About the show
Crushed by Margaret-Cabourn-Smith. A podcast about the joy/horror of unrequited love.
Celebrating crushes and unrequited loves in all their intense and embarrassing glory. Margaret Cabourn-Smith chats to funny people like Sara Pascoe, Rachel Parris and Rosie Jones about the crushes they can’t forget.
Instagram – @crushedbymcs
Live show announcement….See Margaret Cabourn-Smith and guests on the 19th October 2024 at the Cheerful Earful Festival…… get your tickets here.
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.
Welcome to Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith; the podcast about unrequited love.
Today’s episode features the hilarious sparkfest that is comedian AMY MATTHEWS. She’s the host of the English Heritage Podcast and preparing for the Edinburgh Fringe (and UK tour) with her new show ‘Definitions of Toast’. Dates and tickets info here.
Watch Amy’s special ‘I Feel Like I’m Made of Spiders’ on ITVX.
Buy or download Amy’s unique album of an immersive soundscape of her live show ‘Commute With The Foxes’ on Monkey Barrel Records.
Follow Amy on Instagram @amyfmatthews
Don’t forget we have a CRUSHED LIVE SHOW with the glorious oddball
HARRIET KEMSLEY at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival at noon on Saturday 2nd May 2026. Tickets are here.
Keep emailing us at crushedbymcs@gmail.com, where you can send us your most embarrassing/funniest/saddest crush stories. As well as your biggest celebrity crushes – so we can compile our league table where they battle it out; and the fox off of Disney’s Robin Hood will win as ever.
Thanks for downloading and supporting us. You’re my people.
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On email, where you can send us anecdotes, adoration and arguments.
And if you want to do nothing but simply chuck me £4 to buy myself some sellotape and a copy of the Radio Times to make a collage, head for ko-fi.com/crushedbymcs
If you’re of a certain persuasion, listen to my other podcast 40s Woman & Beyond! The clue’s in the title…
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