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Regrets, I've Had a Few

Regrets, I've Had a Few

Told by an Idiot

Told by an Idiot's Artistic Director Paul Hunter in free-flowing conversation with friends and colleagues from the theatre industry, delving into what made them the people they are today.
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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 11: Sophie Scott

Episode 11: Sophie Scott

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11/05/21 • 30 min

Sophie Scott CBE is a British neuroscientist and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL). Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter, and she is very interested in how our the neural basis of human vocal communication. She was the 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer and she was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday prize and lecture in 2021. Sophie is the Divisional Director for Equity Diversity and inclusion in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL.

The documentary mentioned in this episode is here.

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 10: Jos Houben

Episode 10: Jos Houben

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10/01/21 • 33 min

Jos Houben is internationally acclaimed as a leader in the field of Comedy and Physical Theatre.

Performing, writing, teaching, and directing world-wide for the past 30 years he has worked with leading international organisations and artists including: Peter Brook, Ecole Jacques Lecoq, The Right Size, Georges Aperghis, Theatre de Complicite- Simon McBurney, National Theatre London, Ragdoll Ltd, Thames TV, Opera North, Centre National Des Arts Du Cirque, British Council and Opéra Comique.

He has received the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award (1986, Theatre de Complicite) and Olivier Award for Best Entertainment (1999, The Right Size).

Houben’s one man show The Art of Laughter has been touring the word for the past 12 years. He has played month long stints to sell out audiences at the prestigious Rond Point Theater on the Champs Elysees three years in a row. The show is such a success that Jos was featured on the front page of France’s Le Monde and interviewed on national news channels.

In 2016 Jos did comedy directing for the hit West End musical Girls and toured extensively with the comedy duo Marcel.

He directed Czech Physical Theatre Company Squadra Sua’s new hit show Crossings which opened to wide acclaim in Prague in May 2019.

He is currently preparing two Operas for the Opéra Rennes and Opera Caen as well as a new movement based show with contemporary dancer Raphaelle Delaunay.

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 12: Lisa Hammond

Episode 12: Lisa Hammond

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12/24/21 • 35 min

Lisa is an actress, writer and theatre maker. She has worked regularly with Told By an Idiot performing in Shoot me in the heart, A little fantasy, Beauty and the beast and Too clever by half. She has also worked with Improbable on No idea and The hanging man. Other theatre work includes The National Theatre, Trestle, The RSC, Graeae and many other regional and international theatres and companies. She was a regular character in “Eastenders” (BBC) from 2014-2018 her other tv credits include Vera (ITV); Patricia (Sky Atlantic); One Night (BBC); Psychoville (BBC); Max and Paddy’s Road to nowhere (Ch4); Where the heart is (ITV). She has also featured in the BBC’s genealogy programme Who do you think you are?

Lisa has appeared in the following Told by an Idiot shows: Shoot Me In The Heart, A Little Fantasy, Beauty and the Beast and Too Clever By Half

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 9: Jason Barnett

Episode 9: Jason Barnett

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09/03/21 • 31 min

Jason Barnett biog:

Theatre includes:

THE VISIT (National Theatre), INSTRUCTIONS FOR CORRECT ASSEMBLY, THE VICTORIAN IN THE WALL, FRIDAY NIGHT SEX, PRIMETIME, THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (all Royal Court Theatre), SAINT GEORGE & THE DRAGON, EMIL & THE DETECTIVES, WAR HORSE, AMATO SALTONE (all National Theatre), LIFE OF GALILEO (Young Vic), ABOUT A BOY (Young Vic and tour), MOGADISHU (Manchester Royal Exchange), THE WINTER’S TALE, PERICLES, DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE (all RSC), THE FIXER (Almeida Theatre), CRUISIN’ (The Bush) , JOHN DRYDEN’S TEMPEST (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Television includes:

BRIDGERTON, AGATHA RAISIN (Series 1-4), LEE & DEAN, HAILMAKERS, PORRIDGE, BLISS, JONATHAN CREEK, JOSH, DEATH IN PARADISE , THE JAVONE PRINCE SHOW, PHONESHOP, BAD EDUCATION, STAGE DOOR JOHNNIES, HOTEL TRUBBLE, THE BILL, EXTRAS, COMING OF AGE, DEAD RINGERS, DREAM TEAM and LITTLE BRITAIN

Film includes:

LONDON ROAD, CINDERELLA, SUPERBOB, ONE MAN AND HIS DOG, THE SIGHT

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 8: Omari Douglas

Episode 8: Omari Douglas

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06/03/21 • 33 min

Omari trained at the Arts Educational Schools, London, graduating in 2015.

His theatre credits include Rush at the King’s Head Theatre, Peter Pan and Jesus Christ Superstar at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Clarke Peters Five Guys Named Moe at the Marble Arch Theatre, Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Life at the Southwark Playhouse, Annie Get Your Gun at the Sheffield Crucible and High Society at the Old Vic.

Omari returned to the Old Vic to perform in Emma Rice’s adaptation of Wise Children, the inaugural production for her new company of the same name. The production then toured to several cities around the UK.

Omari can currently be seen as one of the leads in Russell T Davies’ new 5 part series It’s A Sin for Red Productions/Channel 4/ HBO Max.

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 7: Kathryn Hunter

Episode 7: Kathryn Hunter

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05/07/21 • 40 min

Internationally renowned award-winning actress and director, Kathryn was born in New York, grew up in England, read French and Drama at Bristol University then trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. As an actress, she has worked with leading companies worldwide including Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and Peter Brook's renowned CICT Centre International de Recherches Theatrale company in Paris as well as being an associate member of the acclaimed Theatre de Complicite Company. Her many leading and award-winning appearances include title roles in, RICHARD III, KING LEAR, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, YERMA, MOTHER COURAGE and the acclaimed solo performance KAFKA'S MONKEY. She received an Olivier BEST ACTRESS award for THE VISIT (Complicite/RNT). Film and television credits include HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, Mike Leigh's ALL OR NOTHING, ORLANDO, THE BABY OF MACON, MARIA'S CHILD and THE TALE OF TALES. Directing credits include MY PERFECT MIND, OTHELLO (RSC), THE BIRDS (RNT), COMEDY OF ERRORS and PERICLES (Globe Theatre).

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 13: Helen Lannaghan & Joseph Seelig OBE
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01/07/22 • 30 min

London International Mime Festival (LIMF) is an established, annual festival of contemporary visual theatre. Essentially wordless and multi-disciplinary, its programme embraces circus-theatre, puppetry/animation, object theatre, mime, live art and physical theatre.

Founded in 1977 at the Cockpit Theatre as a one-off event to showcase the work of British mimes, theatre clowns and other physical and visual theatre artists, the festival rapidly grew in scale, quality and reputation. Since that start in one small theatre, LIMF has used more than thirty London venues – from Tate Modern, a private house and West End theatres, to the Royal Opera House, Almeida, Barbican, ICA, Sadler’s Wells and Southbank Centre. To date, the festival has presented over 800 productions over its 46-year history.

LIMF assists in the creation and presentation of excellent, innovative non text-based theatre that is new to London. Most shows are UK premieres. It works with young, up and coming artists as well as established companies.

LIMF has an international reputation and is the UK’s longest established annual, international theatre festival. In recent years the festival’s productions and its two directors have received various honours and awards, most notably three Olivier Award nominations including winner of Best New Dance Production in 2015 (Peeping Tom’s 32 Rue Vandenbranden at The Barbican), a Total Theatre lifetime achievement award and most recently the 2017 Empty Space – Peter Brook Special Achievement Award.

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 1: Edward Petherbridge

Episode 1: Edward Petherbridge

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09/24/20 • 29 min

Edward Petherbridge has had an amazing acting career spanning seven decades, with highlights including his portrayal of Lord Peter Wimsey in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels, and creating the role of Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1967. He performed in Told by an Idiot's My Perfect Mind alongside Artistic Director Paul Hunter and directed by Kathryn Hunter. My Perfect Mind toured the UK in 2013 and 2014, transferring to Teatre Barcelona in 2014 and New York in June 2015, as part of 59E59 Theater's Brits Off Broadway season . You can find out more about the show and Told by an Idiot here: https://www.toldbyanidiot.org/my-perfect-mind

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Episode 6: Emma Rice

Episode 6: Emma Rice

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04/02/21 • 32 min

Emma Rice is the proud Artistic Director of her company, Wise Children, and an internationally-respected theatre-maker and director. For Wise Children Emma has adapted and directed the productions, Angela Carter’s Wise Children, Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers and Romantics Anonymous.
As Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe (2016/18), she directed Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Little Matchgirl (and Other Happier Tales).
For the previous 20 years, she worked for Kneehigh as an actor, director and Artistic Director and created critically acclaimed productions including The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Tristan & Yseult, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, The Wild Bride, The Red Shoes, The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, Cymbeline (in association with RSC), A Matter of Life and Death (in association with National Theatre), Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre); Brief Encounter (in association with David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers Productions); Don John (in association with the RSC and Bristol Old Vic); Wah! Wah! Girls (in association with Sadler’s Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East for World Stages); and Steptoe and Son.
Emma received Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre award at the 2019 UK Theatre Awards. Acclaimed for her vision, wit and warmth, she is one of the most dynamic and influential directors working in contemporary theatre today.

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Regrets, I've Had a Few - Podcast Episode 41: Carl Grose

Podcast Episode 41: Carl Grose

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10/04/24 • 32 min

Opening cans of Lilt at inappropriate times, auditioning to play himself, and adapting John Willard’s The Cat and the Canary for the Idiot’s brand new co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre. All of this and more is discussed in this month’s episode of Regrets I’ve Had A Few, featuring celebrated writer Carl Grose.

About Carl Grose
Carl Grose’s plays include Grand Guignol, Superstition Mountain, Gargantua, Horse Piss For Blood, The Kneebone Cadillac, 49 Donkeys Hanged and The No-Brainer.

For twenty four years he worked with the internationally acclaimed Cornish theatre company, Kneehigh, as both actor, writer and co-artistic director alongside founder Mike Shepherd. Writing for Kneehigh includes Tristan & Yseult (with Anna Maria Murphy), Blast!, Hansel & Gretel, The Wild Bride, The Tin Drum, based on the novel by Gunter Grass, Ubu! a singalong satire and Dead Dog In A Suitcase (and other love songs).

Other writing includes Wormy Close (Soho Theatre), Faust (Vesturport/Young Vic), The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC at Latitude), The Hartlepool Monkey (Gyre and Gimble), Oedipussy and The Frogs for Spymonkey, and Robin Hood for Regent’s Park. He has also worked with Told By An Idiot on various shows including The Dark Philosophers (National Theatre of Wales), Never Try This At Home (Birmingham Rep / Soho Theatre) and, most recently, the comedy thriller, The Cat and the Canary (Chichester Theatre).

He also wrote the book and co-authored lyrics for Bristol Old Vic’s cult musical, The Grinning Man as well as writing Princess & Peppernose, a musical fantasy short film for Samsung, produced by Ridley Scott Associates and directed by Joe Wright.

Coming soon... Insidious – The Further You Fear, a theatre show based on the Sony / Blumhouse hit horror film franchise, which will tour America next year.

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Regrets, I've Had a Few currently has 44 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Star Wars, Interview, Comedy, Podcasts, Arts, Theatre and Performing Arts.

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The episode title 'Podcast Episode 38: Rachel Bagshaw' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Regrets, I've Had a Few is 35 minutes.

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Episodes of Regrets, I've Had a Few are typically released every 28 days, 20 hours.

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The first episode of Regrets, I've Had a Few was released on Sep 24, 2020.

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