Chatting With Adam Buxton

If you’re willing to sit through a long and rambling introduction with campy theme songs, you’ll find a great interview podcast with Adam Buxton.

Buxton is a British actor–comedian who you may recognize from movies like Stardust and Hot Fuzz, and he also has a talent for, well, chatting. This lends itself beautifully to a podcast series where he interviews celebrities, mainly from the entertainment industry, but also from arts and literature. 

Buxton interviews people from all over, but seems to have a British focus, and has introduced me to many Brits who I wasn’t familiar with in advance. One is Diane Morgan, an English actress, comedian, and writer, who spouts off entertaining anecdotes (plus a few embarrassing ones about former jobs, and a gross one, about a tapeworm) in episode 65. In many cases outside narration is brought in, like when somehow Buxton and Morgan get to talking about the Stanford Prison experiment, and an explanation is edited in between their exchange, which lends an educational aspect to the conversations. 

Other highlights include the great humorist David Sedaris, and Charlie Brooker, the mind behind the television show Black Mirror.