About this episode
The hosts reflect on a tumultuous year filled with publishing challenges and their first live shows while teasing future projects.
Bloody hell, that was a bit of a year, wasn't it?! Join us while we pour a festive glass of gravy, scrub our sprouts and wrap presents*. We reminisce on the year that saw the book nearly have a rubbish cover, get cancelled, resurrected, moved to a new publisher, sell out as that publisher went into liquidation, have a third of its backers wait for their book, get republished and finally reprinted just in time for Christmas! Not to mention our first ever live shows at the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! We also tease what's coming in 2026, including a "Once in every lifetime" new series... To buy the book "Talking Bottom: A Guide to the Cult Sitcom," our Lamb and Flag & Hammersmith Bugle tea towels or listen to more episodes, click here: https://linktr.ee/talkingbottom Oh and one more thing: MERRY BLOODY CHRISTMAS * The book and the tea towels, of course!
Topics covered
- Christmas
- year in review
- publishing
- live shows
- future projects
Keywords
- festive
- gravy
- sprouts
- Rik Mayall Comedy Festival
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Talking Bottom: A Guide to the Cult Sitcom, Lamb and Flag tea towels, Hammersmith Bugle tea towels
Books & works: Talking Bottom: A Guide to the Cult Sitcom
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