Baines plus One

Frog Stone, writer and co-star of hit BBC4 TV show "Bucket" joined Sam - who features in "Bucket" Episode 1 - in the Studio this week.

Frog told us all about the development of her career from am-dram performances in village halls in the north west of England, to Cambridge Footlights and beyond.

The Plus One Game saw Frog putting a call-out to commissioning editors with her TV show concept “First Hates!”and revealing some behind the scenes gossip from the TV industry.

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The fabulous John-Luke Roberts dropped into the studio today. John-Luke has been a writer for TV shows such as Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You and co-wrote the sit-com "Bull", starring Robert Lindsay and Maureen Lipman. Conversation ranged from John-Luke’s start in comedy to the merits of his moustache and nose-job.

John-Luke enthralled us all with his Henry VIII themed poem and we had Plus One’s and the usual weird news headlines.

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Jamie Morton, host and creator of the podcast smash hit "My Dad Wrote a Porno" was Samantha Baines’ guest in the studio today. Inevitably the conversation turned a bit smutty as we learnt all about the origins of Jamie’s podcast, heard some Rocky Flintstone EXCLUSIVES and got an insight into Morton family dynamics.

Samantha and Jamie swapped stories about sibling rivalry and inadvertent attempts to dispatch with their sisters and Sam shared an interesting story about the 'grabbing a cervix' moment in Belinda Blinked.

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Comedian and writer Sophie Willan landed in the Hoxton Radio studio to chat with Sam this week.

Sophie talked about her childhood and growing up in Bolton, learning to twerk in the clubs and dancehalls of Bolton, before progressing to acting, comedy and writing.

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Actor, writer and performer Harrie Hayes dropped into the studio to chat with Sam today. We explored Harrie’s career in comedy and acting and how Harrie upset the vegan community… and how she plans to make amends.

There was also talk of intriguing Plus Ones at a Zazu Fete and a party to celebrate the next prime minister.

Poems and headlines also featured.

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Marcel Lucont joined Sam in the Hoxton Radio studio today. Marcel brought some French pedantry to proceedings in the quick fire round and regaled us with a ghostly story from his Edingburgh show.

We also had an intriguing true life tale from Sam about her experiences performing on a yacht in the Med.

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Kelly rapped poetically on the theme of pronunciation and misnaming whilst Sam got serious on the theme of London terror attacks.

We had a new Twitter poll on favourite Kellys and the usual news headlines and Plus One Game.

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Comedian, Eleanor Conway dropped into the new Hoxton Radio studios today. Eleanor’s comedy routine draws heavily on the extremes of her life from briefly working in the adult film industry to running away with her dealer – all this occurred before she got sober and turned her talent to comedy.

We had all the usual stuff too – News, Poems and Plus Ones.

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Conversation flowed from smelly beards to Edinburgh Fringe to re-enacting film scenes to new Pokemon movies when American comedian Omid Singh dropped into our new studio at Spitalfields market. As always we had the funniest news stories, best poems and new Plus One round.

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Sam interviews the X-Factor Finalist Freddy Parker at London Fashion Week in this mini Baines Plus One.