ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Persistent and Nasty is a script-reading, debate and art as activism initiative for women and gender minorities in the stage and screen industries. We are committed to an intersectional approach and aim to use the space we’ve created to provide a platform for the spectrum of marginalised voices in our culture.
Through a series of script readings, live debates and a regular podcast series, we aim to amplify the unrepresented voices in theatre and film.
Our goal is to create a project that is safe and supportive, but that is also an act of protest. Persistent and Nasty is about changing the cultural narrative through the stories we tell.
Through a series of script readings, live debates and a regular podcast series, we aim to amplify the unrepresented voices in theatre and film.
Our goal is to create a project that is safe and supportive, but that is also an act of protest. Persistent and Nasty is about changing the cultural narrative through the stories we tell.
Update frequency:
every 19 hours
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
327 episodes
since April 16, 2018
episodic
explicit content
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~97.08% of listeners are from United States.
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GB
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CA
0.36%
🇩🇪
DE
0.36%
Others
0.02%
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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats with performer Hannah Docherty and producer Aila Swann about Matchstick Production’s new musical Perfect Match. This was on at the space on the mile from 18th-22nd August.
Huge apologies to the Matchstick team that due to Elaine being il…
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It’s the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 series
Elaine chats with writer and performer of Cvntclave Arden Fitzroy.
CVNTCLAVE
Greenside @ George Street (Lime Studio)
Dates: 7-29 August (not 16, 23)
Time: 20:45 (60 mins)
“What’s the one secret that would destroy you, if it got out?”
CVNTCLAVE fo…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats with Edininburgh born working class queer writer Kari Hall about their new play hame.teeth.CLUB.
hame.teeth.CLUB.
Underbelly Cowgate
5 - 30 August 2026
17:10
“A dark-comedy about survivor-hood, female friendships, and working-class Scottish ident…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats with writer Corinne Sailsbury and Director Jo Rush of Slayers about Corinne’s new eclectic play Slayers.
SLAYERS
Assembly George Sq Studios - Studio 5
18-30August
12:15
“He takes hold of my wrist. His thumb is on the vein. His eyes into my eyes…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats with Penny Chivas about her show Where we Choose to Stand which has finished it’s official run at the festival but is part of the Fringe Fragments.
Where we Choose To Stand @ Fringe Fragments
Assembly Dance Base
24/25 August
13:15-14:15 & …
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats with the brilliant Tessa Parr about their show I am Johnny.
I am Johnny
Summerhall, Red Lecture Theatre
Dates: 6 - 31 August (not 17, 24)
Time: 18:15 (60 mins)
“Boys, are you shirkin for a gherkin?”
Tessa Parr is Johnny the Biblical Rapper. …
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats with co-founder of Cutty Sark Theatre and writer Eve Miller. They are joined by Molly Cavanagh who is sound designer and technician on Turn the Cloth
Turn the Cloth
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Turret
5-31 Aug (not 12, 26)
2:30pm (50 mins)
“A q…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats comedian Han Whyte about their debut at the Edinburgh Fringe with their show Roger Prick: Sexopolis.
Roger Prick: Sexopolis
Underbelly Cowgate (Jelly Belly)
Dates: 5-30 August (not 18)
Time: 18:55 (60 mins)
“How could I be sexist? I’ve got t…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026 series
Elaine chats with performer, writer and clown Bruna Longo about her show Whale Fall Or Song To Dance With My Death which is currently playing t the Edinburgh Festival 2026.
WHALE FALL OR SONG TO DANCE WITH MY DEATH
Part of São Paulo Showcase 2026
Lindisfarn…
Elaine chats with writer and performer Sarah-Louise Young about her latest show The Bob Ross Effect which is curretnly at the Edinburgh Festival.
THE BOB ROSS EFFECT
Assembly Gardens, Piccolo
Wednesday 5th - Monday 31st August 2026 (not 18th)
4:05pm (70 mins)
“We don’t make mistakes, we have …
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