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My Perfect Podcast: Marcel Lucont

In this column, we ask a pod person about the ’casts that mean a lot to them. This month, it’s Marcel Lucont, the self-effacing and self-proclaimed ‘greatest UK-based French comedian around’ and host of Marcel Lucont’s Whine List which serves up complaints from around the world, courtesy of his audience

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My Perfect Podcast: Marcel Lucont

Which podcast educates you? I find that most podcasts dishing out education offer me little I don’t already know, so here I am going to say Affaires Sensibles, with Fabrice Drouelle. It uncovers forgotten stories of history, many of which even I am unaware of. In a way it is like Marcel Lucont’s Whine List, in that it delves into otherwise unknown lives to discover new tales to be told.

Which podcast makes you laugh? There is a new podcast on the market you may know: Marcel Lucont’s Whine List. As each is recorded very much in the moment on stage, I don’t recollect every interaction so clearly, especially those towards the end of the show/bottle of wine. So what a joy to listen back to them and marvel at my own expertise and répartie.

Which podcast makes you sad or angry? It seems the obvious choice, but it has to be Transfert for this category. It is often important to remind myself that not everybody’s lives are as exquisite as mine; these are personal stories told directly to the listener without an interviewer (if anyone is asking the questions, it should be me). In a way this is Marcel Lucont’s Whine List without fermentation: gripe juice, if you will.

Which podcast is your guilty pleasure? Le Rendez-vous Tech. While I have a savage mistrust of technology in general, I feel it is important to keep an eye on the thing that will eventually bring humanity to an end. We have had our share of technological issues attempting to record Marcel Lucont’s Whine List, working as we do in a different venue each time. While I am well aware that without technology, you would not get to listen in wonder to this oeuvre in the comfort of your own boudoir, I feel we are probably at the pinnacle now and should just cease inventing anything further.

Tell us someone who currently doesn’t have a podcast but totally should. And why do you think their one would be amazing? The woman from the forthcoming New York recording of Marcel Lucont’s Whine List, whose worst day at work was having to stage a rescue attempt of a man who had become trapped under a table at an orgy she had organised. I would most certainly listen to a podcast of sex-party anecdotes. Potential titles: De La Soirée À L’Oreille, Boum Boum Tchat Tchat, The Finger Buffet.

Pitch us a new podcast idea in exactly 25 words Une Bouche Pleine, Une Bouche Qui Parle: interviews conducted with both the interviewer and interviewee receiving oral sex. Caters for listeners with short attention spans.

Marcel Lucont’s Whine List is available on all the usual platforms.

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