Radio Sohemia

About Radio Sohemia

Radio Sohemia provides recordings of Q-and-As and talks hosted by the London-based Sohemian Society as well as interviews that aren’t staged in front of an audience. Founded in 2003, the Society originally focused on Soho bohemia, hence its name, but it has since widened its focus. Past guests range from the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson to the hairdresser-turned-memoirist Suzi Ronson, who created David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust hairstyle. The podcast's continuity announcer is Miles Cholmondley-Warner, best-known for the spoof public information films that he presented with Harry Enfield.

Publisher

The Sohemian Society

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Mar 2025

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Iain Sinclair on the Architecture of Walking

   Acclaimed writer Iain Sinclair, many of whose books have been inspired by walking back and forth across London, gives a never previously performed talk about how this can be “an instrument of enlightenment and resistance”. In keeping with the 2026 London Festival of Architecture's theme of belonging, Iain will also be musing on how certain buildings and patterns of buildings influence and inform our lives. This is a recording of a talk that was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Fitzrovia Noir, the London Festival of Architecture, the S.S. Robin, the Tommy Flowers Foundation, and The Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust.

2. 

   6 Sept 2026

   Blitz: The Club That Made The Eighties

   In conversation with the biographer Keiron Pim, the broadcaster, journalist, and Blitz Club veteran Robert Elms reminisces entertainingly about this era-defining venue and its flamboyant clientele. This is a recording of an event that was was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Fitzrovia Noir, the London Festival of Architecture, the S.S. Robin, the Tommy Flowers Foundation, and The Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust.

3. 

   2 Aug 2026

   The History of French Restaurants in London

   Historian Debra Kelly chats with Sohemian Society co-founder, Marc Glendening, about the long and sometimes surprising history of French restaurants in London. As well as being the author of “Fishes With Funny Names”, Debra is Professor Emerita in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Westminster.

Who has been a guest on Radio Sohemia

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tom Parfitt
• John King
• John Tresch
• Jerry White
• Travis Elborough

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 13 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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