Tea With Alice

Difficult conversations with interesting people over a cup of tea. Alice Fraser, Author and Comedian drinks tea and talks about all the tricky things with a rotating cast of bright and brilliant guests.

Episodes

Feb 20, 2018

1hr 16 min

Winnie M Li, Novelist, Activist and returning Teacast guest talks over some supreme matcha about polarising narratives, how to prevent human predatory instincts becoming bad behaviours, law and vigilantism, and the relationship of workplace sexual harassment to more extreme sexual violence, media narratives about power, and Winnie's own experiences both as a rape survivor and as an activist.
Find Winnie at @winniemli on twitter
Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Feb 12, 2018

37 min

Lucy Howard-Taylor, fundraiser, author and poet sits with Alice in a cafe in London, talking about how to be useful in the world, whether you need to be a very good writer to be a writer at all, and how to deal with having a good life, and a lot of time to think about it.
Find Lucy on instagram as @ lucyshena or her website http://lucyhowardtaylor.com
alice is at @aliterative as ever

Feb 5, 2018

55 min

Alice sits in Brendon Burns car, and over some Mother Energy drink for him, and some elderflower tea for her, they talk about women, alpha males, money, how violently 14 year old Perth boys deal with sexual discomfort, and how Brendon is going on a quest to change how he feels about manhood, women and gender in general.
Find Brendon at @brendonburns on twitter.
Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

Jan 31, 2018

42 min

Over a mocha and a matcha in Jesus College Cambridge, Architect, writer and mother, Gillean Denny talks about space, time, walls, creative restriction and the difference between teaching adults and teaching 3 year olds about gothic windows.
Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Jan 21, 2018

1hr 8 min

Tiff Stevenson talks over a decaf abomination to Alice, about the Aziz Ansari scandal, the competition between social and personal battles, workplace vs individual harassment, personal accountability and journalistic standards.
Also, Alice pitches a solution for all of our problems with sex.
Find Tiff at @tiffstevenson on twitter.
Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Jan 16, 2018

32 min

In this solo podcast, over a suitcase Gyokuro, Alice answers some of your questions and refuses to answer others.
Including advice for teenage boys, empathy, comedy, some properly incoherent bullsh-t and NO PUNS.
Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Jan 8, 2018

56 min

Chris Skinner, producer of The Bugle Podcast sits with Alice in a tea shop in Soho over not-quite black tea and talks about inheritance, the news, dignity, class fiction and meeting your enemies in a pub.
Find Chris at @producerchris on Twitter
Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Dec 27, 2017

53 min

Over a cup of bean-to-cup coffee, Ed Byrne talks about twitter conflicts, conscience, achievement and admitting you're wrong. Also, the Weinstein and industry allegations from the perspective of a powerful man in comedy.
Find Ed at edbyrne.com
Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

Dec 13, 2017

48 min

Henry Fraser over fizzy water, green tea and a hastily swallowed quiche in a busy cafe in Drury Lane. Listen to Alice make her long suffering twin and Oxford Alumnus Henry talk to her about nuance, the techniques of mediation, and the complexities of feminism.
Henry can be found at @henryfraserecho on twitter BUT NOWHERE ELSE!
Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

Dec 1, 2017

1hr 15 min

Black Decaf Tea and a coffee, Tiff Stevenson talks with Alice about good men, consent, the hedonistic level, the time she got in a sauna with all her clothes on, the complexities of libel laws in the age of accusation and how we didn't sign up to be female comedians.
Also a plug for the Clear Lines Festival tomorrow in London
Tiff can be found @tiffstevenson on twitter
Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

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