Posers Podcast

Rebecca Mileham & Richard O Smith

My new EP Underground is out soon, and I am going on tour with Simon Waldram and Kevin Hewick, which is amazing and mad.

  1. What Lies Below

    03/19/2022

    What Lies Below

    I wrote this song while walking in the muddy countryside near where I live in Oxfordshire. It reminded me of William Smith and his geological maps that changed the world - these are the colours written on the earth in the lyrics. Thank you to Simon Waldram for mixing this!

    3 min
  2. Singing in the Stable - how a 7th-century cowhand became the first named poet in England

    05/14/2021

    Singing in the Stable - how a 7th-century cowhand became the first named poet in England

    Hear a charming tale from Whitby Abbey’s earliest years, about Caedmon the cowhand. Unable to read or write, Caedmon nonetheless awoke one morning with a supernatural gift for putting scripture to music and singing it – becoming the first named English poet, and earning himself a place among the brotherhood of monks.

    2 min
  3. Bram_Stoker_Dracula_Diary

    04/09/2019

    Bram_Stoker_Dracula_Diary

    Whitby Abbey commissioned me to retell stories about their atmospheric site, and record them for the new museum on site. In this Dracula Diary, I imagine Bram Stoker's real-life family holiday in Whitby, and how it inspired his most famous book. It was great working with English Heritage on this project.

    4 min
  4. Diagnosis: House and Amongst the Reeds

    09/15/2016

    Diagnosis: House and Amongst the Reeds

    Two plays by Clean Break theatre company, telling serious stories about faith, hope, truth and justice. In 'House' a family reunion is going badly wrong, while in 'Amongst the Reeds', two young women struggle for survival on the streets. Rebecca Mileham diagnoses some of the issues for The Sick of The Fringe on another busy day at the Edinburgh Festival.

    2 min
  5. Diagnosis: Tez Ilyas

    09/15/2016

    Diagnosis: Tez Ilyas

    Comedian Tez Ilyas explores what it means to be a British Muslim in a world of post-Brexit uncertainty. Rebecca Mileham diagnoses the issues, between mouthfuls of dinner, in her first evening in Edinburgh for The Sick of The Fringe. PS The actor was Michael Fenton Stevens. Image by www.comedycv.co.uk/tezilyas/index.html

    4 min
  6. Diagnosis: Sofie Hagen

    09/15/2016

    Diagnosis: Sofie Hagen

    What does it really mean to be an introvert? Sofie Hagen demonstrates it can involve being warm and funny, as well as having a particular fondness for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, as Rebecca Mileham discovers in her diagnosis for The Sick of The Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. Image by Karla Gowett

    3 min
  7. Edinburgh Fringe: the Chinese opera

    08/27/2016

    Edinburgh Fringe: the Chinese opera

    In this dual-language interview (made possible by a fantastic Mandarin translator) Rebecca speaks to the director of A Terrified Soul - a retelling of Macbeth using traditional Chinese opera techniques.

    8 min
  8. Edinburgh Fringe - Thursday and Friday

    08/27/2016

    Edinburgh Fringe - Thursday and Friday

    Two more days of frenetic show-going see Rebecca queuing for a psychological thiller with Oxford theatre group Not Quite Write - and then talking to the play's creator Kashyap Raja. All too soon it's Friday, and time for the final performance, Last Dream (on Earth), before it's time to go home.

    9 min
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My new EP Underground is out soon, and I am going on tour with Simon Waldram and Kevin Hewick, which is amazing and mad.

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  • Creator
    Rebecca Mileham & Richard O Smith
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2022
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
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  • Show Website
    Posers Podcast