Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Pennington

In der Mittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Kate McGinn, Associate von Seedcamp, über die erfolgreiche Auflage des Fonds Seedcamp VI in Höhe von 166 Millionen Euro.Seedcamp ist ein europäischer Risikokapitalfonds mit Sitz in London und wurde im Mai 2007 von einer Gruppe von 30 europäischen Investorinnen und Investoren gegründet. Der VC konzentriert sich auf frühphasige Startups und bietet den Portfoliounternehmen neben dem Kapital auch eine umfassende Betreuung durch das hauseigene Team an, das bei der Suche nach dem passenden Produkt für den Markt, dem Aufbau von Vertriebs- und Marketingkapazitäten, die Vergrößerung des Teams oder bei der Einführung in das globale Netzwerk von Betreibenden und Investierenden unterstützt. Im August 2017 hatte Seedcamp bereits ein Portfolio von mehr als 250 Unternehmen, die mehr als 1 Milliarde US-Dollar an Folgefinanzierungen von Kapitalgebern aus der ganzen Welt erhalten haben. Das heutige Portfolio von Seedcamp besteht aus über 460 Unternehmen, worunter sich auch die Einhörner UiPath, Wise, Revolut, Pleo, Hopin, Grover, Viz.ai, Wefox und Sorare befinden.Seedcamp hat nun den Abschluss seines stark überzeichneten Fonds VI in Höhe von 166 Millionen Euro bekanntgegeben. Seedcamp VI ist damit fast doppelt so groß wie der vorherige Seedcamp V und stellt den größten Fonds des Unternehmens dar. Zu den Kapitalgebern zählen u.a. LGT, Reference Capital, Harbourvest und Legal & General. Außerdem haben sich zahlreiche Business Angels, wie beispielsweise Michael Pennington von Gumtree, Will Neale von Grabyo, Paul Forster von Indeed, Ilkka Paananen von Supercell und Shakil Khan von Spotify bei der Auflage beteiligt. Seedcamp VI wird weiterhin europäische Founder bis zur Seed-Runde unterstützen. Außerdem wird Seedcamp die Höhe des Kapitals, welches es in Unternehmen vom ersten Scheck an investiert, phasenweise erhöhen und Kapital für Folgeprojekte bis zur Series B reservieren. Neben dem Kapital werden weiterhin das globale Netzwerk und die hauseigene Plattform für Support und Produkte zur Verfügung gestellt.

Michael Pennington graduated with full time Web Development Evening Cohort 19. I'm graphic designer that is transitioning into the field of software engineering. I enjoy anything that pushes me to use my imagination and creativity. I have too many hobbies and not enough at the same time.

RETRO RHLSTP #47 Johnny Vegas - Maniac in a Suitcase. Giving away a prize to a lucky audience member, Rich reminisces about schoolday bags and realises how much work he has got to do to re-learn his 11 old stand-up shows for his insane attempt to do them all at the Leicester Square Theatre in August and September. His guest is a man who has done Chekov, Dickens and Celebrity Juice, Johnny Vegas.It's a truly fascinating discussion about the duality of the stand-up and where a Johnny ends and Michael Pennington begins. Michael discusses the lengths that Johnny would push him to and his total commitment to being a dog on stage, whether contentment and success mean the death of the character, how to make your own audience out of balloons, why he got the worst degree in his year at University and how he got his revenge. Plus how Monkey has clung to his back like a monkey, and the funniest sex show in history. It's really good.SUPPORT THE SHOW!Check out our website http://rhlstp.co.ukSee details of the RHLSTP tour dates http://richardherring.com/gigsBuy DVDs and Books at http://gofasterstripe.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp.

Mitch goes to Edinburgh, and then London with his new one-man show, an attempt to reckon with the political fallout surrounding his alter ego, Wade Dinklington, and helps crack the case of the most infamous crime spree in history along the way.Endnotes:Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate; The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Ip Comedian, (London, Bloomsbury House, 2011) p.223, Capsule Review: Interesting, well-written history of the British Alternative Comedy Scene and Lee's place in it. Autobiographical passages are interspersed with full transcripts of stand-up performances, which, while largely autobiographical themselves, still feels like cheating. Slack Score: 4; Snark Score: 12.3 Overall FCA ranking #30Romesh Ranganathan, Straight Outta Crawley; Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being (London, Penguin/Random House, 2018), p149. Capsule Review:  Very heavy on British slang makes for somewhat challenging reading. Semi-interesting story about how Romesh went from school-teacher to semi-famous stand-up. Lots and lots of hip hop references and adulation. Slack Score: 9 ; Snark Score: 3.6; Overall FCA ranking #290Johny Vegas, Becoming Johnny Vegas (London, HarperCollins, 2011) p 67. Capsule Review: interesting read about (real name) Michael Pennington's life;  formative years, sojourn in a seminary as a child, and studying ceramics before moving to stand-up. Creation of JV character has interesting parallels with Wade Dinklington, an out-of-control alter-ego that's hard to define or reign in. Slack Score: 8.5; Snark Score: 4.4 Overall FCA ranking #87

This episode honours the terrific contributions of Michael Pennington, a veteran of some 600 or so performances of Hamlet, and countless others to boot.

New Perspectives Theatre Company has teamed up with writer David Rudkin to produce a ten-part audio series called PlacePrints. Rudkin has written stories set in different locations around the British Isles and they’ve been recorded over the past four years. The cast includes Michael Pennington, Toby Jones, Juliet Stevenson and Stephen Rea. In this episode, Steve Orme speaks to Jack McNamara from New Perspectives about how the series came together and how the company’s work has changed since its tours were called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo of Jack McNamara, credit Emanuele Costantini.

We mark the passing of Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart, whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two. After Dame Vera's death, aged 103, was announced today, composer and author Neil Brand explores her unique musical gifts. Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe's critically acclaimed work brings a new approach to the classical guitar by experimenting with instruments and repertoire. His new album Bach: Pour La Luth Ò Cembal, featuring works written for the lute but played on guitar, is number one in the Official Specialist Classical Chart. PlacePrints is a series of audio plays by David Rudkin invoking the hidden stories imprinted on ten different locations around the UK, and spanning time from the Stone Age to the present day. Jack McNamara, director of theatre company New Perspectives, has been recording these vignettes over four years with actors including Josie Lawrence, Toby Jones, Stephen Rea, Juliet Stevenson and Michael Pennington. Theatre critic Susannah Clapp reviews this ambitious endeavour. Alison Brackenbury is Front Row’s poet-in-residence this week taking inspiration from her travels around the country. Wherever she goes Alison visits museums and galleries. Their current closure this has inspired her to write new poems about some of the museums she has visited, and so, imaginatively, open them up. Today she takes us back to the 16th century and to Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. Here Mary, Queen of Scots, witnessed her husband murder her secretary, and confronted John Knox who objected to rule by ‘the monstrous regiment of women’. Presenter: John Wilson Studio Manager: Matilda Macari Producer: Simon Richardson Main image: Dame Vera Lynn

Angry comedic rants, surreal humour and a larger than life personality is how most people think of Johnny Vegas. Michael Pennington, the man behind Johnny is quite different. On this episode Sue speaks to Michael about his community work during lockdown, auditioning for Hollywood films and what he plans to do when the zombie apocalypse starts. All the music in this episode is by ‘Waiting For Smith’, go and check out more from ‘Waiting For Smith’ on Spotify and follow him on social media. This episode contains strong language and adult content. Produced by Dan Quick

In this special Geeky Brummie Episode, Ryan and the team return to MCM Comic Con Birmingham November 2018. It's a bit of a Brit Sci-Fi special We hear from: * Michael Jayston - The Valeyard from Dr Who & from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy * Lala Ward - Time Lady Romana from Dr Who * Andrew Lee Potts - Connor Temple from Primeval & Jacob Crow in his web series - Wireless * Star Wars Panel with Michael Pennington, Julian Glover, Ken Colley, and Michael Culver and * The Cast from British Indie Horror Film - The Snarling Donate at https://www.ko-fi.com/GeekyBrummie Follow Geeky Brummie on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/GeekyBrummie Follow Geeky Goings On on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/GeekyGoingsOn Follow Geeky Brummie on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/GeekyBrummie/ Like Geeky Brummie on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeekyBrummie

In this special Geeky Brummie Episode, Ryan and the team return to MCM Comic Con Birmingham November 2018. It's a bit of a Brit Sci-Fi special We hear from: Michael Jayston - The Valeyard from Dr Who & from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Lala Ward - Time Lady Romana from Dr Who Andrew Lee Potts - Connor Temple from Primeval & Jacob Crow in his web series - Wireless Star Wars Panel with Michael Pennington, Julian Glover, Ken Colley, and Michael Culver and The Cast from British Indie Horror Film - The Snarling Donate at https://www.ko-fi.com/GeekyBrummie Follow Geeky Brummie on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/GeekyBrummie Follow Geeky Goings On on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/GeekyGoingsOn Follow Geeky Brummie on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/GeekyBrummie/ Like Geeky Brummie on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeekyBrummie

Making Tracks is back and as fresh squeezed as Luke Skywalker's green milk. We travel to MCM Birmingham Comic Con and the Imperial Troops talk, recorded at 2.00pm on Saturday 24th November 2018. Listen to Michael Pennington, Kenneth Colley, Michael Culver and Julian Glover as they reminisce about their work on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Android, Spotify, Soundcloud, TuneIn IHeart radio and Spreaker. You can find us on Smart Speakers such as Amazon Alexa, Apple HomePod, Google Home, and Sonos. We are also available in your car with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, on your gaming console, and television; and of course you can find us on Fantha Tracks TV on YouTube, or the Fantha Tracks App. For all the details on how to listen in and subscribe, check out our dedicated page for Fantha Tracks Radio. You can contact any of our shows by emailing radio@fanthatracks.com or comment on our social media feeds: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ7LZotr3rQhVJwpO3b2ELw http://instagram.com/fanthatracks http://www.facebook.com/FanthaTracks https://twitter.com/FanthaTracks https://www.pinterest.co.uk/fanthatracks/ https://fanthatracks.tumblr.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@fanthatracks

Leading actor and Shakespeare scholar Michael Pennington discusses the direct effect on the dramatist's writing of the theatres he wrote for, so different from ours. From cinematic intimacy to heroic spaciousness, his plays reflect his actors' technique and the social range of his audience, allowing him the means to look further and deeper into the human condition, its public and inner life, than any dramatist has achieved before or since.A lecture by Michael Pennington, Actor and Founder of the English Shakespeare Company 6 November 2018The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/shakespeares-stagesGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

I had the great privilege to be asked to teach some masters degree students at Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich, Germany recently. I had a splendid time! The three students I worked with all had ambitious, figurative projects which they had been working on for some weeks when I arrived for my five day stint there. Daniel Riedl had made a full-size figure leaning out of a bath and was in the final sculpting stages preparing to make ready for moulding. Julian Hutcheson had just moulded his sculpt of a male torso, and in the week we mixed and cast out the silicone in the chosen flesh tone (Moldstar 20 from Smooth-On). Caterina Veronesi had sculpted a scale figure of herself which will be cast in silicone and was also in the final sculpting stages and preparing to make the mould. We had a great group chat to discuss how things work there, the education system (It's a free, government paid education which requires an extensive interview process which is a completely different model to the business-style version most makeup education systems work to) and the expected quality of work such a system produces. One great project they had was to take classic roman marble sculptures and create realistic portrait busts based on them. This was a great project as it revealed the licence artists took to portray an idealised version of someone who perhaps would really have been a good deal less attractive in reality - the photoshop of it's day. By studying the people depicted, discrepencies between reported ages and health reveal how much the idealised versions deviated from reality. Pic: The original marble bust (left)and lifelike interpretation by Julian Hutcheson (right). We also chat about how important beer is, making your own silicone wig blocks, using Monster Clay in a cold environment as well as the re-emerging point of the unavoidable trinity in all creative endeavours: “Good – Quick – Cheap...Pick two because you can’t have all three“. Dividing up large appliances Michael Pennington got in touch through our email (stuartandtodd@gmail.com) with a question about how best to know where one should divide up appliance sculpts to break them down into smaller pieces. As Todd points out, much of this is a hangover from foam latex and the shrinkage which was inevitable with that material. Silicone howver has none of these shrinkage issues, so we don't always need to divide it in the same way. That said, there are often good reasons to make a large appliance makeup into smaller, more manageable pieces. The most logical place to do this is where the sculpture is at it's thinnest, and to try and keep edges in easier-to-hide areas where possible, such as where there is naturally a crease or shadow. This was covered in more detail in a post from a while back, 'Floating Pieces' where you will also find a workbook with lots of in-depth information:  -------------------------------------------------- 'Cheap Cheap Cheap' shouldn't be 'Shit Shit Shit' Whenever we do a video tutorial, I can guarantee that someone will want to do it for less money. This is of course an inevitable occurance, as it is quite sensible to not spend money you don't need to. However, there does come a point where substitutuing can become so obsessive that eventually the end result can just look like a pile of crap. I do a wax scar, someone wants to make their own wax becasue it's too expensive. If I had a makeup using good wishes and exhaled air, someone somewhere would want to economise on that somehow. (I know of people who have made their own wax, but if you don't put a dollar value on your time or you seriously have a great idea to improve it then fine - but to me wax IS the cheaper and quicker way compared to sculpting, moulding and casting an appliance!) Whilst it is true that skill will 'work well with anything', I can assure you top pro makeup kits do not have packs of cured meats and jam instead of makeup products to use on their screen talent. If mashed banana looks just right for fat, or pus or brains then fantatsic. Just don't extend that to 'I'll never need to buy another makeup product again'. Once you've seen outsandingmakeup work done firsthand, then your priorities change. You decide instead of trying to do something as quick and cheap as possible, you would rather try and do something as good as possible. Like that trinity of choices above, pick two and decide which you would rather have in your portfolio. Latex is a material that often gets used in colleges because it is cheap and easy to get. Howver, it requires more skill to paint it to appear like real skin than silicone appliances, so there is always a trade off. We would encourage you to get good at using cheap materials on a small scale, and then gradually scale up as you improve. Beware clickbait and attention grabbing use of foodstuffs - if there was a way of not buying makeup then we can assure you working professionals would be the first in line at the grocery store! Jam may be fine for a kids halloween party, but it won't do you any favours in a working portfolio. Till next time. Stuart & Todd  

Muchos individuos y organizaciones trabajan en el contexto de metas y planes anuales, ciclos de ejecución de 12 meses. Este libro redefine tu año como un año de 12 semanas.  En 12 semanas no hay tiempo que perder, se aumenta la urgencia, la claridad y el enfoque. Te obliga a concentrarte en lo más importante para tu negocio y lo que genera más impacto en tus resultados. En este episodio revisamos el libro El Año de 12 Semanas (The 12 Week Year, 2013), libro del consultor de negocios Brian P. Moran y su socio Michael Lennington, en el que vemos a detalle cómo lograr en 12 semanas los resultados que tu empresa consigue normalmente en 1 año. Aceleración de resultados, concentración y enfoque, administración de tiempo... todos los puntos clave para conseguirlo tratados a detalle y listos para pasar a la acción.    Este libro lo puedes adquirir ahora mismo en Amazon, aquí: The 12 Week Year, de Brian P. Moran y Michael Pennington. Y en esta página encuentras las notas del episodio de hoy: https://librosparaemprendedores.net/079   ________ Episodio patrocinado por Instituto de Emprendedores: Conoce el Plan Midas, 5 fases y 10 pasos para pasar de no tener ni siquiera una idea de negocio a tener una empresa de éxito, funcionando, generando ingresos y calidad de vida para ti y los tuyos. Enfócate en conseguir tus metas con una empresa que te proporcione los mejores resultados. El Instituto de Emprendedores te da el plan de ruta para alcanzarlo. Contenidos y coaching grupal con Luis Ramos, de Libros para Emprendedores. Consigue tus metas, ¡AHORA!  ________ ¿Necesitas un hosting de garantías para tu página web? ¿Rápido y con el mejor servicio al cliente? En Libros para Emprendedores utilizamos Siteground, porque nos da flexibilidad, rapidez en el servidor y rapidez en el servicio. Habiendo probado muuuuchas otras opciones, nos quedamos con Siteground, porque por muy poco más, obtienes mucha más calidad y tranquilidad. Haz click aquí para obtener un 60% de descuento al contratar tu servidor Siteground: https://librosparaemprendedores.net/siteground   _______________   Esta es nuestra página oficial de Facebook: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/facebook Nuestro grupo de Retos para emprendedores: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/retos   Además, recuerda que puedes suscribirte al podcast en: - Nuestra página: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/feed/podcast - iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/libros-para-emprendedores/id1076142249?l=es - Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibrosparaemprendedoresNet - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qXuVDCYF8HvkEynJwHULb - iVoox: http://www.ivoox.com/ajx-suscribirse_jh_266011_1.html - Spreaker: http://www.spreaker.com/user/8567017/episodes/feed - Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=81214   y seguirnos en Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EmprendeLibros ) y en Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/EmprendeLibros/ ).

Muchos individuos y organizaciones trabajan en el contexto de metas y planes anuales, ciclos de ejecución de 12 meses. Este libro redefine tu año como un año de 12 semanas.  En 12 semanas no hay tiempo que perder, se aumenta la urgencia, la claridad y el enfoque. Te obliga a concentrarte en lo más importante para tu negocio y lo que genera más impacto en tus resultados. En este episodio revisamos el libro El Año de 12 Semanas (The 12 Week Year, 2013), libro del consultor de negocios Brian P. Moran y su socio Michael Lennington, en el que vemos a detalle cómo lograr en 12 semanas los resultados que tu empresa consigue normalmente en 1 año. Aceleración de resultados, concentración y enfoque, administración de tiempo... todos los puntos clave para conseguirlo tratados a detalle y listos para pasar a la acción.    Este libro lo puedes adquirir ahora mismo en Amazon, aquí: The 12 Week Year, de Brian P. Moran y Michael Pennington. Y en esta página encuentras las notas del episodio de hoy: https://librosparaemprendedores.net/079   ________ Episodio patrocinado por Instituto de Emprendedores: Conoce el Plan Midas, 5 fases y 10 pasos para pasar de no tener ni siquiera una idea de negocio a tener una empresa de éxito, funcionando, generando ingresos y calidad de vida para ti y los tuyos. Enfócate en conseguir tus metas con una empresa que te proporcione los mejores resultados. El Instituto de Emprendedores te da el plan de ruta para alcanzarlo. Contenidos y coaching grupal con Luis Ramos, de Libros para Emprendedores. Consigue tus metas, ¡AHORA!  ________ ¿Necesitas un hosting de garantías para tu página web? ¿Rápido y con el mejor servicio al cliente? En Libros para Emprendedores utilizamos Siteground, porque nos da flexibilidad, rapidez en el servidor y rapidez en el servicio. Habiendo probado muuuuchas otras opciones, nos quedamos con Siteground, porque por muy poco más, obtienes mucha más calidad y tranquilidad. Haz click aquí para obtener un 60% de descuento al contratar tu servidor Siteground: https://librosparaemprendedores.net/siteground   _______________   Esta es nuestra página oficial de Facebook: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/facebook Nuestro grupo de Retos para emprendedores: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/retos   Además, recuerda que puedes suscribirte al podcast en: - Nuestra página: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/feed/podcast - iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/libros-para-emprendedores/id1076142249?l=es - Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibrosparaemprendedoresNet - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qXuVDCYF8HvkEynJwHULb - iVoox: http://www.ivoox.com/ajx-suscribirse_jh_266011_1.html - Spreaker: http://www.spreaker.com/user/8567017/episodes/feed - Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=81214   y seguirnos en Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EmprendeLibros ) y en Facebook ( 

Samira Ahmed talks to the violinist Kyung Wha Chung, who after five years recovering from a finger injury is now performing the complete Bach Partitas and Sonatas. Murray Lachlan Young, the first poet to receive a million pound contract from EMI, discusses his collection How Freakin' Zeitgeist Are You?Hisham Matar, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize, and Briony Hanson review the Egyptian film Clash, which is set entirely in a police truck in Cairo in 2013.Michael Pennington pays tribute to the late theatre director Michael Bogdanov, who founded the English Shakespeare Company.Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser.

Michael Pennington is a leading Shakespeare actor who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with director Michael Bogdanov and has performed at theatres across the world. He is the author of several books about Shakespeare's plays - the most recent of which is King Lear in Brooklyn. He also performs a solo Shakespeare show Sweet William. He is interviewed by Dr Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge and one of the BBC and AHRC's New Generation Thinkers. Part of a series of discussions in which leading figures explore the way Shakespeare has depicted their profession in his plays.Producer: Torquil MacLeod

The timeless Shakespearean characters of Lear and Rosalind are given a voice through the different and unorthodox approach of their biographers, in two newly-published books. Michael Pennington, who played King Lear in New York and is currently touring the UK, takes us on a journey through the play from the point of view of Lear himself, commenting on its motives and themes in Lear’s own words, in King Lear in Brooklyn. Angela Thirlwell explores the fictitious life and the many after-lives of Shakespeare’s progressive heroine Rosalind, and her perennial influence on drama, fiction and art, using interviews with actors and directors in Rosalind: A Biography of Shakespeare’s Immortal Heroine.

Nina Stibbe's latest novel Paradise Lodge follows Lizzie Vogel as she skips school to work at a residential care home. The book draws on the author's own experience as a teenager and is the second of a trilogy of Lizzie Vogel novels. Nick Hornby's TV adaptation of Stibbe's highly successful first book Love, Nina - based on the author's time as a nanny to a literary north London family - is currently on BBC1 on Saturday nights starring Helena Bonham Carter.Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling team up in The Nice Guys, the neo-noir crime buddy comedy film directed and co-written by Shane Black in which the unlikely pair investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s LA.Michael Pennington talks to Samira about his new book King Lear in Brooklyn, a combination of an analysis of the play and its characters, alongside his experiences playing the role for the first time - in Brooklyn, New York.Moby's memoir Porcelain details the electronic musician's life before he released his album Play in 1999 and became an international star. He tells us about what made the club scene in '90s New York so special and how he copes with his critics.

RHLSTP #71: Johnny Vegas - Maniac in a Suitcase. Giving away a prize to a lucky audience member, Rich reminisces about schoolday bags and realises how much work he has got to do to re-learn his 11 old stand-up shows for his insane attempt to do them all at the Leicester Square Theatre in August and September. His guest is a man who has done Chekov, Dickens and Celebrity Juice, Johnny Vegas. It's a truly fascinating discussion about the duality of the stand-up and where a Johnny ends and Michael Pennington begins. Michael discusses the lengths that Johnny would push him to and his total commitment to being a dog on stage, whether contentment and success mean the death of the character, how to make your own audience out of balloons, why he got the worst degree in his year at University and how he got his revenge. Plus how Monkey has clung to his back like a monkey, and the funniest sex show in history. It's really good.SUPPORT THE SHOW!Check out our website and become a badger and see extra content http://rhlstp.co.ukSee details of the RHLSTP tour dates http://richardherring.com/gigsBuy DVDs and Books at http://gofasterstripe.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week actor Hugh Jackman on his new film Prisoners and pianist Alfred Brendel discusses his new career as a performance poet in collaboration with his cello-playing son. Performer Johnny Vegas - aka Michael Pennington - on how he was almost destroyed by his stage-name. Kirsty Lang talks to War Horse author Michael Morpurgo to mark his 70th birthday and John Wilson launches the BBC Short Story Competition - with short-listed author Sarah Hall - and meets American artist Richard Serra.

With Mark Lawson Comedian and actor Johnny Vegas - real name Michael Pennington - talks to Mark about dropping out of seminary school before embarking on a career in stand-up comedy and how his drunken persona threatened to take over entirely. His autobiography Becoming Johnny Vegas takes a candid look back at the person behind the persona. This week sees the publication of Solo in which a 45-year-old James Bond, haunted by his memories of his service at the D-Day landings, is sent from 1960s London to help end a war in the fictional African state of Zanzarim. William Boyd discusses how he went through the Fleming canon to learn about the UK's most celebrated spy, writing him from a modern day perspective which meant dealing with his 70-a-day cigarette habit and ferocious drinking, plus why he includes a recipe for Bond's salad dressing. The next writer in Front Row's series of interviews with the contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 is Lucy Wood, whose story is about a group of ghosts that watch over a Cornish house and its changing inhabitants. Notes from the House Spirits is broadcast tomorrow at 3.30pm on Radio 4. Producer Ella-mai Robey.