Queer news, sex, politics and culture — all in one smart, funny and sometimes outrageous group chat. Hosted by Graeme Smith with guests from the UK, US, and beyond. From anti-LGBTQ+ laws to pop culture scandals to TRUMP. It’s the world from a queer perspective and it’s totally uncensored.
With the best guests and interviews in the LGBTQ podcast world.
Winner of GOLD at THE BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS
"As well as compelling debates, this is also a lighthearted podcast in many ways.. an eclectic mix of guests" - The Independent
“A truly inclusive show… with honesty exuberance and charm”
- British podcast awards judges
Nominated best Creative or technical innovation at the 2025 Radio Academy ARIA Awards and Best Independent Podcast at the 2022 Radio Academy ARIA Awards.
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Queer news, sex, politics and culture — all in one smart, funny and sometimes outrageous group chat. Hosted by Graeme Smith with guests from the UK, US, and beyond. From anti-LGBTQ+ laws to pop culture scandals to TRUMP. It’s the world from a queer perspective and it’s totally uncensored.
With the best guests and interviews in the LGBTQ podcast world.
Winner of GOLD at THE BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS
"As well as compelling debates, this is also a lighthearted podcast in many ways.. an eclectic mix of guests" - The Independent
“A truly inclusive show… with honesty exuberance and charm”
- British podcast awards judges
Nominated best Creative or technical innovation at the 2025 Radio Academy ARIA Awards and Best Independent Podcast at the 2022 Radio Academy ARIA Awards.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A brutally honest look at grief, addiction, and finding a way back to life.
After almost four years and 130 episodes of Outcast World, the mic finally turns towards its own creator.
This week, the show takes a personal turn as The Divorce Social host Samantha Baines — known from BBC Radio London, The One Show, The Crown and Call The Midwife — interviews Outcast World’s Graeme Smith, an award-winning broadcaster and podcaster, about a story he’s never shared publicly before.
Recorded in late 2023, the conversation explores the loss of his partner after a decade together to a traumatic drugs death, and his own struggle with mental health and addiction. In 2012, Graeme ended up in rehab on a mental health ward after a total breakdown. And not the nice private rehab you see celebrities go to, but the gritty kind that usually cleans up drug users straight from prison. He had lost his job, his mind, his home and all his self worth.
But within the dark time on the rehab wards of a mental health trust specialist detox unit, The Chapman-Baker Unit, in North Manchester he felt like her was remade. His self worth realised again after putting the pieces together, with nothing, not even the laces in his shoes after a suicide attempt earlier in his rehab stay.
Then not long after, came the death of his ex fiancé, Darren Williams, to drugs at just 35 years old on a night out in London in February 2015 under circumstances that will never truly make sense. A healthy 35 year old man just died at a party with friends. Tearing apart the lives of so many people forever.
It’s a raw and honest look at grief, love, and starting over — from someone who’s spent years helping others tell their stories, now sitting on the other side of the mic.
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