OUTCAST WORLD
by Graeme Smith
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The man who took on GB News: Liam Rondi
The man who took on GB News: Liam Rondi
About this podcast
Queer politics • sex • culture
Outcast World is a queer politics, sex and culture podcast hosted by multi award-winning broadcaster and podcaster Graeme Smith, alongside rotating guests and co-hosts.
Each week features an eclectic mix of guests. Journalists, comedians, academics, authors, activists and artists appear alongside queer stars from the BBC’s groundbreaking I Kissed a Boy, and familiar faces from global reality franchises including Married at First Sight and TOWIE. The show also features authors of he biggest-selling LGBTQ+ books in the world and Oscar nominated film makers.
Reactive, candid and often funny, the show unpacks politics, sexuality and culture through discussion and debate. While rooted in a queer perspective, its cultural analysis and political commentary resonate well beyond LGBTQ+ audiences.A gold winner at the British Podcast Awards and nominated for Best Interview Podcast in 2025 — alongside Louis Theroux and The News Agents — Outcast World has been recommended by The Guardian and The Independent, and was named a must-listen queer podcast by The Independent.
Get involved, watch our latest episodes and read the latest queer and gay news, politics, sex and relationships and culture on www.outcastworld.net
Episodes
The newest 20 of 166 episodes
- The man who took on GB News: Liam Rondi · 44 min · Episode 166When Liam Rondi watched a GB News panel discuss the murder of a baby and heard a guest claim that gay men are more likely to abuse the children they adopt, he was sitting in his…
- A funeral for queer nightlife from Fatt Butcher · 40 min · Episode 165What happens when the places that helped us become ourselves disappear? A Brummie drag and The Voice UK legend has the answer... Drag artist and musician Fatt Butcher joins…
- Half the Patients on Some London AIDS Wards Were Irish. Why Didn’t We Know? · 22 min · Episode 164During the 1980s, half the patients on some of London’s AIDS wards were Irish. It is a staggering fact—and part of an almost-forgotten chapter of queer history. Homosexuality…
- LIVE FROM THE EDINBURGH FRINGE: Joey Jennings and Little Pink Dress · 37 min · Episode 163It's the last weekend of this year's Edinburgh Fringe and in our time in Edinburgh we've spoken to some of the most interesting new and established artists from around the world…
- LIVE FROM THE EDINBURGH FRINGE: Gareth Waugh's true crime show & queer coded science · 19 min · Episode 162The Fringe changes pace once the last week arrives, the flyering gets a little more frantic, the queues at the good venues get a little longer, and the shows that have built word…
- LIVE FROM THE EDINBURGH FRINGE: Final Queen! The drag horror spectacular · 35 min · Episode 161Some Fringe shows you have to see to believe, and Final Queen is very much one of them, so this week I sat down with its creator and star Harrison Sweeney to work out how on…
- LIVE FROM THE EDINBURGH FRINGE: Dan Tiernan & Compagnia Bellanda · 38 min · Episode 160Outcast World is back from its summer break — and we’re in Scotland for the Edinburgh Fringe. From now until the Fringe wraps up, Graeme is getting immersed in the biggest arts…
- EDINBURGH FRINGE: Comedian Kuan-Wen Huang on how Andrews are the worst... · 46 min · Episode 159In the buildup to our Edinburgh Fringe 2026 coverage we bring this uncut interview with one of the funniest Edinburgh Fringe guests we've had on the show. The Edinburgh Fringe…
- ATTITUDE COVER STAR CARL CASHMAN: 80 PERCENT OF LIB DEMS ARE GAY! · 33 min · Episode 158Recorded for the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! podcast at a MEETS event in January 2026, this conversation with Liberal Democrat politician Carl Cashman looked ahead to what might happen…
- Will it be more of the same from Burnham? · 17 min · Episode 157On a raft of issues it's becoming clear that a change in the man at number 10 for the UK may not bring the change in policies and direction many had hoped for, despite Andy…
- Tip Toe Star Gabriel Clark: Live in the gallery · 52 min · Episode 156Gabriel Clark joins Outcast World for a candid conversation recorded live at the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery in London and originally featured on The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Podcast…
- Is The Party Over, Andy? · 31 min · Episode 155Andy Burnham, the King of the North, just won Makerfield in a landslide. He's back in Parliament, he's coming for Keir Starmer's job, and the whole country is asking the same…
- The Fox News Regular Who Sells Paid Protesters · 38 min · Episode 154A Fox News regular runs a company that sells paid protesters to the highest bidder. We sat him down and asked about the bodies, the lawsuits, and the crowds he says he can…
- The young gay men jailed for consensual sex in a private home. Using a law from 1533. In 1998. · 38 min · Episode 153In 1998, eight months into Tony Blair's government, seven gay and bisexual working-class men from Bolton were convicted at Crown Court of buggery and gross indecency for having…
- Gay MAFS Star "I Was Drunk For Most Of The Show – And The Format Is Dangerous!" · 20 min · Episode 152As a wave of safeguarding scandals hits the Married At First Sight (MAFS) shows around the world and the former head of Channel 4 and OFCOM says he would never have commissioned…
- "Now I Tiptoe... Just In Case" | Why Tiptoe Has Hit So Hard · 42 min · Episode 151Russell T Davies is back with Tiptoe and it has left viewers shaken. In this episode of Outcast World, Graeme Smith and Topher Taylor unpack the first two episodes of Channel…
- Who Really Owns Hoopla? · 23 min · Episode 150Her off of Loose Women was there. So was Jane McDonald. And so, four ownership layers up, were the financiers. Graeme is joined by Loud Brown Gays host and Outcast alumnus Nick…
- Britain’s New Gender Panic · 32 min · Episode 149The UK’s new EHRC guidance has triggered outrage, confusion and fear across the LGBTQ+ community, but what does it actually mean in practice? This week, Graeme Smith is joined…
- Nigel Farage, HIV & A Warning From History · 40 min · Episode 148Nigel Farage has revived one of the most controversial arguments of his political career: that migrants living with HIV should be denied NHS treatment. It's a position he first…
- Labour Panic, Reform Chaos & The Funniest Review Comic Leila Navabi Ever Received · 33 min · Episode 147Labour looks like it’s eating itself alive, Reform councillors are combusting in real time, the manosphere is getting dismantled by Louis Theroux with the energy of a…
