As part of exploring the three shows featuring the songs of Tom Lehrer at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, Kate Saffin hears from Mitch Benn about discovering Lehrer’s songs as a teenager, and the influence they had on his journey to becoming a well known comedy and satirical song writer.
He talks about developing the show ‘Mitch Benn: The Lehrer Effect’; hearing the news of Lehrer’s death a few days before the start of the Fringe and his plans to develop and tour the show (following a post Fringe trip for the show to Australia).
See the additional links below to explore his Mitch Benn-ified covers of some of Tom’s most famous creations as well as his own Lehreresque songs.
