Hellish
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Podcast, from Hell. We ask our guests for the five tracks they will meet in Hell: the songs that will be used to torment them for all eternity. Hosted by @danielwhelan.com and Alex Gale.
Independent Podcast Awards finalist, as seen in the Sunday Times.
Independent Podcast Awards finalist, as seen in the Sunday Times.
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· Sep 11
Woo-hoo! Shortlisted for an Independent Podcast Award. Thanks to the judges, all our guests, and of course, our listeners!
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Catching up on my Hellish backlog, this was a great episode! And a great workaround to playing Michael Jackson's actual music on the show too!
This week’s damned soul is actor, writer, and panto legend Anthony Spargo!
As well as giving us the 5 tracks he’ll meet in Hell, Anthony told us about how he got in to panto and how it works, as well as his time inside a #dalek for @bbcdoctorwhoecho.bsky.social
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As well as giving us the 5 tracks he’ll meet in Hell, Anthony told us about how he got in to panto and how it works, as well as his time inside a #dalek for @bbcdoctorwhoecho.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Catching up on my Hellish backlog, this was a great episode! And a great workaround to playing Michael Jackson's actual music on the show too!
This week’s damned soul is actor, writer, and panto legend Anthony Spargo!
As well as giving us the 5 tracks he’ll meet in Hell, Anthony told us about how he got in to panto and how it works, as well as his time inside a #dalek for @bbcdoctorwhoecho.bsky.social
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As well as giving us the 5 tracks he’ll meet in Hell, Anthony told us about how he got in to panto and how it works, as well as his time inside a #dalek for @bbcdoctorwhoecho.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This week’s damned soul is actor, writer, and panto legend Anthony Spargo!
As well as giving us the 5 tracks he’ll meet in Hell, Anthony told us about how he got in to panto and how it works, as well as his time inside a #dalek for @bbcdoctorwhoecho.bsky.social
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As well as giving us the 5 tracks he’ll meet in Hell, Anthony told us about how he got in to panto and how it works, as well as his time inside a #dalek for @bbcdoctorwhoecho.bsky.social
Listen podfollow.com/hellish
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Under Milk Wood new print drop!
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Under Milk Wood new print drop:
Hello, my lovely friends! I just wanted to tell you that I've turned some of my Under Milk Wood art into mini prints. Actually it was the ideal of The Golden Sheaf Gallery, Narbeth who are the only s...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Under Milk Wood new print drop!
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Great night at Chester’s Books on the Walls, watching former guest @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk kick off the tour for his book “Mistletoe and Vinyl”, about the Christmas number one.
Catch him on his bookshop tour if you can - it’s a stand up show surrounded by books! What more do you need?
Catch him on his bookshop tour if you can - it’s a stand up show surrounded by books! What more do you need?
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Great night at Chester’s Books on the Walls, watching former guest @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk kick off the tour for his book “Mistletoe and Vinyl”, about the Christmas number one.
Catch him on his bookshop tour if you can - it’s a stand up show surrounded by books! What more do you need?
Catch him on his bookshop tour if you can - it’s a stand up show surrounded by books! What more do you need?
Alex has outdone himself with the picture quiz this week. Can you guess 4 of Felix White’s 5 Hellish song pics from these visual teasers? If you can’t, that’s fine, just make sure to listen to the pod and all will be explained. podfollow.com/hellish
(At least two are gettable without hearing it)
(At least two are gettable without hearing it)
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Alex has outdone himself with the picture quiz this week. Can you guess 4 of Felix White’s 5 Hellish song pics from these visual teasers? If you can’t, that’s fine, just make sure to listen to the pod and all will be explained. podfollow.com/hellish
(At least two are gettable without hearing it)
(At least two are gettable without hearing it)
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Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who is now 99p on Kindle, for a short time only, so fill your boots! www.amazon.co.uk/Exterminate-...
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who is now 99p on Kindle, for a short time only, so fill your boots! www.amazon.co.uk/Exterminate-...
In this week’s episode with Felix White you heard Alex refer to the “he’s 28 until he’s 29” twitter spat. Here’s a few screenshots. You can even watch it rendered in Ace Attorney on YouTube. youtu.be/zbsTt7j40nI?...
He was definitely 28, by the way. Hell has spoken!
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He was definitely 28, by the way. Hell has spoken!
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November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In this week’s episode with Felix White you heard Alex refer to the “he’s 28 until he’s 29” twitter spat. Here’s a few screenshots. You can even watch it rendered in Ace Attorney on YouTube. youtu.be/zbsTt7j40nI?...
He was definitely 28, by the way. Hell has spoken!
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He was definitely 28, by the way. Hell has spoken!
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After chatting about @iamklootclub.bsky.social with Felix White on this week’s episode, Daniel went looking in his special Kloot box and found something undiscovered for TWENTY FIVE years!
Listen to us talk about the band - and the five tracks Felix will meet in Hell - at podfollow.com/hellish
Listen to us talk about the band - and the five tracks Felix will meet in Hell - at podfollow.com/hellish
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
After chatting about @iamklootclub.bsky.social with Felix White on this week’s episode, Daniel went looking in his special Kloot box and found something undiscovered for TWENTY FIVE years!
Listen to us talk about the band - and the five tracks Felix will meet in Hell - at podfollow.com/hellish
Listen to us talk about the band - and the five tracks Felix will meet in Hell - at podfollow.com/hellish
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Great episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way even if I do say so myself.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social
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Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
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November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Great episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way even if I do say so myself.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Felix White of the Maccabees and Tailenders chooses the five tracks he will meet in Hell!
Felix told us about ‘Whatever Will Be, Will Be’, his smart, funny and fresh new memoir. And also about getting caught in a tabloid sting.
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#whateverwillbewillbe
Felix told us about ‘Whatever Will Be, Will Be’, his smart, funny and fresh new memoir. And also about getting caught in a tabloid sting.
Listen: podfollow.com/hellish
#whateverwillbewillbe
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Felix White of the Maccabees and Tailenders chooses the five tracks he will meet in Hell!
Felix told us about ‘Whatever Will Be, Will Be’, his smart, funny and fresh new memoir. And also about getting caught in a tabloid sting.
Listen: podfollow.com/hellish
#whateverwillbewillbe
Felix told us about ‘Whatever Will Be, Will Be’, his smart, funny and fresh new memoir. And also about getting caught in a tabloid sting.
Listen: podfollow.com/hellish
#whateverwillbewillbe
It’s time for the WEEKLY HELLISH PICTURE QUIZ. Can you guess any of the songs screenwriter Catherine Tregenna will meet in Hell from these pics? To hear the answers discussed, in full and entertainingly, listen to the pod. podfollow.com/hellish
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It’s time for the WEEKLY HELLISH PICTURE QUIZ. Can you guess any of the songs screenwriter Catherine Tregenna will meet in Hell from these pics? To hear the answers discussed, in full and entertainingly, listen to the pod. podfollow.com/hellish
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A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see
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I wrote about an early 16th-century painting of Hell for
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social! 1/
🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #maps #cartography #exploration #painting #art #arthistory #VastEarlyAmerica
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🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #maps #cartography #exploration #painting #art #arthistory #VastEarlyAmerica
This Disturbing 16th-Century Painting of Hell Linked Satan and His Demons With the New World Beyond Europe
The panel features monsters with African, Indigenous Caribbean and intersex features, encouraging viewers to connect the sins and punishments depicted to those considered "other"
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October 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I wrote about an early 16th-century painting of Hell for
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social! 1/
🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #maps #cartography #exploration #painting #art #arthistory #VastEarlyAmerica
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social! 1/
🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #maps #cartography #exploration #painting #art #arthistory #VastEarlyAmerica
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What to expect in Hell: an early sixteenth-century painting that's so striking that it's setting off all the content filters on here! Here are some details; essay in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
#Monstertober #Spookyseason 🗃
#Monstertober #Spookyseason 🗃
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What to expect in Hell: an early sixteenth-century painting that's so striking that it's setting off all the content filters on here! Here are some details; essay in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
#Monstertober #Spookyseason 🗃
#Monstertober #Spookyseason 🗃
Catherine Tregenna told us about #theonethatgotaway - her drama with versions in English and Welsh. (On iPlayer, with her #torchwood and #doctorwho episodes)
Patreons heard about writing #Lewis (pic is a clue to who the artist she will meet in Hell is…)
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Patreons heard about writing #Lewis (pic is a clue to who the artist she will meet in Hell is…)
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October 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Catherine Tregenna told us about #theonethatgotaway - her drama with versions in English and Welsh. (On iPlayer, with her #torchwood and #doctorwho episodes)
Patreons heard about writing #Lewis (pic is a clue to who the artist she will meet in Hell is…)
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Patreon.com/hellishpod
Patreons heard about writing #Lewis (pic is a clue to who the artist she will meet in Hell is…)
podfollow.com/hellish
Patreon.com/hellishpod
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And as always, my Autumn-Into-Christmas graphic novel SCARENTHOOD about ghost-hunting parents fighting off demons, parental guilt and existential dread is available Signed and sketched for a tenner (Before shipping)!
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SCARENTHOOD - SIGNED WITH SKETCH (Tracked Shipping)
What's scarier: fighting demons or letting your kids down? That's what a group of parents will find out as their plans to solve the...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
And as always, my Autumn-Into-Christmas graphic novel SCARENTHOOD about ghost-hunting parents fighting off demons, parental guilt and existential dread is available Signed and sketched for a tenner (Before shipping)!
nickrocheart.bigcartel.com/product/scar...
nickrocheart.bigcartel.com/product/scar...
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PS You really really want to hear the Patreon version of this episode. Catherine is 🔥🔥🔥. patreon.com/hellishpod for that. Well worth £3, especially if you detest a certain actor turned failed politician…
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A podcast about the five tracks you will meet in Hell.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
PS You really really want to hear the Patreon version of this episode. Catherine is 🔥🔥🔥. patreon.com/hellishpod for that. Well worth £3, especially if you detest a certain actor turned failed politician…
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Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Screenwriter Catherine Tregenna gives us the 5 tracks she will meet in Hell!
Catherine talked about making her show #theonethatgotaway in English & Welsh; the “creative, generous, wonderful experience” of working with Russell T. Davies on #torchwood; and writing #DoctorWho
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Catherine talked about making her show #theonethatgotaway in English & Welsh; the “creative, generous, wonderful experience” of working with Russell T. Davies on #torchwood; and writing #DoctorWho
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October 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Screenwriter Catherine Tregenna gives us the 5 tracks she will meet in Hell!
Catherine talked about making her show #theonethatgotaway in English & Welsh; the “creative, generous, wonderful experience” of working with Russell T. Davies on #torchwood; and writing #DoctorWho
podfollow.com/hellish
Catherine talked about making her show #theonethatgotaway in English & Welsh; the “creative, generous, wonderful experience” of working with Russell T. Davies on #torchwood; and writing #DoctorWho
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I do commissions of cards like these. I'm assured they make for excellent gifts. #TwoMonthsToChristmas
Forty years ago, at 11pm, on Sat 26 Oct 1985, Channel 4 premiered An Audience with Billy Connolly. (S4C showed it nine days later.) It was watched by 4.8m people and practically everyone who saw has been word-perfect ever since. #
Here's some of what else happened in Oct 85. #WhenWasThings
Here's some of what else happened in Oct 85. #WhenWasThings
October 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I do commissions of cards like these. I'm assured they make for excellent gifts. #TwoMonthsToChristmas
It’s been a week since the last quiz, which means it’s time for 4 pics representing 4 of @louiestowell.bsky.social‘s Hellish song picks. Can you figure out what they are? If you’ve heard the ep you’ll need no help. If not, what on earth have you been doing since Monday?
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October 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It’s been a week since the last quiz, which means it’s time for 4 pics representing 4 of @louiestowell.bsky.social‘s Hellish song picks. Can you figure out what they are? If you’ve heard the ep you’ll need no help. If not, what on earth have you been doing since Monday?
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After this week’s episode with @louiestowell.bsky.social we scoured the web for a single performance of ‘O Sole Mio’ as good as Alex’s. We couldn’t find one, but we could find TWO - here’s #BryanAdams & #Pavorotti TOGETHER AT LAST
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October 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
After this week’s episode with @louiestowell.bsky.social we scoured the web for a single performance of ‘O Sole Mio’ as good as Alex’s. We couldn’t find one, but we could find TWO - here’s #BryanAdams & #Pavorotti TOGETHER AT LAST
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The subject of Hapsburg chins briefly came up in this week’s episode with @louiestowell.bsky.social so here are a couple of Hapsburgs so you know what we’re taking about.
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Listen to the show podfollow.com/hellish
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The subject of Hapsburg chins briefly came up in this week’s episode with @louiestowell.bsky.social so here are a couple of Hapsburgs so you know what we’re taking about.
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Listen to the show podfollow.com/hellish
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They never play the whole song through! Unlike (my personal favourite) This Is What It Sounds Like. All three have parts. And the spell works. I think Golden is *meant* to be mid, and it's telling that it got its (undeserved) glory *outside* the context of the story. The story says it's a mistake🙂
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
They never play the whole song through! Unlike (my personal favourite) This Is What It Sounds Like. All three have parts. And the spell works. I think Golden is *meant* to be mid, and it's telling that it got its (undeserved) glory *outside* the context of the story. The story says it's a mistake🙂
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The reason Golden doesn't have a part for any of the other members of Huntrxx is bc it was Rumi's dong, about her not being "cursed" anymore. And that's why it doesn't work. She pushes it out despite her partners not wanting to, loses her voice trying to sing it bc she's not herself w/o them/
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The reason Golden doesn't have a part for any of the other members of Huntrxx is bc it was Rumi's dong, about her not being "cursed" anymore. And that's why it doesn't work. She pushes it out despite her partners not wanting to, loses her voice trying to sing it bc she's not herself w/o them/