Welcome to You’re Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers who would like the chance to snoop around their favourite authors’ bookshelves.I’m Daisy Buchanan, your Book Inspector, and I’ll be asking our guests all about the first forbidden books they read under the covers, the beloved books they have borrowed, and never given back, and those impressive heavyweight hardbacks that make them look like intellectual giants – even though they couldn’t get beyond the first twenty pages.We’ll al ...
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New York comedians Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton are reading celebrity memoirs so you don't have to.
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A weekly conversation between writers Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes, that covers highbrow and lowbrow culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In this podcast series, author and journalist Dolly Alderton will be talking to guests about their most defining relationships: the passion, heartbreak, longing, familiarity and fondness that have formed who they are. The podcast is being released to tie-in with Dolly Alderton’s debut book, Everything I Know About Love which is out now in paperback with a brand new chapter: Everything I Know At Thirty. Dolly Alderton is an award winning journalist and bestselling author. She has a column in ...
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Celebrating crushes and unrequited loves in all their intense and embarrassing glory. Margaret Cabourn-Smith chats to funny people like Sindhu Vee, Sarah Millican and Sue Perkins about the crushes they can't forget.
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The pop culture podcast with no filter, brought to you by besties and journalists Kathleen and Ellie.
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BBC Writers seeks out fresh voices, championing writer talent from across the UK and Republic of Ireland. We support, develop and challenge writers throughout their careers, across the BBC.
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BAFTA is a world-leading independent arts charity the UK supporting, developing and promoting the film, games and TV industires. We offer unique access to some of the world’s most inspiring talent, have a listen!
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It’s another podcast about cuddling! Missing hugs in these troubled times? This is the next best thing. Cuddle Club is the podcast where each week Lou Sanders (Taskmaster, QI, Would I Lie To You?) asks a special guest the hard hitting questions that other non-cuddle based podcasts don’t dare to. Hot stuff like: Which kid did your parents prefer? Why are we all pretending massages are normal? And, can you ever trust anyone to order for you? Previous guests include Katherine Ryan, Richard Osma ...
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Curiously compelling conversations exploring life, art and the creative spark. Hosted by Paul Blezard, the show features authors, musicians and thinkers who have appeared or who will be appearing at the Curious Arts Festival, 20-22 July. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Daisy is Insatiable is an intimate look at love, lust, life, and everything that makes sex fascinating. Why do we yearn for romance? How can we feel confident when it comes to our body image hang ups? What is the difference between sex and love? What happens when money gets involved? Each week, Daisy will be sharing a revealing conversation with a different guest - it's going to be fun, it's going to be explicit, and no-one is getting left in the dark.The podcast accompanies the launch of Da ...
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Law Roach Explains How to Build a Fashion Icon
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If you’ve ever seen a celebrity on the red carpet and thought “wow, great outfit,” that outfit was probably picked by celebrity stylist Law Roach. One of the best in the game, Law Roach recently retired from celebrity styling to focus on new ventures and this book and no one really knows what that means but we tried to figure it out. NEW MERCH!!!!!…
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We are graced with undeniable literary royalty this week. It's the stupendous, legendary Jodi Picoult! Jodi Picoult is the New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels, including Mad Honey, Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle w…
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Sally Rooney, Naomi Campbell and Nobody Wants This
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Are we the only ones not head over heels for Nobody Wants This? Critics are unanimously (and unusually) full of five-star praise for the Netflix Rom-com which has left us a little puzzled — we discuss! In other news, Naomi Campbell has fallen foul of the Charity Commission for allegedly spending money from her charity on lavish hotel rooms and ciga…
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Wilmer Valderrama Tells an American Story
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That 70 Show’s Wilmer Valderrama tells the perfect American tale. The kind where every bad thing you ever did never happened and every good thing you do is actually the best version of anything that anyone has done and also if your allies are evil thats literally not your fault. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ Join us for …
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This week we are in the esteemed company of novelist, journalist, broadcaster and all-around inspiration, the wonderful Dawn O'Porter! Dawn is the author of the bestselling mega-hits The Cows, So Lucky, Cat Lady and her latest is the highly anticipated sequel to Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, Honey Bee. She has presented a vast array of television doc…
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65. Miles Jupp LIVE at the London Podcast Festival
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Hurrah! The hiatus is over. Welcome back friends and fellow crushers. Crushed is back with the live episode recorded at the London Podcast Festival just a couple of weeks ago. If you were there, you might hear yourself chuckling. My guest is of course the inimitable (and yes, I have tried) Miles Jupp! Former News Quiz host, erstwhile portrayer of A…
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Diddy, Justin Bieber and Demi Moore’s controversial anti-ageing horror
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The Substance starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley has fast become the most talked-about horror of the year, with audiences divided on whether it’s a feminist masterpiece, or a ‘vile and disgusting’ exemplar of the male gaze. We get into how the film taps into our own fears around ageing and how Demi’s role was influenced by career-long toxic m…
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Kelly Bishop is the Third Gilmore Girl
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Before Kelly Bishop danced onto our screens as Emily Gilmore she was one of New York City’s top chorus girls, inspiring and originating a whole ass character in A Chorus Line. Between winning a Tony and having some husbands she writes one of our favorite kinds of just keep doing shit you like memoirs. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirboo…
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We're back! And we're kicking off series 16 in style with the brilliant author, journalist and broadcaster Bella Mackie! Bella is the author of the inspirational running book Jog On, the bestselling How To Kill Your Family and her highly anticipated latest What a Way To Go. We talked to her about the importance of Judy Blume, funny books, finding t…
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Jacqueline Wilson, the celeb assistant reckoning and Vogue’s new doc
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Jacqueline Wilson's GIRLS books were a defining part of our childhoods, so how does the author's 20-years-on sequel (for adults!) match up? We discuss whether the books were a good influence and how her real life inspired her writing. Also this week, we dissect all the juiciest bits from Anna Wintour's Vogue doc, and question how 'guilty' Matthew P…
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JoJo Levesque is Over the Influence
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If you think it’s just Too Little Too Late for JoJo Levesque to tell her story you can Leave (Get Out)!!! The iconic singer and actress is finally revealing how she went from an international #1 hit making 13 year old to a shelved artist for nearly a decade and boy oh boy was I begging for that story. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirboo…
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CRUSHED CLASSICS - Jessica Fostekew
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It's the last hiatus episode! In case you missed the memo, we are taking a short break from uploading new episodes over the summer. I'm away, you're away... seems like a good time for it. But the podcast will be back with a bang on the 26th of September with new guests for your ears. In the meantime, I wanted to dip into the back catalogue and shar…
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The Perfect Couple, Taylor and Travis and womens’ wildest fantasies
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Nicole Kidman’s badly-behaved-billionaires thriller The Perfect Couple is no1 on Netflix but we are divided! Kathleen loved it, Ellie didn’t, so we hash it out…(no spoilers!) and look forward to Kidman’s VERY racy film Babygirl. On that note, is The Times right to say that women’s ’dirty talk’ has become big business in pop culture? Gillian Anderso…
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Sally Field is In Pieces
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If you’re wondering what’s going on in Sally Field’s mind that allows her to be one of the best actresses of her generation she’ll tell you every last bit of it. This week’s episode goes deep into the Oscar winner’s life and lore and let me tell you it’s not what I was expecting. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ If you want…
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Come and join me and guests Miles Jupp and Kerry Godliman for two live Crusheds in London over the next couple of months. Handy links here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-2/ https://cheerfulearful.podlifeevents.com/festival/crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-live-from-cheerful-earful-podcast-festival-1…
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Dolly Alderton Explains Everything She Knows About Love
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“If you look for it, I have a sneaky feeling, that you’ll find that love, is actually all around.” - Love Actually, a movie Dolly Alderton may have seen at some point?? Who knows but the british writer and podcaster wrote a memoir about love that isn’t just about romantic love and that feels like something Love Actually should have addressed more s…
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CRUSHED CLASSICS - Chris Neill
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The hiatus continues... In case you missed the memo, we are taking a short break from uploading new episodes over the summer. I'm away, you're away... seems like a good time for it. But the podcast will be back with a bang on the 26th of September with new guests for your ears. In the meantime, I wanted to dip into the back catalogue and share an e…
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Dolly Alderton, the year of the break up and Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice
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We didn’t think celeb breakups could get bigger than Maya and Stormzy, or Bennifer, but now Molly Mae and Tommy Fury have just proven that this very much is the year of the celeb breakup (and it’s killing us!!). We try to understand why we’re all taking it so personally, and assess the very icky rumours surrounding Tommy’s recent trip to Macedonia …
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Demi Moore is Inside Out
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If you knew me four years ago no you didn’t?? Demi Moore’s memoir is one of the first we read for CMBC and over 150 memoirs later we’ve come a long way with realizing stuff. Demi Moore was once the highest paid actress in Hollywood, twice the other half of the couple of the moment, and she’s done a ton of other stuff too. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://sh…
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Bumper book special: from 2024’s hottest titles to all-time fave reads
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We’re talking books this week, hunnies, as what better time of year than to get stuck into some summer reads than holiday szn? From the hottest books of 2024 (think: Butter, Blue Sisters and Brotherless Night) to the all-time faves we're still thinking about years on, these are the titles we suggest adding to your bucket-list immediately. Thank you…
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Terri Irwin Tells the Story of Her and Steve
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It’s not every day we get a peek inside the life of one of the coolest people who ever lived. Terri Irwin is a wildlife expert and the wife of the late great Steve Irwin who literally taught me what a crocodile is. In her memoir, Steve and Me, she tells his story, their story, and you’ll probably cry!!!! NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoir…
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Catherine Newman - You're Booked
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We are ending series 15 in style with one of our all-time favourite authors Catherine Newman! Catherine wrote the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, novel for kids One Mixed-Up Night, craft book Stitch Camp and the acclaimed novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. We talked to her about food in books, Laurie Colwin, di…
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CRUSHED CLASSICS - Dolly Alderton
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Welcome to the hiatus! We are taking a short break from uploading new episodes over the summer, and we've had a lovely scattering of new subscribers, so it feels like a good time to dip into the back catalogue to share a couple of favourites that you might not have heard if you've joined us recently. First up, it's the first EVER episode, with one …
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Blake Lively’s ‘It Ends With Us’ drama, orgasm portals and Euphoria news
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Everyone’s talking about ‘It Ends With Us’ atm, huns, as some very bizarre things seem to be going down on the film’s press tour, with rumours of a feud between stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. We get into it all, from the Colleen Hoover book it’s based on, to the allegations of bad behaviour from both Blake and Justin. And what’s with the wa…
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Anna Marie Tendler Knows Men Have Called Her Crazy
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The background: Anna Marie Tendler is photographer, lamp designer, and writer who was famously married to John Mulaney. In her much anticipated memoir, she skips all the juicy goss and goes straight to the core. Whether or not you enjoy the contents of that core… well to each their own. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ Join…
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We are so, so excited about this one. Abi Daré wrote one of our favourite books of all time, the unforgettable novel The Girl with the Louding Voice. She has just released a sequel And So I Roar, which is just as compelling and delightful as the original. In a fascinating, revealing conversation, Abi discusses the contents of her 'Do Not Delete' fo…
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Charli XCX, Billie Eilish and the new Bridgerton
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Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s new collab might just be the hottest song of the summer – and we are here for it! We get into all the discourse surrounding the pop culture-dominating duo: from BRAT and Charli’s birthday party to Billie’s insane charisma and those absurd queer-baiting allegations. Next, we debrief on the Suki Waterhouse Vogue cover a…
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Michael Phelps Goes Beneath the Surface
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This week we’re swimming inside of the noggin of one of the most decorated athletes of all time. You’d think swimming back and forth all day would leave him with not a ton to say… and you’d be a little bit right… but it’s Olympics season baby tedium is how we get stronger. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ Join us as we work…
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This week we are entertaining crime writing royalty on the podcast as we welcome the legend that is Dr Kathy Reichs! Kathy is a forensic anthropologist and academic who, amongst many other things, taught FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains. She used her forensic knowledge to create the character Temperance Brennan and the first Tempe…
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It's the last episode before the hiatus! In this episode, I'm talking to American comedian Chloe Radcliffe about her experiences with unrequited love. In many ways my favourite kind of love. We talk about her first crush, and the power of being looked at with adoration. Interestingly, Chloe is not a fan of the celebrity crush, and we had a really i…
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Simone Biles, Ballerina Farm and Josh O’Connor’s best film yet
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How much should a journalist impose their own judgement in an interview? That’s the row raging on social media this week, after the Times published a profile of mega-influencer Hannah Neeleman, better known by her handle and business name ‘Ballerina Farm’. Writer Megan Agnew spent a day at Ballerina Farm in Utah with ‘queen of the tradwives’ Hannah…
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Bella Hadid, branding disasters and Maya Jama's breakup
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Maya Jama and Stormzy’s sad but beautiful breakup statement had to be the first port of call today, huns, as obviously we have been trying desperately to reconcile ourselves with their shock separation. Why are we still surprised that social media doesn’t paint a full picture of relationships? Next, we review The Jetty, Jenna Coleman’s new BBC poli…
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Simone Biles Has the Courage to Soar
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Meet Simone Biles, the gymnast so phenomenal they named an entire CMBC episode after her. And also at least one move in every single event in international gymnastics competition. Despite not even visiting a gymnastics gym until she was 6 years old, Simone Biles has become literally the most incredible gymnast in the world and she wears her heart o…
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This week on the show we're delighted to present the legend that is Robin Ince! Robin is an acclaimed stand-up, star of Infinite Monkey Cage, podcast host and the author of Importance of Being Interested, I'm a Joke, Bibliomaniac and more! We talked to him outside the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate (sorry about the extraneous noise) about obsessive b…
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Andy Cohen is The Most Talkative
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You think we can chat?? We’re no Andy Cohens. The inventor of Bravo and the latest in a long line of medium height men who host 7 talk shows a day, Andy Cohen details his rise to keeper of the housewives. NEW MERCH!!!!!! https://shop.celebritymemoirbookclub.biz/ Join us as we work out our new live show in Brooklyn July 28, August 15, and August 30!…
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Ericka Waller - You're Booked
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This week on the podcast, we visit the home of one of our favourite authors and favourite people, the brilliant Ericka Waller! Ericka is an award-winning columnist and the author of the acclaimed novels Dogs Days and Goodbye Birdie Greenwing. And, as you will hear, she is a voracious reader. We talked to her about filthy books, snacks in kids books…
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Hello! My guest this week is writer, comedian, actor and all round marvel Katy Brand. Katy is a true crusher, so I know you're going to love the conversation. Apologies in advance though - the sound is a little rougher than the producer likes to let past, but the chat is so good, I thought it was worth it. We talk about so many things - from saving…
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Katy Perry’s ‘comeback’, Zara McDermott and PR relationships exposed
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What was Katy Perry thinking making a female empowerment anthem with one of music’s most problematic men, Dr Luke? We discuss the absolute flop that is the pop star’s comeback song Woman’s World. Much more inspiring is Zara McDermott’s courageous statement following the shocking abuse she endured on last year’s Strictly from her dance partner Grazi…
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