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Talk the Line

The Line of Best Fit

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Frequency: 1 episode/61d. Total Eps: 58

A deep dive into the beautiful detours that make a creative life interesting. Our resident artist and curious interviewer Emmeline speaks to brilliant people about their unusual fascinations and obsessions. Expect intimate discussions about everything from Roller Derby to Rachmaninoff with your beloved (or new favourite) musicians, writers, directors and change-makers.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
30/10/2026
#39
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Interviews
30/10/2026
#19
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
29/10/2026
#20
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Interviews
29/10/2026
#12
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Interviews
28/10/2026
#8
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music
28/10/2026
#68
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Interviews
27/10/2026
#4
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music
27/10/2026
#44
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Interviews
26/10/2026
#6
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music
26/10/2026
#46

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James Acaster on skateboarding

Season 3 · Episode 9

Friday, October 23, 2026 • Duration 33:36

Comedian, experimental musician and traitor, James Acaster joins this week's episode of Talk The Line to share his fascination with skateboarding. This week James releases Star. A Verse and a Chorus – the debut from his new (but not really) project The Wow! Scenario – with help from longtime musician friend Graeme Wicks, and guest vocalists BC Camplight and Emma Daman.

On ⁠⁠Talk The Line⁠⁠ we speak to brilliant people about the beautiful detours that make a creative life interesting – those unusual fascinations and obsessions that sometimes lie far away from their day job as musicians, directors, comedians and actors. New episodes drop every Friday wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater with music by Seams.

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La Roux on Frasier

Season 3 · Episode 8

Friday, October 16, 2026 • Duration 41:37

It’s tossed salad and scrambled eggs time on Talk The Line this week as Elly Jackson - better known as La Roux - joins host Emmeline Armitage to explore her Frasier fandom.Jackson drops Old Flames, the fourth La Roux studio album - and her first in six years - on 6 November, with live dates in North America and to follow throughout February and March next year.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater with music by Seams.

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Stargazer host Iona Bielby on James McNeill Whistler

Season 3 · Episode 7

Friday, October 9, 2026 • Duration 33:42

A rising force in the new era of interviewing, Iona Bielby is host of Stargazer, where her musical guests lie down side-by-side inside a homemade blanket fort decorated with fairy lights and paper-cut stars for candid and unscripted conversations. An Art History graduate, Bielby was also the founder of New Fine Art Exchange, a platform which allows artists from around the world to publicise and sell their art – and today she's talking about one of her favourite artists, American painter James McNeill Whistler!

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater, with music by Seams.

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Skinshape on foraging

Season 3 · Episode 6

Friday, October 2, 2026 • Duration 33:02

Under the name Skinshape, the incredibly prolific British songwriter, producer and former Palace bandmember William Dorey has crafted a sonic universe of sun-dappled, lo-fi dreamscapes across ten records but for this episode of Talk the Line he's going in deep on his passion for mushroom foraging.

Dorey kicks off a short European tour this November, following the release of the eleventh Skinshape album Chapman's Pool on 30 October.

On ⁠Talk The Line⁠ we speak to brilliant people about the beautiful detours that make a creative life interesting – those unusual fascinations and obsessions that sometimes lie far away from their day job as musicians, directors, comedians and actors. New episodes drop every Friday wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater, with music by Seams.

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Ellur on the Brontes

Season 3 · Episode 5

Friday, September 25, 2026 • Duration 37:36

Halifax-born singer/songwriter Ella McNamara – better known as Ellur – reveals her fascination with fellow West Yorkshire writers and poets Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.

Ellur tours the UK throughout October with Antony Szmierek and plays a series of headline shows in November, with dates in Manchester, Leeds and London. Find out more at ellur.biz.

On Talk The Line we speak to brilliant people about the beautiful detours that make a creative life interesting – those unusual fascinations and obsessions that sometimes lie far away from their day job as musicians, directors, comedians and actors. New episodes drop every Friday wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠⁠⁠⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater, with music by Seams.

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Baby Queen on South African birds

Season 3 · Episode 4

Friday, September 18, 2026 • Duration 31:00

Singer and songwriter Bella Latham's childhood and adolescence in South Africa is the jumping off point for her discussion with host Emmeline Armitage for this episode of Talk The Line as Latham guides us through her memories of avian wildlife in her birth country.

The new Baby Queen record ⁠I Hope You Don’t Remember Me⁠ was released back in July and see Latham moving away from the broad generational commentary of her 2023 debut Quarter Life Crisis for a more introspective and self-interrogative through line.

In Talk The Line, our resident artist and curious interviewer Emmeline Armitage speaks to brilliant people about their unusual fascinations and obsessions that sometimes lie far away from their day job as musicians, directors, comedians and actors.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠⁠⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠⁠⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater, with music by Seams.

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Mykki Blanco on cafe culture

Season 3 · Episode 3

Friday, September 11, 2026 • Duration 28:39

In Talk The Line, our resident artist and curious interviewer Emmeline Armitage speaks to brilliant people about their unusual fascinations and obsessions that sometimes lie far away from their day job as musicians, directors, comedians and actors.

In this week's episode, rapper, performance artist, writer, poet and activist Mykki Blanco talks about cafe culture, the inspiration for his new record Cafe Paradiso.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater, with music by Seams.

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Hayden Thorpe on Orford Ness

Season 3 · Episode 2

Friday, September 4, 2026 • Duration 37:00

Today we're talking to singer and songwriter Hayden Thorpe about Orford Ness, a former Ministry of Defence weapons development site during both World Wars and the Cold War tht was acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to re-wild. Orford Ness is where RADAR was invented, where camouflage was developed and where bombs were first strapped to planes. As a result, it was on Ness that missiles designed to deliver atomic payloads were tested and perfected. It remains a place of paradox, mystery and constant evolution for Thorpe, whose 2024 record Ness is an ode to the physical place and the book it inspired, written by celebrated nature writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Stanley Donwoood.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine ⁠The Line of Best Fit ⁠and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater, with music by Seams.

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Karan Kandhari on ancient Greece

Season 3 · Episode 1

Friday, August 28, 2026 • Duration 33:32

To open our third season, we're talking about Ancient Greece with British–Indian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Karan Kandhari – best known for his award-winning short film Hard Hat and feature-length directorial debut Sister Midnight , which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and earned him a BAFTA nomination the following year.

Talk The Line is a podcast from UK music magazine The Line of Best Fit and is co-produced by Emmeline Armitage and Paul Bridgewater, with music by Seams.

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TALK THE LINE returns

Season 3

Monday, August 24, 2026 • Duration 01:08

Back after a few years on hiatus, Talk The Line is back this week for its third season! A podcast about the beautiful detours that make a creative life interesting, our resident artist and curious interviewer Emmeline Armitage speaks to brilliant people about their unusual fascinations and obsessions. Expect intimate discussions about everything from Roller Derby to Rachmaninoff with your beloved (or perhaps new favourite) musicians, writers, directors and change-makers.

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