Following Absolute Radio’s decision to cancel Frank Skinner’s radio show six months ago, the show will return as a twice-weekly podcast in partnership with Adelicious, with a first new episode dropping into podcast feeds on Friday 11th October.
Running for 15 years, the award-winning radio show, The Frank Skinner Show, which won four gold awards at the ARIAs for Best Speech Programme (2011 and 2014), Best Entertainment/Comedy Production (2017) and Best Community Programme featuring Al Gore (2018), attracted over one million listeners per week, achieved over 100 million podcast downloads since launch, making it one of the most successful radio podcasts in the UK, and saw Frank inducted into the Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame in 2015.
In May 2024, in the week after it was cancelled, the radio show was nominated for the Best Comedy award at the ARIAs.
Frank Off The Radio, The Frank Skinner Podcast will feature two episodes (on Friday and Monday) each week. Listeners can look forward to Frank reuniting with trusted co-hosts: broadcaster, author and podcaster Emily Dean, alongside acclaimed comedian and writer Pierre Novellie. Existing fans and podcast followers will see new episodes appear in the Frank Skinner feed. New fans can search Frank Skinner Off The Radio wherever they get their podcasts. The critically acclaimed Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast, which regularly reached the top podcast charts nationwide, will also return in partnership with Adelicious with more information in due course.
Frank, Emily and Pierre return to the mic, bringing their signature witty banter, sharing stories from their lives, discussing the news, and reacting to listeners’ contributions*.
Frank Skinner said, “It’s like in those old movies when the kids get rejected by the big theatre and one of them says ‘why don’t we do the show right here in the barn?’ I think the barn will suit us fine.”
Frank Skinner Off The Radio, The Frank Skinner Podcast, produced by Avalon, will be available from 11th October. You’ll be able to listen and download on all mainstream podcast platforms.
*Show listeners can contact the show through Frank’s socials and Frankofftheradio
