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Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Mighty Bunny Ltd

Celebrating crushes and unrequited loves in all their intense and embarrassing glory. Margaret Cabourn-Smith chats to funny people like Sindhu Vee, Sarah Millican and Sue Perkins about the crushes they can"t forget.

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All Episodes

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39. Sindhu Vee and Deborah Frances White

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/09/01

Hot off the editing desk, here is a very special episode recorded at the Soho Theatre in last month. A glorious mash up of Crushed and The Guilty Feminist, with one of my favourite stand ups, Sindhu Vee, and one of my first ever guests, the glorious Deborah Frances White. Expect indiscretion galore, plenty of embarrassment and more than a little smut. And if you've got a taste for the live episodes, don't wait a moment longer! Hop over to the London Podcast Festival and book a ticket for our live

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38. Tatty MacLeod

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/08/18

Tatty MacLeod joins Margaret to talk about crushes and unrequited love. We talk about the procrastination crush; how a cute guy in a library can improve your mood; and why French and English women approach crushes very differently. We've just announced our guests for the London Podcast Festival - Caitlin Moran and Sali Hughes. Do not miss it, it's going to be a riot. Not literally, hopefully. Though with those two... Tickets available here: https://shop.kingsplace.co.uk/29529/29532 I think we've got

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37. Rosie Holt

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/08/04

It's an Edinburgh special with Non-Censored's Rosie Holt making time to talk to me before she heads to the festival. It's the most wonderful time of the year - I met some of my favourite crushes, and one of my favourite husbands in Edinburgh, after all. Rosie's Crush journey is full of lovely moments - from the Guardian reading, sarcastic boy in the sixth form common room, to the pressure of living up to a will-they won't-they build up. I definitely felt we have a lot in common. Or at least, we'd

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36: Helen Zaltzman

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/07/21

Hello Crushos, here is a joyous chat with the lovely Allusionist, Helen Zaltzman. We had such a wide ranging chat - from youthful crushes that lasted years, to Judy Blume's bluest YA novel Forever, and the love of - well I would say a man in uniform, but I think Detective Inspector Morse is in plain clothes so that doesn't quite work. Let's just say, a man with a badge... And if you like badges (segue!) look out for tickets for the two live events we have coming up. On 12th August we're doing a

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35: Nish Kumar

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/07/07

Hello my fabulous Crushing friends! New logo, new platform (hello Auddy!) and new episode.... This week is awesome Nish Kumar who talks me through a whole lot of romantic failure and nerdy fantasy. There’s also some good gossip about comic Ed Gamble, which is especially good as Ed refuses to do the show. He joins a list of people who find the sheer EMBARRASSMENT of the topic too much. It’s interesting - comics tend to lean one way or the other (the other being a desperation to unburden

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34: Sara Barron

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/06/23

Stand up and host of the brilliant Succession podcast Firecrotch and Normcore, Sara Barron, is Margaret's guest this week. It's a very giggly show that lurches from the pitfalls of writing tween erotica, falling in love with Elliot after Elliot, the improbably named Baskin twins (no relation to Carol, I assume) and the allure of a bad boy. Or even, a boy who knows a bad boy. Margaret is still locked out of her Twitter (Elon, if you're listening, could you step up?) so do follow her (and the

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58:03

33: Juliet Cowan

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/06/09

Actress Juliet Cowan is our guest this week, and Hoo Boy, this week's episode has it all, from gaslighting French pen pals (aged 12), to sisterly love rivalry, via far too long spent lusting over discussing Top Trade Union Totty Mick Lynch. It's lovely and mad, and very relatable content. Especially if you fancy Mick Lynch, but honestly - even if you don't. But why wouldn't you? He's a fine man. Oh dear. I seem to have come over a bit unnecessary. In admin news, we're putting together a live

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32: Sue Perkins

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/05/26

The lovely Sue Perkins joins Margaret Cabourn-Smith this week to talk about her crushes - from high-kicking, back-flipping martial artists to wise-cracking Marion Ravenwood - Indiana Jones's brilliant love interest in Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's a brilliant, funny and occasionally moving conversation - hope you love it as much as we do. As always, do feel free to get in touch on Twitter and don't forget to follow us on Substack - @crushedbymcs or crushedbymcs.substack.com We love to hear

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31: Eleanor Morton - Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/05/12

Eleanor Morton talks cartoon crushes, actors who weren't problematic in the 80s but sure are now, and the Yeo Valley Yoghurt Boys with fellow crush addict Margaret Cabourn-Smith. We had an absolute blast in The Swallow Theatre at Machynlleth Comedy Festival. We gained a beautiful embroidered logo from the lovely @purplestrawbs1 (follow her on Twitter for some gorgeous embroidered love of Taskmaster and Three Bean Salad); found a jar of pickle that went out of date three years ago; and gave a dog

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55:37

30: Otegha Uwagba

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/04/28

Otegha Uwagba - writer, speaker and total crushaholic - is Margaret's guest this week. They've got a lot in common. Otegha tells Margaret about her first crush - who went on to be a famous actor; and the impact Peter Andre had on her in his Mysterious Girl video. From uni crushes, work dalliances, to flying across the world to stalk meet the object of her affections... Twice. Frankly, it's too much to fit in an episode! Followers of Margaret on Twitter will know already that she's currently

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51:28

29: Danielle Ward

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/04/14

It's a very special throwback Friday episode today - Margaret's guest is her former Do The Right Thing collaborator Danielle Ward. There's plenty of discussion of why stand ups make terrible boyfriends, which two qualities you'd have to have to date Danielle, and some frankly filthy discussion of the hottest star of Red Dwarf - Chris Barrie. Yes, you read that right. Chris Barrie. I.... can't quite explain it. Mind soap at the ready. When you've finished listening, why not hop over to see us

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57:51

28: Angela Barnes

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/03/31

Hot off the presses - it's Margaret's conversation with Angela Barnes earlier this week. Angela shares some of Margaret's worst crush excesses. Beardy nerds? Check. Comedians from the 1990s? Oh yes. Angela's crushes include Kenny Everett (note for anyone born after 1979 - he was a very funny, very gay, very rude primetime ITV family entertainer. The 80s was a different time). George Michael gets a mention, as do John Lennon, and a man who once pissed her off so badly she filled his bed with

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52:32

27: Dan Tetsell

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/03/17

Aka, Mr Margaret Cabourn-Smith. And Happy Birthday Crushed - it's a whole year since we released the first episode. It's a special birthday episode, with Margaret put on the spot by her husband, and guest, Dan Tetsell. Dan is a writer and actor who you may have seen in everything from puppet-actor-fest Mongrels to hot-actor-fest Hollyoaks (and most recently Eastenders). He's also Margaret's husband - and the man who has to live with her crushes on a day to day basis. Is that hard? He'll let us

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26: Sanjeev Kohli

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/03/03

Still Game's Sanjeev Kohli is Margaret's guest this week. It's a bit of a tearjerker, looking back at Sanjeev's primary school crushes. As he says - for the first 30 years of his life, all his love was unrequited. Except for his mum. (Life was tough for a Glaswegian metalhead in the 1980s). Sanjeev and Margaret talk about first love, 1980s hedge porn, and running into your old flames at a school reunion. Admin klaxon - We have finally sorted out our first live date - head to Substack for

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57:56

25: Rosie Jones

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/02/17

The magnificent Rosie Jones drops in this week to talk to Margaret about her crushes. And it's a doozy. Or should that be doozie? Please advise. Rosie is so prone to crushes that she likes to think of them like a trifle - layers of custard, cream, jam and strawberries. But no sponge fingers. We always knew she was a maverick. It's a wide-ranging episode from the deep to the dippy, with Rosie talking about having to overcome internalised homophobia and ableism to feel worth of love, and why she

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24: Alison Spittle

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/02/03

In this episode, Margaret Cabourn-Smith interviews comedian, and little legend Alison Spittle about her crushes and unrequited loves. We don't want to say she picks badly, but Morrisey and Kanye West both get a mention. Listeners of a sensitive nature may like to know that there are frankly filthy discussions about Bob Hoskins's hairy back. Listener discretion is advised. Find us on substack or email us: crushedbyMCS@gmail.com Check out Alison's tour dates here:

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23: Sooz Kempner

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/01/20

Actress, singer, comedian, Twitter star and all round good egg Sooz Kempner is Margaret's guest this week, with crushes that manage to encompass Top Cat and Bruce Forsyth. I'd like to see that Venn diagram. Note to keen listeners - the science this week is... inaccurate, due to Margaret not counting the Vs correctly in this weeks Maths. For those of a more precise nature (as fans of Sooz's big Crush might be), the correct score is 84%, and not, as stated in the show, a measly

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22: Rachel Parris

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2023/01/06

Comedian, musician and improviser Rachel Parris talks to Margaret about Leonardo di Caprio, Spike from Buffy and fills in the gaps on how she got together with last week's guest; crush-turned-husband Marcus Brigstocke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21: Marcus Brigstocke

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2022/12/23

Margaret talks to comedian Marcus Brigstocke about his plethora of crushes ranging from Robert Smith from The Cure all the way through to Susan Kennedy from Neighbours (with a sprinkling of Morten Harket along the way). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20: Sophie Black

Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith ·

2022/12/09

Margaret talks to writer, podcaster and producer of this podcast Sophie Black about John Lennon, being attracted to a cartoon wolf, and writing to Just Seventeen to get a photo of a bloke in The Bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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