The Rest is Entertainment podcast

I gave up on it for this reason. She should start another podcast with a woman, or a man who will let her speak!

Yep I found myself very annoyed this morning. Marina cannot get her thought out or her story without Richard jumping in and mansplaining. And he does that weird thing where he talks in the first person when talking about something. Like he’s the celeb talking. Does my head in.
i had been looking forward to hearing about the Glen Powell interview since she did it and I don’t think I learnt anything today.

it’s really putting me
off. He can be such a bore

I was finding his continual interruptions increasingly difficult in recent months, then he seemed to back off a bit (I figured people must have been commenting on it in emails and Spotify comments, and they'd talked about it, because it's come up more than once on here, and other friends have mentioned it), but just yesterday I listened to the recent Ben Elton Q and A, and both Ben and Richard blokily yapped over everything Marina said to the point where I concluded that this told us a lot about the state of comedy/light entertainment programming and producing. It made for incredibly uncomfortable listening.

I do actually value RO's insights from a producer-y perspective, but only when balanced by Marina's take on things.

Yes I started watching it on you tube because the constant fighting to Speak just ended up being noise ! I watch it in bits and pieces, why don't they let each other Speak?

I've stopped listening. The content is great but Richard is unbearable. If he's not bringing up his book/film he's mansplaining points that Marina has just made or interrupting her. He's so pleased with himself, ugh.

I totally agree and it's made me turn off more than once. Especially when Marina says something in an order he doesn't like and he admonishes her in a faux jokey way, or interrupts her again and again to refer back to some stupid pun he made that wasn't funny the first time. I'd have told him to piss off by now if I was her!

I agree. I'm a devoted fan of the podcast but they do interrupt one another in an annoying way, Richard more so than Marina.

YANBU. He cannot help himself. She’s so generous to him in terms of praising his books and plugging his work, and he just can’t let her speak without interrupting with some terrible quip and bringing the attention back to him. Typical man, but he absolutely views himself as one of the good guys.

I actually find their podcast a bit stressful. Talking too quickly to get their points across and over each other. I'm really interested in what they have to say, just not the way they say it!