{"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":"Mark Gatiss (Retro) - \"Cucumber Coward\"","slug":"mark-gatiss-retro-cucumber-coward","published_at":"2026-06-22T02:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228/mark-gatiss-retro-cucumber-coward","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/6a33f87a01f32268518edecc/media.mp3","summary":"#439 Cucumber Coward - Richard is hoping to replace himself with an AI host and has left the emergency questions and some of the stand up to the robots. His guest, returning after a hiatus of just 400 episodes is the wonderful Mark Gatiss. They discuss the unfair tale of Jacob Marley, the influence of Robin Askwith, playing to camera 3 as Larry Grayson, Mark’s many theatre projects, working with Anthony Hopkins after portraying him in TMWRNJ and directing Reece Shearsmith. But will we find out his favourite episode of Sherlock and will Rich be here next week? Come and see us live  http://richardherring.com/rhlstp 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"#439 Cucumber Coward - Richard is hoping to replace himself with an AI host and has left the emergency questions and some of the stand up to the robots. H…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3402,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228/episodes/mark-gatiss-retro-cucumber-coward/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/mark-gatiss-retro-cucumber-coward.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}