Tea With Alice

Tiff Stevenson sits in her house in London over NO TEA and talks to Alice about Teeth, Peace Forums, malicious misinterpretation, victorian manners, social consent and Jordan Peterson. Find Tiff online at @tiffstevenson Alice is @aliterative

Laura Davis sits in the basement of the Phoenix Pub in London, dehydrated, and talks to Alice about travel, shades of the Guilt Economy, Bodies, Couches and Copyright.

Alice answers questions from Tea With Alice listeners, and one from a non-listener.

The impact of tea on moods, speaking white, finding out what theatresports is, using dick jokes to talk about Syria, why it's easier being an indigenous comic overseas, enlightenment and colonialism, making use of the land, Anger and Authority, selling out and selling products. Find Craig Quartermaine at @CSQuartermaine on twitter. Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Photographer Matt Hofmann talks to Alice over Oolong and Earl Grey, about Veganism, breweries, hypocrisy, mental health and the Face of Comedy project.

James Nokise over lemongrass tea on why he avoided Australia, Pacific Island history, the ins and outs of trench warfare, the pragmatism of injury, rights and responsibility, construction worker-esses. Find james at @jamesnokise Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

This is a slightly unusual pod, with my father Michael Fraser, asking him about his history with Buddhist tradition and meditation, in an age of productivity focused meditation apps. How he went from Judaism to Buddhism, and what meditation is for, from his perspective. I'll pass on any messages, hit me up at the usual places or on twitter @aliterative

Tim Batt, New Zealand comedy star, outrage merchant, talks with Alice in the Chinese Museum about courage and vulnerability on stage, shouting at street preachers, the use of 'boys' by young men. Blackface, golliwogs, American politics, local politics. Online activism, pros and cons, and who are the villains, really? Tim Batt is online at @tim_batt Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

Dean Mayes, Working class man, romance novelist and night nurse, talks over Gyokuro with Alice in Adelaide about being a man in female dominated industries, and whether he understands anything about anything any more. Dean's website is http://deanfromaustralia.com Find Alice on twitter as usual at @aliterative

Kirsty Webeck sits in Adelaide with Alice over an iced green tea old school style where you just pour cold water over a teabag, talking about getting booted out of the moral high-ground, how to deal with social media and whether you can write good comedy when you're very happy. Kirsty can be found at @kirstywebeck on twitter. Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

Aditi Mittal sits with Alice in a cafe in Edinburgh during the Fringe last year, in a blast from the past. They talk Oat Milk, finding your voice, comedy as complicity, what makes things traumatic, implied contracts, dealing with flattery, Marathons, profuse sweating and blacking out during a show as well as corporate life and the financial power of cuteness. Aditi Mittal @awryaditi on Twitter

John Hastings sits with Alice in an outdoors cafe in Adelaide talking about Tyson, Chappelle, Adulthood, Advertising, making good rape jokes, Masculinity and school uniforms.

Elf Lyons, AA, drinking, Malthusian Economics, the punchline of Veganism, impostor syndrome and queer self policing. Find Elf on twitter at @elf_lyons Alice is at @aliterative as always

Winnie M Li, Novelist, Activist and returning Teacast guest talks over some supreme matcha about polarising narratives, how to prevent human predatory instincts becoming bad behaviours, law and vigilantism, and the relationship of workplace sexual harassment to more extreme sexual violence, media narratives about power, and Winnie's own experiences both as a rape survivor and as an activist. Find Winnie at @winniemli on twitter Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Lucy Howard-Taylor, fundraiser, author and poet sits with Alice in a cafe in London, talking about how to be useful in the world, whether you need to be a very good writer to be a writer at all, and how to deal with having a good life, and a lot of time to think about it. Find Lucy on instagram as @ lucyshena or her website http://lucyhowardtaylor.com alice is at @aliterative as ever

Alice sits in Brendon Burns car, and over some Mother Energy drink for him, and some elderflower tea for her, they talk about women, alpha males, money, how violently 14 year old Perth boys deal with sexual discomfort, and how Brendon is going on a quest to change how he feels about manhood, women and gender in general. Find Brendon at @brendonburns on twitter. Alice is at @aliterative as ever.

Over a mocha and a matcha in Jesus College Cambridge, Architect, writer and mother, Gillean Denny talks about space, time, walls, creative restriction and the difference between teaching adults and teaching 3 year olds about gothic windows. Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Tiff Stevenson talks over a decaf abomination to Alice, about the Aziz Ansari scandal, the competition between social and personal battles, workplace vs individual harassment, personal accountability and journalistic standards. Also, Alice pitches a solution for all of our problems with sex. Find Tiff at @tiffstevenson on twitter. Alice is at @aliterative as ever

In this solo podcast, over a suitcase Gyokuro, Alice answers some of your questions and refuses to answer others. Including advice for teenage boys, empathy, comedy, some properly incoherent bullsh-t and NO PUNS. Alice is at @aliterative as ever

Chris Skinner, producer of The Bugle Podcast sits with Alice in a tea shop in Soho over not-quite black tea and talks about inheritance, the news, dignity, class fiction and meeting your enemies in a pub. Find Chris at @producerchris on Twitter Alice is at @aliterative as ever