Episode 59 – Andy Linden
SnapSessions! presents Episode 59, featuring an interview with British comedian and character actor, Andy Linden and a SnapSessions! Environmental Report Card for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, just in time for the November 2024 election.
Andy Linden is a comedian and character actor who grew up in the London. Andy talks about a relatively hard-scrabble upbringing in the borough of Tottenham leading to an interest in stage. He began working on the Alternative Cabaret circuit in the 1980s and quickly scored with his partner, Cliff Parisi in an act called “The Port Stanley Amateur Dramatic Society”, a name that mocked Britain’s 1982 War in the Falklands. By the latter 1980s Andy was picking up work in various crime shows on the telly including The Bill, East Enders, and Count Arthur Strong as well as a role on the HBO show Rome. He also worked in films like Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla and played the role of Mundungus Fletcher in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. His recent one man show Baxter vs. The Bookies detailing his experiences in sports betting was a quirky hit at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival.
In addition, SnapSessions! takes a look at Donald Trump’s Environmental Report Card in another of our political exposés. We follow Trump from his Summer of 2017 withdrawl from the Paris Climate Accords, to his placing of three anti-environmental regulation justices on the Supreme Court, to his kowtowing to Big Oil executives in the 2024 campaign, to his almost cartoon-like anti Earth philosophy of “Drill, Baby Drill”. Will our planet survive another four years of Donald Trump? SnapSessions! makes an attempt to judge this orange man’s callous attitude toward our planet.
Episode 59 is 1 Hour, 15 minutes long and includes an intro, our SnapSessions! Trump Environmental Report Card (starts at 1:17), and our interview with British comic/actor Andy Linden (starts at 19:31).
SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown. Voiceovers by Doug Nunn and Marshall Brown, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.
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