Park Date

Location: Haggerston Park

Hackney, London

Guest: Vicky Baker

Episode 7. As Vicky says: "If you're gonna get to six episodes you have to kill someone!" Well nobody has died. Yet #meta

Well I didn't. Instead, we just talked about school discos, Argentina, Inventing Anna and the slippery nature of truth itself. Oh and we saw some donkeys.

Vicky is a renowned journalist, foreign correspondent and now podcast host too. She does it much, much better than me. Listen to Fake Heiress and Fake Psychic on BBC Sounds now. Fake Podcaster coming to Radio 4 this autumn*

*This is not true

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review at the end of Season 1.

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Music is by Joel Cummins and Andy Farrag. The track is called Cavemen of The Future.

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PARROTS OR CARROTS? PLEASE VOTE NOW X

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Location: The Barbican Residents' Gardens and Water Gardens

City of London

Guest: Lucy Bright

Some more blah blah show notes here. Do you read these? Tweet me the word PALINDROME @parkdatepodcast or @chrisbeanland to say a big YES and I'll come round and gift you a punnet of strawberries and a can of squirty cream. Even better, I'll put the squirty cream ON the strawberries, climb a ladder, smash a window and fling the whole soggy lot into your bedroom.

Anyway Lucy Bright is the heroine of this episode. A music industry veteran who now works on films with people like Chris Morris and Shane Meadows, she knows everything about movies and music.

Here us walk on the very spots where HARRY STYLES HARRY STYLES HARRY STYLES FOR SEO PURPOSES LOL walked when he shot a video at the Barbican recently. And hear a cocky squirrel do a runner with our pastries. Furry b*stard.

As always GRAZIE to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review at the end of Season 1.

Please follow us on socials

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More about Christopher 

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Twitter @chrisbeanland

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Music is by Joel Cummins and Andy Farrag. The track is called Cavemen of The Future.

Get in touch with ideas, comments, guest proposals if you're a PR, and sponsorship and advertising enquiries.

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Location: London Fields

Hackney, London

Guest: Helen Coffey

Welcome to Park Date!

On this episode of Park Date, Helen Coffey and some idiot called Christopher Beanland walk around London Fields fresh from their dip in the lido next door. Up for discussion: how to meet sexy singles when you're on the road, why Before Sunrise is the best travel movie ever made and why trains and boats beat planes... oh and which is the best flavour of Bacardi Breezer.

Ignore the bit where a golden retriever does a whoopsey right in front of us. Its owner certainly did. Enjoy!

Helen's book Zero Altitude is out now https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/sustainable-travel/zero-altitude-flight-free-travel-book-b2087166.html

Please leave a review below. What is ur favourite tree? Is it the oak? The larch? The parch? Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review at the end of Season 1. Subscribe and like as well. Thanks

As ever a huge thank you to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS. 

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Please follow us on socials

Instagram @parkdatepodcast

Twitter @parkdatepodcast

More about Christopher 

Instagram @christopherbeanland

Twitter @chrisbeanland

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Get in touch with ideas, comments, guest proposals if you're a PR, and sponsorship and advertising enquiries, and tell me your favourite ice cream flavour.

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Location: Hampstead Heath

Hampstead, London

Guest: Michael Cumming

Michael Cumming talks about minds as bad as a bent hedge and working with Chris Morris, Stewart Lee, and many other comedy *stars*. Michael is a director and you'll find links to his various works below - like Brass Eye, Oxide Ghosts and King Rocker. Come and see me chat to Michael and Stew in Birmingham after the King Rocker screening on Jul 28. I might ask Michael if he'll direct my movie. Maybe.

Austen Tasseltine, Ted Maul and Moss Staples were sadly unavailable to contribute to this episode. Do enjoy with a pint of foaming nut brown ale.

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible because I WILL BE READING THEM OUT. I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review at the end of Season 1.

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Links

Oxide Ghosts Trail:

https://youtu.be/srZokccK0uQ

Oxide Ghosts tickets:

http://www.michaelcumming.co.uk/oxide%20ghosts/

King Rocker Trail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEUuvN9S9I4

Michael’s Comedy Reel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrk12BlxxbA&t=687s

Grange Baths Lido

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ63i03v81w&list=PL31651BAC906381EA&index=1

Michael’s short films & video art

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31651BAC906381EA

Toast of London - Best Bits compilation

https://vimeo.com/263878916

Brass Eye - Best Bits compilation

https://vimeo.com/38423876

Across A Lake, Below The Hill (Film made by Michael about his school in the Windermere, Lake District)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx0qam4eO9s

Mark Thomas Product

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBksQsAZ2hQ&t=3s

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Location: Norman Park

Bromley

Guest: Rosie Wilby

Welcome to Park Date!

On this episode of Park Date, Rosie Wilby and Rosie's dog Dolly chat with me about break-ups, monogamy, marriage, and model aeroplanes. Plus we spy horses and hear the sound of something like a village fete but which I later realised was actually the noise of the crowd at Bromley FC.

Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, author and podcaster who has appeared many times on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour, Saturday Live and Four Thought. Her first book Is Monogamy Dead? was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and followed a trilogy of solo shows investigating the psychology of love and relationships. Her new book The Breakup Monologues is based on her acclaimed podcast of the same name and is published globally by Bloomsbury. She is on Twitter @rosiewilby and Instagram @breakupmonologues

Do listen to Rosie's podcast The Break Up Monologues and buy the book too.

As ever a huge thank you to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS. 

Special thanks to the ever wise and supportive Elena Ourani, who might enjoy this one too. Cheers Elena!

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. What is ur favourite tree? Is it the oak? The larch? The parch? Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review at the end of Season 1.

Please follow us on socials

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More about Christopher 

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Get in touch with ideas, comments, guest proposals if you're a PR, and sponsorship and advertising enquiries, and tell me your favourite ice cream flavour.

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Location: Highbury Fields

Islington, London

Guest: Felicity Cloake

Welcome to Park Date!

On this episode of Park Date I talk to star of Celebrity University Challenge, Felicity Cloake, about breakfasts and brown sauce before things take a turn for the surreal as we discuss a woman who chucks chicken pieces over the fence into the children's playground at her local park. Felicity and I exchange some bizarre gifts at the end - honestly the bit with these pressies is the best thing I've recorded so far I think. Enjoy!

As ever a huge thank you to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS. 

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible because I WILL BE READING THEM OUT. I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review at the end of Season 1.

Please follow us on socials

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Twitter @parkdatepodcast

More about Christopher 

Instagram @christopherbeanland

Twitter @chrisbeanland

christopherbeanland.com

Get in touch with ideas, comments, guest proposals if you're a PR, and sponsorship and advertising enquiries.

Please do get in contact

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Location: St Thomas Square, Burial Ground and Recreation Ground

Hackney, London

Guest: Kate Wills

Welcome to the first episode of Park Date!

First I need to say a huge thank you to Lucia Scazzocchio, Luke Jones (do listen to his brilliant podcast https://southgirlproductionmusic.com/category/podcast-production/), Rosie Wilby (https://www.instagram.com/breakupmonologues/?hl=en) and Mae-Li Evans for encouragement, production support and advice. There would be no podcast without these people. THANKS GUYS.

Our first episode features a dead pigeon plus journalist, leather jacket brand ambassador, fellow blonde bombshell and travel addict Kate Wills. That's all you need to know. 

Ok well the dead pigeon was not part of the plan but that's what you get when you're recording as live and on the fly (no more flying for that pigeon though). That's the idea of Park Date - not dead birds, but capturing a raw and authentic experience of just chatting and exploring as you do with friends or on an actual park date.

Kate is a great writer and great friend and you should read her book A Trip of One's Own, available now (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trip-Ones-Own-heartbreak-travelling/dp/1788704304) and check out her journalism in The Evening Standard, Grazia and Fabulous Magazine. We talk about writing from and about the heart, and the female solo travel pioneers she tells the stories of in her book.

You can often find me and Kate swimming on the roof at Shoreditch House or hanging in Victoria Park with her cute daughter Blake and her husband Guy, who is much cooler than me. We are going to write a film together though, aren't we Guy? ;-)

Park Date is about mixing the silly with the serious so do listen out for the original comedy we're slotting in between and after the interviews (which are hopefully pretty funny themselves). 

Do review, subscribe and like. Namecheck as many trees as possible in your reviews and make them as surreal as possible - I have a very nice prize to give out to the writer of the funniest review at the end of Season 1.

Please follow us on socials

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More about Christopher 

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This is the first of 10 episodes coming in the first season.

Music is by Joel Cummins and Andy Farrag. The track is called Cavemen of The Future.

Get in touch with ideas, comments, guest proposals if you're a PR, and sponsorship and advertising enquiries.

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Welcome to Park Date!

A new podcast about people and parks with jokes and interviews.

Here's a ridiculous trailer to advertise it. Back to acting school for me. Yes it's a homage to the A Team.

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