Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

RHLSTP Book Club #201 - Tomb of the Golden Skull - Richard chats to the man who co-created the Games Workshop and the amazing Fighting Fantasy book series (amongst many other successes) about his latest role-playing adventure book, Tomb of the Golden Skull. Rich is also joined by super-fan Joz Norris who is being kept in a separate location for Ian’s safety. They chat about how the Games Workshop started with very humble beginnings in Shepherd’s Bush in the early 70s, acquiring the European rights to Dungeons and Dragons, the furore over the effect that game (and the books) had on the nation’s youth and if the work was capable of making people levitate, how in fact the books led to an upsurge in literacy and became much loved memories for people like Rich who now plays them with his son, and people like Joz who despite being an adult is an avid collector of the series. Plus Ian’s mischievous attempts to make the books difficult, impossible and provide tough moral choices for his reader, the importance of the making the art in the books scary and real and his own personal favourites from the series.

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RHLSTP #635 - Vet Threatener - Rich is back at the Podcast Room where he has been keeping his guest this week waiting in reception, but it’s Penn and Piff’s fault, it’s David Baddiel. They discuss Baddiel’s disastrous morning and why he has a big bike chain with him, but no bike, David’s new thriller “Hunting Alice Bell” (starts on Channel 4 on 28th October) and the real life events that inspired it and how the internet never forgets or lets you forget, appearing on Horrible Histories, but not Ghosts, trying to define Baddiel and the range of his work, appearing on Bake Off and why neither of these men will turn up on Strictly anytime soon.

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#461 Judy Murray Nose Recorder - Richard is trying to teach his five year old to swear like someone from the 1980s. His guest is the man behind internet sensation Jazz Emu, Archie Henderson. They talk about where this extraordinary character came from, producing high quality internet content on a tiny budget, touring the USA in an RV, putting himself into the background of every photo of a random fan, the demons of sleep paralysis, whether Archie will follow in the footsteps of Minchin and the Conchords.

Check out Jazz Emu’s YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-Imt636hk4nHrXKwxR7XA
See Jazz Emu on tour - https://www.jazzemu.com/gigs

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2nd November 2026 - Jousting on Lime Bikes - Rich and Ally start a new week by looking at the crazy things young people are getting up to today, with some warnings from history about what could go wrong. Plus a song about a mouse with a needle riding on a cat, as you would probably be expecting.

3rd November 2026 - Mouse Eunuchs - Rich and Ally continue to cover the stories that no one else will touch for fear of their shadowy overlords. Today it’s whether getting castrated can make you live longer (or will it just feel like it). Warning Richard gets his testicle out in this 5 minute live broadcast.

4th November 2026 - Snap Erection - There’s only one story worth covering in today’s news cycle and of course we have gone for that one. But with some opinions and ideas that you won’t have seen in the lamestream media, especially about breakfast.

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Titles by Andy Bobbin
Music by Mike Cosgrave
Directed by Chris Evans.
Any similarity to John Craven’s Newsround is entirely coincidental
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RHLSTP Book Club #200 - Moreish - Rich has been reading the memoir of Superhans from Peep Show, though is unable to chat with the man himself, so instead talks to actor and stand-up Matt King. Matt talks about his terrifying year after a stroke in April, some of his other acting work, including a major role in a show that didn’t happen and why he decided to return to the character of Superhans and overcame the hurdles that allowed him to write this book. They chat about how much he become the character as he writes, why he wanted to give the character some depth (as well as explore the hilarious way Superhans brain works), how much of a challenge the audio book was and how the last eighth of the book had to be written post-stroke. Plus the autobiography and more Superhans books to come. A really fascinating and inspiring conversation.

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/moreish-super-hans/73ec11acec77e550
Or get the audiobook here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/AUDIBLE-Moreish-My-Mad-Autobiography/dp/B0G5FDKPW4/

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