The Recs' editor Steve Coats-Dennis chats to New York cabaret icon Salty Brine about the Living Record Collection, about where his creativity began and explores two of his shows, The Cyndi Lauper Show: He's So Unusual and The Annie Lennox Show: These Are The Contents of My Head, which Salty is performing in London's Soho Theatre and Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre respectively in November 2025.

In the final Edinburgh Fringe preview podcast, The Recs' editor Steve Coats-Dennis chats to the cast and creatives of the eagerly-anticipated Footballers' Wives The Musical:

(from 01:00) composer and lyricist Kath Gotts

(from 23:00) Ceili O'Connor as Tayna Turner

(from 30:15) Matt Beveridge as Jason Turner

(from 35:35) India Chadwick and Tom Bowen as Chardonnay Lane and Kyle Pascoe

(from 41:03) Leesa Tulley and Oliver Evans as Donna and Ian Walmsley

(from 48:50) Gillian Kirkpatrick as Nurse Dunkley

and (from 54:15) legendary choreographer Dame Arlene Phillips

In the fifth of The Recs' Edinburgh Fringe Specials, we chat to some of the purveyors of humour at the EdFringe 2025.

The episode features

(from 01:15) Kieran Hodgson tells us about his new solo show Voice of America, about appearing in the big-budget Hollywood superhero movie, The Flash, his first two Edinburgh solo shows that the internet forgot, the new Two Doors Down Christmas Special and arousing The Recs' suspicion in Father Brown.

(from 37:05) Freddie Walker and Sean Wareing of Fishing4Chips chat to us about their Fringe follow-up to Recs' favourite Burning Down The Horse. This year, their light-immersion-comedy takes us to 79AD and Pompeii for It's Gonna Blow.

(from 50:50) and Fringe comedy newcomer Leo Mahr tells us about performing in Edinburgh at the world's biggest arts festival for the very first time.