Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "Su Pollard, Lloyd Griffith, Emily Woof, Naomi Katiyo, The Mary Wallopers" (24 October 2026, 37 minutes), "Alexander McCall Smith, Big Country Redux, Vicky Featherstone, Clive Anderson, Marc Jennings, Zoe Graham" (17 October 2026, 35 minutes), and "Craig Revel Horwood, Roachford, Chloe Petts, Si King" (10 October 2026, 35 minutes).
Loose Ends publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 506 episodes.
Booking probability for Loose Ends is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Loose Ends requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Loose Ends's contact route on record: verified email.
Loose Ends is a society show with 506 episodes published.
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Stuart Maconie is joined by performer, panto star and all round beam of joy Su Pollard, who has summed up her varied career in a memoir, 'Fully Charged'. Lloyd Griffith is a comedian, presenter and choirister, but today...
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Clive Anderson is joined by writer Alexander McCall Smith whose latest novel The Isle of Good Karma takes us on a life-changing trip from the Isle of Lewis to the Himalayas. Comedian Marc Jennings is on tour with If &...
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Craig Revel Horwood on how his Strictly baddie persona earned him his pantomime villain break as well as being rammed by a trolley at the supermarket. Comedian and Taskmaster competitor Chloe Petts on how playing in...
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Clive Anderson is joined by 'Modern Family' star Jesse Tyler Ferguson who is taking on the role of Truman Capote in Tru by Jay Presson Allen at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Tim Minchin on the 15th anniversay of the hit...
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Stuart Maconie and guests are at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Salford. Baudelaire of the bus stop, local man made poetic, John Cooper Clarke reveals where he goes for inspiration. Multi-award winning...
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Stuart Maconie is joined by comedian Simon Brodkin, known for his character Lee Nelson and his stunts, slipping past security to prank the likes of Donald Trump, Seb Blatter and Theresa May. He's out on tour with a new...
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Stuart Maconie is joined in the Salford studio by the food critic and broadcaster Jay Rayner, who tells us about the worst thing he's ever done for money. Helen Rebanks, author of the best-selling book The Farmer's...
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Clive Anderson's guests include the broadcaster and journalist Janet Street-Porter who is celebrating her 80th birthday by hitting the road. In 'Janet Street Porter is Still of The Leash at 80', Street-Porter is...
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Join Clive Anderson for a party at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Taskmaster winner Sophie Duker spins great comedy from terrible encounters in her latest show Hot Beef Injection. Comedian John Kearns brings...
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Join Clive Anderson for a party at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Rosie Jones will be chatting about some of her favourite things (like gravy) and her least favourite things (like internet trolls called...
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Kiri Pritchard-McLean presents Loose Ends from the Crossed Wires Festival in Sheffield. She's joined by author and broadcaster Andrew Hunter Murray who tells us how to write novels with the aid of a spreadsheet...
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Stuart Maconie finds himself "i lár an aonaigh" - at the heart of craic, ceol, and much more at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (All-Ireland Fleadh), as Belfast hosts the festival celebrating Irish music and culture for...
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TV presenter and wine expert Olly Smith's written a novel - Death by Noir - a crisp murder mystery set among the vineyards of Sussex. Smack the Pony star Fiona Allen's taking a solo show - White Lies - to the Edinburgh...
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Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined in Salford by writer and Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall who has turned his hand to crime novels, first with Death at the White Hart and now The Parkwood Murders. Comedian Ayoade...
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West End star and Olivier Award winner Ruthie Henshall has a new memoir and as you might expect it's very glamorous and full of tales about the cast of Cats, Les Mis and Crazy for You. It also tells the story of her...
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Stuart Maconie is joined by Nigel Harman, best known for playing lovable rogue Dennis Rickman in Eastenders, he's also much in demand as a panto villian. Trained in musical theatre, he also started in Shrek the Musical...
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Adrian Lester on the art of simultaneously sword-fighting while reciting poetry in his starring role in the RSC's acclaimed Cyrano de Bergerac. Alexandra Burke pays tribute to Chaka Khan in her new show I'm Every Woman...
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Harry Shearer is a comedy legend. He’s the voice of Mr Burns in the Simpsons (and many other characters), he’s Derek Smalls in Spinal Tap, and he’s over here with a brand new musical about J Edgar Hoover. Bella Hull...
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Stuart Maconie sets up camp at Borders Book Festival in the Scottish Borders. Comedian Daniel Sloss continues his world domination with his latest show Bitter which is helping him tick off 60 different countries. She...
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Cosy crime, Mams and other people's Mam's and the joy of space travel are all explored on this week's Loose Ends. Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood reveals his Aunty Jess, a woman who thought two vegetables of...
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