arts
Hosted by The Sohemian Society · arts · EN-GB · 23 episodes
Radio Sohemia provides recordings of Q-and-As and talks hosted by the London-based Sohemian Society as well as interviews that aren’t staged in front of an audience. Founded in 2003, the Society originally focused on Soho bohemia, hence its name, but it has since widened its focus. Past guests range from the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson to the hairdresser-turned-memoirist Suzi Ronson, who created David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust hairstyle. The podcast's continuity announcer is Miles Cholmondley-Warner, best-known for the spoof public information films that he presented with Harry Enfield.
Required Pod Score for this show. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
29%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Radio Sohemia.
Signup to Generate a PitchRadio Sohemia provides recordings of Q-and-As and talks hosted by the London-based Sohemian Society as well as interviews that aren’t staged in front of an audience. Founded in 2003, the Society originally focused on Soho bohemia, hence its name, but it has since widened its focus.
Radio Sohemia is hosted by The Sohemian Society. The show has published 23 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Blitz: The Club That Made The Eighties" (6 September 2026, 55 minutes), "Dan Cruickshank on Soho's Architecture" (5 July 2026, 36 minutes), and "Couriers, Saboteurs & Spies" (7 June 2026, 57 minutes).
Radio Sohemia publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 23 episodes.
Booking probability for Radio Sohemia is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Radio Sohemia requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Radio Sohemia's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Radio Sohemia are Artists, Writers & Performers. Radio Sohemia has an arts audience.
The Sohemian Society hosts Radio Sohemia, an arts show with 23 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Episode #22
In conversation with the biographer Keiron Pim, the broadcaster, journalist, and Blitz Club veteran Robert Elms reminisces entertainingly about this era-defining venue and its flamboyant clientele. This is a recording...
Episode #20
Architectural historian and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank, author of “The Buildings of Soho”, shares his thoughts on the area's architectural past and his fears for its future.
Episode #19
Acclaimed historian and biographer Helen Fry joins archivist Ross MacFarlane to discuss Helen’s groundbreaking research into the White Lady/theClarence Service, a Belgian intelligence network that provided MI6 with...
Episode #18
Crime novelists Jake Arnott and Cathi Unsworth chat about Jake's more than two decade-long literary career. Their conversation inevitably features “The Long Firm”, which was adapted into a hit BBC drama series. He and...
Episode #17
Geraldine Norman, widow of the writer Frank Norman, joins Joe Daniel, Frank’s grandson, for a discussion with writer/musician Max Décharné about the underrated author of books such as “Banana Boy” and “Stand On Me”. Joe...
Episode #16
Andrew Smith, the journalist and bestselling author of “Moondust”, talks to historian Matthew Worley about “Devil in the Stack” – Andrew’s latest nonfiction book. It’s a genre-defying part memoir, part history, and part...
Episode #15
“Guardian” staff writer Patrick Barkham chats with Ross MacFarlane about “The Swimmer”, Patrick’s appropriately unconventional biography of Roger Deakin. Abandoning his lucrative career as a 1960s Soho advertising...
Episode #14
Foreign correspondent Tom Parfitt, who has worked for The Times , The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian , discusses his debut travel book with Paul Willetts. Entitled High Caucasus , it was hailed by The Spectator as “a...
Episode #13
Bestselling novelist John King – author of The Football Factory – talks to Sohemian Society co-founder and think-tank veteran Marc Glendening about “Peekaboo Bosh”, his latest foray into dystopian fiction. They also...
Episode #12
Professor John Tresch – a science historian at the Warburg Institute – in conversation with former Wellcome Institute archivist Ross MacFarlane about three early nineteenth-century inventions that anticipated the...
Episode #11
Jerry White and Travis Elborough in conversation about Jerry’s most recent book, “The Battle of London, 1939-45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire”.
Episode #10
John L. Williams and Travis Elborough discuss John’s new book, “Heatwave”, which chronicles the famously hot and eventful British summer of 1976, a summer remembered bot just for its intense heat but also for riots...
Episode #9
Join former M.P.-turned-author Simon Danczuk for an amusing conversation with the Sohemian Society co-founder Marc Glendening about the long and often downright weird history of Dolphin Square, an exclusive 1930s London...
Episode #8
Publisher Yak El-Droubie talks to the lively and charming eighty-nine-year-old former nude model Jean Sporle about her life. Their conversation focuses on late 1950s and early 1960s Soho when she worked for Pamela Green...
Episode #7
Edward Parnell is in conversation with Paul Willetts about ghost stories and bereavement, twin preoccupations of Edward’s hit nonfiction debut. Published in 2019, “Ghostland” was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize...
Episode #6
Peter Parker talks to Travis Elborough about “Some Men in London”, Peter’s recent, acclaimed and often witty two-volume collage of letters, diaries, and newspaper stories, chronicling gay male life between 1945 and...
Episode #5
A conversation between the nonfiction writers Keiron Pim and Paul Willetts. They focus on Keiron’s debut biography, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, a portrait of David Litvinoff, the East End rebel who formed an improbable link...
Episode #4
A recording of a recent Sohemian Society event at which the painter/writer Darren Coffield and the art dealer/critic Clive Jennings discuss Darren’s most recent book, “Queens of Bohemia”. It charts the rackety lives of...
Episode #3
Nonfiction writer Paul Willetts talks to the historian and former foreign correspondent Patrick Bishop about his latest book, “Paris ’44”, which provides a panoramic portrait of the Nazi occupation of the French capital...
Episode #2
A live recording of a Sohemian Society event at which Drake’s biographer Richard Morton Jack discussed his subject with the writer James Wilson, whose latest novel, The Pieces , features a Drake-inflected late 1960s...
Recent guests on Radio Sohemia. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
leading expert on espionage and clandestine operations
American Cultural Studies PhD candidate at Bowling Green State University, Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative
Founder & CEO of Reroute Americas and Reroute AI
Certified Quantum Human Design Specialist, 1/3 Orchestrator (Projector), Delmont Insurance Group
PitchCentric classifies Radio Sohemia under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ