THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam talks with British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actor Dame Meera Syal about memoir writing, growing up part of the only brown family in a 1960s Midlands village, what the British Empire's legacy of colonialism meant to Meera's family, and then to her when she was handed some of the Empire's top awards, the problematic Peter Sellers song that gave Goodness Gracious Me its title, what the Simpsons should have done about Apu, and how Meera found herself in a Death Cafe.
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE (mainly after the interview when Adam sings a song about jaw exercise).
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SUCCESSPOD - 2026 (listen for free with a trial or subscription on Audible)
Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on 26 May, 2026
Thanks to Diggory Waite and Claire Broughton at Hattrick and Séamus Murphy Mitchell for production support.
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
RELATED LINKS
MEERA SYAL 2026 TOUR - September 2026 (Fane)
KUMARS AT NUMBER 42 - YouTube Playlist
MEERA SYAL - WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE - 2004 (YouTube)
GARETH GATES & THE KUMARS - SPIRIT IN THE SKY - 2003 (YouTube)
DEATH CAFE (Death cafe website)
PETER SELLERS AND SOPHIA LOREN - GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME - 1960 (YouTube)
ROWAN ATKINSON, PIXIE LOTT, NICK MOHAMMED - GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME - 2013 (YouTube)
PETER SELLERS AND SOPHIA LOREN - BANGERS AND MASH - 1961 (YouTube)
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Adam answers questions from the podcats about how he selects guests, whether he'd interview Elon Musk, misheard lyrics to the Like And Subscribe jingle, where the Entertainer jingle comes from, getting kids into music, the best gifts he's received and given and whether his hugs are 'creepy' or not.
Recorded face-to-face with Diggory in London on 18 June, 2026
Thanks to Diggory Waite and Claire Broughton at Hattrick and Séamus Murphy Mitchell for production support.
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
ADAM BUXTON PODCAST LIVE WITH MAWAAN RIZWAAN @ Roundhouse, London, 5 August, 2026 (Roundhouse)
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ADAM'S MUSIC FOR CHILDREN PLAYLIST (Spotify)
BACKBEAT LEATHER GUITAR STRAPS
COLLAPSIBLE STOOL (Dunelm)
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Adam walks along London's Regent's Canal with British comedian, artist, writer and actor Rob Auton and talks about Rob's creative process, winning a best joke award at the Edinburgh Fringe for a joke he no longer tells, his upbringing as the son of a plumber and a baker and how his background informs his appreciation for the everyday, infinite universes, the value of taking artistic risks, and reading out reviews for his live shows while they're being written.
Conversation recorded face-to-face walking by Regent’s Canal between Shoreditch, King’s Cross and Camden on 17 October, 2024.
CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE
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Thanks to Diggory Waite and Claire Broughton at Hattrick and Séamus Murphy Mitchell for production support.
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
RELATED LINKS
ROB AUTON WEBSITE - Tour dates etc.
THE FIRST DARK IMAGE OF BACON'S DEATH - 2008 (The Guardian)
ADAM ON WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAKE - 2026 (YouTube)
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Adam talks with broadcaster and author Sara Cox about hair raising childhood farm injuries, being a Daddy's girl, cringey memories of The Girlie Show, whether she feels she needs to watch what she says at the Big British Castle, the challenges of parenting teenagers in the digital age and the physical toll exacted upon her by Pudsey Bear.
Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on 10 June, 2026
Thanks to Diggory Waite and Claire Broughton at Hattrick and Séamus Murphy Mitchell for production support.
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
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ADAM BUXTON PODCAST LIVE WITH MAWAAN RIZWAAN @ Roundhouse, London, 5 August, 2026 (Roundhouse)
THE TRUTH OF US by Sara Cox - 2026 (Hachette)
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Adam talks with British/American journalist, podcaster, and old friend Louis Theroux about Adam's Audible series Successpod (on which Louis was one of the producers) as well as great singers who can't sing, what Rosie is really thinking, enlightenment, the Manosphere and what men want from women.
Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on 11 June, 2026
Thanks to Diggory Waite and Claire Broughton at Hattrick and Séamus Murphy Mitchell for production support.
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
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PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY BRIEFING FILM AND TALK WITH ADAM BUXTON & PATRICK BARKHAM @ NORWICH ARTS CENTRE, 28 June, 2026
ADAM BUXTON PODCAST LIVE WITH MAWAAN RIZWAAN @ Roundhouse, London, 5 August, 2026 (Roundhouse)
RELATED LINKS
THE WAY THINGS GO (DER LAUF DER DINGE) by Peter Fischli and David Weiss - 1987 (Vimeo)
MARTIAL ARTS ROBOTS DAZZLE AT THE 2026 SPRING GALA FESTIVAL - 2026 (YouTube)
PYTHAGORA SWITCH IDENTS COMPILATION - 2002 to present (YouTube)
Video idents and "Pythagorean Devices" (Rube Goldberg-style machine segments) from Japanese children's educational television program Pythagoras Switch (ピタゴラスイッチ).
ANDREW TATE'S EMPIRE OF ABUSE by Heidi Blake - 6 June, 2026 (The New Yorker)
THE MEN WHO WANT WOMEN TO BE QUIET by Helen Lewis - 14 May, 2026 (Atlantic)
SÉAMUS MURPHY-MITCHELL WINS EMMY - 2024 (Irish Film and Television Network)
JIMINY GLICK INTERVIEWS ARTIE LANG from The Martin Short Show - 1999 (YouTube)
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