Format three
Two people
and a table.
Booked for ninety minutes, frequently past two hours, published whole. The long ones are long because nobody looked at the clock.
Booked long
on purpose
Most interview shows are built around a forty-minute slot, so every guest spends the first fifteen minutes doing the version of their story they have done before. Booking ninety means you get past that and into the part they have not rehearsed.
Nobody gets questions in advance. Nobody gets approval over the cut, because there isn’t one — these go out end to end.
Who has sat in it
| Guest | What it became about | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| A retired air traffic controller | The specific calm of talking to people in trouble | 2:14 |
| A cave surveyor | Mapping something nobody will ever see | 1:52 |
| A piano tuner | Forty years of other people’s living rooms | 2:31 |
| A night-shift baker | What a town sounds like at three in the morning | 1:47 |
| A sign painter | Doing by hand the thing a machine does faster | 2:08 |
Suggest somebody.
The best guests on this show have all been suggested by listeners, and almost none of them were famous.
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