Nina Conti is best known as a brilliant ventriloquist but for her new podcast she has dispensed with her dummies and formed a double act with an another real-life human being instead – Shenoah Allen, half of inventive sketch duo Pajama Men.

Conti and Allen were working together on live shows before the pandemic hit us but this is different from their stage shows. In Richard and Greta Conti and Allen play a two unashamedly "unqualified experts" offering self-help guides and emotional coaching sessions. Their speciality seems to be solving relationship issues – "how to get the most – or too much – out of your partner". 

Greta is all new agey and more than a little spaced out, Richard is also partial to a spot of babbling jargon, whether they are talking about looking through your "glory hole" (grow up at the back) or just deciding whther or not you should get a cat.

It's a loose, gentle, funny podcast from two masters of both comedy and improvisation. Stick with it and it will draw you in. In the second episode they discuss procrastination, the creative process and how to diffuse a fight for $20...

As they say themselves, "Tis a broth for your ears."

Listen on Acast here. On Spotify here. And coming soon to Apple podcast apps.