Hellish

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Daniel Whelan & Alex Gale

English Explicit

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Episodes 123

Avg. Duration 41m

Activity Highly Active

Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (1)

Since Apr 2024

Latest Episode Jun 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule

Weekly

Format

Episodic

Consistency

18%

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About This Podcast

Welcome to Hellish, the only podcast that comes to you from Hell's waiting room.

In each episode, Hell's receptionist Daniel Whelan and Satan's tea boy Alex Gale interrogate a newly damned soul, asking them for the five songs they will meet in Hell: the music that we will use to torment them for all eternity. The condemned take us through songs they are embarrassed to have once liked; songs they can't stand that are otherwise universally adored; songs that remind them of bad times; songs they hate by artists they love; and songs that once stuck in their heads, they can never get out.

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Recent Episodes

S4E70 Daisy Buchanan, writer

Jun 07, 2026 1h 4m

Writer DAISY BUCHANAN gives us the five tracks she will meet in Hell!Daisy tells us all about her new novel, All Grown Up, which is a modern British reimagining of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.…

S4E69 James Errington (Centuries of Sound), sound artist

May 31, 2026 1h 8m

Sound artist, and creator of Centuries of Sound, JAMES ERRINGTON gives us the five tracks he will meet in Hell!James tells us all about his fascinating Centuries of Sound project, in which he has…

S4E68 Rose Ruane, writer

May 24, 2026 1h 7m

Writer and artist ROSE RUANE gives us the five tracks she will meet in Hell!Rose talks about moving between art and writing; her love of Manic Street Preachers; the time she walked out of a job AND…

S4E67 Catie Wilkins, comedian & author

May 17, 2026 1h 2m

Comedian and author CATIE WILKINS gives us the five tracks she will meet in Hell!Catie talks about settling scores in comedy and children's fiction; moving away from stand up and then coming back to…

S4E66 Pete Astor, musician

May 10, 2026 1h 5m

The Loft frontman PETE ASTOR gives us the five tracks he will meet in Hell!Pete told us all about The Loft's new album, Badges, as well as the forty year gap between the band releasing their second…

REDEMPTION SONGS #1: Valerie Phillips

Jan 01, 2026 56m

Happy New Year!In this special New Year episode, Alex and Daniel are sent to purgatory to cover holidays. There, they must sit in judgement as a former damned soul offers up their REDEMPTION SONGS in…

Valerie Phillips, photographer (Extended Patreon Version)

Dec 29, 2025 1h 16m

This is a sort-of repeat of one of our favourite episodes, episode sixteen with photographer Valerie Phillips, which originally went out on August 5th 2024. It’s a sort-of repeat, because what we’re…

24th Dec 2025: Casper & Pam

Dec 24, 2025 9m

The Hellish Advent Calendar is ending! Every day in the run up to Christmas we’ve been resurrecting former guests and forcing an extra song on to their Infernal Playlists: a Christmas song they…