No. 100: The Gifted Tony Law
Thursday 20th October 2016
For Circuit Training's 100th (100th!) episode we meet Mr Tony Law in his now-native Islington, talk breakdowns, booze, TV secrets, and offer him a choice of cheap gifts. Onwards!
No. 99: The Lost Alfie Brown Tape
Wednesday 19th October 2016
The best stand-up you've probably never heard of, Alfie Brown discusses his first TV appearance (Channel 4 News), his influential comedy parents, and being bumped by Comedy Central. Or he discussed it a year ago, anyway. Even this interview nearly didn't make it to air.
No. 98: Nathan Caton is Middlesexy
Tuesday 4th October 2016
TV, radio, a new tour - and Nathan Caton still can't afford to move out of his mum's house. Still, there's always football, albeit Brentford. And what's that about The Now Show...?
No. 97: Liam Williams, limping round Latitude
Tuesday 5th July 2016
Liam Williams is the budding bard of this year's Latitude Festival, putting on Twelfth Night and his own first play, Travesty. But can you do a fest with smashed-up feet?
No. 96: Mark Watson gets Ripped
Monday 30th May 2016
What happens when your gig clashes with a massive football match? Mark Watson reveals all - plus technology moans, MySpace-founded graphic novels and misleading fun-runs.
No. 95: Lou Sanders is Very Giving
Saturday 7th May 2016
The brilliant, sometimes baffling Lou Sanders explains why we all take criticism so seriously, why she was axed by Stewart Lee's people, and reveals an extraordinary secret about film posters.
No. 94: Mae Martin is Mixing it Up
Sunday 24th April 2016
Mae Martin is recording an album and her first radio show over the next few weeks - let's hope those audiences don't feature famous actors, family members or bigoted hecklers, again.
No. 93: Tiff Stevenson Rocks Up
Thursday 3rd March 2016
After Mark Steel's sporting asides, Circuit Training goes Rock, as Tiff Stevenson talks Josh Homme, Slash, Stevie Nicks and her curtailed house music career. Also contains comedy.
No. 92: Mark Steel's Shady Past
Tuesday 9th February 2016
The much-loved lefty discovered some freakily disturbing branches in his family tree, and wrote a show about it. Probably while watching lots of sport.
No. 91: Shazia Mirza's Mission
Friday 29th January 2016
Why are teenage girls marching off to Syria? Shazia Mirza has a radical theory: it's not about religion.
No. 90: Making it up with Cariad Lloyd
Tuesday 5th January 2016
In 2015 she did QI, HIGNFY, Peep Show, a massive sell-out Edinburgh show, and has a new BBC One sitcom in the can, but Cariad Lloyd isn't getting carried away. She'd rather throw scripts away.
No. 89: Sofie Hagen's Resolution
Thursday 31st December 2015
From messed-up, Westlife-obsessed teen to an Edinburgh award winner, Sofie Hagen has come a long way. Well, about 800 miles. Not that the comics back in Denmark seem to notice...
No. 88: And now over to our acting traffic correspondent, Hal Cruttenden
Friday 13th November 2015
How stressed was Hal Cruttenden about his latest Live At The Apollo appearance? Pretty stressed. Probably a good job he didn't make it to the RSC after all then.
No. 87: Swat Teams, Black Holes and Bad Edits, with Ed Byrne
Thursday 29th October 2015
Why was Dara O Briain kidnapped by a SWAT team? What annoys Ed Byrne about panel shows? And why did working for Countryfile put him off mountains? All will be revealed, in another excruciatingly geeky edition of Circuit Training.
No. 86: The Secret Worlds of Gemma Whelan
Saturday 24th October 2015
Circuit Training talks Game Of Thrones, smutty characters and other filth with the admirably down-to-earth Gemma Whelan, who, admittedly, was on a plane at the time.
No. 85: Andy Hamilton is Away from his Desk
Thursday 15th October 2015
You may know him best from umpteen panel shows, but the on-tour Andy Hamilton co-wrote some of Britain's biggest comedies, often minutes before broadcast, and an A-list indie film last year - but what's this about Peppa Pig and Iron Man?
No. 84: Matt Forde's Focus
Wednesday 7th October 2015
A New Labour advisor turned Corbyn-bashing political satirist turned TalkSport weekend football presenter, Matt Forde has the weirdest career in comedy. Time for Forde to focus?
No. 83: Sean Hughes' Big Departure
Monday 28th September 2015
The envelope-pushing Irishman explains his new show, heckler-ejecting, addiction, his stint in family-friendly theatre and awkward talks with Talk Talk.
No. 82: Fred's Not Dead
Saturday 12th September 2015
18 years ago Fred MacAulay took a job that possibly hijacked his rising TV stardom - but does he regret it? The touring-again Scottish comic tells Circuit Training about contentious sackings, ripped-off comics, Ally McCoist, and the infamous Tub of Lard.
No. 81: Omid Djalili, On the March
Monday 25th May 2015
Almost certainly the first Circuit Training interview that mainly concerns an anti-war demonstration. Here we discuss Omid Djalili's acclaimed documentary, We Are Many, plus Oliver Reed, tricky Joe Orton plays, bad TV recordings, Iranian horror films...