Mike Prowse Solo Travel Comedy

A few years ago, in the town of Blabwyn, something happened. A travel podcasting colleague, who was, like me, there at the very inception of the artform, disappeared. What happened to her? Did she visit the monument? The strange indescribable stretch, or puddle, of water? Or did she stay longer than she expected in the cafe? It's hard to tell. Because Blabwyn is the Everest of travel podcasting... nothing happens there. Come with me as I take a trip to a town which defies description. Along the way you'll learn about the origin of the MP3 and the extraordinary efforts to put anything of interest in the town museum. Blabwyn. It's on most road maps. FX and Music from Zapsplat.com, image used under Creative Commons licence

9 Maj 13min

I receive a job offer... Accepting this offer sets me on a Shakespearean odyssey, a strange journey of tantalising opportunities, promises that can't possibly be kept and of strange portents. I also have a fight by a river. It's a podcast that sets one man's raging ambition against the remorseless wheel of fate, as he battles to achieve his ultimate goal of earning a relatively easy £400 quid. Music and Effects from zapsplat.com

2 Maj 17min

As pop's Katie Perry returns to earth, I return to JOURNALISM. That's because I've been invited to the Texas rocket lair of Silicon Valley tech man turned rocket wrangler RICKY PANDERMAN. Granted the shortest interview slot in history, I set out to uncover the motivation behind entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk's obsession with space. But i uncover something MUCH DARKER. In this episode I take a balanced impartial look at Space Tourism and why I don't like it. Music and FX by Zapsplat. Publicly available Apollo Audio used under creative commons.

25 Apr 13min

During a crucial session in June 1962 George Harrison made a joke about George Martin's tie. It gave the EMI man a hint of the cheekily approachable sass which would beguile the world. And now - Marc Moss-Jones and Kevin Core's book about this epochal moment has landed on my welcome mat. I Don't Like Your Tie is a trip into the world of the joke that made The Beatles. But SOMEONE has to go further. Someone needs to check out where that tie is now. And I, as a seasoned travel journalist and podcaster who has worn a tie, am the man for the job. Join me as I descend into the Fabosphere, have a run in with a man from the motor trade, meet the egg men and have a catastrophic interaction with George Harrison's microscope. Music and FX from Zapsplat.com Image by Gail Myerscough https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/

18 Apr 21min

Backstops, backbeats and Beatles. Come with me to Liverpool as I shine a light on the underexamined issue of BREXIT*, through the lens of 'The Fabulous Four'. *Britain's departure from the European Union Image: Leslie Spear cropped by Blofeld [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

10 Dec 201814min

John Clare, nature's sparky rocks and a breezy approach to probate law... Ukulele by Ruth Moss Jones

15 Nov 201812min

Join me, Mike Prowse, as I look at holiday fraud through the lens of Belgian 'phone skankers, not-for-profit games of canasta and Vanessa The Turkey... Image from GotCredit Ravel's Bolero: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolero-Maurice_Ravel-1930.ogg Audio editing on 'Money': Denzel Wicksteed (https://soundcloud.com/jnrbones)

10 Okt 201812min

Wilk, Drake and Atonement... Image by Gareth Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9233045 Laika music: https://www.silvermansound.com Squirrel: https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/324437/

29 Aug 201810min