Comedian and Actor Tez Ilyas has designs on being Doctor Who's first Asian Doctor, acting on stage at the Royal Shakespere Company and landing a dream role on the TV soap Neighbours.

In the meantime he talks to Barbara Nice about being a naughty kid at school, being even more of a handful in Mosque class and his new Book "The Secret Diary of a British Muslim", which he wants EVERYONE to read.

Visit his Website https://tezilyas.com/

Or follow him on twitter: https://twitter.com/tezilyas

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It's International Women's Day 2021, so to celebrate Barbara sits down with Award Winning Irish comedian Gráinne Maguire to talk about all female bills at gigs, all female flats at the Edinburgh festival and how Gráinne has been using lockdown to become a learned master of comedy.

Plus, stick around at the end to hear about Barbara's 7pm Podcast rating challenge!
(Though if you miss the deadline, well, it's 7pm somewhere in the world, let us know you've done it and we'll thank you anyway ;) )

You can follow Gráinne on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/GrainneMaguire

Or visit her personal website here:
grainnemaguire.co.uk

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Barbara appears this week hot off being vaccinated against COVID-19, but the experience didn't shake her world.
She celebrates her normality with Chef and restaurateur Glynn Purnell of Purnell's Bistro to talk to him about how he's cooking through lockdown, how a restaurant business survives during a pandemic and what he is doing to help others.

Plus, there's time to chat about his upbringing in Birmingham and the chefs that inspired him to pursue a career in food.

He also has a book out that Barbara has her eyes on:
https://www.awaywithmedia.com/buy-books/glynn-purnell

You can follow Glynn on Twitter here:

https://twitter.com/yummy_brummie

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Poet and performer Jodi Ann Bickley became known to the world for her "million letters" campaign where she would write a letter to anyone who needed a bit of a mental health boost.
But she caught Barbara's eye by her latest campaign, doodles of famous local faces on teatowels to raise money for charities affected by lockdown. And of COURSE, Barbara is one of them!

They also chat home schooling, living in Cambodia and the famous names that inspired the doodles and how they've reacted to them
There's also big predictions for a HELL of a pancake day. Get flipping, F.O.Bs.

If you would like to purchase one of Jodi's teatowels, visit her shop here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/cardsbyomll/

Or follow her Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/jodiannbickley/

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Like every podcast going this week, Mrs Barbara Nice and Friends was fortunate to be able to chat with comedian Stewart Lee to talk about the film he has in part funded, produced, interviewed and promoted along with Michael Cummings (Brass Eye, Toast of London): King Rocker

The film focuses on Birmingham alternative rock band "The Nightingales" and Stewart chats to Barbara about the making of the film as well as their shared history in the band's early days in Brum when Stewart was a fledgling standup and Barbara was part of her own groups the Surprises and The Ever-Readys

They manage to unearth some stories about their shared past on the Birmingham music scene unique to them as well as working out how many curries it takes to make a film and how Frank Skinner's memories of being in the band made everyone question their collective memories.

You can watch King Rocker on Sky Arts on 2 consecutive saturdays (6th/13th) at 9pm
(Freeview Channel 11) and on its catch up service thereafter.

https://kingrockerfilm.com/

(Original image credit Douglas Cumming)

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Comedian Seymour Mace isn't sure if he wants to still be a comedian when the pandemic is finally over.
But while the world is on pause, he's damn sure going to use that time to educate himself and follow other passions.

In this episode, he talks to Mrs Barbara Nice about his art course, breaking himself down to build himself up again, rambling about rambling and the bad press recieved by the much maligned rat.

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https://twitter.com/seymourmace

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Happy New Year F.O.B.s!

Mrs Barbara Nice returns for the new year and has recently starred with Les Dennis on the BBC comedy pilot Learners so she brings him into her world of podcasting for a chat.

She invites her new friend Les to about his 51 years in showbusiness, gig venues they've played, Les' toughest gigs and of course behind the scenes anecdotes from the making of Learners.

You can listen to Learners, written by previous guest Kiri Pritchard Mclean, via the BBC Sounds app here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qxw0

And you can follow Les Dennis on Twitter here:

https://twitter.com/LesDennis

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In this episode we learn that not only is Mrs Barbara Nice a comedy sensation in her own right, she has also plyed her time in teaching up and coming comedians the ins and outs of the comedy world through her various comedy courses
Many of her former students have gone on to great things including this week's guest: Lovedev Barpaga

They talk about their time on the comedy course as student and teacher as well as what Lovdev has done since, being threatened in India and how much CCTV needs to be installed in a home before gigging in the USA

Keep an ear out to the end of the podcast for news of an exciting potential guest for the Christmas special!

Listen to Lovedev's comedy podcast "Crazy little thing called Love Dev" here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/596434

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https://twitter.com/LBarpaga

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