Episodes
60
Latest episode
Jul 2026
Language
EN-GB
From the heart of Durham, The Durham Podcast brings Durham to you ... what's happening in the city and across the County, meet some of Durham's independent businesses, discover things to do, places to go from both the residents' and the students' point of view.
We're talking to performers and organisers behind The Durham Fringe Festival 2026. In this episode you'll hear interviews with; Dr Stephen Cronin, The Marsh Family Singers, Comedian Richard Cobb, The Last Days of Trump, Comedian Richard Pulston & TIN Theatre and their play Room 504.
In this episode Damian chats to Derren Brown about his new show Only Human which plays The Stockton Globe! Stuart chats to Peter Dixon about the Saturday Sessions, a showcase of great comedy, taking place in Barnard Castle. He also chats to Councillor Jill Campbell on her love on running and her raising cash for Teesdale Day Clubs.
The podcast is back after an extended break, bringing you news and chats about everything happening across the County this summer! In this episode we speak to Kai Widdrington about his tour Evolution visiting the north east. We also talk to John Lyons, part of the team organising the first ever Durham Jazz Festival!
The Durham Podcast returns for 2026, bringing you interesting conversation with people doing amazing things across County Durham. Russell Howard joins Damian to discuss his current UK Tour, visiting Stockton Globe this weekend. Guest Louise McGill discusses her work with the British Heart Foundation, and how she survived at heart attack at 53 years old.
Sam chats to Helen Marriage, the Director of Artichoke, to discuss highlights from Durham Lumiere. He asks why Durham was chosen to host the festival back in 2009 and gets an answer to "Why is this the last Lumiere festival in Durham?".
Damian speaks to Astronaut Tim Peak on visiting space and Stockton. Sam speaks to the director of the play "Honestly" visiting County Durham and Darlington. Emma talks to Gail Col from Barnard Castle Business Networking. Stuart chats to Folks singer Steve Tilson about his final release.
It's a packed episode with Sam and Damian chatting to four great guests. Graeme Danby is an operatic bass originally from Durham who is performing "Songs From The North East" at Redhills, Shvorne Marks is appearing in the spooky play 2:22 at Sunderland Empire Theatre, Katrina Fisher is doing well on the international MMA stage and Supreme Queen, the ultimate Queen tribute are visiting the North East.
Sam chats to the Vice Principle of New College Durham Alison Maynard about A Level and T Level results, Judith Porter the local marathon running sensation who is still running in her 70's, the winners of the Durham Lumiere BELIEVE scheme who will be showing their work in November and Justine Riddoch who is bringing her show Totally Tina to the region over the next few months.
This week Sam chats to actress Sarah Bulmer from The Handlebards about their touring production of Much Ado About Nothing which is coming to Wharton Park in August. We also chat to Jam Tub, a young band from Durham who are performing at The Durham Fringe
In this Episode we hear highlights from our live coverage of Staindrop Village Carnival, we talk to the members of the public who were there and the businesses in attendance. Sam talks to David Watchman the general manager of Tanfield Railway about their 300th Birthday celebrations and their BBC documentary. Rustie Lee talks to Sam about DIY and Amity Miller tells us about their upcoming Durham Fringe Festival shows, we also hear a track from his new album.
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