Join host Helen Zaltzman and musician Martin Austwick for a fun, fascinating and unique stage show never heard before on the podcast.
The Allusionist: Souvenirs
Newcastle Stand Comedy Club
Sunday 25th August 2025
British Podcast Awards: Smartest Podcast Award & Podcast Champion
Mixcloud Online Radio Awards: Best Education Show
Apple Podcasts: Best New Podcast 2015
The Cosmic Shambles Network are delighted to announce the first ever live UK Tour of Helen’s award winning podcast The Allusionist.
The Allusionist is a podcast about language: how and why we humans use it the ways we do, the funny and frustrating ways it shapes our words, thoughts, and lives - and how, just when we think we can tame it and ride it around, like a rodeo beast, it throws us defiantly into the sawdust.
Called “one of the funniest and most educational podcasts around” by The Guardian and “linguistically zesty“ by The New Yorker, The Allusionist has previously made hit stage shows about speed-typing champions, protest cakes and the history of the word ‘Ms’. Now celebrating its tenth year, the Allusionist presents a brand new live show, Souvenirs, telling the story of a friendship torn apart by… a font.
A font? Look, font-related emotions can get VERY heated. An Allusionist live show isn’t just watching Helen make the normal podcast on stage, it’s a SHOW show and features live music from the incredible Martin Austwick
Helen Zaltzman is a multiple award-winning podcast host and producer. Her linguistics podcast The Allusionist has won multiple awards and the live theatrical spin-off has appeared on stages around the world. Answer Me This, the comedy show she co-founded with Olly Mann in 2007, was one of Britain's most beloved and successful independent podcasts, running for 400 episodes and nearly 15 years. In her podcast Veronica Mars Investigations with Jenny Owen Youngs, she recapped the entirety of the TV show Veronica Mars, plus two versions of Pride and Prejudice. She has appeared regularly on Radios 2, 4 and 5 Live, as well as on podcasts including The Bugle, Bullseye, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, 99% Invisible, The Sporkful, Ologies, The Infinite Monkey Cage, Book Shambles, No Such Thing as a Fish, Buffering the Vampire Slayer, and many more. She has co-written two toilet books which have almost certainly been pulped by now.
Martin Austwick is a podcaster, musician and singer-songwriter, and has released albums as Pale Bird. He has performed live for Answer Me This!, The Allusionist, 99% Invisible, The Bugle, and Radiotopia Live, and has created music for tons of podcasts. He also co-created the podcasts Neutrinowatch and Song by Song.
Tickets:
Venue: The Stand Newcastle
Dates: Sunday 25th August
Time: 5.00pm
Online: https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/18306/the-allusionist-presents-souvenirs/20240825/newcastle
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