This week, it's back to service as usual - or, should we say, Sound Heap as usual! After being reduced to just one podcast, Rememberama (the podcast for people who like to remember things), because we lost a lot of money to Emmanuel Macron over the summer, Sound Heap CEO & Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts can now proudly present selections from our ba…

You might remember Remberama as the only remaining podcast that Sound Heap have to offer, thanks to a series of financially ruinous decisions. But thanks to our new sponsor, our CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts can now present to you... two podcasts! So, while this episode mostly consists of clips from Rememberama, which has a lot of episodes …

With extra finance apparently not forthcoming, despite multiple calls to venture capital funds, Sound Heap CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts brings you yet more highlights from Sound Heap's best and, still, only podcast: Rememberama, the podcast for people who like to remember things. This week you'll hear people remembering: When police sirens…

Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts returns, with highlights from the best - and, due to a financial shortfall caused by the expensive signing of unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron to a "golden handcuff" deal, only - podcast currently on the Sound Heap podcast network: Rememberama, the podcast for people who like to remember things. In this e…

This week we are delighted to announced that Sound Heap CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts has signed the hugely popular President Emmanuel Macron of France to a golden handcuffs deal, where he'll be taking part in literally dozens of different podcasts, all exclusively on the Sound Heap Inc. network. This episode includes excerpts from: If You …

Despite the best efforts of our rivals Guff Pit, who have been sabotaging our studio and shows, CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts presents more highlights from the Sound Heap podcast network. This week you'll hear from: When Will Sandra Say Sausage? Rememberama: When McDonalds Gave Away Cats With Happy Meals The Scarecrow Enthusiast Podcast Oth…

This episode of Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts demonstrates perfectly why it's the best podcast network in the world - and certainly a better podcast nework than Guff Pit! We mean, does Guff Pit have shows like When I Met Myself I Said Hello Sci Why? Impressionists Talk Male Mental Health Hollywood And Hollydid! Footbath, the unofficial companio…

This week on Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts - please like and subscribe - Sound Heap CEO slash Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts once again presents - like, subscribe - a selection of the best pods out on the Sound Heap Network this week. Please like and subscribe. This week, you'll hear clips from: The Private Lives of Cereal Mascots Celebrity How …

This week, Sound Heap CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts addresses the recent spate of hauntings that have been affecting our podcasts. You'll hear clips from Jokes That Breathe Transformeraterors If You Had A Cupboard in Your Lower Back, What Would You Keep In It?, with special guest Liza Minelli The Official Farrow & Ball Podcast Diary Of A Ti…

The Heapening continues, where we ask our listeners to support us by sending us money or anything else we can sell off or melt down. While we're grateful for everything our listeners have sent in so far, we do now wish to add some caveats to the sort of things we can accept. Primarily: please stop sending us snakes. Also this week, you'll hear clip…

We are delighted to announce the launch of this year's Heapening, when our listeners can show their support by sending us money or any object that we can sell on or melt down. Copper wires in your house? We'll take 'em! And to show you what your trinkets and/or cash are supporting, you'll be hearing from the very best podcasts the Sound Heap networ…

A couple of months ago, we released a documentary by investigative Soosty, Soosty Carpripe, about a very brave woman called Emily Curnt, who met what she thought was someone on a dating app, who claimed he was playing Shrek in a touring production of the musical Shrek. But this was a lie: in fact, Emily Curnt was being ShrekFished. The reaction to …

There have been developments in the Crabotage case which cannot, at the time of recording, be talked about. So instead Sound Heap Inc. CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts will simply play you clips from some of the best podcasts available on the Sound Heap Network this week and, if there's time, talk about the Crabotage case. You'll hear from: Mo…

As a thank you to the 100+ people who've pledged support to Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts during MaxFunDrive 2024, here's a recording of a live show we made at the 2023 London Podcast Festival, featuring Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Athena Kugblenu, Joz Norris & Bilal Zafar. You're hear clips from such Sound Heap shows as: Happy Meals Happy Me, with…

We’re kicking off the most exciting time of the year for the MaxFun Network with a trivia game show featuring hosts from tons of great podcasts. J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong from “Go Fact Yourself” are joined by: Danielle Radford - “Tights and Fights” John-Luke Roberts -“Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts” Brea Grant & Mallory O’Meara -“Read…

A teaser clip from Sound Heap's MaxFunDrive bonus content this year - a non-canonical collaboration between Diary Of A Tiny CEO and Beef & Dairy Network, which does not fit into the timeline of either show, nor the timeline of Sound Heap, With John-Luke Roberts. You can hear the whole thing, plus literally hundreds of hours of other shows' bonus co…

Sound Heap CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts is faced with a classic dilemma: mothers, or crabs? But there's absolutely no dilemma about which Sound Heap Network podcasts to play you clips from this week - you'll be hearing from How The Sound Is Heaped The Crab Neutrality Podcast A Cuppla Girls Talk Dating Rurls with Natasahly and Samanfef Bizn…

Sound Heap CEO and Fun Captain John-Luke Roberts addresses the crustacean in the room: the Sound Heap studio has been crabotaged, presumably because of some old shows that we used to make that we would never make these days. But this won't stop him from bringing you the very best bits that the Sound Heap network has to offer this week! You'll clear…

After a three year absence, John-Luke Roberts returns to present the very best shows that the best podcast network - Sound Heap - has to offer. As well as explaining where we've been since 2021, you'll hear clips from The Tryin’ Brians, where two men called Brian try different things each week Diary of a Tiny CEO, an aspirational hosted by the most…

Sound Heap, with John-Luke Roberts, the award-winning podcast where your favourite comedians improvise made-up shows, is back for a second season, exclusively on Maximum Fun! We've also re-released the first season on this feed - that’s twelve episodes featuring fake podcasts like How To Put Out A Raging Fire (Mainly Guesses), Ratathreeeille, and t…

Fine artist Phyllida Barlow In conversation with Will Gompertz. By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design practice r…

Interior designer Ilse Crawford In conversation with Will Gompertz. By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design practi…

By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design practice returns as a collection of filmed conversations. Will Gompertz, A…

Award winning architect Amanda Levete In conversation with Will Gompertz. By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design …

John-Luke Roberts presents the last (for now) installment of Sound Heap Inc's weekly tastepod, showcasing the very best of the 1,603 podcasts that all deserve awards even if the idiots who judge these things don't agree. You'll hear clips from the following awards-worthy podcasts: Dentists: What They Are And How To Stop Them This Is Where The Magic…

This week the nominations are out for the Goodygoodypodpods - the biggest awards in podcasting - and there’s several brilliant Sound Heap podcasts on the list. So throughout this episode, we’ll be spotlighting some of our pods that made the list for you Heapsters (which is what we call our listeners). What Have I Dropped on My Foot? Crabslag Reason…

This is Sound Heap Inc's weekly tastepod, in which we give you Heapsters a sample of the very best of the almost nine podcasts we have on the network (we’re hoping to get that number back-up to normal soon). "Heapsters" is what we're calling our listeners now, by the way, we think it will catch on. Ghosts? F*** ‘Em! A Foot on the Ladder Asking The …

This week, John-Luke Roberts accepts thanks from Heapsters - that's what we've decided to call our listeners; good, isn't it? "Heapsters" - for making so many brilliant podcasts, and provides a taste of the week's best pods in this latest episode of the weekly taste pod. Expect to hear clips from both your favourite shows, which are probably includ…

John-Luke Roberts has loved podcasts ever since he was a little boy, when he hit his head and had a vision of the future, which is what drove him to set up the Sound Heap podcast network – the home of too many podcasts. Each week he will give you just a taste of the 1,254 podcasts on offer every single week. You’ll hear clips from: Holland's Shorte…

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., presents a one-stop shop for the best podcasts on the Sound Heap network – our best, our funniest, and our most in need of new listeners. But, before that, John-Luke would like to make a very serious and sincere apology. You’ll hear clips from: Cereal Monogamists: The Women Who Marry B…

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., presents some tastes of the week’s best podcasts from the Sound Heap network’s library of 1,134 shows. You’ll hear clips from: Mouse News New Ways To Say Hello Safening Cacti To Me It Happened: Bigfoot Keeps Seeing Me Do Embarrasing Things Two People Discuss Whether They Would Get On W…

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., introduces another episode of the one-stop shop for the week’s best podcasts from the Sound Heap network, home to a migraine-inducing number of podcasts. This week there are extended clips from What Is A Shoe?, as we say goodbye to one of our longest-running podcasts. You’ll hear clips…

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you back again to the very best Sound Heap podcast network – home to 981 brilliant podcasts, and about 72 other ones. This week, a surprise hit leads us to launch a whole new sideline in innovative yet harmless podcasts. You’ll hear clips from: How Wide Is Your Coinage? Untold…

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you back again to the Sound Heap podcast - the one-stop shop for all the best podcasts from Sound Heap Inc which is a company that makes podcasts and that’s what it does. This week, you'll hear clips from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running A Bath S'All Gravy Then, The…

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you back to the Sound Heap podcast - the podcast of podcasts, bringing you the best of all the 783 podcasts on the Sound Heap network. And while you've been reading this, that's gone up to 785. This week, you'll hear clips from Here, Kitty! So Your Pet's Broken - What Now? Twi…

John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you to the Sound Heap podcast - the podcast of podcasts. It will give you a taste of shows from across the Sound Heap network, which was set up in 2008, with a simple mission statement: “Make Too Many Podcasts,” and Lord knows we’ve been churning them out since then. This week…

In this talk Edmund De Waal talk movingly about is his notions of beauty and belonging. Edmund de Waal is an artist and writer, best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels. His interventions and artworks have been made for diverse historic spaces and museums worldwide, including the V&A Museum London, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, th…

In this delightful fast paced anecdote filled discussion Olga Polizzi opens up about the meaning of good taste, being part of a family dynasty and her hatred of pillow menus! Olga Polizzi Director of Design at Rocco Forte Hotels and Deputy Chairman of the company. Her latest works for Rocco Forte Hotels include The Savoy Hotel in Florence, Villa Ke…

Es Devlin shares the alchemy involved in creating national experiences and group memory. Es Devlin is an artist and designer known for her recent large scale collective poetry work in Trafalgar Square: PLEASE FEED THE LIONS, 2018. Her stage sculptures include collaborations with Beyonce, Kanye West, U2, The Weekend, Adele, The Royal Opera House, Th…

An intimate discussion about the power of spaces born of Adjaye’s own experience growing up. His brother who is a wheel chair user was regular unable to access buildings and this evolved to a personal crusade that national spaces should be for all. Sir David Adjaye OBE is an architect who's Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African America…

Multi disciplinary designer Martino Gamper explains how being asked to leave high school allowed him to find his passion, and innate talent, as a maker and designer. Martino Gamper’s practice spans design and art venues. Gamper has presented his works and projects internationally, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, V&A Museum, London, MIMOCA, Maru…

The man that shaped many a teenage year was almost never part of our cultural narrative as a series of chance meetings drove his career forward. Peter Saville as founder and art director of the legendary independent UK label Factory Records he designed a series of record sleeves for Joy Division and New Order between 1979 and 1993. His achievements…