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out-of-print is a cultural podcast with a literary twist.

In each episode, hosts Alice, Emmeline and Sophie delve into one hot topic, aided with overly revealing personal anecdotes and literary references – mostly to assuage the existential dread of being £80,000 in student debt with a degree in English Literature of all things.  Comparing plays, poems and novels to Hinge messages, hangovers and Charli XCX’s lyrics, the hosts attempt to ‘close read’ their very own lives and the pressing cultural matters of the era.

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out-of-print was ultimately founded on the firm belief that a plot worthy of great analysis doesn’t have to come from a novel – it can come straight from real life.

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meet… Sophie

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Sophie Parke is a Content Editor living in London. An upbringing spent between Scotland and New Zealand has resulted in an indecisive accent and a decisive creative practice, as her FTE work has seen her spearhead content featured by Snapchat, Christie’s Auction House, Mercedes F1, Forbes, HSBC, KPMG, the London Stock Exchange, and high profile VCs such as Sequoia and Balderton. In 2023, she led her creative team to win the CogX ‘Voice of Gen Z’ award. Her freelance photography has been featured by NME, Clash, DIY Magazine, Line of Best Fit, Pieute, Christopher Kane, Espacio Gallery, and Tache Gallery. She has produced and hosted radio shows on Limbo Radio, Oxide Radio, Foodhall Radio and Subcity Radio. Notable writing achievements include a featured essay in Jim Aitken’s radical anthology of Scottish prose Ghosts of the Early Morning Shift, and curation, collection, formatting and publishing of poetry collection Glasgow Tinder Poetry, which raised over half a grand for her favourite charity, Refuweegee. 
Sophie has a degree in English Literature + Language from the University of Oxford, where she was the recipient of an Exhibitioner’s Award for Academic Excellence. She remains a devout champion of state-comp representation, working with Zero Gravity and Into University, and founding The 93% Club Oxford.

meet… Alice
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Whilst studying English at the University of Oxford (2018-2021), Alice Garnett quickly found her creative niche through a column she wrote for a student newspaper, tastefully entitled “Nice to Meet You, I’m a Slut!”. Alongside her studies, Alice provided love + sex advice for her peers – something which has helped to establish her position as a sex and relationships/young life journalist. Shortly after graduating, Alice acquired the “Young Life” column at Prospect Magazine, writing monthly on anything and everything that pertains to her life in London as a proud Gen Z. You may have also read her work in The Telegraph, where she’s covered the demise of dating apps, a bizarre supermarket-based Spanish dating trend, and how couples go about “finding a third”. 

Alongside the various full-time marketing roles at mission-driven start-ups (because something has to pay the bills), Alice runs “the vanity cabinet” – a Substack newsletter that covers all manner of sins; from polyamory to snogging strangers to her struggles with depression. She’s unabashed in her approach to writing on all the messy bits of life most people would (wisely?) shy away from. She’s an open book and prides herself on her honesty, vulnerability, and compassion.

meet… Emmeline

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Emmeline Armitage is a 25-year-old writer and musician originally from West Yorkshire, now living in London. She has been writing around the themes of women, their artistic practises and the city, ever since graduating with a degree in English from The University of Oxford and a Masters in Literary Non-Fiction from Royal Holloway. She has had work published in The Bedford Review, The Line of Best Fit, The London Magazine and Wonderland, as well as experience in presenting at Hay-On-Wye Literature Festival, Poetry Live and Out-Spoken. With a strong lyrical as well as literary ability, Emmeline is also a working musician, having most recently signed to indie hip-hop label Lewis Recordings, opened-up for The Streets on tour, and played the global emerging music festival SXW in Austin, Texas. She is a current Roundhouse Resident Artist and in the 2025 Transmission Academy podcast cohort, as well as being represented by United Agents for a book proposal, WME talent agency for live performance, and Mute Songs for music publishing.

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email: podcastoutofprint@gmail.com
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out-of-print is powered in partnership with The Roundhouse Trust.
est. London, 2025

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