Abnormally Funny People (AFP on the tee shirts and baseball caps) promises stand-up, stories and sketches, Improvisation and music with famous people and brilliant emerging talent. Disability comedy at its best.  They are celebrating 20 years since AFP was created and first brought a show to the Fringe. Kate Saffin got to sit down with […]


Caspar Phillipson is a talented Danish musician who discovered Tom Lehrer during lockdown – although he was already well known in Denmark – began to play with Lehrers songs and realised how relevant and resonant they remain, despite being written in the late 1950s. In this interview he talks to Kate Saffin about that journey, […]


The term exulansis is not to be found in any mainstream dictionary. It was coined by John Koenig for his project ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’—which aims to define emotions we feel but do not yet have a word for – as “the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people […]