Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is the legendary, iconic food writer, chef, baker and presenter - Mary Berry. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is the hypnotist, behavioural scientist, broadcaster and author - Paul McKenna Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm back!! And way a way to kick off the new series and brush away those January blues. Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is the comedian, actress and screenwriter - Aisling Bea. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is the comedian David O' Doherty. Listen to David's podcast 'What did you do yesterday?' HERE And find info and tickets on his new tour HERE Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx A Keep It Light Media Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is the amazing podcaster, social media influencer, TikTok sensation and presenter - GK Barry. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is the brilliant singer-song writer and actress - Pixie Lott. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx A Keep It Light Media Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is West End and Broadway sensation, Marisha Wallace! See Marisha’s biggest ever solo show at London’s Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 11th March 2025: HERE Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx A Keep It Light Media Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is comedian and writer, Fern Brady! Get tickets to see Fern’s tour, including London’s Apollo on 1st November: TICKETS HERE Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is broadcaster, Loose Women host and author, Charlene White! Her memoir “No Place Like Home” is out now! Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is global superstar, Camila Cabello! Her critically acclaimed album C, XOXO (Magic City Edition) with four amazing new songs, is available now! Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is TV presenter & King of Crime Fiction, Richard Osman! Richard’s new bestseller “We Solve Murders” is out now! Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surprise! Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories on this bonus Friday ep is drag queen Bianca Del Rio!  See Bianca Del Rio’s comedy tour “Dead Inside” around the country now! https://www.thebiancadelrio.com/dead-inside-tour Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is TV presenter and style icon AJ Odudu! Get ready for some globetrotting fabulousness! AJ is presenting “Dress The Nation” with Vernon Kay on itv1 & itvx, starting at 8pm on Tuesday 17th September. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is the brilliant comedian - Jason Byrne. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories are Pete Wicks and Sam Thompson. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hello@keepitlightmedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gary, Mark and Howard join Alan to talk about the new Netflix Take That documentary - and things immediately descend into chaos. From Ibiza, the Maldives, and safari mishaps to archive hoarding, early leather outfits, holiday run-ins with authorities, and being driven away from huge gigs in a Fiat Punto. Add silly hats, Colin the Caterpillar, celebrity holiday spots and Alan appearing in the documentary itself, and you’ve got one of the funniest Life’s A Beach episodes yet. 00:00 Intro 00:15 Gary's the mic00:40 Where’s Gary’s silly hat? Alan tries on Howard’s02:30 Gary’s two best holidays ever - Ibiza & the Maldives03:20 Mark’s best holiday: Africa04:23 Alan took his mum on safari and they were mistaken for a couple05:12 Howard’s best holiday memories - Anglesey and Mustique05:57 Inside the new Netflix Take That documentary07:39 Howard the hoarder kept most of the archive footage08:30 Alan thinks Take That were worked to death and couldn’t handle the screaming09:36 Huge audiences… then being driven off in a Fiat Punto11:11 Why it was so hard for Take That to get signed12:16 Early Take That outfits - leather and studs13:15 Worst holiday disaster - being detained in Taiwan14:24 Gary loves English food and when they first tried Chinese and Indian16:27 Alan takes full advantage of Howard saying he wasn’t into girls17:07 Howard’s BMX and breakdancing days – and how dancing became Take That’s thing18:01 Can Mark still breakdance?18:37 Colin the Caterpillar for Mark’s birthday21:00 Mark’s coach trip from Manchester to Benidorm23:10 Spotting Paul O’Grady on holiday - Alan holidayed with him24:10 Gary spots Claudia Winkleman on holiday24:40 Howard bumps into Kate Moss25:20 Gary praises Alan on Traitors - Howard hasn’t seen it26:30 Gary gets serious about Alan winning and Alan is insulted28:00 Alan appears in the Take That Netflix documentary at the Brits30:15 Travel pet peeves32:40 Gary was nearly arrested leaving Japan34:23 Cornwall… or “Corn-Wall”35:38 Howard’s golf obsession dictating tour schedules36:38 Making our descent and the quickfire round Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is are the legendary band - Take That. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hello@keepitlightmedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Arnett and John Bishop join Captain Alan to talk holidays, stand-up nerves, and their brilliant new film "Is This Thing On?" - inspired by John’s real life journey into comedy. From New York comedy clubs and Liverpool screenings to St Barths holidays, gym confessions, all-inclusive buffet hacks… fasten your seatbelts and get ready for some hilarious in-flight entertainment. 00:00 Intro00:35 Alan has known John for 25 years and now his story is a film03:20 Will’s hand goes up04:04 The Liverpool screening and the authenticity of the stand-up06:11 Would the film have changed things for John and Melanie07:15 Bradley Cooper filming close and Will does Scouse08:24 New York the home of stand-up10:04 Alan telling his mum a man would play her10:30 Will doing stand-up in New York as Alex Novak12:27 Alan’s post-it note disaster on stage13:41 Being mistaken for Ukrainian at a New York club15:50 Will loves St Barths and went before it got fancy17:00 Will gets distracted by Tim Key’s book17:45 Alan’s book on poverty causes much amusement18:15 Alan’s all-inclusive buffet holiday hack19:26 Will spots John in the gym and John starts lunging20:27 Alan’s personal trainer21:06 Will on weight loss hard work and middle age22:40 Making our descent and the quickfire round #LifesABeach #AlanCarr #WillArnett #JohnBishop #IsThisThingOn #StandUpComedy #ComedyFilm #Podcast #TravelPodcast #HolidayHacks #NewYorkComedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining me this episode to discuss their travel and holiday stories is are comedian and actor Will Arnett, and comedian John Bishop. Please subscribe and review. Thanks, Alan. xx ‘Life’s A Beach’ everyone’s favourite travel podcast is here to give you all the vitamin D you need. More celebrity passengers unpack their travel suitcases dishing the dirt on their holiday high-jinks. Buckle up, sit back and enjoy the inflight entertainment!! A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hello@keepitlightmedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'll be back with a new series very soon - in the meantime here's a few of my favourite moments from the show in 2025. Featuring... Fatboy Slim, Vanessa Williams, Daisy May Cooper and Paul Hollywood. Thanks and lots of love - Alan xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices