30 episodes

Do you ever wonder how your friends really see you? What would life be like if they weren't around? Parents, partners, children all come and go, but our friends stay - witnesses, cheerleaders, therapists, playmates. Each friendship is unique. But what makes it work? Two friends answer 17 questions about each other - on their own and without conferring. Each episode is a combination of those answers, flipping open the blueprint of one of the world's most valuable things - a friendship.
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The Friendship File Podcart

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.8 • 45 Ratings

Do you ever wonder how your friends really see you? What would life be like if they weren't around? Parents, partners, children all come and go, but our friends stay - witnesses, cheerleaders, therapists, playmates. Each friendship is unique. But what makes it work? Two friends answer 17 questions about each other - on their own and without conferring. Each episode is a combination of those answers, flipping open the blueprint of one of the world's most valuable things - a friendship.
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    6. Daisy and Emma

    6. Daisy and Emma

    Two girls meet in the middle of a Cambridge quad. One looks like a movie star; one had a movie director for a dad. Both would bring history to life in different ways. Daisy Goodwin is a TV producer, screenwriter, best-selling novelist and the creator of the global hit show, Victoria. Her friend Emma Fearnhamm has had a long and brilliant career as a history teacher and head of Sixth Form. Over forty years of friendship - who is the communicator, who is the wardrobe co-ordinator, who is the terrible driver ... and who gave who nits?
     
    Find Daisy’s latest book, Diva, about the passionate love affair between opera singer, Maria Callas, and shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, here. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diva-Brand-new-Bestselling-heartbreaking-legendary/dp/1035906708

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    • 25 min
    5. Ssega and Nick

    5. Ssega and Nick

    A Year Two impressed a Year One by standing up to his sister. Now they impress each other in different ways - an award-winning musician and one of London's most successful dance party organisers. Ssega and Nick - a friendship with an extraordinary soundtrack.
    Ssega is the musician and artist Love Ssega , original frontman-songwriter of Grammy-winning group, Clean Bandit, and also founder of Black-led clean air movement LIVE + BREATHE . A previous Artist in Residence for Philharmonia Orchestra, this summer he has been co-commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance Theatre for ASSEMBLED, premiering on Saturday 6 July 2024 in Stratford-Upon-Avon https://www.rsc.org.uk/kyoto/kyoto-conference/assembled>.
     
    Website & Social Media:
    https://www.lovessega.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/lovessega
    https://twitter.com/lovessega
     
     
    Nick is perhaps better known as Shabba Party, curating carnival-inspired parties in London and beyond and entertaining thousands of people on a weekly basis. You can keep up to date with @shabbaparty and his events on Instagram.

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    • 22 min
    4. Laura and Simon

    4. Laura and Simon

    Why did two young actors bring a rehearsal to a dead stop? What began this friendship of in-jokes, money-making schemes suggested and rejected, ex-girlfriends comforted and meals cooked? Oh - and does she actually like skiing? Listen to Laura and Simon uncover the friendship of a lifetime.
    Laura Shavin is an actress, presenter and voice artist - find out more here https://fvo1.com/voice-over-samples/.
    Her podcast,The Offcuts Drawer talks to writers about their unpublished work. Find that here - https://offcutsdrawer.com.
    You can discover Simon Pearsall's (brilliant but unprofitable!) cartoons here - pearsallcartoons.com.
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    • 22 min
    3. Ann and Sue

    3. Ann and Sue

    Who knew that this intense schoolgirl would become one of the world’s most successful crime writers? Ann Cleeves - creator of the Vera, Shetland and Two Rivers novels - and her friend, Sue Beardshall, reveal the inside story of nearly 60 years of friendship. Why is bread so important? Who has got stuck in The Woodyard? And what is the problem with the dog?
    Pre order The Dark Wives, Ann's thrilling new mystery, a DI Vera Stanhope novel (as seen on ITV's Vera) here.
    Find out more about all Ann's writing here.
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    • 23 min
    2. Helen and Tony

    2. Helen and Tony

    Comedy legends Helen Lederer and Tony Slattery's 41-year friendship has dealt with everything including - literally - the kitchen sink. Why did he send her bouquet saying 'whoops'? Why did she ask everyone at her party for Germolene? Why did they play tennis on a hotel roof in Egypt? And who actually dropped the vase on Going for A Song? Find out in the first of our new series of irresistable friendships.
    Find details of Helen's brilliant memoir, Not That I'm Bitter here and her Comedy Women in Print book prize here.
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    • 24 min
    1 Welcome to Series Three

    1 Welcome to Series Three

    Aaaaand ... we're back with more friends answering 17 questions about each other - recording on their own and without conferring. Here's a taster. Plus, we reveal which amazing friends start us off in our first episode - coming soon. Have a listen to the trailer to find out who it is.iHk5skcyiznW25KSM9Dz


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    • 1 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
45 Ratings

45 Ratings

Violetta x ,

Beautiful

Insight into friendships, love this

Rina Pathare ,

Beauty of friendships

Uplifting to hear the love between friends - one of best podcast series out there

HardtoPleaseHenry ,

Friendship File ❤️

Best series I’ve come across in a while!!Really enjoyable and touching.

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