Breaking a Leg

Oliver Double

A podcast about the making of Oliver Double's forthcoming stand-up comedy show Break a Leg

  1. Episode 21 Conference Paper

    05/02/2016

    Episode 21 Conference Paper

    Two months after the show, here's a follow-up episode, in which you can hear a recording of a conference paper I gave at the University of Kent on 14 January.

    26 min
  2. Episode 20 Second Half

    23/12/2015

    Episode 20 Second Half

    An audio recording of the second half of my show, performed at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury on 6th December 2015. For the first half, see the previous episode of this podcast. A video of the show should be posted online some time in January, so you may want to wait for that instead.

    43 min
  3. Episode 19 First Half

    22/12/2015

    Episode 19 First Half

    An audio recording of the first half of my show, performed at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury on 6th December 2015. The second half will follow in the next episode. A video of the show should be posted online some time in January, so you may want to wait for that instead.

    57 min
  4. Episode 18 After the Show

    13/12/2015

    Episode 18 After the Show

    So, the show happened. This episode was recorded immediately before the show started, at the interval and two days afterwards. So now you can find out how it all went. How many people came to see it? Did they enjoy it? And at the end of it all, did I think the months of work that had gone into it were worth it?

    38 min
  5. Episode 17 Last Leg

    06/12/2015

    Episode 17 Last Leg

    The final episode before I perform the show itself, this features various bits of audio from the few days building up to the final event. There's a tiny snatch of rehearsal footage, plus bits of reflection recorded at various times, and even snatches from an appearance on BBC Radio Kent talking to Lembit Opik. It's a right old sound collage.

    30 min
  6. Episode 16 Poster

    29/11/2015

    Episode 16 Poster

    Here I talk about the poster for the show. In the process, I touch on such issues as visual design, digital vs. analogue, hand-drawn lettering vs. chunky sans serif fonts, portrait vs. landscape, and the general concept of visual design in stand-up comedy. In the course of all this, there's a passing mention of Ross Noble.

    8 min
  7. Episode 15 Half Century Man

    26/11/2015

    Episode 15 Half Century Man

    Here I talk about - and play - the song that will close the show. It's a serious song rather than a comedy number, and as such it's pretty much the only bit of actual material that I'm happy to give away here before I perform the show.

    7 min
  8. Episode 14 That Difficult Phase

    26/11/2015

    Episode 14 That Difficult Phase

    Here I talk about the emotional effects of struggling to put together a new full-length stand-up show. And I refer to a bit of academic research published nearly 40 years ago, featuring an interview with a successful comedy writer who describes pretty much exactly what I'm going through right now.

    13 min
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About

A podcast about the making of Oliver Double's forthcoming stand-up comedy show Break a Leg

Information

  • Creator
    Oliver Double
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2016
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Oliver Double 2015
  • Show Website
    Breaking a Leg