Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts

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John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you to the Sound Heap podcast – the podcast of podcasts. It will give you a taste of shows from across the Sound Heap network, which was set up in 2008, with a simple mission statement: “Make Too Many Podcasts,” and Lord knows we’ve been churning them out since then.

FEB 16

Soap Far Soap Good

Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network CEO slash "Fun Captain" John-Luke Roberts takes a walk down memory lane, back to when this podcast was the only podcast on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network, before getting into it - finely-curated slices of the best podcasts released in the world this week on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network. You'll hear clips from: Rememberama, where talking heads reminisce about the time that Percy Pigs released an anatomically-accurate spin-offDiary Of A Tiny CEO, with special guest Lyndsay Gott, who has set up a very interesting new training companyThe shortest-ever edition of If You Had A Cupboard In Your Lower Back What Would You Keep In It?Elty Jomb's Lobberly Interviews, with very special guest Kat Bosch...and more! Plus there's an extended listen to this week's Soap Far, Soap Good, the podcast all about bubbleologists. Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kate Cheka, Gareth Gwynn, Kieran Hodgson, Rosie Holt, Eleanor Morton, Jo Neary, Will Sebag Montefiore. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

43 min
JAN 19

The Sounds Of Silence

Sound Heap Inc. CEO and "Fun" Captain, John-Luke Roberts presents a selection of the very best podcasts on the Sound Heap Inc. podcast network this week. These include pods that haven't featured before, such as: Beekeepers Regret ItHer Name's Sue But What Does She Do?Uses Of An OnionThe Sound Of SilenceImagination Airport...and some old favourites like RatathreeillieTherapissedPlus, there's an extended listen to the latest edition of Diary Of A Tiny CEO, where three-inch-tall CEO Tommy Starling interviews the entrepreneur behind "Gruff Grafters", a self-empowerment scheme for dogs. Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kylie Brakeman, Paddy Gervers, Rosie Holt, Eleanor Morton, Brendan Murphy, Jo Neary, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Janet Varney. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

43 min
12/15/2025

We Heap Your Sounds

John-Luke Roberts presents another episode made up of our supporters' ideas for podcasts that could be on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network. You're going to hear: PlatyPlus: a podcast which discusses which features would be good or bad to add to a platypus (Pia)Explaining British Food to Americans (Amy Goldschlager)64 Slices of American Cheese: Hosts and guests run through all the ways they'd use a package of 64 slices of American cheese, no repeats (Kyle McCowin)Plague Doctor Fashion Slapdown: A fun, flirty, leech-riddled recap of the very latest in Plague Doctor Fashion Trends (Mirabai Knight)Bitch-fest: A show where professional dog show trainers complain about the entitled show-dogs they're currently training. (Peter Rowe)Alphabest: The hosts buy and test / consume every item from their local supermarket in alphabetical order and rank them to see whether alphabetical order correlates with qualatative order. (Tom O'Callaghan)No Fact Like A Factoid: Hosts compete to say the most wrong but plausibly true thing (Robert Wells)Watching All The Films: Film chat podcast, but they've started with that one of the train coming in to the station and they're trying not to miss anything out (Robert Wells)...as well as a possibly-too-meta look at how we landed on how to do Kim Grazulis's idea of Quran Quran: A Muslim Perspective on pop rock group Duran Duran. PLUS! Did we just write the song of the summer? Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kylie Brakeman, Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Jo Neary, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Bilal Zafar. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

46 min
11/17/2025

Your Heaps Of Sound

John-Luke Roberts kicks off the fifth series of Sound Heap with a very special episode - it's all made up of our supporters' ideas for podcasts that could be on the Sound Heap Inc. Podcast Network. You're going to hear: King's Queen: King Charles' unfiltered thoughts about deepcut Queen songs (Georgia McMaster)Theatre Corner: Hosts attend live theatre and movies and review the venue itself, ignoring the show (Kyle McCowin)PlatyPlus: a podcast which discusses which features would be good or bad to add to a platypus (Pia)Words?: the podcast of repeating different words until they have lost all of their meaning (Caleb Ruopp)Putting On Trousers - Left or Right Leg First? (Alec McLure)Doug: It's just Doug being Doug (Peter Rowe)Counting Paperclips Until I Run Out Of Paperclips (Jon D)Chowder Brothers Present: Bisques (Johnathan Munroe)Now That's a Knife!: the world's premiere knife discussion podcast (David Sinrilus)An American Names All The British Words They Can (Kim Grazulis)Plague Doctor Fashion Slapdown: A fun, flirty, leech-riddled recap of the very latest in Plague Doctor Fashion Trends (Mirabai Knight)Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kieran Hodgson, Rosie Holt, Eleanor Morton, Brendan Murphy, Jo Neary, Will Sebag-Montefiore and Bilal Zafar. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

44 min
08/04/2025

Necromancing The Band

In this series four finale, Sound Heap Inc. CEO and "Fun" Captain, John-Luke Roberts presents some clips from the best shows on the Sound Heap Inc. podcast network this month, like he's done in the other episodes of this fourth series. Necromancing The Band, where guests assemble their dream boyband made up of dead peopleI Lived It: I Keep Getting Hit In The Face By People Giving DirectionsAlan Bennett Reflects On Super MarioRatathreeille, where people discuss what a sequel to Disney Pixar's 2007 animated classic Ratatouille would be likeDiary Of A Tiny CEO...and more! Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Jeremy Bent, Kate Cheka, Jonny Donahoe, Alexis Dubus, Alice Fraser, Gareth Gwynn, Kieran Hodgson, Rosie Holt, Sooz Kempner, and Alison Spittle. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

38 min
07/07/2025

ShrekFishing - The Musical!

Sound Heap Inc. CEO and "Fun" Captain, John-Luke Roberts presents a selection of the very best podcasts on the Sound Heap Inc. podcast network this week. These include: Nowmance, the show about modern romanceThe Apocalypse, By Bernard TitsMy Best DoodleHobby BobbiesSpookyspookspookspookspook...and more! Plus, there's an extended listen to the documentary by investigative Soosty, Soosty Carpripe, about Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber's forthcoming ShrekFished - The Musical!, a light-hearted, musical romp based on the despicable act of ShrekFishing (which is when a man - it's always a man - tricks a woman into a relationship by falsely claiming to be playing Shrek in a touring production of the musical, Shrek). Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Andy Barr, Margaret Cabourn Smith, Ken Cheng, Jonny Donahoe, Alexis Dubus, Gareth Gwynn, Kieran Hodgson, Sooz Kempner, Hal Lublin, and Bilal Zafar. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

42 min
06/09/2025

Too Many Podcasts

After hearing what some of our less-heralded podcasts had to say about not ever being included in the Sound Heap Taste Pod, CEO & Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts is delighted to include some of our less-heralded podcasts in the Sound Heap Taste Pod. Hopefully that will shut them up for a bit. You'll hear clips from Too Many Podcasts, including: Fake Eyelash DisastersThey Won't Let Us In The Scouts (We're Too Old)Closing Thoughts With Allison BoonrayThe Financial Advice Podcast Where The Answer's Always "Er... No"My Ideal Pick'n'MixMy Name's Wendy BibesBug News!AmphoramaDoes Ronald McDonald Wear Make-Up, Or Is That Just His Skin?Let's Invent A New Type Of CutlerySpecial ScienceThugs In Nappies: The Organised Violence Of The Dulwich Baby GangWhy Did I Come In Here?Cow-MenPhilosophWhy?Oh Yuck, I'm WetETYMOLOGY NOW!The Podcast Possibilities Are EndlessStripping TipsYou Honk My HeartForgotten Movie Monsters From The Golden Age Of HollywoodHistory, But Fun!Ghost Stories, InterruptedMennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.Motivational Podcast No. 17I'm Being Chased By Some Surprising Old CelebritiesOh My Goodness I Pay My Taxes, What Was The Question?....and that is just the first twelve minutes. We really cannot stress enough how many podcasts there are. Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Andy Barr, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Ken Cheng, Saima Ferdows, Alice Fraser, Kieran Hodgson, Sooz Kempner, Hal Lublin, Joz Norris, Luke Rollason, Alison Spittle and Shea Wotjus. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

37 min
05/26/2025

Not ANOTHER Rat Zoo!

Sound Heap CEO John-Luke Roberts presents a selection of the best shows on the Sound Heap Inc. podcast network this week. You'll hear clips from When Do You Put Out Your Bins?Sayings TestedSecret Lives of Cereal MascotsNot ANOTHER Rat Zoo!If You Had A Cupboard In Your Lower Back, What Would You Keep In It?Elty Jom's Lobbly Sonds...and more, including an extended listen to Mister Masters, a behind the scenes look at the modern world of the Mister Men books. Sound Heap was created and hosted by John-Luke Roberts, and featured Ken Cheng, Alice Fraser, Kieran Hodgson, Sooz Kempner, Joz Norris, Ada Player, Luke Rollason, Alison Spittle, and Bron Waugh. The original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch & Compass, and the show was mixed by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post. It was produced and edited by Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions. Sound Heap is a proud member of the Maximum Fun network.

39 min

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TRAILER

A NEW SERIES

Sound Heap, with John-Luke Roberts, the award-winning podcast where your favourite comedians improvise made-up shows, is back for a second season, exclusively on Maximum Fun! We've also re-released the first season on this feed - that’s twelve episodes featuring fake podcasts like How To Put Out A Raging Fire (Mainly Guesses), Ratathreeeille, and the hard-hitting documentary, Sticky: The Men Who F*** Glue - before the brand-new second season starts on the 19th February. MaxFun is a worker-owned co-operative that has brilliant real shows like The Beef and Dairy Network News, Judge John Hodgman and Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, and Sound Heap is an unconstitutional dictatorship that has brilliant fake shows like If You Had A Cupboard In Your Lower Back, What Would You Keep In It?, Learn Baby Learn, Disco In-Learno, and Diary of a Tiny CEO. There can only be one victor: that’s you, the listener. Sound Heap, with John-Luke Roberts: now exclusively on Maximum Fun.

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13 Ratings

so much podcast!

04/24/2024

madcheshirekatt

definitely more podcast than any other podcast i’ve listened to, i’d say. hilarious, wonderfully done, perfect amount of crabs
Fantastic concept, middling execution

04/15/2025

Sprinklepuddin'

This is a great idea for a show, but the individual cuts are rarely amusing. Had hoped it would find its footing with time, but no luck.
Hard to find from promos but funny

02/08/2024

ActiveEqualization

It sounded like “Sound Tea” the first four times I listened to your promo. I suggest hitting that P in heap a little harder to get to North American ears ! I think it’s too funny to hide under a silent P.
Sound Heap is undeniably one of the podcasts EVER

02/07/2024

You'relojfd

It’s legitimately a podcast, able to be listened to by (in my opinion) virtually anyone who can listen to other podcasts as well. Noises? Check. Word(s)? Big check. Podcast? Almost entirely. I almost gave Sound Heap only 4 stars since it doesn’t allow you to order food, sundries, and other home goods because it’s a podcast, but that’s a minor gripe that I have with ostensibly every podcast I’ve listened to in the past few decades. If deducted a star in light of that for Sound Heap, I’d have to go back and deduct a star from all the other products I’ve reviewed. That’s a lot of work. As a final note, I’ve been making some progress on a fantasy novel that I’ve been writing, and it has been a really enjoyable process. I think the soft magic system has been especially fun to tinker with, and I frankly feel like I haven’t seen another one quite like it. I play a lot of D&D, so I feel like I’ve been around the magic system block, so to speak, where the buildings are different iterations of mana, the people are spells, and the street buskers are cryptic origins with tenuous magical loopholes in the established system’s practical arcane mechanics. I always says I’d never write another novel, as the ones that I wrote when I was younger were kind of trash in retrospect, but in that same breath, I’d also say that I was/am incredibly proud of that young man’s determination and unabashed creativity. For years, I felt estranged from that boy, but through a lot of self-work and gentleness, I feel as though I have found him again. 10/10 Sound Heap is one of the podcasts EVER! On god. No cap. I can’t wait to start listening to it. “Tell me you love me For I need another thing To prove myself right.” -Boyboy the haiku man