A new chat show inspired by Twitter has been launched by writer and PR, Julian Hall with comedian Sajeela Kershi. Let’s Kill Twitter invites people to “detox their timelines with the art of conversation” and aims to “take apart the Twitter threads and hashtags that count.”
With the help of comedians and commentators, the new Zoom show picks through tweets on politics, media, the culture war and entertainment, ranging all the way through to “cats, dogs, alpacas and any other animal doing anything fun.”
Among the first guests on the show was writer and broadcaster Viv Groskop, author of How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking, The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature and Au Revoir Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature. Among Viv’s choice of tweets was one dealing with Christmas in a time of Covid, and you can see her discuss here.
This Sunday, comedian and commentator Ayesha Hazarika will be a guest with comedian Geoff Norcott. Ayesha Hazarika was a special adviser to Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband from 2007 to 2015. She now writes a weekly column in the Evening Standard and hosts her own show on Times Radio every Saturday and Sunday 4-7 pm which covers politics, current affairs and culture.
As well as picking through tweets flagged by the hosts and the guests, Let’s Kill Twitter also invites audience members to share the tweets that have caught their eye.
You can join in the conversation – by donation – here! For clips and more information click here! And, crucially, you can follow the show @LKTzoom
