Tea With Alice

Jackie Kashian is a road comic, a brilliant nerd and an all round powerhouse of thoughtfulness. We talked about the road, cartwheels, the art of conversation, online dating, the stupidity of rationality and romance novels. It was a gorgeous conversation and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as i enjoyed having it.

Catherine Jones is a specialist chest radiologist and writer, living in Queensland. We talked about the differences between practical and research based help, the place of doctors and the piece she wrote for a recently published anthology.

Alice Fraser talks to a wall about fears and revelations, the function and effectiveness of advertising, half baked ideas and self.

Richard Makim on his little experimental farm, soil regeneration and saving the world, piece by practical piece.

George Dimarelos on class, communism, argumentation and emotion. Find George on social media at @georgewhatup

Spaceacre is a duo of musicians, locked down in the south of France, making an album in the midst of the world collapsing. What does that feel like? We discuss over tea.

The anniversary of Lucy Fraser's death was 12 October. I uploaded this podcast I did with her in the final year of her life

Laura Davis is a friend of the show, and one of my favourite people in the whole world. We talk over LOTS of tea about her new bus show, and the horrible little mince man found art who is the unexpected avatar of 2020.

David Rose is a comedian and documentarian, talking with me about his ancestor, a Jewish comedian who played a caricature jew. We discuss offense, progress, context, hate speech and the function of minorities mocking themselves. Find David on twitter and instagram at @davidrosecomedy

Mitch Alexander of Not Good Enough talks about revolution, landlords and capitalism. Find him online at @notgoodpod

A time travel episode with the wonderful Ash Fontana - Angel Investor and all round business wizard, talks to me over mint tea. Before the pandemic! How much to struggle, and how not to get caught up in questioning big life choices. Intellectual Honesty. Community. Ambition. Competency. Success. Find Ash at @ashfontana on instagram and twitter

Tegan Higginbotham is a writer, presenter, comedian and friend of the podcast. We talked genre fiction and the chilling effect of online discourse. @teganmh

Gary Anderson is an LA based comedian and friend - we talk about the politics of parenting, race and conservative commentary.

Sami Shah, author, broadcaster and comedian, talks about the problem with getting the dream job, what he wants to say and what it's like getting hate mail from white supremacists AND the Taliban.

Mike Schmidt is an old friend from America, and living in the midst of the chaos there. We talked about news, standup, riots, racism and failure.

Chris Mancini is a friend of the podcast, and there's one day left on his new kickstarter. We talked about failure, storytelling, fantasy and starting businesses in a pandemic.

Nato Green is a Union Organiser, comedian and Bugle Cohost. I spoke to him about people power, his drink cart aesthetic, and whether the world can really be changed.

Corey Tutt is a scientist, Kamilaroi man and I spoke to him about the things he wrestles with as a scientist, as an indigenous Australian and some of the difficult things that brought him to the decision to create DeadlyScience, an initiative that provides science books and early reading material to remote schools in Australia. Corey's the 2020 NSW Young Australian of the Year, which is pretty fancy, but we had a lovely chat.

I spoke to NASA scientist, Vulcanologist and Science Educator, Emma Gatti about science, communication, Italy and Mona Lisa Bytes. Find Emma's new project at monalisabytes.com

I spoke to Neil Gaiman on my instagram live about the release of Savage on Amazon Prime.