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Tea With Alice

327 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months 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

John Hastings not speedscast

August 07, 2015 20:25 - 54 minutes - 99 MB

Alice Fraser sits in the National Library of Scotland Cafe with John Hastings, drinking green tea and eating biscuits. They discuss how eyes work, contract law, the value of lawyers, ambient noise, pornography and why Alice doesn't like sandwiches. You can look up John Hastings http://johnhastingscomedy.com/ or on twitter at @thejohnhastings Alice is at http://alicecomedyfraser.com or on twitter at @aliterative

Greg Dickens Was blind, but now can see cast

August 01, 2015 04:24 - 54 minutes - 100 MB

Alice (new zoom mic!) sits with her old friend Greg Dickens in a house near Cambridge, and talks about his job as an inventor, eating disorders, monkeys (and apes), suddenly going blind in deepest darkest africa, public nudity, existential fear, maths to the nearest whatever, getting your girl on board the marriage train, and the big red button. Greg is available online as undercoversuperhero Alice, still unwilling to reveal her superhero alterego is still @aliterative

Penny Durham for your Thoughts

July 22, 2015 06:21 - 1 hour - 125 Bytes

Alice drinks Rooibos in the About Life Cafe in Darlinghurst with Penny Durham, who is drinking Chai. They talk about reviewing comedy, the problems of words, causation and correlation and the lowest common denominator. Penny's writing can be found on twitter a @pennydee or in The Australian. Alice is available at [email protected] or @aliterative on twitter

Toby Truslove - All you need is

July 12, 2015 22:49 - 1 hour - 131 MB

Alice sits in her echoey living room in Fitzroy, chatting with Toby Truslove about plots, devices, comedy, performance and life. Toby can be found on a screen somewhere, or avoiding social media. Alice is available via alicecomedyfraser.com or at @aliterative on twitter

sex, art, work and suicide, with reet who used to be gia james

June 30, 2015 11:10 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Alice sits in her little place in Melbourne over Italian Almond Black Tea and sesame mochi with Reet (@Suburbang0th). They talk about suicide, anger, grief, beauty and art. Warnings: graphic discussions of suicide, language. email alice on [email protected]

Lawrence Leung - Leung full of Aircast

June 18, 2015 06:33 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Alice sits with Lawrence Leung in Grub Food Van and Kitchen, over a Jasmine Pearl tea talking ghosts, magic, film-making, random acts of kindness, comedians vs actors, form vs function and fighting the fear. Lawrence can be found at http://lawrenceleung.com Alice can be found at http://alicefraser.com

Lawrence Mooney - Waxing Mooncast

June 13, 2015 03:37 - 54 minutes - 100 MB

Alice sits in a loud cafe with Lawrence Mooney, having rooibos and black tea (with milk) in Adelaide. They discuss Slavery, Siblings, Time, Workplace incentives, Beauty, Truth and Sexual Politics. Lawrence Mooney can be found online at @lawrencemooney or on Dirty Laundry Live Alice is available for chats at @aliterative on twitter or via her website

Units of ComedyCast - Andy Matthews

June 05, 2015 03:48 - 57 minutes - 106 MB

Alice Fraser sits in the Victorian State Library with Andy Matthews who is full of hot chocolate. They talk about comedy, poetry, engineering, time travel and being zoo exhibits. Find Andy on twitter at @stupidoldandy find alice at [email protected]

Rebel HeartCast - Georgie Carroll

May 30, 2015 23:36 - 59 minutes - 110 MB

Alice Fraser sits in the house of her cousin the Space Archeologist in Adelaide and talks to Georgie Carroll, maverick, nurse, mother and comedian about anarchy, violence, sex, comedy and recycling. Hit Alice up on her patreon, or at alice r fraser at gmail.com

Weight loss, Death and Black CoffeeCast - Dilruk Jayasingha

May 27, 2015 22:27 - 43 minutes - 79.3 MB

Alice sits in a Malaysian Cafe with Melbourne Comedian Dilruk Jayasingha. They talk about weight loss, family and the spectre of death. Also some shop talk about comedy. Dilruk is followable on twitter @DilrukJ Alice is available at @aliterative

Alice on Alicecast talking Comedy as Therapy

May 23, 2015 02:07 - 13 minutes - 25.3 MB

Alice Fraser sits in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne City and talks to herself about moving to Melbourne, Comedy as Therapy, Expressing fury through Blog Posts, the point of doing art about Death and the future of the Teacast. look her up at @aliterative http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Goldstein Shower - Mike Goldstein

May 11, 2015 22:46 - 48 minutes - 88.6 MB

Alice Fraser sits downstairs in a store room at the Mercure Hotel in Melbourne during MICF and talks to Mike Goldstein about serial monogamy, fighting, love-drugs, difficult hecklers, marriage counselling, divorce law. Mike is available on twitter @mikegstein Alice is on twitter @aliterative

Licking Glory with Penny Greenhalgh

April 28, 2015 02:25 - 31 minutes - 58.5 MB

Alice and Penny Greenhalgh sit in a couple of different places, get chased around the Mercure hotel and talk about Meat, Squid Ice Cream, Mice watching TV, Graceful Awkwardness, Violent Crass Comedy, the man who keeps asking us to move. Follow Penny on Twitter @pennygreenhalgh A good point of reference for awkward grace is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk7-lhARaSc Follow me on twitter @aliterative or my website http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Gareth Reynolds - Gary Me Home

April 23, 2015 03:17 - 58 minutes - 106 MB

Alice talks to Gareth “Gary” Reynolds about tea, crazy fans, eating dogs, short term thinking, phone etiquette, Little Kevin and bad gigs. With dad-finding-teacups-and-going-shopping-cameo from Dave Anthony Gareth can be found at @reynoldsgareth

Myq-sing it up - Myq Kaplan

April 07, 2015 05:13 - 52 minutes - 96.2 MB

Alice sits upstairs in the Victoria Hotel in Melbourne with Myq Kaplan to talk about Veganism, Non-Monogamy, the Ten Commandments, Queer Identity for the Straight Guy, Constitutional Literalism

Tasting Hastings - John Hastings

April 03, 2015 02:00 - 54 minutes - 99.7 MB

Alice sits in the top of the Producers bar in Adelaide, talking to Best of The Edinburgh Fest act and all round good guy John Hastings. They talk about sleeping your way to the top, contract law, complicated grief, reading reviews, fame-orgies and maturity. John is Online at: http://www.johnhastingscomedy.com Alice is available at: http://www.alicecomedyfraser.com

Fingers in the Fosdyke - James Fosdyke

March 18, 2015 21:01 - 56 minutes - 104 MB

Alice sits upstairs at the Producers Bar in Adelaide and talks to James Fosdyke, influential podcast-artist and general good guy. They talk quality control, comic books, podcasts, Wil Anderson's patronage, fan service and self loathing, depression and suicide. James Fosdyke's work can be found at http://http://www.visualante.com.au/ Alice Fraser is at http://alicecomedyfraser.com as always or on twitter at @aliterative

Untangled Webb - Lindsay Webb

March 05, 2015 06:19 - 49 minutes - 90.3 MB

Alice sits in the Rhino Room in Adelaide and talks to legendary touring comedian Lindsay Webb about Public Transport, Capitalism, Jobs, High Culture, Low Culture and Agriculture. Lindsay is accessible online at http://twitter.com/lindswebb Alice is available at http://alicecomedyfraser.com or on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aliterative

JockShock Teacast - Paul Solomon

March 02, 2015 04:55 - 1 hour - 125 MB

Alice sits in the basement of one of her oldest friends, fellow buddhist and ex-breakfast-radio jock Paul 'Paulie P' Solomon, talking about all sorts of awful things, word facts, Radio politics, getting angry, childhood, travel, brotherhood and consent. Paulie is on twitter @mrpauliep Alice can be found at http://www.alicecomedyfraser.com or on Twitter at @aliterative

Stripping for Jesus Jarrod McKenna

February 22, 2015 08:07 - 1 hour - 154 MB

Stripping for Jesus, sex advice from a man of Christ. Legal tips for the Peaceful Activist (with state differences), and the thing we weren't going to talk about. Alice sits in Perth, and has Jasmine Green tea with Jarrod McKenna, activist and peace prize winner. Look up the hashtag #lovemakesaway and google the First home project. Look up Alice on http://alicecomedyfraser.com or follow her on twitter at http://twitter.com/aliterative

Ultraviolent JohnCast

February 14, 2015 02:45 - 1 hour - 131 MB

Alice Fraser sits in the London flat of Australian cult comedian, gaming celebrity and bottle blond John Robertson. They drink tea and discuss hyper-caffeination, the difference between ultraviolence and domestic violence, the modern Australian Novel, Kurt Vonnegut, lawyers' dreams, bondage, teeth and John's dangerous ideas.

Tiff in a Teacup - Tiffany Stevenson

February 08, 2015 07:22 - 1 hour - 98.9 MB

Alice sits in Camden with Tiff Stevenson and tea, talking about Drag, Gender, Crime, Bullying and being recognised in the street. Tiff's website is here: http://www.tiffstevenson.co.uk Alice is here: http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Herocast Podcast - Helen Zaltzman

January 31, 2015 22:32 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MB

Alice sits in the UK, land of Tea and does a podcast in the Scandinavian kitchen with Helen Zaltzman who is incredibly cool. Listen helen is @helenzaltzman on twitter Alice is @aliterative Bryce Halliday is excellent @mrbrycehalliday email her on [email protected] or visit the website on http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Pat the Rodcast - Patrick Brown and Roderick Makim

January 10, 2015 03:16 - 1 hour - 83.2 MB

Alice sits and drinks warm water with Roderick Makim (Journalist) and Patrick Brown, (Lawyer, Autodidact and Middle East non-expert ex-ex-pat). They talk about Charlie Hebdo, Generalising from Extremism, and whether you should follow the news at all. Pat is at http://twitter.com/pjbow and Roderick is at http://twitter.com/roderickmakim Their podcast "Pat and Rod Save The World" is here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/pat-and-rod-save-the-world/id920725924?mt=2 Alice is at http://tw...

Secrets and Liescast - Happy New Year

January 01, 2015 06:28 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MB

Alice drinks green tea alone and answers intimate listener questions about her, you, and the abstract realities of life. alicerfraser at gmail.com for more questions if you want to ask them http://alicecomedyfraser.com http://twitter.com/aliterative

Henry ReturnsCast - Twin Trilogy

December 27, 2014 12:07 - 42 minutes - 77.1 MB

Alice talks with her twin for this special xmas episode. They discuss radio conventions, fish that are all teeth, Agony Aunting, Epic Adventure, Patronage, Tech Rhetoric, News Comedy, Alice Changes/Makes up her mind about Changing people's minds. start at 8.50 if you don't like set-up-banter Henry's Website is http://henryfraser.com or on twitter @henryfraserecho Alice is at http://alicecomedyfraser.com or @aliterative on twitter. Email her on [email protected]

MountainCast - Gary Eck and Laura Davis

December 18, 2014 12:24 - 55 minutes - 102 MB

Alice sits in her living room and talks to comedian, director, writer all rounder Australian champion Gary Eck about the business of podcasting, sponsorship and lies. Laura Davis drops in to say hallo, and eat some chocolate, and it all goes downhill from there.

Repressed Furycast - Mark Humphries and Laura Davis

December 09, 2014 23:13 - 1 hour - 134 MB

Alice sits with Mark Humphries and Laura Davis to talk about anger, passive aggression, what happens after your dream job disappears, and shortbread.

Burn Baby Burn - Brendon Burns Part Two

November 27, 2014 11:50 - 31 minutes - 58.4 MB

2 of 2 - Brendon Burns sits with Alice, and has an energy drink, while they talk and talk about fingerguns, powerplays, Gatekeepers, UFC, Classism, Sexism, Racism and trolls. Part two will be released immediately subsequent Brendon is available at: http://brendonburns.squarespace.com Alice is online at: http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Light my Firecast - Brendon Burns Part One

November 27, 2014 11:02 - 1 hour - 133 MB

1 of 2 - Brendon Burns sits with Alice, and has an energy drink, while they talk and talk about fingerguns, powerplays, Gatekeepers, UFC, Classism, Sexism, Racism and trolls. Part two will be released immediately subsequent Brendon is available at: http://brendonburns.squarespace.com Alice is online at: http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Sexcast Teacast Brains and Booty with Gia James

November 20, 2014 03:27 - 41 minutes - 75.3 MB

Alice talks with Gia James, writer, sex worker, feminist and all round internet winner. They have gyokuro and dried peas, and talk about AA, PUAs, SJWs, Utopian Ideals, Really Properly Failing, Domestic abuse, gender neutral blobs, masochism and how comedy is like sex work. Gia can be found on twitter @GiaJamesxxx Alice is @aliterative or alice r fraser at gmail http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Alluring Scent-Cast - Tegan Higginbotham in a Quiet Room

November 13, 2014 02:18 - 37 minutes - 69 MB

Alice Fraser has tea with Celebrity cutie Tegan Higginbotham. They talk Morality, faith, annoyingness, Facelifts and the sexiest smelling young comedian around. Tegan can be found on twitter @teganmh email alice on [email protected] or look up the website at http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Special Episode Re-Release of Lucy Fraser Episode

October 31, 2014 01:09 - 21 minutes - 39.8 MB

This episode is the full audio of the conversation that I had with my mum Lucy Fraser for episode 33. I was asked to release it without my original introduction. There are a few extra seconds of audio, and a poem at the end.

Tom Ballard Pod-Tom or The Ball-cast

October 30, 2014 04:47 - 34 minutes - 63.6 MB

Alice sits in Tom Ballard's nice house and talks over tea and unnecessarily vegan biscuits about Grief, belief, how blowjobs are stardust, why Alice wants to ban feelings, how everyone's bad at maths, International Pretend There's No Afterlife Day, the movie Fury (no spoilers). Note, before this Podcast, Alice Fraser fixed Tom Ballard's Dishwasher like a champion. Tell Tom Ballard to do his own podcast at tomballard.com.au Alice is available on alicecomedyfraser.com

Second Apologycast

October 24, 2014 08:52 - 5 minutes - 10.6 MB

Another week of apologies and recommendations. NEXT WEEK, two episode output! Eddie Sharp! Michael Connell!

No Podcast This Week

October 16, 2014 03:24 - 12 minutes - 23.3 MB

A brief announcement and some music. The podcast with Lucy Fraser "The Right Of ReplyCast" is episode 33.

Nanobot Apocalypsecast - Seaton Kay Smith

October 10, 2014 10:35 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MB

Alice has tea with Seaton Kay Smith, talking about jogging, Nanobot apocalypses and The Singularity. Listen to Lost Pilots on FBiRadio.com Alice is available via her website http://alicecomedyfraser.com

ReCast Teacast - Twin Time

October 03, 2014 00:13 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MB

Alice has breakfast and tea with her twin, (now with new, audible intro) and they talk about kinda bacon, Jesus' twitter following, unsupported claims, 'Do you even know what brunch is?', the problem with Journalists, bullying and pens with your name on them.

Doublevisioncast - Tegan Higginbotham

September 18, 2014 21:37 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB

Alice talks about someone who made her angry and then has tea with Melbourne comedian and future big star, Tegan Higginbotham about the difficult things in a cafe in Melbourne that also happened to be a shipping container. Melbourne is so cool. Tegan is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TeganMH Alice is online at http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Teach a Man to Fishcast - Jim Fishwick

September 12, 2014 12:26 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MB

Alice talks to Jim Fishwick over tea about the terrible mistake she made on stage that night, hipsterism, what artform their comedy would be if it weren't comedy and what the future holds for everything

Country Towncast - Victoria Healy and Josh Dore

September 04, 2014 11:20 - 1 hour - 116 MB

Victoria Healy and Josh Dore come down from Melbourne to have Tea With Alice. They talk about talking about sex, killing old people, and how Bondi Beach is very much like a country town. Vic is at http://victoriahealy.com Josh is on twitter at @joshdore Alice is online at http://alicecomedyfraser.com

Giant Squid and Anarchy PowerCast - Damien Power

August 29, 2014 12:58 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MB

Alice has tea and talks to wild comedian, father, thinker and queenslander, Damien Power. They ramble through politics, social structures, post-apocalyptic train journeys and how ducks think about death. alicecomedyfraser.com is the website to find all the recent things she's been working on and damien power is available at damienpower.com

Mugglecast - Daniel Muggleton

August 21, 2014 09:45 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MB

Alice talks a bit of good and a bit of bad to Daniel Muggleton, one half of the mug and kettle open mic empire. Bryce Halliday is there at the beginning and chipping in along the way. Alice bullies Daniel and finally gets to the truth. Daniel Muggleton is on twitter at @muggletown Edited by Bryce Halliday - brycehalliday.com Alice is alicecomedyfraser.com and @aliterative as ever. Email her on [email protected]

Pop-Deathcast - Jen Carnovale

August 15, 2014 11:22 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MB

Alice talks to Jen Carnovale in Badde Manors in Glebe about popular grief, comedy collaboration, cool kids and being 'the mean one' Thanks to Bryce Halliday for sound editing, http://brycehalliday.com alice is at @aliterative http://alicecomedyfraser.com @jencarnovale is on twitter and http://jencarnovale.com

Right of ReplyCast - Lucy Fraser

August 08, 2014 00:41 - 25 minutes - 29.4 MB

Alice has tea with the mother of dragons (if by dragons you mean Alice, and you do). They talk about poetry, music, M.S and Cancer, and how Lucy Fraser feels about being used in Alice's material.

Airless CarCast - Claire Hooper and Women of Letters

July 30, 2014 22:53 - 55 minutes - 63.9 MB

Alice sits in a car with Claire Hooper in the carpark of Splendour in The Grass. As they slowly run out of oxygen, they talk about anxiety, what's the point of the news, the ethical downsides of being right about anything, Alice's million dollar idea, and how Claire as a new mother feels sorry for Pedophiles. Appended at the end is Alice's Women of Letters performance, for people who don't mind sad things that aren't funny. Thanks to Bryce Halliday for the Audio Edit. http://brycehalliday....

CapperCast Teacast - Nick Capper

July 24, 2014 08:46 - 47 minutes - 54 MB

In a cavernous cafe in Melbourne, Alice sits down with Nick Capper and talks about the value of value, whether we should be careful or not careful with what we say and a lot of other things. This chat happened chronologically BEFORE last week's chat with Toby Halligan, so some of the ideas here are amoebic forms of what was discussed 'last week'. Ah, time travel. Hit Alice up on [email protected] or go to the website alicecomedyfraser.com

OffenseCast Teacast - Toby Halligan

July 18, 2014 10:14 - 34 minutes - 39.3 MB

Alice talks in a fancy boulangerie slash teahouse in Melbourne with Toby Halligan during his lunchbreak. Toby is a writer for The Project, creater and facilitator of political comedy all over Australia and just a generally interesting and cool guy. They discuss giant sandwiches, scurrilous comedy scene gossip, identity politics and what's the best way to take offense. Toby is online at www.tobyhalligan.com.au and Alice is available (as ever) on http://alicecomedyfraser.com

In An Invisible BoxCast - Trygve Wakenshaw

July 10, 2014 12:55 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MB

Alice sits in her favourite Tea Shop and talks to Fred Winner and Barry Award Nominee Trygve Wakenshaw about being an apprentice vegan, what it's like being like nobody else, Status, Prizes, Astrology and Death. Trygve can be found at http://trygvewakenshaw.net Alice is at http://alicecomedyfraser.com or @aliterative Note the much better sound quality? YEAH! Editing by the excellent Bryce Halliday (http://brycehalliday.com)

CakeCast Teacast - Laura Davis

July 03, 2014 05:04 - 40 minutes - 46 MB

Alice talks with comedian and writer Laura Davis about the Morality of Cake, different kinds of strength, child abuse, why peer pressure works, and why good people let bad things happen to them.

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

@aliterative 5 Episodes
@pjbow 1 Episode
@teganmh 1 Episode
@roderickmakim 1 Episode
@lindswebb 1 Episode