Global launches fantasy guest list podcast Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Classic FM presenter and author Tim Lihoreau is hosting a brand-new fantasy guest list podcast, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Each episode sees guests discuss their dream dinner party line-up where attendees can be dead or alive, hero or villain, famous or personal.
Tim said: “It’s amazing to get a guest, face-to-face, in the podcast studio, and imagine who is around the table with them. For some It might be an author, an artist, a rockstar.
“For others it might be dearly departed family and friends. The combinations of fantasy guests never cease to amaze me. Every now and then, I’m shouting ‘but SURELY…those two will come to blows?!”
The first episodes feature Stephen Fry, Lou Sanders and Wynne Evans, with more to be announced, including one household name from the world of television who is making his world premiere as a podcast guest!
Tim is keen to keep his guests on their toes, delving into why they have made each selection and encouraging them to justify their choices. At the end of each episode, Tim offers his companion the chance to ‘switch out’ one of their fantasy guests for an interloper – and the results are fascinating…
“Every episode, I offer my VIP a ‘Gatecrasher’,” he says. “One that I’VE chosen – not them! If they want to invite them in, they must kick one of their own guests out. And I can tell you, it really makes my day when I get my Gatecrasher accepted!”
The idea for the podcast came to Tim during lockdown when everyone was stuck indoors and struggling for things to do.
“I love it when good things come out of bad. This was originally a lockdown game with our Zoom choir. Remember when the government said: You can only meet with ’six people’? Well, this podcast grew out of that. I can’t quite believe what it has become!”
Tim has been a presenter on Classic FM for more than 30 years. He hosted the weekday breakfast show for 12 years and now presents weekend breakfast.
He is also the author of more than 20 books including Modern Phobias, Schadenfreude, and The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music which was written in collaboration with Stephen Fry.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? is Tim’s second podcast series. He presented the Classic FM podcast Case Notes – combining his love of music and true crime – which won a British Podcast Award in 2019.
Vicky Etchells, Director of Global Podcasts, said: “Tim is a much-loved Classic FM voice and it’s been a joy to help him bring his idea for a fantasy dinner party podcast to life. It will be the perfect accompaniment to a chilly winter walk or to keep you company when you’re curled up at the end of a long day.”
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? is a Global Player Original podcast, available now on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts.