Swipe Left Swipe Left
The podcast for unexpected funny true stories.Failures shared, are embarrassments halved. Adventures shared, are successes doubled. It's pure maths. A podcast series by Gavin Wong and award winning radio producer Claire Crofton.Read more stories at swipeleftswipeleft.com - and post your own.
Episodes
INTRODUCING: Something In Media
Introducing Something In Media: a new show that tells the story of successful people in the general world of media, and what it takes to make it to the very top.
We plan to show you that there are many ways to become successful in the media, whatever your background, wherever you’re from.
Series 1 is out now, and features the likes of Michelle Ackerely (The One Show, Crime Watch, etc). James Longman (The Late Late Show with James Cordon), Jess Rudkin (BBC Bristol), Jamie Morton from My Dad Wrote a Porno, and many more.
With each episode, a career expert also gives you their opinion via the show's website.
Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.
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11/04/23•4m 42s
Stabl Presents: Normal Not Normal
James and Oliver Phelps (aka Fred and George Weasley) talk to a star-studded selection of friends, colleagues and personal heroes who stepped into the limelight at a young age, and find out what “normal” means to them.
As identical twins who grew up on the Harry Potter film set as Fred and George Weasley, you could never say that the pair had a “normal” start to life. But recently, they’ve been thinking: what does “normal” mean anyway?
Ready your ears for behind-the-scenes Potter revelations; outrageous rants; frank conversations about mental health; and even the odd, ‘did-you-know?’
Search for Normal Not Normal where ever you get your podcasts.
Normal Not Normal is a Stabl production.
Produced by Alice Homewood.
Music 'Not Normal' by Sebastian Forslund.
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01/02/21•1m 10s
Winging It
How far would you go for your favourite wingwoman?
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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26/07/20•11m 12s
All In The Name Of Love
Who decides what’s criminal behaviour? Usually it’s the judicial system. But are there laws in the game of love?
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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19/07/20•12m 36s
What Not To Wear
Question: when is it OK to take a first-date to a fetish-themed party? Answer: probably never. In this episode we deal with more wardrobe-based disasters.
Many thanks to RAW for sharing their stories for this episode.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (++44 20 3920 7697 - please type the ++) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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12/07/20•17m 49s
Adventures Through The Wardrobe
This is less 'The Chronicles of Narnia' and more the chronicles of catastrophe.
Hold onto your hats (and knickers)!
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (++44 20 3920 7697 - please type the ++) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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05/07/20•13m 44s
Never Boring
When life comes at you fast, it's good to wear Spandex. We all have that one friend and this is a story about that person.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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28/06/20•15m 14s
Big Trouble in Little China
We discover the dangers of a free bar and a language barrier chaser on the other side of the world.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (++44 20 3920 7697 - please type the ++) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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21/06/20•14m 11s
Sink or Swim
Put on your armbands and doggy paddle to the deep end of awkwardness as, in this episode, we hear two water-based stories plus an extra tale from a listener.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (++44 20 3920 7697 - please type the ++) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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14/06/20•13m 59s
Cuddle Time
We find out what happens when a film director longs for that homely feeling.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (++44 20 3920 7697 - please type the ++) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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07/06/20•11m 14s
Inaudible Flop
Work conferences are awkward affairs at the best of times but in this story, Archie takes it up a notch.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (++44 20 3920 7697 - please type the ++) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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31/05/20•12m 49s
Hungry For Love
Alice found herself on the other side of the world looking for a man with interesting taste, but this wasn't what she had in mind.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (++44 20 3920 7697 - please type the ++) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
Go to swipeleftswipeleft.com for more information
Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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24/05/20•10m 8s
The Purrrfect Crime
He thought he was being kind, but this cat lover didn't realise he was opening a can of worms, not Whiskas!
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell?
Submit your stories via our voicemail (+44 20 3920 7697) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
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Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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17/05/20•15m 43s
The Big Cheese
Annie lands her perfect job in a cheese shop.
Her new colleague seems as smooth as the perfect Brie, until he makes a faux pas riper than a Stinking Bishop.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell? We want your stories for the next series! Submit your stories via our voicemail (+44 20 3920 7697) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
swipeleftswipeleft.com for more information
Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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10/05/20•12m 19s
Introducing Season 2
Swipe Left Swipe Left producers Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong were travelling through New Zealand when the world went into Coronavirus lockdown. So, from an isolated cabin at the foot of Mount Taranaki, they got to work. Their mission? To bring a bit of laughter to counter the quarantine blues, with a second season of Swipe Left Swipe Left.
The philosophy remains: “an embarrassment shared, is an embarrassment halved,” but the stories in season two go beyond the world of dating to explore the embarrassments of everyday life. From the swimming pool to the office, these excruciating tales told by the people who lived them will keep you entertained during your Coronavirus quarantine and beyond.
Do you or your friends have a funny story to tell? We want your stories for the next series! Submit your stories via our voicemail (+44 20 3920 7697) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of every new episode.
swipeleftswipeleft.com for more information
Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Stabl original
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02/05/20•2m 19s
Be My Valentine
We’re back, busy working away on season 2, which will be dropping later this year. But in the meantime, we thought we'd give you a taster of what's to come with a mini Valentine’s Day special.
Do you or your friends have any tales of dating disasters or hilarious heartache? We want your stories for the next series! Submit your stories via our voicemail (+44 20 3920 7697) or email your voice note to podcasts@wearestabl.com and it could feature at the end of a new episode in season 2.
swipeleftswipeleft.com for more information
Swipe Left Swipe Left is produced by Claire Crofton and Gavin Wong
Executive producer is Alice Homewood for Stabl
Graphics: Archie Crofton
Theme music: George Taylor
Becky Jacobs heads up tea and biscuits
Audio sample: Waltz for a Memory by Mela (Free Music Archive)
Made in Bristol for Stabl Limited
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13/02/20•5m 55s
Breaking Point
You've spent the evening together, you're hanging out. Everything seems fine, until something snaps inside. And everything changes.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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24/04/18•13m 52s
Take Me Home
It turns out things weren't that different in the 80's either. We travel back to the quiet residential streets of Maida Vale, in West London, with our friend John.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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17/04/18•11m 38s
Bonus - Under Pressure Follow-Up
Outtakes from the Under Pressure episode. Completely unrelated to relationships and dating, but still adventurous.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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12/04/18•4m 6s
Vodka Haze
The two sided story of adolescent romance, and drinking too much vodka. So much vodka.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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10/04/18•11m 37s
Sadie Maisie
Being gay in the 90’s was all very different. Or was it? We hear from John in this episode about sexual experimentation and leather trousers.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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03/04/18•18m 24s
Under Pressure
You're new to a city. You make some new friends. One of your new friends could be more than a friend?For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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27/03/18•13m 5s
Day-te
Navigating the pitfalls of inner city dating with our author friend Marcello.For Marcello’s writing visit https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marcello-Love-City-ebook/dp/B01N1990AFFor more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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20/03/18•15m 43s
Grave at Heart
First dates can feel awfully serious. But this first ever date takes a seriously grave turn.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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13/03/18•18m 37s
Occupying My Mind
You meet in a pub after a demonstration, you exchange phone numbers, and soon enough you're playing mind games via txt. You're playing by the rules of modern love, but as for the other?For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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06/03/18•16m 28s
Ella's Reply
Ever wanted to hear the other side of the story after a horrible date? This week, we hear from "Ella" - Archie's love interest from episode 3.Do listen to the Trilogy of Ella before listening to this!For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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27/02/18•14m 48s
Bonus - It's All Nordic Follow-Up
The aftermath of the It's All Nordic episode.Have a listen to episode 5 before you go any further!For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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24/02/18•3m 4s
It's All Nordic
A medical trial fund's our protagonist's adventure through Central America. Though all is not as it seems.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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20/02/18•16m 3s
Happy Endings
On a European adventure to recoup after a divorce, "Jen" travels with her eyes and mind open and finds more than she’d expected.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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13/02/18•16m 43s
The Trilogy of Ella
All good things come in threes - as is the case with Archie in his pursuit of Ella.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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06/02/18•18m 34s
You Bloody Leftie
The story of a Trinidadian man's foray into the terrifying world of Tinder in London. Never talk about politics on a first date.For more stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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30/01/18•19m 34s
Trailer
Trailer for the Swipe Left Swipe Left podcast.For stories of unexpected relationship adventures and dating failures visit www.swipeleftswipeleft.com
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23/01/18•1m 13s