Andrew Hunter Murray
- Researcher, comedian, author, improviser and writer
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Comedy podcasts round-up 1: from home and abroad
Podcasts have got many of us through 2020, starved as we have been for most of it of live comedy to leave the house to see. Here's a selection of some of the best; they are available on all podcast platforms unless stated.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 7th December 2020Andrew Hunter Murray interview
An interview with the QI about his novel The Last Day.
Alison Flood, The Bookseller, 27th November 2020Interview: Andrew Hunter Murray on his debut novel
In his debut novel The Last Day, QI Elf Andrew Hunter Murray writes about a world that's half in shadow, half in light.
Brinkwire, 30th March 2020Review: Austentatious at The Fortune Theatre
It began life in Edinburgh on the Free Fringe, and built such an incredible following that it would go on to sell out in Edinburgh for a further five years.
Theatre Weekly, 10th March 2020Film rights picked up for Andrew Hunter Murray novel
Producers Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell of Stone Village Television have obtained film and TV rights to The Last Day, the upcoming debut novel by writer and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray. The deal is said to have closed at high six figures.
Amanda N'Duka, Deadline, 29th June 2019Science communication award for No Such Thing As A Fish
The No Such Thing As A Fish podcast team is to receive the The Heinz Oberhummer Award for Science Communication.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th April 2019Review: No Such Thing as a Fish
We initially hummed and haahed about this one. A podcast? Live? Would that actually work? But of course, in the end, we were always going to go along to it, because NSTAAF is pretty much our favourite podcast. We have now listened to every available episode and what's more, we sleep with these people almost every night.
Philip Caveney, Bouquets & Brickbats, 26th March 2019No Such Thing As A Fish Podcast Live review
This is a glorious rebuttal to the growing anti-intellectualism seen in this country and throughout the world, and just made me really happy.
Scott Redmond, Young Perspective, 26th March 2019Cornerstone bags Andrew Hunter Murray's debut novel
Cornerstone has acquired a high-concept debut by Andrew Hunter Murray, a writer on BBC's QI and part of the team of writers at Private Eye, in a 24-hour pre-empt. The novel, titled The Last Day, is set 40 years into the future after the planet's rotation has slowed to a halt, resulting in half the earth facing the constant light of the sun while the other half lives in an endless, frozen night. The plot centres on a young scientist who is called back to London from the frozen Atlantic and begins to uncover a truth which could change the future of the human race.
Katherine Cowdrey, The Bookseller, 7th January 2019Stephen Fry reunites with the QI team
For an episode of the researchers' No Such Thing As A Fish podcast.
Chortle, 15th November 2018