The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Barry Ferns – My Seven Years As Lionel Ritchie
Some will know him from the dim and distant past as Barry Ferns. Edinburgh Fringe historians will know him as Lionel Ritchie. Others in the comedy scene of 2025 will know him, once more, as Barry Ferns.
And there you have the premise for his Fringe show, My Seven Years As Lionel Ritchie. This strong narrative hour charts the highs and lows of being a professional comic at the Fringe, the lead up to the shows, the many years of “this year is the one”, the debt, the bankruptcy, and the return to the scene.
We touch on many of these subjects in today’s interview to give you a flavour of what all performers face at the Fringe, as well as putting Barry's work at Angel Comedy and The Bill Murray into context.
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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Grace Helbig – Let Me Get This Off My Chest
This week's Fringe preview takes in not only a Fringe show, but the evolution of social media storytelling itself.
Grace Helbig and I start by talking about he early days of content creation on the internet... I started podcasting with the Fringe Show in 2005 while Grace started during the first flush of YouTube in 2006.
That starts us down a path of online personae, presenting yourself, and the grind of content… which was then disrupted with Grace’s diagnosis of breast cancer. Her Fringe show, “Let Me Get This Off My Chest,” is about the journey from that point, and taking it while in the public eye.
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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 – Henry Naylor, Monstering The Rocketman
As we head through July, we'll be bringing you preview interviews that help set the scene for Fringe 2025. That could be the history of the Fringe, how traditional and online media impact the arts, the future of the Festival in Edinburgh, and the impact it can have.
In our first preview, Ewan Spence meets Henry Naylor to talk about his new solo show 'Monstering The Rocketman,' a timely drama about press values through the lens of Elton John and his libel case against The Sun in the 1980s.
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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025 Prologue – Welcome To Season Twenty One
The Edinburgh Fringe Show started in 2005, and as Fringe 2025 appears on the horizon, we're going to get started on our 21st season covering the largest arts festival in the world.
We have a few traditions in these parts. One of those is our prologue podcast—a chance to ensure the website, podcast feed, and all the other digital components are ready to go. We'll have weekly preview interviews through July to help set the scene, before a rush of recordings in August.
As always, we have the music of Daniel Cainer to remind us what it's like to be in Edinburgh at this time of year.
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The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2024 Epilogue – Some Final Thoughts On The Fringe
And with that, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 comes to an end. Trying to capture everything that happened is a task worthy of Hercules, so I hope that I've brought you a flavour of the Fringe during August.
The Fringe has always faced challenges from its first days to this year and beyond. Instead of an interview to close out August, I wanted to talk a little about our Fringe community and my hope that over the next year, we can all listen to everyone's concerns and work on solutions that benefit everyone.
Let's ensure that when we all return to Edinburgh in 2025, the Edinburgh Fringe is the best it can be.
Ewan Spence brings you an exciting guide to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with news, interviews, and reviews, from behind the scenes and on the stages around Scotland’s Capital City.
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