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Tea With Alice

327 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 118 ratings

Every week Alice Fraser, chronic thinker, comedian, ex lawyer and cambridge graduate drinks tea and solves the world. With a rotating cast of bright and brilliant guests.

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Episodes

Michelle Brasier - Spaces To LiveCast

May 26, 2024 20:25 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MB

The magnificent Michelle Brasier talks precious minutes; whether life happens between or through the process of doing lots of stuff, and the balance between beauty and age. A really wonderful Tea With Alice

Avril Speaks - CreationCast

May 12, 2024 07:42 - 39 minutes - 54 MB

Avril Speaks talks to Alice about names, creation and the drive towards communication.

Night Feed Thoughts Season 3 Begins

April 26, 2024 00:39 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

Alice talks to her baby and you in the Middle of the night. Starring baby Fraser. The triumphant launch of season three of Tea with Alice. Find and support the podcast online at Patreon.com/AliceFraser

Ian Smith - ClassCast

January 10, 2024 09:45 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MB

The briliant Ian Smith joins Alice over Aspirational Peppermint tea to talk about chips on shoulders, Nepo Babies and how to navigate class and privilege in a way that doesn't rub us all up the wrong way. Support this podcast on patreon at Patreon.com/AliceFraser

Nelly Thomas - Victims and PowerCast

December 14, 2023 22:18 - 1 hour - 84.6 MB

Nelly Thomas is an activist, author and comedian. She talks with Alice about how we think of ourselves, the relationships we cultivate and the stories we tell. Find Nelly online at nellythomas.com

Mina Starsiak Hawk - Reality of FamilyCast

November 16, 2023 19:32 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MB

Mina Starsiak Hawk, podcaster and reality star sits with Alice and talks family Christmas, what we owe the people we love, and how to say no when you want to give in.

Sian Docksey - PoleCast

September 14, 2023 01:13 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MB

Sian Docksey sits over a cup of Billionaire Neighbour tea talking the arts, finances, creativity and inspiration, and whose work is worth what.

Cerys Bradley - Social BatteryCast

September 08, 2023 00:20 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MB

Cerys sits with Alice in Edinburgh and talks about accommodations, social battery, the language of needs and the future of work.

Aaron Simmonds - Eddie IzzardCast

August 27, 2023 03:48 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MB

Aaron talks over not-tea about a weird corporate gig that he just did with Alice, about performing standup standing up, consent in performance and kink, being fetishised and more.

Steffan Alun - Self Diagnosis-Cast

August 12, 2023 23:29 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MB

Steffan Alun sits with Alice backstage at the Underbelly Bristo Square, to the strains of a beautiful one woman musical about codependency, and talks the pros and cons of self-diagnosis, community, self-isolation and how much we can understand or control the roles we play.

Matt Lieb - UpbringingCast

July 30, 2023 07:30 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB

Matt Lieb talks over tea and many LA healthful beverages about impact, parenting, the stress of straddling the culture wars, race science and what the real problem is in America. Find Matt at Pod Yourself A Gun

AJ LaMarque - ReMarquesCast

July 16, 2023 04:55 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MB

AJ LaMarque is a comedian, writer and human community hub. This was such a fun conversation, characterised by coming out of isolation and rebuilding self. It's one from a while ago, but so good I was excited to find it and bring it to you.

Sarah Pappalardo - PlanningCast

June 29, 2023 03:08 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MB

Sarah Pappalardo has a chat over tea with Alice about parenting choices, heteronormative expectations and how to navigate the world of work. Sarah Pappalardo is the co-founder and managing editor of Reductress, and a writer, performer and playwright living in Brooklyn. Support this podcast at patreon.com/AliceFraser

Melissa Febos - The Traitor MemoryCast

June 18, 2023 01:05 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MB

Melissa Febos sits over tea with Alice and talks about the traps and joys of memoir; writing about real people, and how art can be reality, shape reality and help process reality.

Jesse Thorn - Burt Reynolds SexCast

May 29, 2023 00:04 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MB

Alice has tea and talks to Jesse Thorn over tea about what we choose to talk about, privacy, Burt Reynolds and sexiness, masculinity and imperfection and Marvel superheroes.

Jordan Morris - HealthCast

May 08, 2023 23:53 - 35 minutes - 49 MB

Jordan Morris talks to Alice over Herbal Tea on privacy, mental health and how to negotiate levels of selfhood.

Nato Green - RevolutionCast

April 11, 2023 02:02 - 46 minutes - 64.8 MB

Alice sits with Nato Green and talks about kitchenware, jazz, how to negotiate the firehose of content, mental health, helping your children navigate the world.

DeAnne Smith - ExesCast

March 23, 2023 23:10 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MB

DeAnne Smith talks over tea with Alice about doing comedy about their exes TO their exes, creating boundaries and formatting the past through narrative.

Chris Rivas - Form and ConformCast

March 06, 2023 02:06 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MB

Chris Rivas, actor and author, podcaster and storyteller sits with Alice over tea to discuss selling yourself, branding yourself, being yourself and communicating your self. From nose jobs to Hollywood jobs to buddhism, this is a very Tea With Alice Tea With Alice.

Maris Kreitzman - PaperCast

February 25, 2023 01:43 - 42 minutes - 59 MB

Maris Kreitzman, author, blogger, podcaster, publishing industry maven, talks with Alice about writers rights, the publishing industry and how to look after each other

Baratunde Thurston - BattleCast

February 15, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MB

Baratunde Thurston sits with a cuppa to talk about which bits of identity are relevant and when, how to be patient with teaching complicated things and being complicated things and the joy of the great outdoors.

Laurie Kilmartin - RestartCast

February 02, 2023 22:05 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MB

Laurie Kilmartin sits with Alice over tea and talks about success, failure, writing for late night television, how to survive life and maintaining work in the face of difficulty.

Josh Gondelman - GiveCast

January 24, 2023 05:27 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MB

Josh Gondelman talks over tea about duty, being a sucker and Effective Altruism

Relationship Endcast - Amy Carver

January 12, 2023 00:23 - 3 minutes - 68.8 MB

Amy Carver, screenwriter, director, producer and Patreon supporter comes on the podcast to talk conscious uncoupling, sticking to your principles or whether your principles should stick to you and building the life you want with the privilege you're given.

Season Two for Tea With Alice

January 09, 2023 02:55 - 3 minutes - 4.9 MB

After a year of Maternity Leave, Alice welcomes you back to the table.

Justine Rogers - FamilyCast

November 06, 2021 21:43 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB

Justine Rogers is a legal academic, an old friend and an ex member of Alice's old girl-group, Aggressively Helpful. We talk about family dynamics, and I talk about my baby for the first time on the podcast.

Damian Smith - RhetoricCast

October 20, 2021 00:18 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MB

Damian Smith is a comedian and podcaster who has made a career out of the onstage persona of in his words, an Arrogant, Intellectual, Low-Ethos Sociopath. He and Alice have tea and talk about the ways they're similar and the ways they're different.

Dan Ilic - EnviroCast

September 24, 2021 03:28 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MB

Dan Ilic of A Rational Fear is a very old friend of mine, and a relentless participator in things, creator of work and the genesis of jobs for other people. We chatted in our separate houses in Sydney Lockdown about climate change, helplessness and activism.

Cal Wilson - Age and GardeningCast

September 06, 2021 03:07 - 1 hour - 83.1 MB

Cal Wilson talks to me over a fancy hotel tea about creativity, lockdown gardening and self expression.

Craig Quartermaine - Talent and Successcast

August 21, 2021 09:49 - 51 minutes - 70.1 MB

Craig Quartermaine is a friend of the podcast and a friend of mine. We had a lovely chat about work, success, racism and opportunities deserved and undeserved.

Adam Richard - WeightCast

August 05, 2021 23:35 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MB

Adam Richard came on the podcast to talk about weight, work, how to dress, giving up comedy and being a nerd.

Visakan V - Enthusiastic Nerdcast

July 15, 2021 23:56 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB

Visa is a thinker who thinks about thinking - I've known him for a while on twitter, and I've always enjoyed watching the process of him organising thoughts in webs and threads. This episode we talked about enthusiastic nerdery, online selfhood and making connections.

Colt Cabana Literal WrestlingCast

June 23, 2021 01:07 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MB

Colt Cabana is a lovely human, a deep thinker in disguise. We talked about how covid affected the world of wrestling, the upside of being objectified and how to use your body.

Justin Hamilton CultureCast

May 30, 2021 00:23 - 1 hour - 95.6 MB

Justin Hamilton is a good friend and an excellent interlocutor. We discussed culture, age, artistry and existential angst. A lovely time.

Dara O Briain - InterGenerational DimensionCast

May 07, 2021 02:13 - 1 hour - 99.3 MB

The brilliant Dara O Briain came on Tea With Alice as part of his international lockdown podcast tour to talk about online work, throwing jokes up in the air, work process, joke memory, and how he keeps coming back to the theme of pole dancers.

Sami Shah - NegotiationCast

April 12, 2021 21:28 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB

Sami Shah returns to Tea With Alice to talk about multitasking, sense of self and the arguments he's having now. Find Sami online @samishah on twitter

Solo Salon Q and A

March 18, 2021 11:49 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MB

A behind the scenes peep at a Q and A during one of my recent Tea With Alice Salon - I only recorded my side of the convo this time, so let me know what you think.

Lara Fraser - PersonaCast

February 27, 2021 22:56 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MB

My glamorous powerhouse cousin Lara Fraser came and sat with me over green tea to talk about online persona, instagram activism, plastic surgery, the gender politics of music production and her new international collaboration. Find Lara on instagram etc at @djlarafraser and find her new song "In This World" with Shingai on Spotify and other music places.

Boo Dwyer - Lonely HelpCast

February 14, 2021 06:24 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MB

Boo Dwyer spoke to me during her quarantine period about life, fulfilment, achievement, deciding whether you've 'done enough' and what that means. Loneliness, nurturing, her open door policy and not being THAT mature age student.

Jackie Kashian - MediCast

January 29, 2021 01:29 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB

Jackie Kashian is a road comic, a brilliant nerd and an all round powerhouse of thoughtfulness. We talked about the road, cartwheels, the art of conversation, online dating, the stupidity of rationality and romance novels. It was a gorgeous conversation and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as i enjoyed having it.

Catherine Jones - MediCast

January 21, 2021 01:38 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MB

Catherine Jones is a specialist chest radiologist and writer, living in Queensland. We talked about the differences between practical and research based help, the place of doctors and the piece she wrote for a recently published anthology.

Solo New Year Fears and RevelationsCast

January 11, 2021 14:19 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MB

Alice Fraser talks to a wall about fears and revelations, the function and effectiveness of advertising, half baked ideas and self.

Richard Makim - Soil Regeneration Cast

December 22, 2020 22:19 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MB

Richard Makim on his little experimental farm, soil regeneration and saving the world, piece by practical piece.

George Dimarelos - ClassCast

December 14, 2020 01:30 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MB

George Dimarelos on class, communism, argumentation and emotion. Find George on social media at @georgewhatup

Hugh Mackay - Love and DutyCast

November 15, 2020 03:21 - 51 minutes

Hugh Mackay is a family friend, he's also the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Mackay Report 1979-2003, which later became The Ipsos Mackay Report. He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He was a weekly newspaper columnist for 25 years and is generally a social commentator and extremely thoughtful guy. I really enjoyed having the opporunity to chat with him, as he releases a pair of books together, both about love. We had a fascinating and wide ranging chat...

SpaceAcre - Artist BunkerCast

October 27, 2020 22:03 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MB

Spaceacre is a duo of musicians, locked down in the south of France, making an album in the midst of the world collapsing. What does that feel like? We discuss over tea.

Lucy Fraser - Anniversary

October 13, 2020 13:07 - 22 minutes - 41.3 MB

The anniversary of Lucy Fraser's death was 12 October. I uploaded this podcast I did with her in the final year of her life

Laura Davis - Horrible Little Mince ManCast

September 30, 2020 00:17 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MB

Laura Davis is a friend of the show, and one of my favourite people in the whole world. We talk over LOTS of tea about her new bus show, and the horrible little mince man found art who is the unexpected avatar of 2020.

David Rose - Offensively JewishCast

September 14, 2020 21:42 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MB

David Rose is a comedian and documentarian, talking with me about his ancestor, a Jewish comedian who played a caricature jew. We discuss offense, progress, context, hate speech and the function of minorities mocking themselves. Find David on twitter and instagram at @davidrosecomedy

Mitch Alexander - LandCast

September 01, 2020 17:43 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

Mitch Alexander of Not Good Enough talks about revolution, landlords and capitalism. Find him online at @notgoodpod

Guests

Adam Richard
2 Episodes
Alison Spittle
1 Episode
Andy Matthews
1 Episode
Gareth Reynolds
1 Episode
Graham Elwood
1 Episode
Helen Zaltzman
1 Episode
Neil Gaiman
1 Episode
Nick Capper
1 Episode
Paul Gilmartin
1 Episode
Steele Saunders
1 Episode
Stuart Goldsmith
1 Episode
Tom Houghton
1 Episode

Twitter Mentions

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