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Journalist Hannah Dunleavy wants to talk about alcohol - what we drink, when we drink and why we drink it.
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This week Hannah meets author and comedian Jane Hill to talk about what led her to conclude she was an alcoholic, how she gave up and why booze is so intrinsically linked to fun. Spoiler alert: Contains more stories about how Hannah broke stuff when she was drunk. Like bones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, Hannah goes for a cup of tea with Isobel Wroe Wright from Shit-Faced Showtime and David Ellis from Shit-Faced Shakespeare, to talk being drunk on stage, looking after your mates and drinking LOTS OF WATER. Spoiler alert: Contains an anecdote about being drunk in a sand-trap with a guitar. What more do you people want? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, Hannah meets comedian Tiernan Douieb for a lunchtime pint to find out how diabetes can affect what you drink and what you're like when you're drunk. Plus, they chat the perils of absinthe and you can find out which one of them ended up in a skip. SPOILER ALERT: It's both of them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week Hannah meets Our Future Our Choice's Femi in a very windy London to talk being teetotal, how Nigel Farage has used alcohol to present himself as a man of the people and why you should always make your kids drink if you've bought a new car. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, Hannah indulged in a spot of lunch time drinking with sports journalist Nick Miller, to chat booze and sports fandom, the horrors of waking up in a tent with a hangover and why he never chooses the wine. Hannah also pretends to know stuff about sport. She's fooling no-one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, Hannah meets comedian Olga Koch to talk drunk dialling,the perfect number of pints and how not to ruin your Uber rating. Plus Hannah pretends to know stuff about Champagne. It doesn't suit her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week Hannah attempts to buy coffee for the Swedish comedian Evelyn Mok. Which is more of a drama than it sounds. But they did manage to have an interesting chat about the "Asian Flush", crying on the night bus and knowing the right time to leave a party. So it all worked out well in the end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hannah meets comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha to talk drunken weeping, the best and worst kind of stag do, and the art of pacing yourself. Plus there's a small quiz. Because of course there is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hannah meets American comedian, former counsellor and one third of the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast, Taylor Glenn to talk interventions, dry counties and parenting with a hangover. Plus the good way to be pissed at work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week's episode, Hannah talks to comedian and parenting author Sam Avery about drinking in the park, knock-off spirits and drunken sleepwalking. Warning, contains drunk nans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week Hannah has comedian Lou Conran round for a few gin and tonics and a chat about how booze mixes with mood and how it mixes with grief. And about what happens when you drink too many cocktails when you've only eaten a jacket potato. Spoiler alert, it's not pretty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, Hannah goes for a pint with comedians Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson, AKA The Scummy Mummies, to talk "reward" drinking, drunk audiences and a 300-mile pub crawl. Definitely contains swearing. Possibly contains a lingering smell of singed pubic hair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, Hannah goes for a cup of tea with historian Greg Jenner to find out why he's teetotal, why Prohibition didn't work and what happens when you jump over a hedge without checking what's on the other side. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hannah Dunleavy kicks off The Drink by getting her Standard Issue co-host Mickey Noonan to ask some questions about when she drinks, what she drinks and why she drinks it. They chat about being the child of an alcoholic, why notions of "ladylike" drinking can do one and why you should always take care when getting on a train. Contains anecdotes. And swearing. And sweary anecdotes.@thedrinkpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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