House of Crouse

About House of Crouse

Where is the House of Crouse? It's everywhere and nowhere. It's in your imagination and in your headphones. Hosted by Richard Crouse, it's a gathering place for interesting people to hang out and share stories. Upcoming guests to the House of Crouse include Amy Schumer, Josh Gad, Daniel Radcliffe and many more! Come by every Monday for a new episode, curl up on the coach and see who has stopped by.

Publisher

Richard Crouse

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jan 2016

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 639 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   David Greaves + Zoe Roberts + Wildwood

   On the Saturday October 17 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we meet filmmaker David Greaves. His father William produced more than 200 documentaries and wrote and directed more than half of these. He garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations. In 1972 he assembled gathering of artists, writers, musicians, and organizers at Duke Ellington’s Harlem townhouse to film their to recollections on the cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement of the 1920s and 30s known as the Harlem Renaissance. Shot verité-style, the footage isn’t just a record of an extraordinary event, it’s also a tribute to the legacy of change ushered in by the people who assembled that afternoon. That footage sat, unreleased for fifty years until William’s son David, who was one of the camera operators on that August afternoon in 1972, restored some 60,000 feet of 16mm film and completed Once Upon a Time in Harlem. Then, Zoë Roberts, one of the co-creators of the hit musical "Operation Mincemeat" stops by to talk about the show and how a dead body, a fake love letter, and — of all people — Ian Fleming turn the tide of WWII? Then, we’ll meet Brad Schiff and Jacob Tremblay of the new film “Wildwood.” The dark fantasy based on Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis’s book comes from the stop motion animation wizards at a company called LAIKA, whose other films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link are all classics.

2. 

   11 Oct 2026

   KELLY PETERSON + MARK ANTHONY JARMAN + ATLI ÖRVARSSON - 2026-08-29, 2.07 PM

   On the Saturday October 10, 2026 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Kelly Peterson, widow of the legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, and the driving force behind the preservation and celebration of his extraordinary musical legacy. Today she joins me to discuss Oscar Peterson: World Tour, the expansive new centennial collection featuring previously unreleased live performances spanning nearly three decades, accompanied by a richly illustrated book of never-before-seen personal materials. Then, get to know Wild West author Mark Anthony Jarman. Mark is often considered a writer's writer – he’s won every award going, was short-listed for Best American Essays, the O. Henry Prize and his 2023 collection of short stories Burn Man was a New York Times Editor’s Choice In a sense Wild West, his first full length novel in decades, reimagines what " The Great Canadian Novel " looks like nowadays - and gives new meaning to the phrase "Go West Young Man." Finally, Icelandic composer Atli Örvarsson stops by. After years working alongside Mike Post and Hans Zimmer in Los Angeles, he has become one of the most distinctive voices in screen music—crafting scores that range from high-octane action to intimate drama. Today we talk about his haunting, BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated music for Silo, the Apple TV+ series about a ruined and toxic future where thousands of people live in a giant underground silo. Atli brings a unique blend of orchestral depth, experimental electronics, and profound emotional resonance to the show.

3. 

   3 Oct 2026

   ROBERT MARK KAMEN + COLIN JAMES + DUNCAN FREMLIN

   On the Saturday October 3, 2026 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet First let’s meet Robert Mark Kamen, screenwriter of 23 movies, including The Karate Kid, Taken and many others. Yup, he’s the mind behind lines like Wax On Wax Off and Liam Neeson’s famous, “a very particular set of skills” speech. His latest project is The Karate Kid: The Musical, which will be playing on Toronto at the Princess of Wales Theatre until November 1. See Mirvish.com for more details. Then, Canadian blues-rock legend Colin James, eight-time Juno winner, multi-platinum artist, and one of the most electrifying guitarists this country has ever produced, joins the show. From the prairies of Saskatchewan to stages around the world, he’s earned a devoted following and collaborations with some of music’s greatest names. Now he shares a whole new side of the story with Playing the Changes: A Musician’s Memoir—a funny, open-hearted, and deeply moving account of his early years, the road that led him to open for Stevie Ray Vaughan at eighteen, and the making of a lifelong musician, all the way up to the release of his debut album. Finally, Duncan Fremlin, musician, banjo player, singer, and frontman of the country-folk group Whiskey Jack stops by. Today we talk about his new book “Stories Not Fit for the Stage - An Anthology,” a collection of tall tales, confrontations, anecdotes and encounters—some accidental, some not—with music and entertainment figures.

Inside a recent episode

The Richard Crouse Show December 9, 2017

Published 12 Dec 2017 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It will also be streaming. You'll be able to have a look at it. And it's a really, really cool movie that will sort of uncover, I think, a lot of things that you didn't know about these songs, but sort of add some context to them as well. And I think it's really important and it's in the film, but what you said about how these people coming from terrible circumstances in Europe and starting over and writing these songs that were about loss and melancholy and that kind of thing, but with an eye towards, you know, celebrating the season as well. Yeah. Yes. And we'll talk more after I hope about something like do you hear what I hear. […]

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• Kevan Staples
• Randy Bachman
• Robbie Robertson
• Mike Downie
• RT Thorne

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74,503

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

3 ratings

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5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

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Quality

82

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

81

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