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Live podcasts: where to see your favourite pods on tour
Sit in on a live taping of the best podcasts around, covering everything from history, sports and situationships to The Sopranos, D&D and sexting
In bed. In the bath. In the car. In the office, secretly, while everyone thinks you’re working… It doesn’t matter where you listen to your favourite podcast, you’re not doing it properly if you’re not in the same room with the people doing the speaking. All the best pods now have live tours, and most are big enough to treat their shows like stadium events.
Whatever niche chat you’re into, get your favourite podcast out of your ears into your eyes as you find the best live shows on tour this year.
You’re Dead To Me
Greg Jenner unpicks the fact and fiction behind the best rarely read chapters of history, with support from a subject expert and a (usually) completely clueless comedian. Past episodes have covered everything from Geoffrey Chaucer and Queen Zheng Yi Sao to high heels and Victorian bodybuilding. Special guests, and special subjects, are yet to be revealed for the show’s first four night run this spring.
When and where? Tuesday 24 March at the London Adelphi Theatre, Thursday 9 April at Cardiff New Theatre, Sunday 12 April at Edinburgh Queen’s Hall and Monday 13 April at Manchester Opera House.
Talking Sopranos
Think you know your gabagool from your goombas? Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa (aka Christopher Moltisante and Bobby Bacala) reminisce about making the most influential TV series of all time. Expect behind the scenes gossip, episode analysis, special guests and heated debate about the best Italian restaurants in New York.
When and where? Running for 14 UK dates nationwide throughout February and March, finishing up in The London Palladium.
Crossed Wires: The Podcast Festival
“The Glastonbury of Podcast festivals” runs across three days and boasts a line-up of 11 different live pod recordings, plus food, drink and after-parties. Headliners for 2026 are Get A Grip: Bras Off (Angela Scanlon and Vicky Pattison channel “hilarious, unbridled feminine rage”), How To Fail With Elizabeth Day (celebs chat their biggest setbacks), and The Blindboy Podcast (short fiction, comedy and mental health with Blindboyboatclub).
When and where? Friday 3 July – Sunday 5 July at Sheffield City Hall Memorial Hall.
Out With The Buckleys
James and Clair Buckley get live couples therapy as they chat the ups and downs of life as new parents – taking their hit vlog on the road for the first time. Billed as having “no editing, no filters and no topic off limit”, come prepared for bantz aimed at anything and everything (and at least one person in the audience to scream “bus wanker!” at James).
When and where? Starting at The London Palladium on 5 March, the UK tour picks up in April and May for 11 dates up and down the country.
Help I Sexed My Boss
William Hanson and Jordan North are the agony uncles everyone needs – one an expert in refined social etiquette, the other who vomited on live TV within minutes of appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Previous episodes have seen them tackle everything from eating in bed, washing machine temperatures, wearing PJs to a drive-through and how to best celebrate gooch week, so everything’s on the table for the live shows.
When and where? The UK tour hits four different arenas throughout March, stopping at the Utilita Arena Cardoff, Wembley, the Glasgow OVO Hydro, and the Manchester AO Arena.
I’m Grand Mam
Billed as “just two boys from Cork who have a cuppa and catch up while exploring the collective life landmarks that accompany growing up gay in the world today”, Kevin Twomey and PJ Kirby have turned their weekly tea chats (and TikTok skits) into a bit of a phenomenon, already well over 200 episodes deep when they played to the festival crowds at Electric Picnic last summer. Catch first big live tour, Happy Campers, at a few select dates this year before they inevitably end up headlining the next Glastonbury.
When and where? Stops at Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and London are spread out throughout 2026 between 27 March and 25 June.
ShxtsNGigs
It’s all ShxtsNGigs until someone Gigs and Shxts. Thankfully, only the first one is happening this summer as James and Fuhad bring their blockbuster pod to UK stages. The pair’s debut tour has already toured America and Australia, but 2026 sees them closer to home with stadium and arena dates booked throughout May and June.
When and where? Daddy’s Home kicks off in Bristol on 24 May, stopping at eight other UK cities until wrapping things up in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on 19 June.
The Useless Hotline
The Useless Hotline are hiring – and if you only know George Clark from Strictly, you’re probably not getting the job. George and Max are back on the road this spring, dishing out terrible advice to the real problems of audiences up and down the country. Tickets sold fast, but there are still resale seats left at the time of writing.
When and where? Interviews are taking place in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol and London between 18 February and 10 March.
Two Mr Ps In A Pod(Cast)
Greg Davies, Romesh Ranganathan and Dawn French were all teachers before making it in comedy, proving that the funniest people come from the classroom (then again, Mussolini was a teacher too…). Lee and Adam Parkinson tell the best war stories from their own Primary school classes along with the anonymous anecdotes sent in by other working teachers, making their podcast sound like a peek inside the funniest, most inappropriate staff room ever.
When and where? February dates are selling fast, but there’s also a short run of shows in May and October if you want to catch Mr P and Mr P this year. February 2027 dates are also on sale now.
The Receipts Podcast
If you’ve got a real, honest problem with your love life, work life, social life, or sex life, who you gonna call? Tolly T & Audrey of course. Sorting out the nation’s messiest dilemmas since 2016, the pair have been leading the group chat for almost 300 episodes now – which means it’s time they took things on the road and invited us all onto the sofa.
When and where? Your Receipts, Our Receipts, The Receipts! starts in Birmingham on 5 May, before heading to Leeds, London, Bristol and Dublin.
Oxventure
Stranger Things was a gateway show for those not already versed in Kate Bush, Steven King, The Neverending Story and theoretical physics, but it was Dungeons & Dragons that topped the comeback list – reportedly seeing a 600% surge in popularity since the show aired. Some of the credit surely has to go to Oxventure too, though, as a group of newbie players recorded their first quest and went on to turn their weekly dungeon crawls into a hit table-top podcast. Grab an axe and join the quest on tour this year for DREAD Live.
When and where? The gang have two dates on the books for 2026, playing D&D live in Manchester on 20 February, and in London on 10 October.
The LOL Podcast
If you don’t know who Harper, Cash, Kate, Maverick and Kenzie are, you’re probably not going to want to queue up to buy any of their branded slime from the merch stall. Becoming a bona fide Gen-Z sensation since they launched their DIY vlog a couple of years ago, the kids behind the LOL-verse are only just getting started – with world domination now on the agenda, and heading to an arena near you.
When and where? The Laugh Out Loud World Tour makes its way to the UK and Ireland from Australia in March, playing London, Salford and Dublin.
Madame Joyce
All the best things start with Cocktails and Takeaways, and Madame Joyce turned her confessional pod into the first and last name in oversharing. Now taking her purple couch back on the road, two upcoming dates at The Academy in Dublin and London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire will mark her biggest live shows to date.
When and where? The Purple Couch tour comes in Dublin on 4 June, and London on 11 June.
For The Love Of Rugby
Former England and Tigers stars Ben Youngs and Dan Cole started their show back in 2024. Almost 300 episodes later, they’re hosting one of the biggest and most successful rugby pods around – and now have the live tour to prove it (don’t worry, none of the dates clash with any games).
When and where? A one-off show in London on 19 February runs ahead of a string of dates in April, with gigs at Birmingham, Cheltenham, Dublin, Manchester, Exeter and Cardiff.
