''Under the Skin with Russell Brand'' is a

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosin ...

hosted by comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist Russell Brand.

Format

Interviews

In the podcast Russell Brand interviews a variety of guests from "the world of academia, popular culture and the arts." A variety of public figures and academics are interviewed including Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker

Naomi Klein Naomi A. Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism, organized labour, left-wing politics and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism ...

, former US Vice-President

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and physicist Brian Cox.

Content

According to iTunes the podcast "asks: what's beneath the surface – of people we admire, of the ideas that define our time, of the history we are told." A review in ''

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'' described the contents of the podcast stating that "Many big ideas are covered: the lurch to the right, humans becoming redundant thanks to the rise of digitalised economies and the focus given to the image of the burning twin towers after 9/11."

Critical response

A review in the ''

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'' described the podcast as "Refreshingly calm and thoughtful." A review in The Guardian commented on the content of the podcast stating "Although the thoughts exchanged aren’t those that usually make it on to

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, they are powerful." A review in the magazine '' The Skinny'' was more critical, calling the episode where Brand interviewed the Scottish comedian

Frankie Boyle Francis Martin Patrick Boyle (born 16 August 1972) is a Scottish comedian and writer. He is known for his cynical, surreal, graphic and often controversial sense of humour. A stand-up comedian since 1995, Boyle first gained widespread recogni ...

"Just an hour of half-arsed, loosely-connected gibberish."

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