{"id":2292,"date":"2009-07-10T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2009-07-10T13:47:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T13:47:38","slug":"the-best-of-the-fringe-podcast-mitch-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/the-best-of-the-fringe-podcast-mitch-benn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of the Fringe Podcast: Mitch Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to showcase some of the interviews from previous Edinburgh Fringe years, this week I turn to a familiar voice for listeners to Radio 4\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qgt7\">The Now Show<\/a>\u2026 Mitch Benn.<\/p>\n<p>Before you listen, it is worth pointing out that Mitch and I knew each other when we were both at Edinburgh University, so this interview from 2006 does have a hint of <em>Stadler and Waldorf<\/em> about it as we reminisce, but Mitch talks a lot about what the Fringe means on the stand-up circuit, from entertaining audiences to promoting yourself. The Fringe is, essentially, a great big trade show, and what was discussed three years ago is even more relevant now.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Best Of The Fringe Podcast, 2009 Edition #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mitch Benn<\/em><\/strong>      <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchbenn.com\">www.mitchbenn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First broadcast <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/2006\/08\/23\/the-edinburgh-fringe-2006-show-17-eddies-awards-and-mr-benn\/\">August 23rd 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>[audio:http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/audio\/tpn_eff09_20090710_archive_02.mp3] <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/audio\/tpn_eff09_20090710_archive_02.mp3\">MP3 File<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/2009\/07\/10\/the-best-of-the-fringe-podcast-mitch-benn\/\">Show Notes<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/feed\/\">RSS Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you never miss the latest podcasts from the Edinburgh Fringe Show by <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=78229922\">subscribing to the Fringe Podcast in iTunes<\/a>, or copying the <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/feed\/\">RSS File<\/a> into your favourite RSS application. Comments are welcome either here or over on <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghfringe.thepodcastnetwork.com\/\">The Edinburgh Fringe Show at The Podcast Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mitch Benn on the Radio\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"239\" alt=\"Mitch Benn on the Radio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image45.png\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to showcase some of the interviews from previous Edinburgh Fringe years, this week I turn to a familiar voice for listeners to Radio 4\u2019s The Now Show\u2026 Mitch Benn. Before you listen, it is worth pointing out that Mitch and I knew each other when we were both at Edinburgh University, so this interview from 2006 does have a hint of Stadler and Waldorf about it as we reminisce, but Mitch talks a lot about what the Fringe means on the stand-up circuit, from entertaining audiences to promoting yourself. The Fringe is, essentially, a great big trade show, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1145,13,18],"tags":[377,378,267,1160,99],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fringe-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-links-to-my-articles","category-podcasting","tag-edinburgh","tag-fringe","tag-interview","tag-mitch-benn","tag-podcast","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-AY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}