EP.250 - JONNY SWEET
Jonny Sweet (still processing Adam’s very good advice about enjoying the experience of working on his sitcom ‘Together’) and Tim Key @ King Charles pub, King’s Cross, London, April 2015
Adam (with incipient Bell’s palsy) and Jonny Sweet, London, November 2024
Adam talks with British writer, actor and comedian Jonny Sweet about class, shame, not feeling at home in your own skin and other themes in his debut novel The Kellerby Code, as well as how promoting a book encourages authors to make up a load of bullshit about the themes in their books. Adam and Jonny also swap news of ailments and an unsettling Shiatsu experience, and in the outro, Adam talks in a queasily sincere way about what the late Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson meant to him.
Conversations recorded in London on 12th November, 2024 and 29th April, 2025
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and additional conversation editing.
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
RELATED LINKS
THE PARTY (BBC Radio 4 series starring Jonny Sweet, Anna Crilly, Katie Wix, Tom Basden and Tim Key) - 2010 (BBC)
TRUMP MUGSHOT RELEASED AFTER ARREST IN ATLANTA GEORGIA - 2023 (BBC NEWS)
ADAM BUXTON'S BEACH BOYS SELECTION (SPOTIFY)
THE BEACH BOYS: AN AMERICAN BAND - 1985 (YOUTUBE)
You may need a VPN to watch this doc on YouTube, but it's worth it. Some great moments in this one.