''The Distraction Pieces Podcast'' is a weekly conversational

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created and hosted by English spoken word poet and hip-hop artist

Scroobius Pip David Peter Meads (born 3 August 1981), known professionally and personally as Scroobius Pip (Dave), is an English actor and podcaster as well as a former spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. He first ga ...

. The podcast began on 13 October 2014 and has been released weekly ever since.

Format

The podcasts are usually around one hour in duration and are released every Wednesday. Pip switched to this format from his radio show on Xfm after appearing on ''

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'' and hearing other American long-form interview podcasters such as

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. Speaking with ''

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'''s Killian Fox, Pip described the podcast as "interesting conversations with interesting people", adding "obviously it's important to have some big names in there, such as Simon Pegg, Alan Moore and Billy Bragg, but we've also had people such as Dr Suzi Gage, who studies recreational drugs and their potential benefits and negatives, and the mortician Carla Valentine talking about the taboo of death. It can get incredibly heavy – we've had debates about race and mental health – but there's also a lot of silly nonsense". Pip bookends each episode with monologues in which he mentions sponsors for the show, updates the listener on his work, and reflects on the conversations in the podcasts.

Awards

* Nominated for the Entertainment with Maple Street Studios award at the British Podcast Awards in 2017. * Nominated by the Human Trafficking Foundation for their Anti-Slavery Day media awards for episode 86 (2016)

Distraction Pieces Network

''The Distraction Pieces Podcast'' is the flagship podcast of the eponymous network organised by Pip. Other shows on the network include

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's ''Films to Be Buried With'', Suzi Gage's ''Say Why to Drugs'', Jason Reed's ''Stop and Search'', in association with LEAP UK, and Jim Smallman's ''Tuesday Night Jaw''.

Episodes

References

External links

* {{Podcast platform links Audio podcasts 2014 podcast debuts British podcasts