{"podcast":{"title":"Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)","slug":"rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228","podcast_index_feed_id":828228,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/aacb15fc-f2a9-43e6-9d0f-521463063cef","website_url":"http://www.rhlstp.co.uk","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61ba0fda1a8cbe093a3cf14b/1660559822500-0afbc2a3890abde2bcd2abf34a384a56.jpeg","author":"British Comedy Guide","episode_count":1110,"summary":"Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast , or, as all the cool kids are calling it, RHLSTP, is an award-winning series in which comedian Richard Herring (\"The Podfather\" - The Guardian) chats with some of the biggest names in comedy and entertainment. Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Dawn French, David Mitchell, Katherine Ryan and Brian Blessed are amongst the many stars to have been interviewed across the 600+ episodes... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T12:20:33.573932+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228"},"episode":{"title":"Jonathan Grant on Reading the Room - Book Club","slug":"jonathan-grant-on-reading-the-room-book-club","published_at":"2026-05-29T02:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228/jonathan-grant-on-reading-the-room-book-club","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228","url":"https://rhlstp.co.uk","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/rhlstp/e/6a15b6c66ee822cbfb053b25/media.mp3","summary":"RHLSTP Book Club #181 - Reading The Room - Rich talks to comedy historian and former stand up and agent, Jonathan Grant about his much needed work about the state of stand up comedy in the 21st Century. They chat about Jonathan’s reasons for writing the book, who he talked to, the difficulty of summing up two decades worth of stand up, how we’re at a place of opportunity and variety in stand-up but how doing the actual job is being squeezed, whether comedians come from doing proper jobs like in the old days, how online comedy can be a boon or a burden and how lock-down and the internet has led to intergenerational cross fertilisation (mainly in comedy terms). Plus the wonder that is Chris Evans (not that one) and gofasterstripe.com Buy the book here - https://gofasterstripe.com/cgi-bin/w.cgi?showfull=69222 SUPPORT THE SHOW! See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL Become a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE Audio mix by Ben Evans (NTO) Thanks to Chris Evans (NTO) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"RHLSTP Book Club #181 - Reading The Room - Rich talks to comedy historian and former stand up and agent, Jonathan Grant about his much needed work about t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2961,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228/episodes/jonathan-grant-on-reading-the-room-book-club/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228/jonathan-grant-on-reading-the-room-book-club.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}