Song by Song is a podcast celebrating the music of Tom Waits.

Hosts Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay have set themselves the goal of listening to Tom Waits's back catalogue from beginning to end, and devoting each episode to discussing each track. Both Martin and Sam are huge Waits fans, and each brings his own perspective on song-writing, as well as their own preferences in terms of Waits's varied musical styles.

Martin is a musician (Pale Bird, Martin Austwick), recovering physicist, academic and podcaster (Answer Me This, Neutrinowatch).  You can find out all you would ever want to know about him on his website, or tweet him @martinaustwick.

Sam is an actor/musician who works mostly in theatre. He's a pianist, accordionist and technically incompetent brass player who keeps his own songwriting as secretive as possible. He lives in South London with his girlfriend and 10-year old daughter, at least one of whom listens to Tom Waits only under duress. Tweet him @sampay

Guest Hosts:

Barney Hoskyns is a British music critic and editorial director of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages. His recent works include Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock, Joni: The Anthology, and his book Lowside of the Road is considered the definitive biography of Tom Waits. Find him at rocksbackpages.com and barneyhoskyns.com

Kirk Hamilton is a musician and writer, living in Portland, Oregon. He makes the music podcast Strong Songs and produces and co-hosts the Triple Click video game podcast. Find him at kirkhamilton.com

Andrea Warner is the author of Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music. Her third book, Rise Up & Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music, is for middle-readers and will be published Oct 2023. She also co-hosts the weekly feminist pop culture podcast, Pop This! and is an associate producer at CBC Music. Find her at theandreawarner.com

John Darnielle is an American novelist and songwriter, described by Rolling Stone as “Rock’s best storyteller”. His band, The Mountain Goats, have released over 20 albums - their latest, Jenny From Thebes, is available to pre-order now. Find him at johndarnielle.com

Sara Gran is the author of the novels The Book of The Most Precious Substance, Marigold, Dope, Come Closer, Saturn's Return to New York, and the Claire DeWitt series. Her work has been published in over a dozen countries and as many languages. She also writes for TV and film and occasionally writes other things. Born and raised in Brooklyn, now living in California, Ms. Gran has worked with books as a writer, bookseller, and collector for most of her career. Find her at worldsbestdetective.com

Kerry-Jo Reilly studied literature and cultural studies, and now runs a writing support centre for students. Top three gigs of her life were probably Marlena Shaw, Tegan & Sara, and Beyoncé, but she also has tickets to Madonna this year (if the moment arises, she’ll ask about that one picture taken with Tom Waits and report back).

Bryce Halliday is a musician and audio producer for all things comedy related. Now based in Chicago, Bryce recently moved from Sydney Australia where for almost a decade he was the go-to improv music director for Theatresports shows. He has performed and taught musical improv everywhere from New Zealand to Dubai and can now regularly be seen playing shows at The Annoyance and iO theatres. Find him at brycehalliday.com and on instagram @bryce.halliday

Rico Gagliano is a journalist, culture writer and head of audio for MUBI. Formerly of American Public Media, Crooked, Wondery, and co-creator of the Dinner Party Download podcast, he currently hosts, writes and edits the Mubi podcast. Find him @RicoGagliano on instagram and twitter.

Eadie and Melia are sisters, fans of dancing, and would rather be left alone to listen to their own music thankyouverymuch.

Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, filmmaker and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom. Find her at christacouture.com, and on instagram @christacouture

Tim Clare is a writer, stand-up poet and podcaster. He's the author of The Honours, The Ice House, and We Can’t All Be Astronauts (winner Best Biography/Memoir – 2009 East Anglian Book Awards), and presents the creative writing podcast Death of 1000 Cuts. Find him at timclarepoet.co.uk or @TimClarePoet

Dina Del Bucchia is the author of the short story collection 'Don't Tell Me What To Do' and poetry collections 'It's A Big Deal', 'Coping with Emotions and Otters', 'Blind Items', as well as 'Rom Com' (written with Daniel Zomparelli). She also hosts Can’t Lit, a podcast on Canadian literature and culture, with Jen Sookfong Lee. Find her at dinadelbucchia.com and on twitter & instagram @delbauchery

Hannah McGregor is an academic, podcaster, author and an Associate Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University with a focus on the intersection of publishing and social change. She is the co-director of the Amplify Podcast Network, and co-hosts Witch, Please, a feminist discussion of the Harry Potter series. Her new book, A Sentimental Education, is out now. Find her at hannahmcgregor.com

Jeffrey Cranor co-writes the podcasts Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires. He also co-hosts the horror film podcast Random Horror No. 9. He lives in New York. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @happierman, and at Nightvalepresents.com

Amanda Gordon is an actor, musician, mum and very occasional hyena.  She's performed on stage and screen, most recently in the West End as part of 2022's Jerusalem, and can be heard in the Wireless Theatre audio drama 'Open Air'. Find her on twitter and instagram @MandaMGordon

Jeu Jeu la Foille (aka Victoria Hancock) is a clown, puppeteer, and semi-retired burlesque maverick, who trained as a mime artist and then became a poet. Her writings are beautiful melodies telling you terrible things. Find her at jeujeulafoille.com, and on twitter and instagram @jeujeulafoille

David Ahmad is an actor and musician based in London. He's appeared around the UK and internationally in shows from The Kite Runner to Potted Potter, as well as an occasional undercover Hyena. He appears in the Craig Roberts feature film The Phantom Of The Open, and can be seen in the upcoming National Theatre production of The Crucible. Find him on twitter and Instagram @davidahmad77

Dominic Conway is a musician, theatre maker and musical director, the resident MD for Little Bulb and part of the band House of Keys.  During lockdown he performed to a shed full of books.  You can find him at www.houseofkeys.bandcamp.com, at www.littlebulbtheatre.com and @dom_conway & @little_bulb on twitter.

Molly Naylor is a poet, scriptwriter, performer and director. Her stories and plays have been broadcast on the BBC, she's performed at festivals around the world, and is the co-creator of 'After Hours' on Sky One. Her poetry collections 'Badminton' and 'Stop Trying to be Fantastic', the graphic novel 'Lights, Planets, People!', and her new book 'Whatever You've Got' are all available now. Find her @MollyNaylor on twitter and @molly.naylor on instagram.

Shani Erez is a London based actor, director and writer but mostly procrastinator; prior to moving to the UK she was a radio DJ and journalist. Find her on twitter @_ShaniErez_ should you wish to procrastinate too. 

Bridie Donaghy is a writer, producer and podcaster from Brighton. She's the co-founder of Fezziwig Productions and co-host of the podcast, Sisters Who Stan. Bridie is currently Producer of dance-theatre company Peut-Être Theatre, and a script reader for the 2022 Papatango Playwriting Prize. Find her on twitter @Bridie_Donaghy & @SistersWhoStan, and on instagram @BridieDonaghy & @SistersWhoStan

Leigh Singer is a film journalist and video essayist whose work regularly appears in Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, BFI online and has featured in many national newspapers (The Guardian, The Times), magazines (Dazed & Confused, The Big Issue) and websites (BBCi, Indiewire, Fandor). Find his video essay ’Tom Waits – The Acting Years’ here and his collected video work here, or on Twitter @leigh_singer

Pete Fraser is a composer and saxophonist based in Stockholm. He spends most of his time writing songs for bad TV programmes and helping other people make their music sound better, but very occasionally makes some of his own, as the vocalist for the metal band Down I Go. Their music can be found on Bandcamp at downigo.bandcamp.com and Pete can be found on Twitter (ALWAYS on Twitter) at @petefrasermusic

British/Ghanaian Writer and Spoken Word artist Miss Yankey has captivated audiences from London to Paris to New York and as far as Melbourne. Her words can be found fused with music on tracks including Black King on Logic’s ‘I Am King’, and on ‘Feelings’ & 'Gila Monster' produced by Robbie Maddix, formerly of the Stone Roses. She released her debut EP ‘Shadow Work in the Waters’ in December 2020. Find her at missyankey.co.uk

Bárbara Mendes-Jorge is a sustainability communicator, music podcaster and occasional DJ based in Brussels, Belgium. Co-host of Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran & Babs, she enjoys complaining about songs which sound "too melodic". You can find her @flame_me_up on Twitter and Instagram.

Fran James is a writer for RGM Magazine and has previously written for Gigslutz, eFestivals and Hit the Floor Magazine. He is a former music manager and mediocre indie DJ.

Celine Teo-Blockey is a music journalist and radio producer who started in print, writing for her local newspaper in Singapore. She has since lived and worked as a freelance writer in London, Sydney, San Francisco and now, Los Angeles. She recently won a Southern California Journalism Award for a feature on queer artist San Cha. A Transom Travelling Workshop alumni, she currently hosts the music podcast Under the Radar and can be found @celinet_blockey on twitter and @celineteoblockey on instagram.

Swan Real is a multi-instrumentalist and self-taught music producer. Director of Sound at 99% Invisible, podcast composer and twitch retro-gamer, you can find her @RealSwanSong on twitter and her music at https://swanreal.bandcamp.com.

Miranda Horvath is Professor and Director of the Institute for Social Justice and Crime at the University of Suffolk. She is also the founder of the Violence Against Women and Girls Research Network. Find her on twitter @miranda_horvath, and also check out vawgnetwork.mdx.ac.uk and @VAWGRN

Jo Edward Lewis investigates the gut-brain axis at the Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge. He likes a science-based chat over on Twitter @joedwardlewis, or you can also find him on IG @joedwardlewis discussing comics and cakes, beers and dogs. 

Ashleyanne Krigbaum is a boss-level podcast editor and DJ from the Bay Area, now living in Los Angeles and currently based at Campside Media as a senior producer, helping out on multiple shows. She's been known to write a lot of letters and cruise for comix and vinyl, talks to big audiences about playing records, making podcasts, and how to tell great stories through joyful sound, and can be found at wambamashleyanne.com and @wambamash on twitter and instagram

Justine Houyaux is a PhD researcher in translation studies based in Belgium, whose research focuses on transfer strategies of the untranslatable in French translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. You can find her work at justinehouyaux.com, and on twitter @justinehouyaux

Desiree Burch is a comedian, storyteller and actor, originally from California and currently based in London. Her work includes comedy for the BBC on shows like “Live at the Apollo” and “The Mash Report”; writing and performing with the New York Neo-Futurists; portraying the chaotically powerful Pamela Winchell in the “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast universe; and narrating the Netflix dating show Too Hot To Handle. Exciting, new TV projects COMING SOON to your internet! Find her at www.desireeburch.com and @destheray

Helen O'Hara is a film critic and journalist, host of the Empire Film and Bah Humbug podcasts, and editor-at-large for Empire Magazine. She has written and broadcast on film for the BBC, The Independent and The Guardian, as well as writing "The Ultimate Superhero Guide" in 2020. Her new book, "Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall And Rise Of Women In Film" was released in February 2021. Finder her @HelenLOHara

Shelley Maxwell is a movement director and choreographer. Born in Jamaica and trained in Cuba, her credits include Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night and Nine Night (also in the West End at Trafalgar Studios) at the National Theatre, Tartuffe at the RSC, and Equus for English Touring Theatre, for which she won Best Choreographer at the 2019 Black British Theatre Awards. Find her @shelleymaxwell_ on twitter and @maxwell_shelley on instagram

Helen Rosner is a staff writer for the New Yorker, where she mostly covers food and culture. She has won several shiny awards, and is one of the world's foremost authorities on chicken tenders. You can find her on Twitter at @hels, or on Instagram at @helenr

Amrita Acharia is an actress and director, best known for her roles in The Sister, The Good Karma Hospital, and HBO's Game of Thrones. She is of Nepalese Ukrainian heritage, co-hosts the podcast Rule Not The Exception, and loves music (though in her own words knows “absolutely nothing about it”). Find her @amritaacharia1

Justin Audibert is the Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre - the UK's leading theatre for young audiences - whose credits include The Taming of the Shrew for the RSC, Snow in Midsummer for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Macbeth & The Winter's Tale at the National Theatre and many more. His online digital work can be seen at youtube.com/user/UnicornTheatre 

Chad Clark is a musician, music producer, and a member of the band Beauty Pill. His discography includes work with Fugazi, Marc Ribot, Sparklehorse, Bob Mould, and many more. Beauty Pill's most recent release is the album Please Advise, and they can be found at www.beautypill.com or on twitter @beautypill

Sarah Mahony is an Actor, Vocal Coach and Podcaster. Currently not busy enough doing a Masters degree, vocal coaching, and looking after a little one, she is about to launch her new podcast: Women of the Sun, a conversational platform discovering inspirational women through heartfelt dialogue. She is also part of a vintage trio covers band, and likes to belt out all the tunes in Frozen 2. She is on twitter @sarah_lotus and you can book a singing lesson with her at facebook.com/sarahmahonyvocalcoach

Dan De Cruz is a Musical Director, Arranger, Performer and fellow Podcaster. His favourite job, for which he achieved legendary status with his son, was being Musical Director for Mr Tumble! He is co-host and producer for Slash Dupe (@slashdupe), the movie pitching podcast with a twist. He also streams live vocal lessons for The Collective Creative Initiative (@CCI2020). But mostly he likes building Lego with his little boy and pretending to be a superhero. He can be found at @dandecruz or dandecruz.com

Nick White is an award-winning radio producer and editor based in Los Angeles CA. He's the creator and executive producer of 'Lost Notes' - a music documentary podcast for KCRW. He serves as a senior editor for several other programs at KCRW and elsewhere. His work has been heard on outlets around the world including NPR, the BBC World Service, Stitcher, Marketplace, WBEZ, and WNYC. Find him https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/ and on Twitter @npwhite

Louise Owen works in TV post production, but prefers her side-job as a podcast producer. Find her on Instagram @podclash, or on 90minfilmfest.com

Amy Nicholson is a film writer and critic for Variety and the New York Times, and the host of the movie podcasts Unspooled, Zoom, Halloween Unmasked, and Quentin Tarantino's Feature Presentation. Her first book, Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor, was published by Cahiers du Cinema. Find her @TheAmyNicholson

Jess Abbott is a musician as Tancred, a psychological astrologer, and host of Astro Blast podcast. You can find her @jessabbott on Twitter and @jessdanielabbott on Instagram.

Michael Caines works for the Times Literary Supplement and co-edits the Brixton Review of Books. He has also played in various bands, written music for podcasts and theatre productions, and has a mini-album in the works. His podcast about book-collecting kicks off soon. Find him @michaelscaines

Alice Fraser is an award winning writer, broadcaster, performer and comedian. She is a frequenter on The Bugle hosted by Andy Zaltzman, and her cult podcast Tea With Alice comes out every week (more or less). She also presents the daily podcast The Last Post. Find her at alicecomedyfraser.com and @aliterative

Amy Smith lives in South London with her partner and daughter. She's General Manager at the Unicorn Theatre - a children's theatre in London Bridge. Find her at @amysmith292

David Shopland is a producer/director, founder of the award winning actor/musican company Blind Tiger Theatre, the new writing company Fake Escape Theatre, and a senior producer for Westminster's youth arts charity DreamArts. He has lectured in theatre at Bath Spa University and Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Find him at www.fakeescape.co.uk and @davidshopland

Penny Foxley is a freelance Company Stage Manager who has worked in all genres of theatre, dance and music for 35 years. She was a stage manager on the Barbican's production of 'The Black Rider' which played in London, San Francisco, Sydney and Los Angeles. Absolutely her most favourite show ever... Find her @penfoxxx

Jenny Conlee is an American musician best known as the keyboardist and accordionist for the band The Decemberists. She is also a composer for film and plays in many other groups including The Minus 5, Casey Neill and the Norway Rats, and Jerry Joesph to name a few. Find her at jennyconlee.com and @ConleeJenny

Charlie Harding is a songwriter, producer and host of the podcast Switched on Pop, produced by Vox media. Every week on the show he breaks down the making and meaning of popular music. You can listen to Switched on Pop at www.switchedonpop.com (or anywhere you get podcasts) and find him on Twitter @charlieharding

Simon Stephens is an English playwright. He's an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith, inaugural Associate Playwright of Steep Theatre Company, Chicago, a Professor of Scriptwriting at The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and the host of the Royal Court Playwright's Podcast. Find him @StephensSimon

David Shrubsole is a composer, lyricist, orchestrator and conductor. A graduate of the Trinity College of Music, he's worked on many productions, including Porgy & Bess, London Road and The Threepenny Opera with Simon Stephens. Find him at www.davidshrubsole.com

Scary Boots is a doctor of jelly physics and a comedian (you have to be with a specialism like that). Watch their comedy about science at scarysciencecomedy.wordpress.com, and find them on Twitter @schrodingerskit

Mary Epworth is an English singer, songwriter, and composer. Finder her on Twitter @maryepworth

Jenny Owen Youngs is an American singer-songwriter. She has released three albums and a handful of EPs, and among other things co-hosts the Buffering the Vampire Slayer podcast. Find her at jennyowenyoungs.com or @jennyowenyoungs

Eliza Rickman is a singer/songwriter whose music was recently described by a fan as “Imagine if Snow White, Bjork and Stevie Nicks made a beautiful-ass baby”. She is known for her frequent work with “Welcome to Night Vale”, and her cover of “Riches and Wonders” was featured on the first season of “I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats”. Eliza resides in Los Angeles, where she enjoys making NSFW music videos. She is currently being a terror in the studio, mixing and editing a covers album with an expected release of late 2019. Find her @elizarickman

Greg Allison is a musician based in Los Angeles. He can be found most days searching for new sounds on his violin. He hopes that one day a film director will hear these sounds and ask him to come up with more sounds for a movie. For now he is quite content performing and recording his own compositions, working as a hired gun for other musicians, touring the world, and collaborating with his love and musical partner Eliza Rickman. Find him @gallis0n

Vanessa Lowe is an audio storyteller, musician, and dormant psychologist. She's the host and producer of the KCRW podcast, Nocturne, a storytelling show that explores the night and the landscape of the unseen.  You can find her at nocturnepodcast.org @nocturnepodcast and https://www.facebook.com/nocturnepodcast/ as well as @nesslowe

Kent Sparling is a man of mystery.

Kevin Smokler (@weegee) is the author of the book "Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies" and the essay collection "Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven't Touched Since High School" (2013). He writes about music, movies and books for Salon, Buzzfeed, The Decider, Vulture and NPR and lives in in San Francisco with his wife and many books and records.

Matthew Crosby is a writer and comedian for hire. He's possibly best know as one third of the sketch team Pappy's, with whom he hosts the hit podcast, 'Flatshare Slamdown'. He recently co-created the panel show Hypothetical for the Dave channel. Find him @matthewcrosby

Gabriel Ebulue is a comedian, writer and the host & creator of The Three Track Podcast. Find him on twitter @GabrielEbulue

Lily Sloane is an independent producer in San Francisco. She debuted her podcast, A Therapist Walks Into a Bar in January 2016, wearing all hats from writing to narrating to editing to composing original music.  Lily is also host of the community radio show Radical Advice, a psychotherapist, a freelance composer and producer, as well as a musician who loves to take on too many creative projects. You can find her on Twitter @lilyrosesloane, @atwiabpod, and @radical_advice

Helen Sadler is co host of Flixwatcher and quiz team pal of Købi Omenaka. When not watching Netflix she also enjoys yoga, cycling, Antic pubs, music (especially Springsteen) and cats. For the record, her favourite Radiohead album is In Rainbows, her go-to karaoke song is Modern Love (Bowie) and for reasons unknown she has three copies of Tunnel of Love on vinyl. Find her on Twitter as @TheCatFilmFan

Jeremy Warmsley is a musician from London. He plays in Summer Camp with Elizabeth Sankey and writes music for film and TV. Find him at jeremywarmsley.com or @jwojwo

Heath Sledge is a writer and editor based in Chapel Hill NC. She lives with an hilarious 11-year-old son, a professional musician husband, and a very fluffy Akita, has five tattoos and four more planned, and can be found at heathsledge.com and @marigolds where she shares Useful Writing Content and garbage memes in equal measure.

Robert Sledge began playing bass guitar at the age of eleven. His brother was playing guitar at his house so he also learned how to play the guitar at the same time. Before playing with Ben Folds Five he was bassist for the bands Toxic Popsickle and Lexx Luthor (with Godsmack's Sully Erna). He hasn't told us where you can find him... somewhere in Chapel Hill presumably...?

Ross Sutherland is a writer and filmmaker from Edinburgh. He wrote and presented BBC2's Missing Episode, and is a regular contributor to Radio 4's Short Cuts. He is also the writer/producer of the experimental writing podcast, Imaginary Advice. Find him at www.imaginaryadvice.com and @rossgsutherland

Phoebe Judge is the host & co-creator of the podcast Criminal. Her work in public radio has won multiple Edward R. Murrow and Associated Press awards. She attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and can be found at thisiscriminal.com and @PhoebeVJudge

Lauren Spohrer is the co-creator of the podcast Criminal. Before Criminal, Lauren was a producer at NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday and Bryant Park Project, and APM’s The Story with Dick Gordon. She has a Master’s degree in fiction writing from Columbia University, and is the founder of the online literary magazine Two Serious Ladies. Find her at thisiscriminal.com and @laurenspohrer

Jon Ronson is a journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and radio presenter. He has published many books, made several BBC and Channel 4 Television documentary films, and co-wrote the movies Frank and Okja. His new Audible podcast, The Butterfly Effect, can be heard for free through Apple Podcasts. Find him at jonronson.com and @jonronson

Eric Molinsky is a public radio reporter and producer, and the host of Imaginary Worlds, a podcast about science fiction and other fantasy genres. He also sketches people on the subway in NYC. Find him @emolinsky and @ImaginWorldsPod

Helen Zaltzman makes podcasts and many other things - mainly Answer Me This!, and The Allusionist, part of Radiotopia. She can also be found @helenzaltzman or @allusionistshow, or at facebook.com/allusionistshow

John Hodgman is a writer, comedian, and actor. He is the author of three books of fake facts and invented trivia, and is the host of the popular Judge John Hodgman podcast, where he settles serious disputes between real people, such as “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” and “Should we tell our children the TRUTH about Santa Claus.” Find him @hodgman

Købi Omenaka is a serial podcaster, podcast fan and manchild. He is a huge cinephile and music fan and loves to tell people all about the best films on Netflix via the podcast Flixwatcher along with co host Helen. Find him @Kobestarr

Joanna Neary is a Writer, Illustrator & Comedian. You can see her illustrations over at Standard Issue, a brilliant on-line magazine, and find her @MsJoNeary

Philippa Spanos works in TV broadcasting for the Food Network.  Due to an extreme phobia of modern technology, she cannot be found on Twitter.  In fact these podcasts might be the only electronic audible proof that she ever existed...

Married couple Dave and Cathy Cullen podcast their walk home from the movies. Their show The Cinemile was voted the UK's Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2017, and featured in The Observer, The Guardian, The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner. Find them with weekly new episodes @thecinemile

Vera Chok makes fine, funny, & furious work, live & written. Connects folk. A fab actor. #SexPositive #intersectional #nonheteronormative feminist @vera_chok & verachok.org

Sarah Cook is very much not in the podcasting business, working for charities and social enterprises in London. She has a name too common for twitter, with a quiet account at @giveforribs

Miranda Zaltzman is a lawyer and real person. She's a bit busy dealing with her husband to be on twitter.

Andy Zaltzman is the original voice of The Bugle. He can pun for fun. You can hear Andy Satirising for hire around the world, ticket info via http://andyzaltzman.co.uk/ He can also be found scoring on Test Match Special and talking about cricket on the Cricket Sadist Hour podcast. See @hellobuglers and @ZaltzCricket

Kit Lovelace is a writer/journalist type, who mainly writes about pop music and media gossip. He also runs Romantic Misadventure – a live storytelling night about people's most horrifying dating disasters – which he plugs ceaselessly on Twitter as @kitlovelace

Jen Adamthwaite and Dave Pickering are writers and podcasters. The current story they're telling is The Family Tree, a magical realist drama about family, belonging, change and identity. Subscribe on itunes, visit the website, like their Facebook page or follow them @familytreepod

Elizabeth Sankey is so mysterious, she wouldn't send us a bio - but she's on the web at www.sankles.com and can be found @sankles

Caspar Salmon writes about film and the arts, occasionally, for various publications. He lives in London, has a child, and tweets about all this, plus gay stuff, at @casparsalmon

Simon Renshaw works in Production & Development for some big film company and harps on about films with Sam Clements on the Picturehouse Podcast. Find him @SiRenshaw

Sam Clements is a film marketing person for Picturehouse Cinemas. He also records the Picturehouse Podcast with Simon Renshaw. You can find him @Sam_Clements

Callum Hughes is an actor, musician and writer, trained at Rose Bruford College where he specialised in American Theatre Arts. He is a founding member of Blind Tiger Theatre, and has had ten plays professionally produced on both sides of the atlantic. He is also a drummer, mediocre pianist, an ok guitarist, terrible bassist and passable ukelele player. He can be found @callumphughes or at www.callumpatrickhughes.co.uk 

Lucy Dallas is in Spirit of Play, who have featured on the Nature podcast, The Book Show, at the Green Man festival, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club and other less salubrious outlets... You can listen to them here and get in touch with them at spiritofplay1@gmail.com

Andrea Solomon is a David Bowie obsessive who is currently trying to learn to love Tom Waits. She left an entirely unsuitable career in investment banking for a life working in children's healthcare and occasionally being mistaken for Tilda Swinton. If she ever returns to Twitter you'll find her @andreamaven

Catherine Hirst had a career as a writer and teacher before having a midlife crisis and returning to full-time university to study for a degree in psychology. She is singularly unqualified to appear on a music podcast, except perhaps for the years spent wage-slaving behind the counter of a record store in the States. Find her mostly retweeting other people's content on Twitter @craftyexpat

Isy Suttie is a comedian, actress and writer known for playing Dobby in Channel 4's Peep Show and for her Sony-award winning BBC Radio 4 show, Isy Suttie's Love Letters. Her first book, The Actual One, was published in January 2016. Find her at isysuttie.co.uk

Alice Sanders is a freelance writer. She writes articles, audio description, fiction and scripts. She's also an improviser who performs in several troupes including The Alphabetties, The Pioneers and Whose Army. Follow her on Twitter @wernerspenguin

When she isn't 'umming' her way through a Tom Waits podcast, Anna Turrell works in sustainability. Now based in London after a stint in Asia, Anna tries to make the most of the capital's numerous gigs and performances. Even the crappy ones. Find her @anna_turrell