In The Fringes

This week - Brighton Fringe announced its spectacular line-up of comedy, theatre and dance ahead of its return this May for their 21st year. They are proud to be an open-access festival, welcoming any artist to put on an event and perform. Steffi chats to organiser and chair Duncan Lustig-Prean. Duncan has built an impressively diverse career: from leading the campaign for LGBT people to serve in the Armed Forces, to ensuring that the global majority was better represented by English Heritage, to running a charity supporting LGBT veterans to opera singing, to chairing Brighton Fringe! We also speak to Sam Cook is a Bristol-based comedian. Being a relative newcomer to comedy when he started his career in February 2025, he is fast becoming a rising star in the UK comedy scene His material explores loneliness, mental health and dating in the LGBTQ+ community. Sam became the winner of the fourth series of Queerovision in 2025.

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In The Fringes is an episode from ShoutOut Radio by ShoutOut LGBT+ Radio.

This episode is 00:47:27 long.

This episode was published on May 7, 2026.

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