His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Kingsville, Ontario. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.
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Essential film reviews, TV reviews, and all conversations around movie and non-movie related stuff brought to you by Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. Plus a whole bunch of recommendations to watch in cinemas, on all streaming services and on physical media. Want more Kermode & Mayo? Subscribe to Kermode & Mayo’s Extra Takes to get ad-free listening plus access to our subscriber-exclusive show, TAKE TWO, with new episodes every Friday. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or at extratak ...
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Dr. Neil Hillman and Jason Nicholas, two professionals working in film and television sound, discuss the many ways sound is used in moving picture productions to engage, entertain, educate and inform audiences. The podcast covers a range of topics through interviews with industry insiders as well as academics and professionals in other fields who talk about the human understanding and perception of sound.
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Distraction Pieces with Scroobius Pip is one of the UK's biggest and longest running independent podcasts. Previous guests include Michael Fassbender, Mary J Blige, Stephen Graham, Florence Pugh, Spike Lee, Lena Headey, Stewart Lee, Kathy Burke, Dizzee Rascal, Aisling Bea, Kano, Adam Buxton, Vicky McClure, Peter Capaldi, Michaela Coel, Louis Theroux, Tim Key and many more. Available on acast, iTunes and all podplaces. Download, subscribe, rate & review now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri ...
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Did Mark ‘Louvre’ Josh O’Connor’s timely heist movie THE MASTERMIND? + Does SPRINGSTEEN deliver?
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1:28:45This Week on the Show: Josh O’Connor, Kelly Reichardt & the Art of the Heist Fresh off the headlines of a real-life Louvre robbery, indie auteur Kelly Reichardt and breakout star Josh O’Connor join Simon to talk about their buzzy new film, The Mastermind—a stylish 70s-set art-heist drama that’s suddenly feeling very timely. O’Connor plays JB, a sla…
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Progress. A great concept. But what does it mean in regards to War? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole addresses this concern in his latest reading from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Dissecting Disfluency (w/ Cherry Burns) #641
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1:11:12Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip discusses the broad topic of disfluency with journalist CHERRY BURNS! Those of you familiar with Pip's Twitch channel and the community within might well be familiar with Cherry, but if not, all is well as here is your formal introduction! Although their r…
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Kevin Smith (Mallrats / Chasing Amy / Clerks) • Friday Rewind
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49:58emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Kevin Smith, originally episode 302 from 2019-12-04. Original writeup below: SNOOCHIE BOOCHIES! What a joy this is… While it is a slightly shorter episode, Pip could hardly turn Kevin down now could he…? …
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Has FRANKENSTEIN got Mark (re)animated? + Russell Tovey
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The Big Empty beckons, a state which Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores in his latest verses. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Miranda Sawyer: contextualising the music scene of an entire decade (Uncommon People / Talk 90's To Me) #640
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1:09:14Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by legendary writer, journalist, critic and cultural treasure MIRANDA SAWYER! A natural fit in the Distraction Pieces jigsaw, Miranda is someone who was pretty much destined to eventually join Pip for an episode. As a necessary firm fixture in mu…
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Action Bronson (rap music / acting / hosting / more...) • Friday Rewind
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48:36emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Action Bronson, originally episode 347 from 2020-09-30. Original writeup below: There’s no doubt about it, Action has done a ton in the past decade and by the looks of it all, had a goddamn blast while do…
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TRON: ARES: “It was like my brain was atrophying” + Kathryn Bigelow & Rebecca Ferguson
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We celebrate the end of the sunny season in verse, but what is that dark cloud that lies beyond? Poetry read by Simon Pole, the Cosmic Poet. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Adam Buxton: put on your conversation coat and find your talking hat (Adam Buxton Podcast / Buckle Up / I Love You, Byeee) #639
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Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest / Do The Right Thing / Malcolm X) • Friday Rewind
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37:26emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Spike Lee, originally episode 225 from 2018-08-24. Original writeup below: While Spike is getting his promotion grind on for his new film BlacKkKlansman (which you should make efforts to see as it’s just …
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Aimee Lou Wood on Film Club + a DOUBLE BILL of films of the week
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A weird town, its weird inhabitants and their weird exports are explored in Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's latest verses. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Justin Tipping: you will see Him (Him / Kicks / Flatbush Misdemeanors) #638
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46:47Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the bold and awesome director JUSTIN TIPPING! Maybe here and there you've heard rumblings not unlike the ones Pip cites up top on the intro, but in a time when creativity can even be treated and regarded as a rebellious and awesomely unique ac…
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#018 Mark Franken: On designing the tools that re-conformed an entire industry
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58:26Mark Franken is the double Emmy-winning creator of the sound editing software tools EdiCue, EdiLoad and EdiPrompt; products that since their inception in 2007, have come to be indispensable to dialogue editors, supervising sound editors, ADR recordists and re-recording mixers working in the sound for moving pictures sector. They are now the industr…
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Stephen Graham (Adolescence / Boiling Point / The Virtues) • Friday Rewind
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1:35:59emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Stephen Graham, originally episode 87 from 2016-03-09. Original writeup below: Not one, not two, but THREE welcomes upon you as standard to episode 87 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, with Kirby's own c…
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Is ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER film of the year? With Paul Thomas Anderson
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Some days you just can't get out of bed. Yet, the smallest act of friendship can be just the spark we need. Verses from Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's collection, Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Christopher Chung: all across the map to Slough House (Slow Horses / Blitz) #637
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57:37Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the wonderful multi talent CHRISTOPHER CHUNG! An ultra inspiring chat featuring the insanely talented Christopher, in a catchup with Pip which goes all across the timeline from the wayback early days to what's coming ahead. He's had a full on …
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Mae Martin (Wayward / Feel Good / Handsome Podcast) • Friday Rewind
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1:02:00emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Mae Martin, originally episode 314 from 2020-02-26. Original writeup below: A tremendous meetup of Pip and Mae, and dare I say a long overdue one at that… You’ll get to hear all about Mae in the greater s…
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Robert Redford remembered + Paul Greengrass on THE LOST BUS
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What is the length of a man's life, and by what scale is it measured? Hear Cosmic Poet Simon Pole engage these questions in his latest sonnet. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Chris & Pip's Staylist for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably • link in shownotes) #636
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1:12:40Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the Hardcore Listing homie and everyday life homie CHRIS GLASSEN! You might have heard the pre-show shouts from Pip over the past few weeks, regarding a tie-in with CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). CALM are trying to raise funds to ma…
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The seasons are powerful forces in our hearts. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores Spring and Summer in his latest poem. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Karl Pilkington (Ricky Gervais XFM Show / An Idiot Abroad / Derek) • Friday Rewind
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1:09:30emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Karl Pilkington, originally episode 306 from 2020-01-08. Original writeup below: While some see Karl as the grumpy one of the original podcast trio consisting of him, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, a…
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Does SPINAL TAP II turn it up to 11? + the rockin’ Warren Ellis
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Revisit in verse the life and times of the four bruddahs from Queens. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Mark Steel: making gold with tragedy and comedy (The Leopard In My House / The Mark Steel Lectures / Vive La Revolution) #635
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1:32:05Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the legendary comic MARK STEEL! It's entirely likely you'll have been listening to and watching the work of Mark for decades now - he's been hard at work for a minute, and the fanbase is strong indeed. As you'll hear, Pip's been on board for y…
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In the hour of death, what happens to us and the natural world which surrounds us? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole addresses this universal concern in his latest poem. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Lolly Adefope (The Franchise / Ghosts / Shrill) • Friday Rewind
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1:09:55emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Lolly Adefope, originally episode 254 from 2019-02-20. Original writeup below: ...what better way to begin than by Pip dreaming of Lolly the previous night? All shall be revealed and certainly not spoiled…
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HONEY, DON’T: a film title that reviews itself? + Sam Riley on ISLANDS
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All art is a counter-environment where human beings think and feel new things. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole offers a sonnet reveals this expansive vista to us. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Grandmaster Flash: further adventures on the wheels of steel #634
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32:58Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by Hip Hop legend GRANDMASTER FLASH! Y'say... Y'say... Y'say / y'say / y'say (etc) and if you're not carrying that scratch sentence on in your head you have some SERIOUS homework to do. We flashback to the 20-teens to the era of the Beatdown radi…
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Fermented, brewed, or distilled: the result is the handmaiden of the muse. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's latest verse addresses this universal truth. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit / Black Light Burns / Big Dumb Face) • Friday Rewind
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1:28:44emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Wes Borland, originally episode 25 from 2015-03-18. A very cool early episode featuring the guitarist of Limp Bizkit and many other groups besides. This was about 6 months into the evolution of Distractio…
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Summer Holiday Highlights of the year so far
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The Barber is one of man's most ancient and developed professions. Listen to Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's tribute in verse to these able scissor-smiths. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: don't call it a comeback! (Live In Places / Repent Replenish Repeat / The Logic Of Chance) #633
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1:25:10Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by long term groupmate and music making legend DAN LE SAC! Together of course, they form Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip though - a duo name of which you will be abundantly familiar. To celebrate the release of their 'Live In Places' live recordings …
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Now and Ben: Olivia Colman and Jay Roach on THE ROSES
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14:43Surprise! It’s another tasty nugget of Now & Ben in the Take feed. This time, Ben sits down with Olivia Colman and Jay Roach, star and director of ‘The Roses’--which hits the big screen this Friday. This grown-up comedy with bite is all about marriage and what happens when it gets rocky. Colman plays one half of a battling couple alongside Bendict …
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Rain has a certain power to wash away what is past, and warm what is cold, but also brings reflection. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores this watery boon in the latest poem from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Ashley Walters (Adolescence / Top Boy / So Solid Crew) • Friday Rewind
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53:41emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Ashley Walters, originally episode 317 from 2020-03-18. Original writeup below: Okay - in case you don’t recognise that name right there immediately, let’s bring you up to speed. ASHER D FROM SO SOLID. Ri…
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Tom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor on THE LIFE OF CHUCK
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From the barstools of the world emanate many schemes to solve our problems, some in the form of poems. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole reads one of them here. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Rhys James: writing the honest behind the scenes life story of a comedian (You'll Like It When You Get There / Spilt Milk / Mock The Week) #632
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1:12:40Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by hilarious comic and now author RHYS JAMES! An immediately bubbly and scattered catchup with Pip and Rhys, as they transmit in podcast-time from Rhys's equivalent of what Adam Buxton refers to as his 'nutty room'. On top of all things book rela…
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Let us defang boredom with this contemplation of creation and the artist's lot within. A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Kaitlyn Dever (The Last Of Us / Booksmart / Dopesick) • Friday Rewind
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40:21emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Kaitlyn Dever, originally episode 475 from 2022-09-21. Original writeup below: If you are unaware of Kaitlyn in your adventures through the wide world of broadcast media, prepare to make fast friends with…
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Bob Odenkirk talks NOBODY 2 – will it meet Mark’s expectations?
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What is Palpable Menace, and should we be worried about it? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole offers a poem from the Poems For Ocean collection as an antidote. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-creditsBy Simon Pole
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Xelia Mendes-Jones: self-tapes and screens of all sizes (Fallout / Havoc / The Wheel Of Time) #631
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1:04:42Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the incredible actor XELIA MENDES-JONES! Such a great episode as Pip and Xelia catch up over everything involved with life on and off screen (I mean, mainly on-screen - but there's huge amounts on both sides). Xelia has led a unique journey fr…
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