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The Phillip Carter Show

The Phillip Carter Show

By RealPhillipCarter

Comedy and Sci-Fi writer Phillip Carter sometimes invites guests to his weekly outbursts of philosophy and weirdness. Tune in to meet bestselling authors, TV producers, actresses, alien abductees, professional psychics, some more time travellers, painters, literary agents, time travellers, and scientists.

The goal? To make you laugh, and hopefully to teach you something new and weird along the way.
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The Stephanie Glitch - Chapter 1 part 1

The Phillip Carter ShowDec 04, 2020

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Why I left the poetry circuit
Dec 29, 202327:36
SciFi battle - Phillip VS Nicola Rossi

SciFi battle - Phillip VS Nicola Rossi

Nicola Rossi is a human I found on the internet. Her latest novel, Rockaway, is the third book in her chillingly plausible dystopian series, Rockstar Ending, which is in development for television.

Nov 03, 202325:17
Two time travellers arguing.
Nov 03, 202306:49
A poem for the Sycamore Gap tree

A poem for the Sycamore Gap tree

A comedy poem. You can find more at realphillipcarter on instagram and tiktok

Oct 03, 202300:50
S2E4, Self-pub or Trad-pub? What's best for you?

S2E4, Self-pub or Trad-pub? What's best for you?

Some fun insights into traditional publishing along with an extended rant about how many mistakes I made when publishing Who Built The Humans?.

Apr 28, 202325:29
S2 E4: with guest AARON FRALE - Comedy author, sciptwriter, actor, and more.

S2 E4: with guest AARON FRALE - Comedy author, sciptwriter, actor, and more.

Aaron is one of my favourite people. We meet up once a week on discord to write comedy together in our comedians group, and he is always very supportive and kind to the younger, less experienced writers.


You can see all of Aaron's books here > https://amzn.to/3H053Mj (full disclosure, I'm an Amazon Affiliate thanks to my time as a Lego microcelebrity, so if you buy his books through there, we both make money. It doesn't cost you anything extra, and it doesn't cost Aaron any revenue either! This is my non-intrusive way of funding this show so one day, I can record an episode live at ComicCon!)

Apr 21, 202323:25
S2E3: Mushroom Monsters, Comedy Creators, and a third alliterative announcement.
Apr 15, 202307:41
S2 E2: On performing, my new life as an open mic host, and general tomfoolery
Apr 07, 202312:23
Episode 1 (of the new weekly format) Robots vs Literature
Mar 31, 202316:03
Finger breaking chess robots, or 'What I did in November'

Finger breaking chess robots, or 'What I did in November'

A big list of all the cool stuff I got up to.

Dec 05, 202214:02
Short Time Travel comedy - TARDIGRADE
Nov 01, 202218:48
TARDIGRADE - A comedic time travel short
Oct 17, 202215:02
Introducing my newsletter and talking briefly of many things
Sep 15, 202211:22
Poem - PRINT
Aug 04, 202210:01
My return - serious Poem
Jul 28, 202201:10
Ten deliriously dark minutes of existential crises
Jun 11, 202211:34
poem - blood cell
May 23, 202202:09
Scifi Comedy story - FTL

Scifi Comedy story - FTL

A short story from my upcoming book HOLOGRAM KEBAB

Apr 26, 202211:03
Free poems and an update

Free poems and an update

Hello. Thanks for all the support. You are cool

Apr 24, 202217:37
TOYS - a comedy poem about sex toys

TOYS - a comedy poem about sex toys

Just a quick one. Hope you enjoy it!

Apr 20, 202201:08
Poem - Geodesic 2
Mar 29, 202201:56
TWO POEMS - Anachronangst / Wave Function Collapse

TWO POEMS - Anachronangst / Wave Function Collapse

Two poems, zero sales pitches. There's not even a website link in this one.

Mar 29, 202206:52
Some big news

Some big news

In which I go to ComicCon, nearly get to America for a big book tour, find the meaning of life, kill god, and write a new trilogy of books.

Poetry collections and WBTH2 also included... I've been busy

Mar 29, 202223:24
2/25/2022 Thoughts on Empathy / News
Feb 25, 202209:07
Episode 5 - scifi comedy story - Kebab
Jan 28, 202213:55
EP4 - BOOT, a short story

EP4 - BOOT, a short story

An old story from a new collection, HOLOGRAM KEBAB.

It's a weird little book with weird little stories.

Friday 21st January

Jan 21, 202210:35
Ep 3.5 ( David Bowie philosophy broadcast, for ALLfm Manchester)
Jan 05, 202220:48
Ep3 - With JO THE LION. Where is Bowie's secret autobiography?
Jan 05, 202201:17:23
Episode 2 - two short stories and an existential crisis.
Dec 29, 202126:35
Episode 1 - In which I am reincarnated as a fictional space explorer
Dec 17, 202110:42
FALSE VACUUM intro + poems

FALSE VACUUM intro + poems

Some poems from my upcoming book FALSE VACUUM

Nov 08, 202109:59
Geodesic - Poetry
Nov 06, 202108:05
Massive scifi poetry podcast

Massive scifi poetry podcast

A huge episode where I read 6 whole poems, and edit some and do a bit of improv

Oct 14, 202129:04
Incoherent rambling about my life, interviews, and who my audience seems to be?
Oct 03, 202111:03
Blooper. Mum distracts me by attacking crisps with mallet.

Blooper. Mum distracts me by attacking crisps with mallet.

Not much else goes on

Oct 03, 202105:40
Blood Cell - Poem ( + bonus rant about art )

Blood Cell - Poem ( + bonus rant about art )

You can find me on instagram as Paisleyprintauthor


Sep 04, 202118:32
Poem - Leaving

Poem - Leaving

A poem about leaving someone, filled with cosmic metaphor, as you would expect.

Aug 10, 202102:55
Fragment - Poem
Aug 10, 202105:00
On Vanity - An entire story from WHO BUILT THE HUMANS?
May 08, 202113:00
POEM - Appendectomy

POEM - Appendectomy

My thoughts on leaving university and the fragile "network" I had developed during it. Naturally mixed in with some wordplay and a bit of light fiction, as is my style.

Apr 07, 202103:35
Universal slam poem (explicit)

Universal slam poem (explicit)

Episodes with music are only available on Spotify.

It has swears. All the best poems have swears.

Mar 01, 202101:19
My brilliant novel

My brilliant novel

In which I tell you about how my novel is better than yours.

Mar 01, 202102:25
POEM - The sad and lonely spoken word "feminist"

POEM - The sad and lonely spoken word "feminist"

This was written with two particular narcissists in mind, both of whom are too thick to read this caption so I can say what I want about them here

YOU SMELL LIKE WET EGGS

Mar 01, 202103:46
Rapa Nui/The crystal rebellion
Jan 15, 202111:04
Even more space in storytelling

Even more space in storytelling

In which I go on an extended rant about the "economy of storytelling" and how it's probably nonsense.

Dec 27, 202018:32
Lecture 2 - Space in storytelling (draft post)

Lecture 2 - Space in storytelling (draft post)

This is a test of my material on space in storytelling

I am still working on the audio. My mic is affixed to the same desk my laptop is on, so I am thinking of solutions to cushion the arm and also raise the laptop in a way that makes it quieter. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Dec 27, 202009:52
The Stephanie Glitch - Chapter 1 part 1

The Stephanie Glitch - Chapter 1 part 1

Read the novel in text form HERE

My recently published book, WHO BUILT THE HUMANS?

At some point in 2015 I decided to stop offending people at poetry evenings and write a deep, mindbending YA book with a sarcastic protagonist who (spoiler alert) literally punches God at one point and then disproves her own existence.

I realised during my Masters degree that the idea for the novel THE STEPHANIE GLITCH was far more advanced than what I perceived to be the upper limits of my writing skills. So I took a break, got back into offending people at poetry evenings and decided to write WHO BUILT THE HUMANS? which is out now. Oddly, Stephanie appears in it several times, but only once explicitly. Whilst both books function very well on their own, there are poetic links between them. Stephanie, for example, at some point meets a creator of worlds, and that same idea is attacked in satire form in WBTH.



Dec 04, 202010:39
Who Built The Humans? - Behind the scenes

Who Built The Humans? - Behind the scenes

11 minutes of your favourite unknown sci-fi author rambling about how he wrote that easy-to-read book that's actually quite complicated under the hood. I will go a bit into my writing philosophy, a bit into how the 47 stories interact with each other, how there are 11 universes they fit into, that sort of thing. Good for writers wanting to learn how to make a book. Whilst my experience is specific to me, it may help to know that you need a philosophy. That is, your universes needs physical laws. It needs to have consistency within itself, otherwise you will lose your way, as will the reader. Even nonsense stories have a structure (to talk nonsense). This is a prequel to Halfplanet Classroom.

Nov 06, 202011:30
WBTH poem - On Meaninglessness

WBTH poem - On Meaninglessness

A part of my 15 performance poem pieces that kick the piss out of every concept you have ever loved.

#scifi #poem #poetry #sciencefiction #comedy #standup

Oct 25, 202004:60
Who Built The Humans? - Excerpt 2 - From the stars, a million voices.
Oct 25, 202003:58