In our annual fright-fest episode! Actor, writer and magician NICK MOHAMMED (Ted Lasso, Intelligence, Mr Swallow) unpacks his biggest fears, including Madame Tussauds’ Chamber of Horrors, the 1980s Crimestoppers ads, Jonathan Creek, Derek Acorah channelling Bruce Forsyth, a recurring anxiety dream and ‘big-bodied’ spiders. 

Plus! Is Se7en a horror or a thriller? What is the Troxler effect? What’s the most disappointing magic trick? And what’s like to play a baddie on the world’s kindest TV show?

If you enjoy this chat, why not rate and review it, or, badger us to make more episodes?  Unless waiting a year between podcasts is how you get your ‘kicks’. No judgement.

Nick on Twitter: @nickmohammed

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Music by Tim Bazell @heartofgoldmusic

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Back from the dead! The Fear is back for a one off spooky special, recorded on socially distant Zoom in the strange time of October 2020.  

Writer WILL MACLEAN (The Cunning Woman, High Strangeness) discusses his debut novel The Apparition Phase, described by Alice Lowe as “horror for the connoisseur”.   

We do a (very) deep-dive on his love for 1972s THE STONE TAPE, a sonic ghost story starring Jane Asher and Michael Bryant that still has the power to chill your blood. We also unpack his childhood fear of being stranded on an alien planet, and muse on the very real fear of going mad in mad times. 

PLUS: Horror’s often problematic representation of mental illness, and why we take comfort in scary movies in a pandemic.  Including: Doctor Who, The Fortean Times, Usbourne Guide To The Supernatural: Ghosts, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Saint Maud, The Shining, Rosemary’s Baby, The Yellow Wallpaper, They Live, Lovecraft Country, HR James and Shirley Jackson. Look, we’ve been indoors for a while, alright?

Will on Instagram: @willmacwriting 

Find us on @thefearpodcast 

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode comedy writer Sarah Morgan (@sarahlmorgan) asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear they live with now. It's Spooktacular! The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. 

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LAST EPISODE OF THE SERIES.... Writer and performer Vicki Pepperdine (Dear Joan and Jericha, Getting On, Sally4Ever) on her writing routine, finding your voice, a creepy poem from her childhood, Grimm’s fairy tales, going on Celebrity Pointless, teaching Ollie Murs to morris dance, the chest-burster scene from Alien, medical intervention and so much more…

Vicki on Twitter: @vickipepperdine

The Fear on Twitter and Facebook @thefearpodcast

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular... 

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

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Writer Ian Martin (Avenue 5, The Death of Stalin, Veep) on podcasts, his loathing of amateur compound swearing, the ‘death of satire’, The Skeletons from Jason And The Argonauts, a half-remembered PIF from the 60s, and nothing.

Ian on twitter: @ianmartin 

Ian’s Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/05/diagnosed-cancer-dead-by-christmas-karmic-voodoo

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular...

The theme music is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

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Actor, writer, disability activist and sweary legend SHANNON MURRAY (Silent Witness, Eastenders, Class) on nude scenes, growing up in a rock n’roll household, fancying Dracula, Tales Of The Unexpected, the fear of being trapped in a sauna, the existential ennui of 1980s Sunday evening television, London’s Burning, Poltergeist, the bubble baby, Tubular Bells, The NHS, cockroaches, and bad feminism. And SO much more…

Shannonigans on Insta: @shannonemurray

Shannon’s blog: https://shannonmurray.wordpress.com/

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular...

The theme music is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

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Comedian, TED-talker and Drag King KEMAH BOB (The Guilty Feminist, FOC It Up) has what a lazy comedy reviewer might call a ‘frank and fearless!’ chat about fear, including: 

Bipolar disorder and Kanye West, How to start a career in a new country, the Femmes of Colour comedy club, when people are a little bit too into your drag persona, the Leprechaun movies (sort of), death, insanity, the effects of hormonal birth control on the brain, break ups, and much much more… 

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular....

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

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BLURB Comedy writer and performer Brona C. Titley (Tracey Ullman’s Show, 8 Out Of 10 Cats) reveals what it’s like to wake up and find you’re the focus of a furious internet pile-on; PLUS we unpack her worst fears including the Hell Money episode of X-files, roads, Stephen King’s Misery, gum-chewers, and FOMO… 

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular....

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

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Black Shuck! The melting monk! Highgate Vampires! A mystically powerful WH Smiths!  To celebrate USBORNE’S WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: GHOSTS and WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE: OCCULT LONDON, Sarah invited author KATE HODGES (@theekatehodges) to revisit the horror books that traumatised them into the women they are today.  Finally, an answer to the eternal question, who’s fitter, Gef the talking mongoose, or a werecrocodile? Plus: Jan Pienowski’s Haunted House, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ('s monster), spontaneous human combustion, Bizarre magazine, The Unexplained partwork magazine, The Day of The Triffids, Climate Change, and Plague panic…

OCCULT LONDON: https://shop.herblester.com/products/welcome-to-the-dark-side-occult-london

THE HARE AND HOOFE: https://thehareandhoofe.wordpress.com/

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular...

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, tell your friends, or rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

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Writer Michael Lee Richardson (Bafta winner- My Loneliness Is Killing Me) unpacks his biggest fears: THE WHEELERS FROM RETURN TO OZ, GHOSTS, and FACES AT THE WINDOW...

Plus! We Were Always Here: A Queer Anthology, listening to 911 calls on YouTube, Take A Break Fate and Fortune, Most Haunted, Houdini vs Margery Crandon, Orbs, The Usbourne Book of Ghosts, and much, much more...

My Loneliness Is Killing Me: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00039vv

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular...

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

This programme is a member of the Great Big Owl Network. (insert spooky owl noise here)

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In a gorgeously sprawling chat, Andy Nyman (Ghost Stories, Derren Brown) talks about the latest incarnation and tour of GHOST STORIES; plus ghost trains, haunted theatres, Imposter syndrome, Fiddler On The Roof, The Fog, ITV’s Thriller, religion, the NHS, an American Werewolf in London and much, much more... 

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. For each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular...

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

THE FEAR:THE LIVE is coming to York Theatre Royal on 25th October with Danielle Ward and David Reed  https://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/the-fear-live/

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Hey you big Halloweenies! Triple-threat Tom Neenan (Mash Report, It’s Always Infinity) joins Sarah for seasonally spooky chat about SIMPSONS TREEHOUSE OF HORROR, his radio show THE HAUNTENING and SIMON BATES VIDEO WARNINGS! And of course Tom unpacks his greatest fears, including: 

The poster for the bad 80s horror film the REVENGE OF BILLY THE KID; The Judge Doom dip scene from WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?; and YOUTUBE nightmare holes… 

Revenge of Billy The Kid trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pIfFNbm2bk

“Chills” Top 15 Scariest YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1J-vdbp66E&

See Tom LIVE in LA on October 23rd, ticket info and more Neeno goodness here: www.Tomneenan.com

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. For each episode, comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear or phobia they live with now. It's spooktacular...

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that you will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live (prove me wrong, kids!) 

THE FEAR:THE LIVE is coming to York Theatre Royal on 25th October with Danielle Ward and David Reed  https://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/the-fear-live/

This programme is a member of the Great Big Owl Network (insert spooky owl noise here) 

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We’re baaaack... live from the London Podcast Festival, HELEN ZALTZMAN (The Allusionist, Answer Me This) unpacks her greatest fears- including a festive fizzy beverage advert, a cruel childhood prank about the apocalypse, and enforced audience participation... 

We also dabble in the dark arts to bind a bully, discuss baggy jumpsuits, sexy Santas, and who is the real monster? (spoiler, it’s man.) (#notallmen) 

Come and see the next THE FEAR:THE LIVE at York Theatre Royal on the 25th October 2019 with guests Danielle Ward and David Reed. It’ll be a Halloween Spooktacular! 

Rate and review on iTunes, and come and say hello @thefearpodcast 

Thanks to Tim Bazell for the editing and theme music. This podcast is a member of the Great Big Owl Family. 

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The new series is so close you can smell it (sorry about that), but in the meantime here’s details of our forthcoming live shows featuring HELEN ZALTZMAN (London Podcast Festival, September 15th) and DANIELLE WARD AND DAVID REED (York Theatre Royal, October 25th 2019). Ticket links: 

LONDON (With Helen Zaltzman)

https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/the-fear/

YORK (With David Reed and Danielle Ward)

https://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/the-fear-live/

More info @thefearpodcast on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 

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In the last ep this series, (boooo) comedian ED BYRNE (Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week) talks about scary stuff including; hangover anxiety; toxoplasmosis; zombie ants; It Follows; A Quiet Place; the Vorvon “Space Vampire” from Buck Rogers In The 25th Century; a clip from an excellent 1970s documentary about Dracula fans; fears of demonic possession while Catholic; mad thoughts; and how fear helps you prepare for a tour…

LINKS: 

Ed’s tour dates: 

http://edbyrne.com/live-dates/

The Dracula Business video aka “No Caption Can Do Justice To This Vampire Queen” (tweet via and thanks to @criticalprvrsn)

https://twitter.com/criticalprvrsn/status/1121918841045561344

THE FEAR is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, anxious comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fearfrom their childhood, and a fear they live with now. It's Spooktacular! 

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, if you must.

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THE FEAR WILL RETURN FOR SERIES 3…. when you least expect it…. WOoooOOOooh….. etc.

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LA-based comedy writer Jordan Morris (@midnight, Bubble, Jordan Jesse Go!) on creating his monster-packed gig-economy sci-fi sitcom Bubble, plus! Schitt’s Creek, hipster neighbourhoods, The Theme From M*A*S*H, the You Must Remember This podcast and bad Karina Longworth impressions, 1930s horror movies, eyeball trauma in Demolition Man, a frank chat about FOMO, plus special guest Bug the cat, and much much more... 

Find Jordan online @jordan_morris

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode anxious comedy writer Sarah Morgan (@sarahlmorgan) asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear they live with now. It's Spooktacular!  The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, if you must.

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Emmy-winning writer David Quantick (Veep, The Thick Of It, Brass Eye) talks about his new horror novel ALL MY COLORS, plus! Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell, Stephen King, Chris Morris, Coleridge's opium bully, The Sound of Music, the crap DC super-villain Supremo, the Twitter hellmouth, and much,much more....

THE FEAR is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode, anxious comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear they live with now. It's spooktacular. 

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, if you must.

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Pifs, plumbing and panic attacks.... 

Comedy writer Jason Hazeley (Philomena Cunk, Ladybird Books For Grown Ups, Framley Examiner) joins Sarah to unpack his greatest fears, including: The “Grain Drain” Public Information Film, The Young Ones, the closing credits of Camberwick Green, plumbing, and comas! Plus quite an intense and useful conversation about panic attacks. Take care of yourself out there.

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode comedy writer Sarah Morgan (@sarahlmorgan) asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear they live with now. It's spooktacular! 

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show why not eh...

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Stuart Goldsmith, stand-up, host of The Comedian’s Comedian podcast and ex-goth talks about his favourite spooky things including: Stu’s secret vampire past! Brandon Lee’s The Crow! Clive Barker! A sexy reboot of Bagpuss! Imposter syndrome! An unpleasant moment from the title sequence of The Equaliser! Noseybonk! A creepy-ass children’s rhyme about apples! Witches- bad, or victims of misogyny?! Xylophobia aka the fear of biting on wood! Funny Feet Fetishists! Blade! 

Plus –  Stuart and Sarah reveal the dark secrets to provoking an emotional response from your comedian guests; and Stuart turns the table on Sarah and reveals SHE was the thing she was scared of all along. Or something. (It’s VERY Com Com Pod.) 

Find Stuart Goldsmith, his podcast and tourdates on Comedianscomedian.com

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode comedy writer Sarah Morgan (@sarahlmorgan) asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear they live with now. It's Spooktacular! 

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell.

Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that anyone has or will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live. (prove me wrong, kids!) 

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Stand-up Bec Hill (Comedy Club 4 Kids; Bec Hill’s Pun Run) joins Sarah for spine-chilling chat about: Polly Pocket and Sexy Hamburglars! “Monster Ball” week on RuPaul’s Drag Race! The importance of puns! Why fun is better than fear!  The ‘chicken bit’ from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! Sexual awakenings in front of David Bowie’s Labyrinth! The Baby From Eraserhead! Pimple popping videos! Baby skulls on Snopes! Rubbish ghost trains! And more…

Follow Bec @bechillcomedian

The Fear is a podcast where funny people talk about the things that scare us. In each episode comedy writer Sarah Morgan asks her guests to bring in three fears - a scary moment from film or tv; a fear from their childhood, and a fear they live with now. It's spooktacular. 

The theme music and production is by Tim Bazell. Find us online @Thefearpodcast, and if you like it, rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, not that anyone has or will, 'cause you're a bunch of ungrateful goth hipsters who think they're too cool to live (prove me wrong, kids!) 

This programme is a member of the Great Big Owl Network (insert spooky owl noise here)

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