Episode 20 features Tony Kinsella. As well as being a teacher and our friend, Tony is a stand-up comedian and has compered and performed at multiple Bright Clubs across the country including at one of our shows. Tony tells us about how he got into comedy, who his influences are, and about his recent stand-up shows about Scandinavian ways to find ha…

Episode 19 features Maria Ramos Suarez who performed at our eleventh show in March 2018. Maria tells us how she could have been making money working for an oil company, but how she is instead doing rubbish research – research on making useful things out of food waste. Maria also told us about why she came to the UK from Spain, how close she is with…

Episode 18 features Anna Hurley-Wallace who performed at eleventh show in March 2018. Anna told us about how studying the psychology of pain misleads people into thinking that she wants to hear about their psychological pain or that she might be some kind of pseudoscientist. She also tells us about studying body dysmorphia and having to get her hea…

Episode 17 features Lisa Jones who performed at our ninth show in September 2017. Lisa gave us some tips for anyone thinking about doing or doing a PhD and told us about some of the mistakes she made along the way. She also tells us about how her work studying how diet during pregnancy can affect the lifelong health of the offspring and how her res…

So it’s only taken us about six months… but finally we’re bringing you the song that Rachael Dadd wrote for our two-year anniversary show. There’s some audience interaction, which did happen on the night, but we didn’t catch it so well on the audio so make sure you sing along at home. Thank you to Rachael – this was wonderful. Bristol by Rachael Da…

Folk-rapper Clayton Blizzard went down a storm at last Thursday’s Bright Club. (Despite heckling from side-stage, MC Mike Bubbins was so impressed by his comedic banter that he brain-banked one of his jokes for future use.) Here’s the specially commissioned song Clayton wrote on the subject “Change” – recorded on the night. Subject: Change by Clayt…

Amazing work by Dan Everett last Thursday night, as our songwriter for Bright Club: “Vintage”. Via Wikipedia, he came up with about a hundred different ways to define vintage. “Cupcakes, tweed and strife” was our favourite. Here’s the song. Let it wash over you as you soak yourself in cheap, very-much-the-opposite-of-vintage, wine this Christmas. T…