13K views · 39 reactions | "It's so far from being a stretch..." Tim Key (aka Alan Partridge’s Sidekick Simon) talks about how he prepared for the role of unprepared-live-TV presenter, by struggling to understand his own iPad. A safe pair of hands. Listen to The Lauren Laverne Podcast on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/2UhpQk0 | BBC Radio 6 Music | Facebook

Tim Key's had a big year. Maybe his biggest. ⁠ ⁠ A much-loved film (The Ballad of Wallis Island), a role in The Paper (the new comedy from the Office universe) and all whilst continuing to write poems, publish books and perform stand-up. ⁠ ⁠ For our final podcast episode of 2025, we joined @timkeypoet in his "spiritual home" of Edinburgh and attempted to keep up as he climbed Arthur’s Seat. Along the way, he talks about the city’s grip on his heart, the unfortunate events of 2002 and the unresol