RHLSTP Book Club 123 - Dr Benji Waterhouse

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Book Club #123 - You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here - In the first of a new series of Book Club Richard talks to psychiatrist and former stand up Benji Waterhouse (if that is his real name) about his terrific memoir about working for the NHS and the importance of prioritising mental health. They discuss how to treat this subject with humour and sensitivity, as well as providing your patients with anonymity, the short-sightedness of underfunding and ignoring our mental health, the difficult decisions that NHS staff are forced to make, why Benji wanted to include his personal issues in the book, the shadow of Adam Kay and writing the screen play. Plus why Richard definitely doesn’t need a psychiatrist!

Buy the book here - www.amazon.co.uk/You-Dont-Have-Work-Here/dp/1787333175

See Benji on tour - www.livenation.co.uk/benji-waterhouse-tickets-adp1542142

Come to a RHLSTP live! - https://richardherring.com/rhlstp

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0:00.0	Hello, my finest friends. Welcome to the Richard Herring podcast feed. It's 2025, happy new year.
0:06.7	Big plans coming up for 2025, but we'll still be here with the podcasts. You can come and see us live. We're at the Leicester Square Theatre, starting on February 3rd.
0:16.0	Dave Gorman will be one of the guests, and we're aiming high for all the others so it should be a fantastic
0:22.4	season go to richard herring.com slash ralustapa to purchase your tickets use us or lose us guys we need to
0:29.1	get some bums on seats if we're going to carry on at the lester square theatre at least also i am on
0:34.7	tour doing the second leg of my one balled tour.
0:39.3	Can I have my ballback?
0:40.3	It starts at the end of the month in Bishop Stortford.
0:43.3	I'm doing a few warm-ups in the local Hertfordshire area.
0:46.3	And then from the end of February onwards, I'm back on the road, probably coming somewhere near you.
0:52.3	Go to Richard Herring.com slash ballback slash tour to see if I'm
0:56.9	coming near to you. Please do come along. Please support me if you can. The live work means we can keep
1:03.1	doing the podcast for free. Also, check me out on Substack. You can get my blog email directly into
1:09.4	your inbox. I've just written what about sex robots.
1:12.6	What a surprise.
1:14.6	And look at, we're hoping also this year
1:16.6	to start work on an improvised comedy film,
1:20.6	which we'll be using the proceeds from the advert to adverts on this feed.
1:26.6	So listen to as many of the podcasts as you can,
1:30.0	and they're all free,
1:32.0	and they will get you more stuff if you listen to them.
1:35.2	That's the beauty of the Rahalasthapa, Rahalasdapa system.
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