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Mystery on the Rocks

Chris Stokes, Masud Milas & Sooz Kempner

Hi there! We are Mystery on the Rocks, a comedy cocktail mystery podcast with award-winning comedians Sooz Kempner, Masud Milas and Chris Stokes ham-fistedly trying to solve real-life mysteries over cocktails.Sometimes we"re joined by a special guest, sometimes it"s just the three of us being very silly indeed.From true crime and bizarre occurrences to X-Files and the paranormal, all of the cases have a whodunnit or "WTF happened" questionhanging overthem. So come in, pull up a chair, and let"s

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All Episodes

55:22

Sunil Patel and the Ghost of Copper Hole

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/06/03

Wonderful comedian, actor and decent bloke Sunil Patel popped by the bar this week to reduce us to hysterics while talking about a Welsh sheep farmer and to assist us with the spooky 19th Century ghost story of Sarah Duckett...You can hear Sunil's podcast Why Is Harriet Crying? wherever you get your podcasts and go see him LIVE this month (June 2021) at the Soho Theatre! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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39:23

Freddie, Kenny & Lady Di's Big Night Out

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/05/27

After an 11th hour guest cancellation we decided to discuss the case between ourselves anyway and had a fun conversation about the oft-repeated story of Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett disguising Princess Diana as a gay man in the 1980s and taking her out to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern...So is it true or just an urban myth? No real evidence exists to back it up beyond the initial account in Cleo Rocos' late-90s autobiography and the three main players are no longer with us to confirm or deny the

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40:46

Live From The Bill Murray: The Ourang Medan

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/05/20

A couple of weeks ago, we got together to do Mystery on the Rocks in the same room for the first time in over a year and did a live show from Angel Comedy's brilliant venue The Bill Murray. Restrictions still prevented us having audience in the room with us and so we livestreamed a slightly chaotic show where we got super giddy at being together for the first time in a long time. During the shenanigans, we did touch upon the story of the terrifying ghost ship SS Ourang Medan, and thought why not

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55:10

Matt Highton and the Circleville Letters

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/05/13

The brilliant comedian, director and man behind all those TV intros you have seen re-imagined as stock footage Matt Highton poked his head round the door of the bar for a lot of film chat and to possibly help us reach a solution to the enduring mystery of just who was it that wrote The Circleville Letters?Love, death and bus drivers feature in this curious tale of some of Circleville, Ohio's residents in the 1970s and 1980s being plagued by a persistent and sinister letter writing campaign... Hosted

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54:18

Juliette Burton and the Sonora Aero Club

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/05/06

Juliette Burton is an absolutely top-drawer comedian, writer and actor as well as being one of the country's foremost speakers and advocates on the topic of mental health, an ambassador for the mental health charity Rethink Mental Illness no less!She also happens to be one of the most fun human beings, as evidenced by the laugh we had when she turned up with ample cocktails of her own and managed to flirt outrageously with each one of us in the course of helping us out with the mystery of the Sonora

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1:05:40

Stuart Laws and the Murder of Eric Tamiyasu

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/04/29

Stuart Laws isn't just a fantastic comedian in his own right, he is also behind some of the best online comedy content of the past few years. His company Turtle Canyon are responsible for some absolutely stellar productions, including James Acaster's four 'Repertoire' Netflix specials and many more besides. We were very lucky that he visited the Mystery on the Rocks bar to help with another mystery, pitch a brilliant sequel to 1996 Arnie action flick 'Eraser' and maybe, just maybe, steal the podcast

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56:26

Vix Leyton and the Case of the Sherlock Holmes Scholar

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/04/22

This week the fabulous Vix Leyton, stand-up comedian and host of the awesome Comedy Arcade podcast, swung by and was even generous enough to get the round in herself! We drank lovely pre-mixed cocktails from Nio, because when the three of us did the exclusive livestreamed Comedy Arcade show Vix had kindly bought us all cocktails. Alas, we were prohibited from drinking them on stage so we had them in this episode instead!And we had a very winding saunter through the intriguing case of Richard

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53:49

Helen Duff and the Watseka Wonder

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/04/15

Joining us for this week's episode is absolutely fantastic comedian, actor and writer Helen Duff. You may have seen Helen on The Mash Report, heard her beautifully narrate one of many, many audiobooks, seen her at a litany of brilliant live shows or even heard her hosting her own amazing podcast Come As You Are...Helen swung by the bar for a top-drawer chinwag as well to help us piece together the mystery of the Watseka Wonder. It is the curious tale of Lurrancy Vennum, which has gone down as one of

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19:06

"Grand" "Reopening"

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/04/08

After a couple of weeks of unexpected hiatus the bar is back in business! And we've made a few changes. We have a couple bits of news so, before we get back to cracking mysteries, join us in our new pad as we do a little bit of housekeeping and in the process somehow uncover a mystery surrounding Masud himself!Thanks for bearing with us, everyone - normal service will resume going forward.What's more - should you wish, you can now go one extra step in supporting the podcast by heading to our brand

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1:00:37

Gráinne Maguire and the Wilma Montesi Mystery

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/03/04

This week's guest is fantastic comedian, writer and political commentatorGráinne Maguire, who has appeared on Question Time, writtenon shows such as The Last Leg and who joins us on, among other things, a lengthytangent about Easter as we try to pick apart a political scandal from 1950s Italy...In April 1953, socialite and aspiring actress Wilma Montesi is found dead on a beach, with no real clues as to how she got there, or even how she died. A huge veil of secrecy is drawn over the whole affair

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52:52

Jarred Christmas and Gef the Talking Mongoose

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/02/25

Sauntering into the bar this week is the effortlessly funny and absolutely top drawer Jarred Christmas who brightens up the bar with tales of his time on (and borderline sabotaging of) TV shows such as Celebrity Total Wipeout and Big Brother's Big Mouth and gets stuck into a particularly strange case...On the Isle of Man in the 1930s one family were visited by - and very soon befriended - a disembodied voice in their walls claiming to be the ghostly manifestation of a talking mongoose, named Gef

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57:30

Henry Zebrowski and Murder in Setagaya

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/02/18

A bit of a dream for us this week as we are joined by actor, comedian and podcast legend Henry Zebrowski! Henry has cropped up in all manner of film and TV, including The Wolf of Wall Street, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Heroes Reborn, Inside Amy Schumer, but is probably best known for hosting smash hit The Last Podcast on the Left.When we're not getting sidetracked by having so much fun, we discuss the Murder in Setagaya case which saw an entire family brutally slain by an unknown murderer,

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1:02:17

Hollywood Case File #31 - What Is Jeremy Renner?

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/02/04

It's the Hollywood season finale and there's an end of term vibe as Sooz and Masud bring in their boardgame and lead with their own mystery. Both sharing an obsession with the mercurial Hollywood A-lister Jeremy Renner, compounded by a shared love of the recent Renner Files podcast, Sooz and Masud walk us through the careers (plural) of the label-defying phenomenon that is Jeremy Lee Renner...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and

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47:55

Hollywood Case Files, The Story So Far...

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/01/28

Ahead of next week's Hollywood Case Files finale, we take a brisk walk down memory lane as we recount all the cases we've covered so far in our Hollywood series. Initially meant to be a miniseries, our Hollywood series kinda got out of hand, expanding to thirty episodes so far. As a result, our memories proved super hazy on some of the cases so join us as we try to remember the early ones and each give our own personal Top 3 from the series...And can you guess what the Hollywood season finale will

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1:16:38

Hollywood Case File #30 - Who On Earth is Tommy Wiseau?

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/01/21

When 'The Room' was released in 2003 it very quickly became widely recognised as the worst film ever made but a mystery which endures to this day surrounds its bizarre writer/director/star, the enigmaticTommy Wiseau. His origins remain shrouded in mystery, thanks mainly to the man himself who refuses to say where he is from, his age or how he managed to raise the $6million dollars he spent making 'The Room'.His strange friendship with actor Greg Sestero combined with the cult status 'The Room'

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55:26

Hollywood Case File #29 - Brando, Jacko & Liz...

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/01/14

On September 11 2001, in the wake of the devastating attacks on America, firm celebrity friends Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor find themselves in New York City and, with all flights grounded, set off cross country in an inconspicuous hire car to make it to safety. Or so the story goes...Join us as we try to uncover the truth and make some of our own ridiculous additions to the legend along the way...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender

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1:01:47

Hollywood Case File #28 - Who Shot Bonnie Lee Bakley?

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2021/01/07

Our Hollywood series hits the 21st century as we take a look at the fatal shooting of Hollywood wannabe Bonnie Lee Bakley as she sat alone in her husband's car in May 2001, a deceptively simple case which manages to include (among other things) the most married man in the world, the most married woman in the world and Jerry Lee Lewis...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and

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1:05:10

Hollywood Case File #27 - The Strange Case of Gary...

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2020/12/31

In June 1997, screenwriter Gary DeVore vanishes without trace after finishing a script said to expose corruption in the CIA. A year later, his car is found submerged in an area of water already searched when he first went missing - an aqueduct below a busyhighway. Not only that, investigators believe that in order to have crashed his car there he would have had to drive 3 miles into oncoming traffic. And the car's headlights were switched to 'off'.Oh, and Gary's hands were missing. But this is only

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46:55

The Mystery on the Rocks Pandemic Christmas Party

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2020/12/24

As it's Christmas, we take a week off Hollywood sleuthing so join us in a cocktail as we chat about our differing opinions on Christmas films, share memories of toys of Christmas past and stick two fingers up to tradition. We hope you all have an excellent Christmas in this strangest of years and thank all our amazing listeners for coming with us on some real bizarre cases!At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck

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1:28:32

Hollywood Case File #26 - The O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

Mystery on the Rocks ·

2020/12/16

In June 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally murdered - stabbed multiple times in a frenzied attack. The resulting trial of Nicole's ex-husband, the formerly beloved national football star turned actor OJ Simpson, became the trial of the century and a worldwidesensation. A pair of gloves, a cut on a finger, historic domestic abuse allegations and OJ's own behaviour after the murder all suggested without a shadow of a doubt that he did it.Except, he was acquitted. So

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