My Perfect Podcast: Christian Brighty
In this column, we ask a pod person about the ’casts that mean a lot to them. This month, it’s Christian Brighty, who co-writes and stars alongside Jessica Knappett in new radio comedy, The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty, as a fast-living Regency-era aristocrat tries to right his past wrongs
Which podcast educates you? I like badly produced podcasts that are clearly DIY passion projects. Give me that poor audio quality, unedited low-fi goodness! Those three-month gaps between episodes? Mmmm. Delicious. With that in mind, I love What’s This Tao All About?, an in-depth podcast teaching about Taoism. Highly recommended. So that, or Contrapoints. It’s not a podcast, it’s YouTube video essays, but it still counts. The four-hour one on Twilight? Oh boy. It’s golden.
Which podcast makes you laugh? Time Of The Week. It’s not a podcast, it’s a Radio 4 show, but it still counts. Absolutely hysterical satire of Woman’s Hour by geniuses Lorna Rose Treen, Jon Oldfield and a team of brilliant writers. It’s so dense with gags you have to relisten to get it all. And I implore you to do so.
Which podcast makes you sad or angry? Subway. It’s not a podcast, it’s a fast-food sandwich shop, but they’ve just got rid of their meat-free steak option and it feels like a massive step back for society and sandwiches.
Which podcast is your guilty pleasure? The Green Dragon Podcast. Absolutely unrecommendable. Five hour-long episodes by three Australians going into enormous depth about one very specific nerdy game: The Lord Of The Rings Strategy Battle Game. Completely impenetrable to anyone else. I’m not even recommending it to you. But I love it, I love them, and you can prise both my love and shame about it from my cold dead ears.
Tell us someone who currently doesn’t have a podcast but totally should. And why do you think their one would be amazing?
@Trashling: the best TikTokker there is. She is so knowledgeable on literature, politics, pop culture, but also hysterical and industrious. It’s so annoying when someone is just effortlessly funny and they don’t even want to be a comedian. Ugh. Go follow her.
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New episodes of The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty are available every Saturday on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.