Kings Place announces the first wave of events for the 2022 London Podcast Festival, which runs from 8-19 September. The festival brings together some of the biggest names in podcasting with listeners and aspiring podcasters alongside an unrivalled line-up of live podcasts, affordable workshops, meet and greets and panel discussions. Taking place in front of a live audience at Kings Place, the festival is a chance to celebrate the fast-growing popularity of podcasts whilst giving listeners the chance to meet their favourite podcast hosts. A number of the events will be livestreamed to audiences across the world via KPlayer, the Kings Place pay-per-view platform. The London Podcast Festival was founded by Kings Place in 2016 and has since welcomed over 37,000 visitors and 500 podcasters.

Highlights include:

• Top UK podcast stars join the festival line-up for special live editions including The Adam Buxton Podcast, Dane Baptiste Questions Everything and No Such Thing as a Fish, where Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski discuss the four most interesting facts they’ve heard

• Favourites of the festival, The Guilty Feminist and Brown Girls Do It Too, present a special crossover show where they will merge their two show formats and share the stage for the first time
• Live episodes from some of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ podcasters including Black British lesbians Rose Frimpong and Nana Duncan with their Two Twos Podcast, A Gay and a NonGay with James Barr and Dan Hudson, Drag Race UK star Crystal’s The Things That Made Me Queer
• American comic and talk-show host Michelle Collins riffs on the week’s biggest stories in Midnight Snack

• Film enthusiasts can enjoy a live show of Film Quiz, a brand-new podcast with comedian Nick Helm, as well as the return of The Empire Film Podcast and the first Kings Place show of Film Stories. Hanna Flint, Clarisse Loughrey and Amon Warmann take a deep dive into film news with their podcast Fade to Black

• The festival features debuts from podcasters including Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon who bring a live episode of Jew Talkin’ To Me?,  Nick Hancock and Chris England with their comedy football podcast The Famous Sloping Pitch, comedian Rosie Holt’s new podcast NonCensored with Rosie Holt, plus Andy Stanton and Carrie Quinlan who revive Ask The Nincompoops, their podcast for children

• Australian documentary producer and podcaster Mike Williams rounds off his European tour of Who gives a fork? featuring special guest documentary maker Georgia Moodie

• Mike Wozniak, Henry Paker and Benjamin Partridge tackle a subject suggested by the live audience in Three Bean Salad, and Partridge returns to present Beef and Dairy Network, the number one podcast for those involved or just interested in the production of beef animals and dairy herds

• Popular panel podcasts take to the stage at Kings Place including comedy show Global Pillage and Chart Music: The TOTP Podcast where UK music journalists discuss episodes of Top of the Pops, plus Steve Richards returns to the venue with his popular Rock ‘n’ Roll Politics podcast
• Returning podcasters include Tim Daniels and Tom Reynolds with The Complete Guide to Everything, John Rain, Tom Neenan and Paul Litchfield in a live episode of their Doctor Who podcast A Wheezing Groaning Sound, and broadcaster Jon Holmes is joined by a special guest for his podcast The The One Show Show Podcast
• Wrestling fans can enjoy a trilogy of popular podcasts including Wrestle Me with Pete Donaldson and Marc Haynes, Kefin Mahon and Jo Graham present How2Wrestling plus Kefin, Billy and Adam return with a live show of their Attitude Era Podcast
• The second wave of London Podcast Festival events will be announced later this summer

Zoe Jeyes, London Podcast Festival Producer and Programmer, said: “Wow, I can’t believe this is our seventh London Podcast Festival at Kings Place! What continues to make LPF my favourite time of the year is its unique spirit of fun and community. We’re so happy to be welcoming back old friends, and bringing new voices to the festival and we can’t wait to meet all their fans and listeners. A meet-up, a reunion, a celebration of your favourite artform, a good old knees up! You can join us in person, or watch one of our streaming events and chat along with other fans on KPlayer. Come and see why LPF is the Podcast community’s favourite time of year.”

The London Podcast Festival is delighted once again to be partnering with Acast.

Tickets are on sale for these events from 12 noon today and further events will be announced in due course.

https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/londonpodfest