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Updated 18/12/2025
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Updated 09/12/2021
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Updated 10/11/2020
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18/12/2025

Baroness Shami Chakrabarti

We're joined by prominent human rights activist and barrister, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, someone who barely needs an introduction owing to the many high profile roles and cases that she's undertaken in her career - a true world-leading figure in human rights and law. We discuss the creation and inception of the highly controversial Covert Human Intelligence Sources Act (CHIS Act), a law which gives immunity to agents of the state, as well as the growth of 'child spies'. There's a great deal to unpick in this discussion and we're lucky that Baroness Shami is able to walk us through it. Shami and a collection of UK politicians went above and beyond in attempts to water this bill down, and it is now an act, making it an official law. It's been described a 'dystopian'. So what's the story? We're also joined by Neil Woods, many regular podcast listeners will know Neil, he's a former undercover operative who now advocates for a raft of reforms in efforts to make our communities fairer and safer. Neil also took part in the CHIS Act discussions and briefings, so we get to hear from both Shami and Neil about the backstory and ultimately what this now all means. Please follow Law Enforcement Action Partnership across the globe and subscribe and share this podcast where you can. With appreciation form us all! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

18/12/2025

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51 min
17/01/2025 · BONUS

Limmy (Limmy's Show / Twitch & Youtube legend) • Friday Rewind

emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Limmy, originally episode 113 (a two parter) from 2016-08-31. Below is the original writeup for context: ––––––––––––––––––––––––– Congratulations on your download. You have made the correct choice. Especially being that this week the guest is comedy giant Brian "Limmy" Limond! A perfect back and forth with Glasgow's comic mastermind Limmy (and on occasion, mainly forth as Pip joins us, the listener, and lets Limmy hold court!), combing through the action packed origin story and leading us right up to around the present day, exposing the thrilling fun times as well as revealing the deep dark lows in a thoroughly down to earth fashion, including drink, fatherhood and all that entails. Such a powerful and relatable talk, and definitely one for the Limmy heads as well as those who are perhaps unfamiliar with the man behind 'Limmy's Show' and 'Daft Wee Stories' among so much more... PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting nature IMDB YOUTUBE TWITCH PIP TWITCH • (music stuff) PIP INSTAGRAM SPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTORE PIP TWITTER PIP IMDB POD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

17/01/2025 · Bonus

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2h 3m
27/07/2016

Psychedelics

Dr Suzi Gage and Scroobius Pip discuss psychedelics, including LSD, magic mushrooms and DMT. The risks of taking them, but also potential medical benefits currently being investigated. As well as discussing myths surrounding psychedelics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

27/07/2016

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46 min
26/07/2017

Cognitive Enhancers

In this bonus episode Suzi is joined by Dr Carl Roberts, a psychopharmacologist from the University of Liverpool, to chat about cognitive enhancers. Who's using them? Do they work? What do we know about them? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

26/07/2017

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33 min
21/02/2020

Special Guest - Ben Watt (Everything But The Girl / Buzzin Fly Records)

Welcome to episode 93 of Off The Beat & Track Podcast with me Stu Whiffen. This episodes special guest is Ben Watt of Everything But The Girl. I met with Ben at WeWork London and he came armed with a bag of tunes containing 7 fantastic records each which have sound tracked his life to date and we go in on that journey discussing growing up, school and how that shaped his creative path. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, chatting about bands,songwriting and new album Storm Damage and world tour see dates http://benwatt.com/ Hope you enjoy this chat and if you do please subscribe and follow the podcast on the social media links below listen to all of Bens song choices here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Y9OayAkboVTC12KkTKITk?si=9G9MTA22QDW2o_6xqdTBbw Off The Beat & Track www.offthebeatandtrackpodcast.com https://twitter.com/beatandtrackpod https://www.facebook.com/offthebeatandtrackpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/offthebeatandtrack/?hl=en Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/offthebeatandtrack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

21/02/2020

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47 min
13/07/2016

Ketamine

In episode 5, Dr Suzi Gage and Scroobius Pip chat about ketamine. It can be harmful if used frequently, but it's also an extremely useful medication, used all over the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13/07/2016

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19 min
10/08/2016

Cocaine

Suzi and Scroobius Pip talk about cocaine in this episode - a substance that can be taken in a number of different forms, and has quite different effects depending how its consumed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

10/08/2016

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25 min
05/04/2017

DMT

Dr Suzi Gage and Scroobius Pip chat about DMT - a psychedelic that has been used ritualistically for hundreds of years, which has a mystical and intriguing reputation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

05/04/2017

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21 min
15/05/2025

Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror) • Friday Rewind

emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Charlie Brooker, originally episode 275 from 2019-06-26. Original writeup below: ––––––––––––––––––––––––– …but don’t by any means think that Black Mirror is a one man show, as Charlie himself will ensure you know how important Annabel Jones is in the whole creative process! He and Pip get all the way into the whole Black Mirror phenomenon, how it works and what it is to be a showrunner, the rise of Black Mirror in the US, how Charlie is the Drake of TV according to Pip (you’ll enjoy this theory), how the auteur theory is bullshit, presenting the show to Netflix, having an exit strategy in a series and how there are less exits in a film as opposed to an episode, Bandersnatch and the three episode season, his older work including Dead Set, Nathan Barley and the various ‘-Wipes, his Screen Burn column and how haters could improve their hater game by reading some of his columns for how to REALLY dis someone… * Production note: Pip had a backup recorder running, and you’ll hear some of this at the start for a minute or so, but after that the audio is straight from the mics. Just in case you wondered why the quality shifts a touch! PIP'S PATREON PAGE if you're of a supporting nature TWITTER BLACK MIRROR DEAD SET SCREENWIPE PIP TWITCH • (music stuff) PIP INSTAGRAM SPEECH DEVELOPMENT WEBSTORE PIP TWITTER PIP IMDB POD BIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

15/05/2025

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44 min
29/06/2016

MDMA

In this episode Scroobius Pip and I talk about Ecstasy or MDMA. We talk about the risks, the myths, and some really cool research in to some potential benefits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

29/06/2016

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23 min

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