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Early Work with Rhys James

Rhys James

38 episodes

9 months ago

For many performers, their biggest fears is that people will find the creative writing they produced when they were younger. Early poetry, short stories, song lyrics, scripts and more shouldn't stay hidden in shoe boxes in our parents' house or in password protected folders on our laptops. It’s time we monetised that shame and gave those pieces the public outing our 15 year old selves would’ve wanted. Each week a guest brings something they wrote in their adolescence to be discussed and co-analysed with Rhys - who will be bringing something embarrassing of his own to level the playing field.

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For many performers, their biggest fears is that people will find the creative writing they produced when they were younger. Early poetry, short stories, song lyrics, scripts and more shouldn't stay hidden in shoe boxes in our parents' house or in password protected folders on our laptops. It’s time we monetised that shame and gave those pieces the public outing our 15 year old selves would’ve wanted. Each week a guest brings something they wrote in their adolescence to be discussed and co-analysed with Rhys - who will be bringing something embarrassing of his own to level the playing field.

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Comedy Interviews

Episodes (20/38)

Early Work with Rhys James

EP35: Steen Raskopolous

Australian jock and NOT Nepo-brother Steen Raskopolous pops by Early Work HQ to expose himself once again to the cruel world of sketch pitching, a la SNL style read-throughs. Timberlake, Kutcher, Goliath - the big three - all get their flowers, before Steen performs a Tupac/Biggie (couldn't say which) inspired rap. Rhys also reads a flimsy comedy sketch idea written in his teenage years and everyone goes home horny.

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2 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes 2 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP34: Sophie Duker

Sophie Duker brings a teenage blend of filth to Early Work with, you guessed it, erotic Harry Potter fan fiction. What else would you expect from the life-online generation, experiencing fame first through internet comments describing you as a literary messiah. Rhys responds in kind with a disturbing semi-sexual rap about technology written when he was, erm, 18. ADULT CONTENT WARNING TBF!!!!

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2 years ago

58 minutes 11 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP33: Tom Odell

Music royalty Tom Odell heads into Early Work Mansions (sheds) to share some bona fide insight into the creative process, how your childhood affects your job and crucially, some ACTUAL SONGS. We are treated not just to the song lyrics of a future Ivor Novello and BRIT award winner's youth, but the melodies, as he plays his piano for us live on air. Impossible to match up to this greatness, Rhys panics and reads something from when he was 21, and already a working comedian.

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2 years ago

59 minutes 44 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP32: Lucy Beaumont

Lyrical Hull superstar Lucy Beaumont enters Early Work towers to share WILTY level anecdotes about short taxi drivers, school roof campouts and being picked up by a 'crow'. We dip a toe into collaborative poetry in response to being grounded, going solo and secret house parties, entirely for her mate Claire. Topped off with 'The Boy With Crystal Eyes', to this day one of the most beautiful poems ever written. In Lucy's words, it's all 'nationally normal behaviour'.

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2 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes 51 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP31: Hugh Dennis

For the first episode of the 'Lost Episodes', recorded in 2021 for a series that never came to be, Mock the Week, Outnumbered, The Now Show and general British comedy legend Hugh Dennis joins Rhys to share his childhood writings: military precision diary entries, ballads and odes for his classmates and the biggest cliffhanger in the history of the murder mystery genre. Surprisingly

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2 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes 2 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

Early Work 'Lost Episodes' Coming Soon!

Early Work returns with 5 episodes recorded during the pandemic for a series that never was. Hugh Dennis, Sophie Duker, Tom Odell, Lucy Beaumont, Steen Raskopolous. All coming soon.

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2 years ago

2 minutes 55 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP30: Nick Mohammed

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4 years ago

57 minutes 3 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP29: Catherine Bohart

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4 years ago

54 minutes 48 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

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4 years ago

50 minutes 50 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP27: Sara Pascoe

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4 years ago

1 hour 1 minute 50 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP26: Jordan Brookes

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4 years ago

57 minutes 34 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP25: David Baddiel

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4 years ago

59 minutes 39 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP24:Amelia Dimoldenberg

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5 years ago

49 minutes 32 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP23: Ivo Graham

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5 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes 5 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP22: O. T. Fagbenle

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5 years ago

52 minutes 42 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP21: Catherine Cohen

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5 years ago

53 minutes 14 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

Early Work with Rhys James - Series 2 is coming

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5 years ago

1 minute 9 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP20: Emily Dean

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5 years ago

1 hour 57 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP19: Amy Hoggart

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5 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes 18 seconds

Early Work with Rhys James

EP18: Danny Wallace

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5 years ago

57 minutes 9 seconds