{"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":"Retro RHLSTP 140 - Nish Kumar","slug":"retro-rhlstp-140-nish-kumar","published_at":"2026-04-20T02:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228/retro-rhlstp-140-nish-kumar","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/69cabb034bc3c0b5ce4cad98/media.mp3","summary":"#434 - Big Nick - Richard is back at the Leicester Comedy Festival for the second week in a row, concerned about the historical figures that they venerate here. His guest is Michael Sheen stand-in, Nish Kumar. They discuss the physical and mental health scares they’ve had since last they met and the secret that Richard was harbouring back then, plus whether therapy helps of hinders comedy, cowardly potholers, horny followers of the alien Jesus, getting to sit in Richard Osman’s chair, how little control we have over our lives and an hilariously angry and potentially lethal encounter with Boris Johnson. Thanks to the Leicester Comedy Festival for having us. 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":"#434 - Big Nick - Richard is back at the Leicester Comedy Festival for the second week in a row, concerned about the historical figures that they venerate…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3804,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rhlstp-with-richard-herring-828228/episodes/retro-rhlstp-140-nish-kumar/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/retro-rhlstp-140-nish-kumar.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}