I'm in a band. Thanks to everyone at the Beacon Theatre back in 2024,

who made us feel so welcome that night. Thanks to Cross Town Promotions and the live podcast crew, especially Richard Walsh, Mike Thompson, Ben Saunders, and Lisa Lembo, and Seamus Murphy Mitchell. Thanks to Helen Green, she does the artwork for this podcast. Thanks to all at A-cast. But most of all, thanks for you. very much to you.

Sorry it's so noisy out here. Let's have a creepy hug anyway. Yeah? Come here. How's it going? Good to see you. All right, now I'm not going to shout because I'm too shy. But until the next time, we share the same Sonic Space.

Will you please go carefully? And if it makes any difference, I do love you Bye