The David Eagle Podcast is back. The plan is to record something every day and then release weekly.
This week: Join me in the bath with a pair of geese, a call to my bank takes a sordid and confusing turn, and Ellie and I have some weird massage experiences. Plus, we go abroad, but I don’t know where we’re going.
Find out where we land and what we do in the first in a new weekly series of The David Eagle Podcast. It’s better than a bald head.
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Fourth and final episode of See No Eagle, featuring tales of two weird performances: an embarrassing incident at a children’s talent show and a life threatening gig in a rough Kent pub.
Listen on BBC Sounds here.
Start 2026 in style, with a trip to Hartlepool.
Episode 3 of See No Eagle, The Anti-social Accordionist.
Listen and subscribe to the show
On BBC Sounds.
Episode 2 of See No Eagle is now up on BBC Sounds. Featuring a formative sex education lesson courtesy of French shortwave radio, and we try a bit of meditation with a twist.
Episode 1 of my BBC Radio 4 comedy series is now up on Bbc Sounds. You can also subscribe to the show, which would be useful for me, because then it might hoodwink the BBC into thinking I’m popular and give me a second series.
Listen and subscribe here.
This December I return to Radio 4 for my own comedy series, Eagle On The Air.
I’m recording it in Sheffield on 30th September and 1st October. If you fancy coming along to one of them, you’d be very welcome — especially if you have a loud laugh.
If you want to hear yourself on the radio, you could laugh in a really noticeable, idiosyncratic manner, or sneak in a little sneeze, cough, belch or fart, and then gleefully inform your friends and family that you’ve featured in a BBC Radio 4 comedy show.
Tickets are free but you have to book them in advance, which you can do here.
On Thursday September 25th I’m at the Laurels in Whitley Bay. Join me as I jostle with a multitude of ideas for an upcoming radio series. Includes French lesbians, a talking teddy, an errant accordion, Daleks, militant Morris dancers, a song from me at seven about my mate who pissed himself in the street, and of course some Princess Margaret themed erotica.
Tickets are, as you might expect, £5 and available here.
Banbury friends: Come to my free gig on the 10th July and help me decide what stays and what goes for an upcoming radio series.
Based on where I am with it now, it’ll almost certainly involve me banging on about being blind (still milking that), getting the accordion out (because I know how to whip a crowd into a frenzy), and singing a few silly songs – possibly one about a misunderstood pigeon. I might tell you about my first ever gig at a Teddy Bears’ Picnic (aged five – I absolutely smashed it), talk a bit about meditation, Catholicism, and 1950s radio detectives; do some Dalek impressions; and recount the time I judged a children’s talent show and things got awkward.
I might even play you a recording of a song I wrote when I was seven about a boy in our street who pissed himself. Oh, and maybe there’ll be some Princess Margaret themed erotica, if I’m being especially hack.
My last show won multiple awards, so I was clearly pretty good at comedy in 2024. That
means it’s statistically likely this one will at least surpass mediocrity – maybe even approach adequacy!
If my scintillating sales pitch hasn’t quite sealed the deal, I should probably mention that I’ve done stand-up on Rosie Jones’s TV show, and made multiple appearances on BBC Radio 4 comedy programmes. And here are a few nice things that more successful comedians have said about me:
“David is brilliantly clever, musical, moral. Brilliant/nuts. Heartily recommend!” – Rufus
Hound
“My God, David Eagle makes me laugh. A ludicrously amusing gentleman.” – Miles Jupp
“David’s a unique and very funny comedian. This debut hour comes highly recommended.”
– Paul Sinha
“Just seen the future of stand-up comedy, and his name is David Eagle.” – Boothby
Graffoe
More details on the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1295002068632913
On Saturday we (The Young’uns) appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends with Stuart Maconie. We were on with singer songwriter Mychelle, comedian Sophie McCartney, Great British Sewing Bee’s Patrick Grant, and Jason Donovan (who I assume you all know of and so haven’t bothered to preface).
There wasn’t enough room for all the guests around the main table, so I volunteered to be the one positioned at the opposite side of the room to the other guests. However I was still very much encouraged to interject and join in with the show whenever the fancy took me. I didn’t say much because it’s not easy to know when to interrupt when you’re not sat next to the other guests. When you’re sat in close proximity to each other, what you say is perceived as conversational banter, whereas shouting out things from the other side of the room feels more like I’m heckling. Nevertheless I did throw in a few comments here and there, and some of them are audible; you’ll have to listen especially carefully if you want to hear them all.
I’ll tell a tale or two about the show in the next The David Eagle Podcast, but for now you can listen to our Loose Ends episode here.
This week we also made a brief appearance in BBC 2’s very moving documentary, Lockerbie: Our Story. Our song about Tim Burman, who was one of the 259 people onboard the plane, features in the program.
You can watch it here.
You can also watch our video, in which we talk to Tim’s sister Rachel about Tim and the song here.
The David Eagle Podcast returns with a bumper bunker-based Herbal Tea Of The Week, as we visit a tea house in Slovakia, situated in a bomb shelter. Six teas from six different countries go to war, but which one will be triumphant. Plus we talk about various recent stand up comedy gigs, including playing to a room of screaming, crying babies, performing for the military, and a surprisingly harrowing experience in Coleshill, Birmingham. And we conclude matters with a lovely little Slovakian soundscape. Enjoy, and we promise to be back a lot sooner than twenty-seven months.