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May 2024
11m 3s

Lucia Kerskin

DIVA Media Group Ltd
About this episode

Still riding high after Lesbian Visibility Week and the DIVA Awards, on this episode of podDIVA we are celebrating everyone's favourite deadpan comic - Lucia Kerskin.


When Lucia posted a video to YouTube about failing her GCSEs back in 2017, it didn't seem like the obvious route into comedy.


But seven years later, she's racked up nearly half a million followers on YouTube alone, and starred in the likes of Channel 4's Big Boys and Dave's Sneakerhead.


Plus she's written and starred in her very own BBC show.


In this episode, podDIVA's audiogram whizz-kid Ella Gauci chats to the awesome Lucia about



Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley


Or ridden the temporal time train back through 30 glorious years of DIVA magazine, right here on podDIVA?


Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's latest issue here.


Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVA


Edited by Ella Gauci with additional editing by Rachel Shelley.


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